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Max Bygraves | [
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] | Singer, comedian, actor (1922-2012) | Walter William Bygraves (16 October 1922 – 31 August 2012), best known by the stage name Max Bygraves, was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. He made twenty Royal Variety Performance appearances and presented numerous programmes, including Family Fortunes. Early life Bygraves was born to Henry and Lillian (née McDonnell) Bygraves (who wed in 1919) in Rotherhithe in London, where he grew up in poverty in a two-room council flat with his five siblings, his parents and a grandparent. His father was a professional flyweight | [] |
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] | Singer, comedian, actor (1922-2012) | Bob Monkhouse. He would later be succeeded as host in 1987 by Les Dennis. From 1972, Bygraves recorded a series of albums, Sing Along With Max (later Singalongamax), in which he sang medleys of familiar songs aimed at an older audience. The albums, for Pye Records, sold millions of copies and led to spinoff shows and more recordings. In 1977, UK publishing house W. H. Allen published Bygraves' comic novel The Milkman's on His Way. Bygraves' catchphrase was said to be: "I wanna tell you a story". It was actually Mike Yarwood who made up that phrase, from Bygraves' "I | [] |
Max Bygraves | [
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] | Singer, comedian, actor (1922-2012) | flown by his grandson Michael became trapped beneath the edge of the cliff. He suffered friction burns on his hands and was in shock when police and firefighters helped him to safety. In 1999, Bygraves underwent treatment for an ear disorder, having cancelled a number of performances on his doctor's advice. He and Blossom Bygraves moved from Bournemouth to Queensland, Australia, in 2008. She died there in May 2011, aged 88. Death Bygraves was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2010, and he died from this illness at his daughter's home in Australia on the evening of 31 August 2012. Television | [] |
Mary Morris Knibb | [
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] | Jamaican teacher activist and politician | Mary Morris Knibb, MBE (28 February 1886 – 21 September 1964) was a Jamaican teacher, social reformer and philanthropist. She founded the Morris Knibb Preparatory School and donated a building which is used as the headquarters of the Moravian Church in Jamaica as well as land for construction of a community center. Morris Knibb was a women's rights activist and the first elected councilwomen in Jamaica. She was the first woman to vie for a seat in the House when Universal Suffrage was granted to all Jamaicans. Early life Mary Lenora Morris "Nora" was born on 28 February 1886 in | [] |
Mary Morris Knibb | [
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] | Jamaican teacher activist and politician | first woman to contest a general election in Jamaica. Though she didn't win, she was undaunted, becoming one of the first women sworn in as Justice of the Peace in 1945 and continuing to serve as a councilwoman through the early 1950s. In 1953, she was honored with the Order of the British Empire for her years of social service. Throughout the 1950s, she continued her work with the Moravian Church and served several terms as the vice-chair of the school board. Death and legacy Morris Knibb died on 21 September 1964 in Woodford Park, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. She | [] |
Electoral Commission of Ghana | [
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] | electoral Commission | establish new standards and practices for African election commissionswhich was Held in Accra was titled Colloquium on African Elections: Best Practices and Cross-Sectorial Collaboration. The conference was organized by a number of international election reform organizations including the National Democratic Institute, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa and UNDP. Former members In February 2004, three members of the commission retired. They were Elizabeth Solomon, Mrs. Theresa Cole and Professor Ernest Dumor. Another member, Dr. M . K .Puni, died in June | [] |
Ernst von Wolzogen | [
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] | German writer | Ernst von Wolzogen (23 April 1855 – 30 August 1934) was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany. Biography Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasbourg and Leipzig. In 1882, he went to Berlin where he worked as an editor at a publishing house and later became an independent writer. From 1892 to 1899, he lived in Munich where he founded the Freie Literarische Gesellschaft, a literary society. In 1899, he returned in Berlin where he established the Cabaret Überbrettl, a play on Nietzsche's | [] |
Ernst von Wolzogen | [
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] | German writer | term Übermensch. He wrote social satires for Überbrettl. After its closure in 1905, he returned to Darmstadt. Wolzogen produced a great many works of humorous fiction. Some of his works include Die Kinder der Exzellenz (1888); Das Lumpengesindel (1892); Ein unbeschriebenes Blatt (1896); Der Kraft-Mayr, 2 vols.(1897); Das dritte Geschlecht, 2 vols. (1899). Although primarily a humorist, he also wrote on serious topics. Works such as Fahnenflucht (1894), Das Wunderbare (1898), and Die arme Sünderin (1901) are examples of his more serious side as an author. Wolzogen work is known for its wit and elegance. Works 1879 Um 13 Uhr | [] |
Ernst von Wolzogen | [
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] | German writer | in der Christnacht 1885 Wilkie Collins: Ein Biographisch-Kritischer Versuch, Biography 1886 Heiteres und Weiteres, Poetry 1887 Thüringer Roman 1888 Die Kinder der Excellenz, Novel 1890 Die tolle Komteß, Novel 1890 Er photographiert, Comedy 1892 Das Lumpengesindel, Tragic comedy 1894 Das gute Krokodil und andere Geschichten 1897 Der Kraft-Mayr, Novel 1897 Die Gloria-Hose, Short Story 1899 Das dritte Geschlecht, Novel 1901 Feuersnot, Opera libretto, set to music by Richard Strauss 1905 Verse aus meinem Leben 1923 Wie ich mich ums Leben brachte (Autobiography; anti-Semitic) References External links Category:1855 births Category:1934 deaths Category:People from Wrocław Category:Austrian opera librettists Category:German opera librettists Category:People | [] |
