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** Atlantic wall or Festung Europa — Hitler's personal term for the fortifications he had erected to stymie any Allied attempt at invasion of the continent.
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** C. v. mexicanus ( Linnaeus, 1766 )-eastern United States west of Atlantic Seaboard to Great Plains
** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )
** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.
** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.
** At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
** 150 women ( members of New York Radical Women ) arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to protest against the Miss America Pageant, as exploitative of women.
** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
** Gemini 12 ( James A. Lovell, Buzz Aldrin ), splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km east of the Bahamas.
** A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola ( the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites ).
** The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.
** The North Atlantic Cooperation Council ( NAC-C ) meets for the first time, the day on which the Soviet Union ceases to exist. source
** Intelsat IV ( F3 ) is launched ; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.
** The wreck of the RMS Titanic ( 1912 ) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI ) and Jean-Louis Michel ( Ifremer ) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
** The third hurricane of the season, the first recorded example of a storm crossing from the Eastern Pacific basin into the Atlantic basin, occurred in Oaxaca.
** During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur.
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** Photolithography: the aspect ratio of an etched, or deposited structure is the ratio of the height of its vertical side wall to its width.
** St. James's church ( often mistakenly called St Jacob's ), a basilica from the 14th century, with monumental wall paintings and Gothic stalls
** Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula, to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.
** In Porky in Wackyland, the dodo screams twice: after he draws the imaginary door and before he pulls the wall of bricks.
** 421. 21 Flutes with external duct – The duct is outside the wall of the flute ; this group includes flutes with the duct chamfered in the wall under a ring-like sleeve and other similar arrangements.
** The Allen Room a 508-seat amphitheater with glass wall overlooking Central Park ; as of August 2011, this space also became the recording studio for Anderson, a daytime-television talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper
** A documented episode of arterial, venous, or small vessel thrombosis — other than superficial venous thrombosis — in any tissue or organ by objective validated criteria with no significant evidence of inflammation in the vessel wall, and / or
** The wall opens directly to the Doom Buggy load area, and will always open underneath the pink lady's portrait, no matter how the room is situated.
** Related to both American parks, but instead of family portraits and the hanging man, a portrait of a top-hatted man hangs on the corridor's wall.
** Behind this process a broad, thin plate, the ethmoidal process, ascends to join the uncinate process of the ethmoid ; from its lower border a thin lamina, the maxillary process, curves downward and lateralward ; it articulates with the maxilla and forms a part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus.
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