Armour, motorised and aerial support was also naturally dependent on weather.

Armour of this type was introduced into India under the Mughals.

Mail Armour was introduced to the Middle East and Asia through the Romans and was adopted by the Sassanid Persians starting in the 3rd century CE, where it was supplemental to the scale and lamellar armours already used.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

In 2003, he was part of an advertising campaign for Armour hot dogs with MLB players Ken Griffey, Jr., Derek Jeter, and Sammy Sosa.

IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology ( founded in 1890 ) and Lewis Institute ( founded in 1895 ).

The Armour Institute of Technology was founded in 1890 with one million dollars from Philip Danforth Armour, Sr., a prominent Chicago meat packer and grain merchant.

After the sermon, Armour approached Gunsaulus and asked if he was serious about his claim.

In the late 1930s, the Board of Trustees at Armour was greatly expanded, with many Chicago industrialists and businessmen joining the board to increase funding and support the institute.

However, it was a proposal from Lewis's chairman Alex Bailey to Armour President Henry Townley Heald and Board Chair James Cunningham that would lead to the birth of IIT.

He was an early member of the Chicago Board of Trade, being associated with Armour, Dole & Co. in Chicago.

For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri.

Stockbridge was the birthplace of meatpacking industrialist Philip Danforth Armour and brother Herman Ossian Armour

In the early to mid twenty century, Armour Fertilizer was built in 1919, followed by Royster Fertilizer in 1927 and finally Smith-Douglas Fertilizer in 1946.

Armour was founded in 1885.

The city was named for Philip D. Armour, who was founder of Armour and Company, a meat packing company.

Contrary to popular belief, Armour was never home to a meat packing plant ; the town was so named because Mr. Armour was also the chairman of the railroad that went through Armour and donated a bell to the local congregational church.

This lasted until 1957, when the Fourth Tripartite Armour Conference recommended to replace medium and heavy tanks with a single class — Main Battle Tanks.

He also released a collaborative single, " Armour " / " Nothing " with artist and poet Rene Halkett, of the original Weimar Bauhaus school of art and design.

Armour systems have continued in development alongside ATGMs, and the most recent generations of armor are specifically tested to be effective against ATGM strikes, either by ' tricking ' the missile into not detonating against the armor itself ( such as in Slat Armour ) or using some form of reactive armor to ' attack ' the missile upon impact, disrupting shaped charge that makes the warhead effective.

The big meat packers, Armour, Swift, and Wilson, had purchased the most expensive units which they installed on train cars and in branch houses and storage facilities in the more remote distribution areas.

Before the journey, Armour “ had received several hundred dollars from his parents ,” making him, for the most part, “ the financier of the party ,” according to biographer Edward N. Wentworth.

According to Deborah S. Ing, author of Philip Armour ’ s biography in the American National Biography Online, “ the most important business coup of Armour's early career occurred near the end of the Civil War when he predicted heavy Confederate losses and thus the dropping of pork prices … he made contracts with buyers at $ 40 per barrel before prices plummeted to $ 18 when the war ended in a Union victory.

The most revolutionary aspect of the Challenger 1 design was its Chobham armour which gave protection far superior to any monolithic Rolled Homogeneous Armour ( RHA ), which was the then standard of tank armour material.

In 1967, after a two-year stint in the Army, Canemaker, with funds from acting assignments in TV commercials ( he appeared in over 35 advertisements for major products, most famously leading a line of " fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks " through Central Park for Armour hotdogs )— and appearing as a cast member of the 1972 WCBS-TV show Patchwork Family, in which he drew on a large sketching pad — he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Marymount Manhattan College in 1974 and Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University in 1976.

Armour Square's most recognizable landmarks are the historic Armour Square Park and nearby US Cellular Field, which sits at the southeast corner of W. 35th and Shields Avenue, on the neighborhood's southernmost end.

Armour lost most of his family fortune — at $ 100 million ( about $ 1. 47 billion in 2010 dollars ), then the second-largest in the world — in the downturn.

Armour, owner of $ 100 million in stock, suffered the most.

The fourth hole at the Yale golf course was rated by Tommy Armour as the ninth most difficult hole in the world, requiring two perfect shots to reach the green ; an initial long drive over or along water and a wood or long iron shot to reach the slightly elevated green.

Armour's most recognizable product today is Armour hot dogs, and arguably Armour " LunchMakers ", which compete with Oscar Meyer's " Lunchables ".

Armour was most common for wealthier or higher ranked soldiers.

Armour drove the development of many important technologies of the Ancient World, including wood lamination, mining, metal refining, vehicle manufacture, leather processing, and later decorative metal working.

Widespread use of the wire recording device occurred within the decades spanning from 1940 until 1960, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology ( later Illinois Institute of Technology ).

* Articles on TK / TKS development, variants and construction in English in Polish Armour 1918-1939 website

It resulted from technical improvements and the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology ( later the Illinois Institute of Technology ).

Hoeppner was instrumental in the development of several NFL players, including JoJuan Armour, Dustin Cohen, and Sheldon White.

Armour use began to decline after the introduction of firearms, but shields continued to be used.

Romantic news concerns Mrs. Joan Monroe Armour and F. Lee H. Wendell, who are to be married at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Lake Forest home of her brother, J. Hampton Monroe, and Mrs. Monroe.

Their father is Charles B. Armour.

Armour or armor ( see spelling differences ) is protective covering used to prevent damage from being inflicted to an object, individual or a vehicle through use of direct contact weapons or projectiles, usually during combat, or from damage caused by a potentially dangerous environment or action ( e. g., cycling, construction sites, etc .).

Armour has been used throughout recorded history.

Armour did not always cover all of the body ; sometimes no more than a helmet and leg plates were worn.

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Armour is being supplemented with active protection systems on a number of vehicles, allowing the AFV to protect itself from incoming projectiles.

Emigrants did succeed, however, in spreading the concepts of the Bauhaus to other countries, including the “ New Bauhaus ” of Chicago: Mies decided to emigrate to the United States for the directorship of the School of Architecture at the Armour Institute ( now IIT ) in Chicago and to seek building commissions.

Armour commitment consisted of Panzer Battalion 88, a force built around three companies of Panzer I tanks that functioned as a training cadre for Nationalists.

London / New York: Arms and Armour.

this quote from the translated reference of Sakakibara Kozan's 1800 book, The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan, shows that the Japanese not only knew of and used riveted kusari but that they manufactured it as well.

It is still used in this form by the British Territorial Army, and the Royal Canadian Armour Corps of the Canadian Army.

The Chicago White Sox play in the South Side's Armour Square neighborhood.

The current role of The Royal Canadian Dragoons is to provide Armour Reconnaissance support to 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group ( 2 CMBG ) operations.

When the gods were believed to be duly propitiated ... Armour, weapons, and other things of the kind were ordered to be in readiness, and the ancient spoils gathered from the enemy were taken down from the temples and colonnades.

An Historical Guide to Arms and Armour.

" The Metallurgy of Medieval Arms and Armour ", in Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour.

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