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These notably included the BLU-31 / B and Mk 36 air-dropped mines, BLU-43 / B and BLU-44 / B landmine system ( Dragontooth ), the BLU-72 / B fuel-air explosive ( Pave Pat ), and the BLU-52 / A chemical bomb ( filled with bulk CS-2 powder ).

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An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.
; Basic: Ecole fondamentale ( Fundamental School ) Length of program: nine yearsAge range: six to 15Certificate / diploma awarded: Brevet d ' Enseignement Moyen B. E. M.
In exchange for building the tunnel, the City of Brooklyn granted the B & J permission to operate its steam locomotives on Atlantic Street west of Fifth Avenue ( then Parmentier's Garden / Gowanus Lane ), all the way to Brooklyn's South Ferry ( the present location of Brooklyn's Pier 7 ).
This undoubtedly inspired their Morris C9 / B ( officially the " Carrier, SP, 4x4, 40 mm AA "), a Bofors 40 mm AA gun mounted on a chassis derived from the Morris " Quad " Field Artillery Tractor truck.
In October 2000, the Athlon " C " was introduced, raising the mainboard front side bus speed from 100 MHz to 133 MHz ( 266 MT / s ) and providing roughly 10 % extra performance per clock over the " B " model Thunderbird.
In early 2006 the Pakistan Air Force ( PAF ) ordered 500 AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM missiles as part of a $ 650 million F-16 ammunition deal to equip the PAF's F-16C / D Block 52 + and F-16A / B MLU fighters.

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The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.
The scoreboard also indicates whether a player is dead, carrying the bomb ( on bomb maps ), or is the VIP ( on assassination maps ), although information on players on the opposing team is hidden from a player until his / her death, as this information can be important.
The progenitor of the A9 / A10 was the German V-2 rocket, also designed by von Braun and widely used at the end of World War II to bomb British and Belgian cities.
It uses a standard Soviet / Russian FAB-500 general-purpose bomb, with a nominal weight of 500 kg ( 1, 102 lb ), as a warhead, adding a low-light television seeker and guidance fins to turn it into a guided, unpowered glide bomb.
On August 21, 1975, a bomb that came within 1 / 16 of an inch of detonating was discovered where a Los Angeles Police Department patrol car had been parked in front of an International House of Pancakes restaurant earlier in the day.
The blast from a nuclear bomb is the result of X-ray-heated air ( the fireball ) sending a shock / pressure wave in all directions at a velocity greater than the speed of sound ( aka, the " Mach-Stem "), analogous to thunder generated by lightning.
The KAB-1500S GLONASS / GPS guided bomb also has a thermobaric variant.
Later, a much more complicated and far more powerful type of fission / fusion bomb ( thermonuclear weapon ) was built, that uses a plutonium-based device to cause a mixture of tritium and deuterium to undergo nuclear fusion.
The request followed the guidelines of the earlier Air Ministry Specification B. 35 / 46, which proposed a " medium-range bomber landplane, capable of carrying one 10, 000 pound ( 4, 535 kg ) bomb to a target 1, 500 nautical miles ( 2, 775 km ) from a base which may be anywhere in the world.
Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.
artillery gun ; 1975 ), W82 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1978 ), B83 ( modern strategic bomb ; 1979 ), W87 ( Peacekeeper / MX ICBM ; 1982 ), and W80 ( Tomahawk GLCM ; 1978 ).
His concept was to put some tritium and / or deuterium in close proximity to a fission bomb, with the hope that the heat and intense flux of neutrons released when the bomb exploded, would ignite a self sustaining fusion reaction.
In addition there were nine weapons including the unused axe, bomb, syringe, poison, shillelagh ( walking stick / cudgel ), and fireplace poker.
This tension culminated in the cause célèbre trial of the Rice / Poindexter Case, in which an Omaha Police Department officer was killed by a bomb while answering an emergency call.
By the end of 1982 Doe Maar notched up their first number 1-hit with De Bom, a joint Ernst -/ Henny-composition with the underlying message ' What's the point of making a career / doing your homework when the ( atomic ) bomb can drop at any moment?
To achieve a particular DE, planners select a bomb type based on that particular weapon's damage mechanism-blast / fragmentation or incendiary, for example.
Statements from the U. S. government after 9 / 11 may have contributed unnecessarily to the public fear of a dirty bomb.
This is because the attempts by this group to acquire a dirty bomb are the most well-described in the literature, in part due to the attention this group received for their involvement in the 9 / 11 attacks.
This diagram shows the operating sequence of a Medusa propulsion spacecraft ( 1 ) Starting at moment of bomb / pulse unit firing, ( 2 ) As the bomb's explosion pulse reaches the parachute canopy, ( 3 ) Pushes the canopy, accelerating it away from the bomb explosion as the spacecraft plays out the main tether with the winch, braking as it extends, starting to accelerate the spacecraft, ( 4 ) And finally winches the tether back in.