Black Moth Super Rainbow | [
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Randy Falco | [
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] | American businessman | honoree by the National MS Society; inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame; and was also honored by Ballet Hispanico with its Civic Inspiration Award. Personal life Falco, a native of the Bronx, NY, attended Iona College, where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration in finance in 1975 and his Master of Business Administration, also in finance, in 1979. He received an honorary doctorate from Iona College in 2001. Randy and his wife Susan have three children. Falco sits on the board of directors of the Ronald McDonald House and is a member of the Advisory Board | [] |
Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet | [
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Trylon and Perisphere | [
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Xing Yong | [
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] | Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms official | Xing Yong (died 223), courtesy name Zi'ang, was a government official of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He previously served under the warlord Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Early life Xing Yong was from Mo County (鄚縣), Hejian Commandery (河間郡), which is located south of present-day Xiong County, Hebei. In his early years, he was nominated as a xiaolian (civil service candidate) by his home commandery and offered the position of an assistant official under the Minister over the Masses (司徒). However, he rejected the offer, changed his name, and | [] |
Zoran Njeguš | [
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] | Serbian footballer and manager | Zoran Njeguš (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Његуш; born 25 June 1973) is a Serbian retired professional football player and a former manager. Over the course of his career, he played for Sloboda Užice, Red Star Belgrade, Atlético Madrid, and Sevilla. He played for Yugoslavia's national football team seven times, although his last international appearance was after Yugoslavia's name was changed to Serbia and Montenegro. Club career Red Star Belgrade Njeguš joined Red Star Belgrade in the summer of 1995. Over the course of three seasons at Red Star, Njeguš played a total of 103 matches. He played in every match of | [] |
Zoran Njeguš | [
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] | Serbian footballer and manager | Branko Brnović as his defensive midfield picks, with the latter being called up to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Although Njeguš was not called up for that World Cup, he started under coach Milan "Bard" Živadinović in Yugoslavia's first post-World Cup friendly at the Castelão in front of approximately 70,000 people against Brazil on 23 September 1998, which Yugoslavia tied 1-1. Personal life In March 2016, Njeguš was arrested for allegedly being involved in real estate fraud in the Zlatibor region. He was released from custody 10 days later. Notes References External links Category:Association football defenders Category:Association football midfielders Category:Atlético | [] |
Sarah Chayes | [
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] | American journalist | Sarah Chayes is a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, leaving in order to pursue a new writing project. A former award-winning reporter for National Public Radio, she also served as special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Background Sarah Chayes is the daughter of the late law professor and Kennedy administration member Abram Chayes and lawyer and former Undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force Antonia Handler Chayes. She graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover (1980) and Harvard University (1984) with a degree in History, | [] |
Sarah Chayes | [
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Shri Hanuman Chalisa | [
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Shri Hanuman Chalisa | [
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Krzysztof Zanussi | [
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] | Polish producer and film director | Krzysztof Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Biography He was born in a family of Italian ancestry, as an only child of Jerzy and Wanda Zanussi. Zanussi studied physics at Warsaw University (Uniwersytet Warszawski) and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński) in Kraków. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School | [] |
Central School Campus | [
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] | building in Missouri, United States | Central School Campus, also known as Central School and DeSoto High School, is a historic school complex located at De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri. The Central School was built about 1882, and remodeled into its current form in 1950. It is a 2 1/2- to 3-story rectangular brick building. The DeSoto High School was built in 1927, and is a three-story, textured brick building with a flat roof and accented with limestone or cast stone ornament reflecting the Classical Revival style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. References Category:School buildings on the National Register | [] |
Weird Loners | [
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] | television series | Weird Loners is an American comedy television series created by Michael J. Weithorn. The 6-episode first season was ordered straight-to-series by the Fox network in 2014. The series is executive produced by Weithorn and Jake Kasdan. The series premiered on March 31, 2015. On May 11, 2015, Fox canceled Weird Loners after one season. Kevin Reilly, the network President who had ordered the series from Weithorn's spec script in 2013, was fired a few months later leaving the series without a champion at the network. Premise Four people who fear personal relationships are unexpectedly thrust into one another's lives and | [] |
