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Ajax and 1914
Albert John " Ajax " Baumler ( April 17, 1914 – August 2, 1973 ) was an American fighter ace during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Ajax and automobile
* Ajax ( 1906 automobile ), Aigner, Switzerland
* Ajax ( 1913 automobile ), Briscoe, France
* Ajax ( 1921 automobile ), prototype, U. S.
* Ajax ( American automobile ), Nash Motors, 1925 – 1926, U. S.
The Chairman and CEO of the company, Charles W. Nash, ordered that the Ajax models be marketed as the " Nash Light Six ", a known and respected automobile brand that was the name of the company's founder.
Conversion kits were also distributed at no charge to Ajax owners to transform their cars and protect the investment they had made in purchasing an automobile made by Nash.
See also: Ajax ( 1906 automobile )-Swiss car ; Ajax ( 1913 automobile )-French car ; or Ajax ( 1921 automobile )-American car.
The Ajax was an American automobile brand manufactured by the Nash Motors Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, between 1925-1926.
Nash even made the kits available at no charge to consumers who bought Ajax cars, but did not want to own an orphaned make automobile, to protect the investment they had made in a Nash Motors product.
The Ajax was a Swiss automobile built from 1906 to 1910.
it: Ajax ( automobile 1906 )
The Ajax was a French automobile built by the American Briscoe brothers, Benjamin and Frank, between 1913 and 1919.
The Ajax was an American assembled 5 seat touring car automobile that never went beyond the prototypical stage.
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Ajax and ),
To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus ( Ajax the Lesser ), he is called " Telamonian Ajax ," " Greater Ajax ," or " Ajax the Great ".
After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.
Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.
The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.
* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "
* Ajax ( missionary ), Arian missionary who converted the Suevi to Christianity ( c. 466 )
* Ajax ( programming ) ( Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ), a technique used in web application development
* Ajax ( floppy disk controller ), a floppy disk controller fitted to the Atari STE
* Ajax Sportman Combinatie ( ASC ), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands
* Ajax ( horse ) ( b. 1901 ), a French Champion racehorse
* Ajax II ( b. 1934 ), a Champion Australian racehorse
* Ajax ( Sophocles ), a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles
* Ajax ( Disney ), a fictional company ( the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes ' Acme Corporation )
* Ajax ( comics ), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe
* Ajax ( band ), an electronic band from New York City

Ajax and Washington
Jansen signed for the American side Washington Diplomats in 1980, but after playing 27 games for them, he returned to the Netherlands to sign for Ajax, on the advice of Johan Cruijff, who played together with Jansen at the Washington Diplomats.

Ajax and U
In 2005, Colgate sold the under-performing brands Fab, Dynamo, Arctic Power, ABC, Cold Power and Fresh Start, as well as the license of the Ajax brand for laundry detergents in the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico, to Phoenix Brands, LLC as part of their plan to focus on their higher margin oral, personal, and pet care products.
In 1953, the British and U. S. spy agencies deposed the democratically-elected government of Mossadegh in a military coup d ' état codenamed Operation Ajax, and restored the Shah as an absolute monarch.
The replacement of Iran's Anglo-Persian Oil Company with five American oil companies and the 1953 Iranian coup d ' état was the consequence of the U. S. and British-orchestrated false flag operation, Operation Ajax.
A considerable amount of stock footage was also used, notably scenes during the invasion that showed batteries of U. S. 90 mm M3 guns and an early rocket launch, presumably standing in for the recently introduced Nike Ajax missile.
* USS Ajax ( 1869 ), a former U. S. Navy vessel originally named USS Manayunk

Ajax and .
* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality
Ajax () was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris.
He was called the " lesser " or " Locrian " Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon.
When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.
In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.
In later traditions, this Ajax is called a son of Oileus and the nymph Rhene and is also mentioned among the suitors of Helen.
Ajax violently dragged her away to the other captives.
Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.
Whether true or not, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant from her temple.
According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.
Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.
When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.
When Ajax finally left Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived, managing to cling onto a rock.
He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.
Other versions depict a different death for Ajax, showing him dying when on his voyage home.
In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.
The Opuntian Locrians worshiped Ajax as their national hero, and so great was their faith in him that when they drew up their army in battle, they always left one place open for him, believing that, although invisible to them, he was fighting for and among them.
The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

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