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The organic loading on the pond was slightly under 60 lb. BOD / day / acre.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.
There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).
A Country on its Way to One-Party-Democracy, KAS Auslandsinformationen 10 / 2008.
* by type: cargo 1, passenger / cargo 2, petroleum tanker 2, roll on / roll off 1
* http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Evolutionary_history_of_plants Background information on this field
The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.
Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.
Ataxia may depend on hereditary disorders consisting of degeneration of the cerebellum and / or of the spine ; most cases feature both to some extent, and therefore present with overlapping cerebellar and sensory ataxia, even though one is often more evident than the other.
In the First Test ( the first played at Edgbaston ), after scoring 376 England bowled out Australia for 36 ( Wilfred Rhodes 7 / 17 ) and reduced them to 46 – 2 when they followed on.
In Abrahamic religions the view is generally held that one goes to hell or heaven depending on one's deeds and / or faith while on Earth, or predestination and Unconditional election, or to the intermediate state to await the Resurrection of the Dead.
* http :// www. vatican. va / archive / ccc_css / archive / catechism / p123a12. htm for the Catholic view on life after death

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In 1998, newly declassified information revealed that Powers ’ mission had been a joint USAF / CIA operation.
* Battle Hymn ( 1956 ) is based on the real-life experiences of Lt Col Dean E. Hess, USAF ( played by Rock Hudson ) and his cadre of U. S. Air Force instructors in the early days of the Korean War, training the pilots of the Republic of Korea Air Force and leading them during their first missions in F-51D / F-51Ks.
However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.
* Reduction by one grade, if original rank in promotion authority of imposing officer ( USA / USAF E-4 and below.
* Reduction by one grade if ( USA / USAF E-6 or E-5 ; USMC E-5 or below ; USN E-6 or below ); or reduction to E-1 ( USA / USAF E-4 to E-2 )
Around 1988 a new round was introduced, the PGU-28 / B, which is now standard for US Navy and USAF aircraft.
The report estimated that the current PGU-28 / B had a potential failure rate 80 times higher than USAF standards permit.
Many airliners have also been modified for government use as VIP transports and for military functions such as airborne tankers ( for example, the Vickers VC10, Lockheed L1011, Boeing 707 ), air ambulance ( USAF / USN McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ), reconnaissance ( Embraer ERJ 145, Saab 340, Boeing 737 ), as well as for troop-carrying roles.
While over 5, 000 U. S. airmen had been killed and over 1, 000 more were either missing in action ( MIA ), or captured ( prisoners of war / POW ); the USAF 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing had flown approximately 3, 435 UAV missions during the war, at a cost of about 554 UAVs lost to all causes.
at: 05 / 11 / 1999 shift :($ dx, 5 ) text :" May 11, 1999, Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish USAF confirmed as director of BMDO.
at: 06 / 26 / 1996 text :" August 2, 1996, Lt. Gen. Lester G. Lyles USAF confirmed as director of BMDO.
at: 08 / 04 / 1993 text :" November 19, 1993, Maj. Gen. Malcolm O ' Neill USAF confirmed as director of BMDO and promoted to Lt. Gen. on November 22.
* NASA, at USAF Base Kindley Field / US NAS Bermuda

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