Lefty Driesell | [
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Koo Hsien-jung | [
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] | species of insect | Xylocopa combusta is a species of carpenter bee. Description Xylocopa combusta has a black body with black hair on the head and the thorax. Bristles on the pygidial area are reddish. Distribution This species can be found in Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Angola. References Eardley, C. D. (1987) Catalogue of Apoidea (Hymenoptera) in Africa south of the Sahara, Part 1, The genus Xylocopa Latreille (Anthophoridae), Entomology Memoir, No. 70 B. Bonelli, “Osservazioni etoecologiche sugli Imenotteri aculeati dell'Etiopia. VII Xylocopa (Mesotrichia) combusta Smith (Hymenoptera Anthophoridae),” Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Universita degli | [] |
Calday Grange Grammar School | [
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José María de Torrijos y Uriarte | [
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José María de Torrijos y Uriarte | [
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Francis Doyle Gleeson | [
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Francis Doyle Gleeson | [
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Reid Venable Moran | [
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Romain Leleu | [
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Lara Grice | [
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] | American actress | Lara Grice (born August 11, 1971) is an American actress known for The Mechanic (2011), The Final Destination (2009) and Déjà Vu (2006). She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Grice began her career studying at the University of Dallas, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in acting. She has appeared in movies with WWE stars John Cena, Rob Van Dam and Paul Wight (aka The Big Show). Filmography Film Television References External links Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century American actresses Category:Actresses from New Orleans Category:People from New Orleans Category:American film actresses Category:American television actresses Category:University of Dallas alumni | [] |
Spring River Bridge | [
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Lowell Milken | [
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Lowell Milken | [
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] | American businessman | 1990, Lowell was characterized as an "unassuming family man" being used as a "bargaining chip", indicted only to put pressure on his brother. Lowell later became chairman and a shareholder of Heron International, a real estate firm in London, England. He acquired a majority interest in the company in the early 1990s. In 1996, Lowell co-founded Knowledge Universe with Michael Milken and Larry Ellison. In 2003, they became the sole owners of the company. In the United States, Knowledge Universe is the largest early childhood education company and operates under the KinderCare Learning Centers, Knowledge Beginnings, CCLC, The Grove School, | [] |
Bruce Waibel | [
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Bruce Waibel | [
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Millicent Carey McIntosh | [
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Millicent Carey McIntosh | [
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Millicent Carey McIntosh | [
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Józef Skrobiński | [
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Betty Loren-Maltese | [
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William Verbeck | [
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] | American military general | William Verbeck (January 18, 1861 - August 24, 1930) was a Dutch–American educator and soldier. He served as head of the St. John's Military Academy in New York. He also served as Adjutant General of New York, commander of the New York National Guard from June 1, 1910, to January 1, 1913, and was given the rank of Brigadier General. Early life and education Verbeck was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on January 18, 1861, the son of Guido Verbeck and Maria Verbeck (née Manion). His father worked in Nagasaki as a missionary and educator for the Dutch Reformed Church. He | [] |
Vanja Rupena | [
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Duke of York's Royal Military School | [
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Harry Pearce | [
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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch | [
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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts | [
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Lopra | [
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] | human settlement | Lopra () is a village on the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands, with the postal code FO 926. In 2009 its population was 96. It is located in the Municipality of Sumba along with the villages of Akrar, Sumba and Víkarbyrgi (now deserted), constituting the southernmost settlements in the Faroe Islands. The name Lopra may have its origin in the gaelic word "lobar" which translates into English as leprosy, and Lopra may be a pre-Norse settlement of Gaelic hermits from c. 6th to c. 8th century AD. During the 1980s and 1990s there were attempts at drilling for | [] |
William Douglas McHugh | [
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Francis Sanford | [
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Francis Sanford | [
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Bernice Morton | [
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] | Saints Kitts and Nevis athlete | Bernice Morton (born 9 April 1969) she is a Saint Kitts and Nevis athlete. She was part of the first ever team to represent Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympic Games when she competed at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in the 4 x 100 metres relay, but the team failed to finish so didn't qualify for the next round. References Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Saint Kitts and Nevis female sprinters Category:Olympic athletes of Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for Saint Kitts and Nevis Category:Athletes (track and field) | [] |
