The first passenger ferry to use a gas turbine was the GTS Finnjet, built in 1977 and powered by two Pratt & Whitney FT 4C-1 DLF turbines, generating 55 MW and propelling the ship to a speed of 31 knots.

The Liberal People's Party (, DLF ) was a political party in Norway, established because of a split in the Liberal Party over the issue of Norway's accession to the European Economic Community in 1972.

The rest of DLF was merged into Deutschlandradio (" Germany Radio "), a public broadcasting institution created to oversee national services, from 1 January 1994.

DLF was given a new remit as a news and current affairs service, while retaining its staff and studio facilities in Cologne.

Dhofar Liberation Front ( DLF ) () was a communist front which was established to create a separatist state in Dhofar, the southern province of Oman, which shared a border with South Yemen.

The DLF was established by communist ( marxist-Leninist ) youth in Salalah in 1965.

The project was initiated by APIIC with participation of private infrastructure companies like L & T, Raheja corporation, Ascendas ITPark, Vanenburg Corporation, SP, RMZ corporation, Divyasree infrastructure, Lancohills technology park, DLF, EmaarMGF and others.

He wasn't a dwarf but he was a bit of a comic figure.

This has prompted suspicion that Omega Centauri was the core of a dwarf galaxy that had been absorbed by the Milky Way.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

After it was shown that at least one such body was larger than Pluto, on August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) reclassified Pluto, grouping it with two similarly sized " dwarf planets " rather than with the eight " classical planets ".

One way to potentially explain the problem of the Champagne Supernova was considering it the result of an aspherical explosion of a white dwarf.

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De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

* As the Egyptian Herodotus was given to understand, the craftsman-god Ptah was a dwarf.

The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered as late as 1929, the delay mostly due to its small size, far distance, and optical faintness.

These observations also hinted that the companion was a main sequence star of around 0. 7 solar masses and spectral type K, instead of a white dwarf as originally thought.

The war between the two had started after two Majesdanians, Frank and Leslie Dean of The Pride had been kicked out for criminal activities ; the two travelled to Earth, where Frank and Leslie stopped the war against Earth in exchange for giving the Skrulls the location of Majesdane, which was hidden behind the corona of a white dwarf.

SN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy.

The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910 by Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, and Williamina Fleming ;< sup >, p. 1 </ sup > the name white dwarf was coined by Willem Luyten in 1922.

The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

But if The Prince fancied women and was fascinated by foreigners, he could be haughtiness personified to his subordinates.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

By springtime, he was supported by a rich merchant syndicate under the patronage of Henry, Prince of Wales.

If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.

The decision was made in Zurich by Prince Boun Oum, Premier of the pro-Western royal Government ; ;

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.

In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

Finished on April 24, 1459, it was sent to Portugal with a letter to Prince Henry the Navigator, Afonso's uncle, encouraging further funding of exploration trips.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

By 1872, he was living in Vienna and was employed by the Department of Justice as an officer and by Prince Rudolf's family as his tutor.

In the beginning of the next year, the child Danylo was again expelled from Halych but Andrew denied to give assistance to him because the child prince's opponent, Prince Volodymyr III Igorevych had bribed him.

It was constructed in 1639 to provide water power for mills. In Russia, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, a nationwide canal system connecting the Baltic and Caspian seas via the Neva and Volga rivers, was opened in 1718.

In spring 2008 a Calandra Lark was identified in April, and in May a Caspian Plover was observed, only the fourth such record for the UK.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

The city served as a bustling commercial center, as it controlled the Volga-Don portage, which was used by the Rus to cross from the Black Sea to the Volga and thence to the Caspian ; the route was known as the " Khazarian Way ".

According to Abulgazi, Shem's original land was Iran while Japheth's was the country called " Kuttup Shamach ," said to be the name of the regions between the Caspian Sea and India.

The flow of the Ob and Yenisei Rivers was reversed, so they were redirected them into the Caspian Sea ( perhaps the Aral as well ).

Atil was located along the Volga delta at the northwestern corner of the Caspian Sea.

It was a bustling trade center easily reachable by ship from the Caspian Sea and Volga River, and many of its inhabitants were crafters, fishers, and traders.

Samandar ( also Semender ) was a city in Khazaria on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, south of the city of Atil, in the North Caucasus.

At its largest, sometime before 5000 BC, Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan palaeolakes, and is estimated to have covered an area of, larger than the Caspian Sea is today, and may have extended as far northeast as within of Faya-Largeau.

However, Demetrius was restless and twice tried to escape from his exile in Hyrcania on the shores of the Caspian sea, once with the help of his friend Kallimander, who had gone to great lengths to rescue the king: he had travelled incognito through Babylonia and Parthia.

Although modern Gorgan is only a city and county ( sharing the same name ), ancient Hyrcania was the name of a greater region on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea ( encompassing all of the present day Golestan province, as well as some eastern parts of the Mazandaran province, and some southern parts of the present day Republic of Turkmenistan ).

Landfill was used to raise shallow portions of the Caspian Sea.

Against Curzon's wishes, but on the advice of Sir George Milne, the commander on the spot, the CIGS Henry Wilson, who wanted to concentrate troops in Britain, Ireland, India and Egypt, and of Churchill ( Secretary of State for War ), the British withdrew from Baku ( the small British naval presence was also withdrawn from the Caspian Sea ), at the end of August 1919 leaving only 3 battalions at Batum.

After a British garrison at Enzeli ( on the Persian Caspian coast ) was taken prisoner by Bolshevik forces on 19 May 1920, Lloyd George finally insisted on a withdrawal from Batum early in June 1920.

The Hazarajat was considered part of the larger geographic region of Khurasan ( Kushan ), the porous boundaries of which encompassed the vast region between the Caspian Sea and the Oxus River, thus including much of what is today Northern Iran and Afghanistan.

Khan was the title of the rulers of various break-away states later reintegrated in Iran, e. g. 1747 – 1808 Khanate of Ardabil ( in northwestern Iran east of Sarab and west of the southwest corner of the Caspian Sea ), 1747 – 1813 Khanate of Khoy ( northwestern Iran, north of Lake Urmia, between Tabriz and Lake Van ), 1747 – 1829 Khanate of Maku ( in extreme northwestern Iran, northwest of Khoy, and 60 miles south of Yerevan, Armenia ), 1747 – 1790s Khanate of Sarab ( northwestern Iran east of Tabriz ), 1747 – c. 1800 Khanate of Tabriz ( capital of Iranian Azerbeidjan ).

Alamut (, transliterated Alamūt ) was a mountain fortress located in the South Caspian province of Daylam near the Rudbar region in Iran, approximately 100 km ( 60 mi ) from present-day Tehran, Iran.

A turning point in SAVAK's reputation for ruthless brutality was reportedly an attack on a gendarmerie post in the Caspian village of Siahkal by a small band of armed Marxists in February 1971, although it is also reported to have tortured to death a Shia cleric, Ayatollah Muhammad Reza Sa ' idi, in 1970.

Hyrcania was the name of a satrapy located in the territories of the present day Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces of Iran and part of Turkmenistan, lands south of the Caspian Sea.