George S. Brooks | [
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] | American writer | George Sprague Brooks (1895–1961) was a playwright, author, editor and lecturer whose work appeared frequently in the Saturday Evening Post. Early life Born February 7, 1895 in Pearl Creek, Wyoming County, New York, George S. Brooks was the great-great-grandson of Revolutionary War brigadier general and chaplain David Brooks. George S. Brooks attended Middleburg Academy, Salt Lake Collegiate Institute and the high school at Warsaw, New York. He then attended University of Rochester in fall 1931. He was friends with classics scholar James Marshall Campbell. The two had youthful plans of building a law practice together, but when Brooks failed the | [
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Game of Chefs | [
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] | television series | for both amateur and professional chefs, competing for the title of "Israel's most talented chef". It is hosted by Miri Bohadana. The show has four stages: The blind auditions, training camp, kitchen battles, and finals. The blind auditions During this stage, candidates have one hour to prepare a dish, which is then sent to the show's three judges for a blind taste test. The judges don't see the candidate, and know nothing about him or her. During the test, the candidate watches the judges on a monitor and hears some of what the judges say, until just before they deliver | [] |
Club Valencia | [
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Club Valencia | [
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] | association football club | approval as the name of the club were Youth Recreation Movement and Juvenile Valencia Athletico; both were rejected. The third name, Club Valencia was then approved by the government. The present chairman of the club is Mr. Adheel Jaleel who was elected to the post in 2015. Players Current Squad Honours League/Championship Maldives National Championship: 5 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2008 Dhivehi League: 5 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008 Male' League: 1 2005 Maldives FA Cup: 5 1988, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2016 FAM Youth Championship: 1 2013 Maldives Cup Winners' Cup: 6 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007 POMIS Cup: | [] |
The Melomaniac | [
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Andy De Emmony | [
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Pablo Pedraza | [
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] | Bolivian footballer | Pablo Elías Pedraza Bustos (born 10 March 1995) is a Bolivian footballer who plays for Barnechea in the Primera B de Chile. Club career In 2008 Pedraza began his career at the youth sector of Club Blooming. During 2011 he started training with the first team, and made his top flight debut the following year. In July 2015, he was hoping to get more playing time; he transferred to Real Potosí as he was unable to secure a place on the first team due to his inexperience. International career Pedraza was summoned for the Bolivian U-20 team to play in | [
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] | American chemist | Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium oxide and was later able to produce metallic protactinium by decomposition of protactinium iodide. From 1948 to 1969, he was president of the Research Institute of Temple University and was later affiliated with the laboratories of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia until his retirement in 1979. In 1971, he received a United States Atomic Energy Commission award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to | [
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Turbo bruneus | [
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] | species of mollusc | Turbo bruneus, common name the brown (Pacific) dwarf turban or the little burnt turbo, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae. Description The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Central Indo-Pacific, in the Western Pacific Ocean, off East India, the Philippines and off Western Australia. References Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp Rajagopal, A.S. & Mookherjee, H.P. 1978. Contributions to the molluscan fauna | [] |
USS Laboon | [
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] | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer | USS Laboon (DDG-58) is an in the United States Navy. She is named for Father John Francis Laboon (1921–1988), a captain in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, who was awarded the Silver Star during World War II while serving on the submarine . Construction and career Laboon keel was laid down on 23 March 1992 at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine. She was launched on 20 February 1993. Laboon was commissioned on 18 March 1995, commanded by CDR Douglas D. McDonald. In the fall of 1996, she fired Tomahawk missiles at targets in Iraq, | [
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USS Laboon | [
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] | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer | thus becoming the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to engage in combat. In 1998, Laboon took part in NATO Exercise Dynamic Response 98, together with 's Amphibious Ready Group. On 12 September 2012, Laboon was ordered to the coast of Libya in what the Pentagon called a "contingency" in case a strike was ordered. This was in response to the 2012 diplomatic missions attacks. On 21 June 2015, Laboon entered the Black Sea along with the French ship as part of NATO's presence missions following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. While in the Black Sea, Laboon participated in | [
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