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The first Sullivan-Burnand collaboration led to a commission by Thomas German Reed for a two-act opera, The Contrabandista ( 1867 ; revised and expanded as The Chieftain in 1894 ), but it did not do as well.
The Chieftain line was renamed Catalina ; Star Chief was downgraded to replace the discontinued Super Chief series, and the Bonneville was now the top of the line, coming equipped with a fuel-injection system.
He and his descendants led the Rangers of the North ; Aragorn II was the sixteenth Chieftain until he restored the Kingdom of Arnor in T. A.
In the United Kingdom another line of ceramic armour development had been started in the early 1960s, meant to improve the existing cast turret configuration of the Chieftain that already offered excellent heavy penetrator protection ; the research by a team headed by Gilbert Harvey of the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment ( FVRDE ), therefore was strongly oriented at optimising the ceramic composite system for defeating shaped charge attack.
Among the gallery ’ s objects are: a CF-101 Voodoo jet ; an M109 self-propelled howitzer ; an East German BMP infantry fighting vehicle ; tracked artillery from the First World War ; a Chieftain tank ; a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer ; an M3 Lee ; a fully restored Panzer V Panther tank ; a Panzer II ; a Leopard C1 tank ; searchlights ; rare motorcycles ; Field Marshal Alexander ’ s staff car ; a Canadian Iltis jeep and other vehicles with service in the Balkans during the 1990s ; a Molch midget submarine ; underwater mines ; a T-34 ; a Valentine tank recovered from a bog in 1990 ; an Italian L3 / 35 tankette ; and Weather Station Kurt, an automated weather station planted by a German U-boat on the coast of Labrador in the 1940s.
The phenomenon remained largely unknown outside cattle raising communities until 1967, when the Pueblo Chieftain in Pueblo, Colorado published a story about a horse named Lady who was mutilated in mysterious circumstances, which was then picked up by the wider press and distributed nationwide ; this case was also the first to feature speculation that extraterrestrial beings and unidentified flying objects were associated with mutilation.
Novoye prochteniye po novym materyalam ; Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Chieftain.

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The American services, with the exception of the U. S. Navy, were not generally in the habit of giving aircraft names, and many British-chosen names would later be adopted ; e. g. the North American P-51 Mustang began life as the North American Mustang Mk. I with the RAF.
* 4 × 20 mm Hispano Mk III cannon ( 60 rpg ) in nose, and depending on role ;
** 3 × 1000 lb ( UK Mk 20 ) Paveway II / Enhanced Paveway II ; or
In 7. 62 × 51 mm NATO, M852 Match and M118LR ammunition are issued, both of which use Sierra MatchKing bullets ; in 5. 56 × 45mm NATO, those U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine snipers who use accurized M16-type rifles are issued the Mk 262 Mod 0 cartridge developed jointly by Black Hills Ammunition and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center, using a bullet manufactured by Sierra Bullets that was cannelured according to military specifications for this project.
Whilst the first computer in the southern hemisphere, the CSIR Mk 1, was already running elsewhere on the University of Sydney grounds, there were several serious impediments to its use by the School of Physics: The CSIR Mk 1 was fully occupied with CSIR research and John Blatt found its staff very unhelpful ; and, as a serial architecture computer, it was far too slow for the sort of problems that Blatt and Messel envisaged.
| bombs = Total of 8, 000 lb ( 3, 628 kg ) of payload can be mounted inside the internal bomb bay and on two underwing hardpoints, with the ability to carry a variety of bombs. Typically, the internal bomb bay can hold up to 9 500 lb ( 227 kg ) bombs, or 6 1, 000 lb ( 454 kg ) bombs, or 1 4, 000 lb ( 1, 814 kg ) bomb ; while the pylons can hold 4 500 lb ( 227 kg ) bombs, or 2 1, 000 lb ( 454 kg ) bombs. Nuclear Weapons: in addition to conventional ordnance, the Canberra was also type-approved for tactical nuclear weapon delivery, including the Mk 7, B28 ( Mod 2, 70 kiloton yield ) and B57 ( as part of a joint program with the United States ) plus Red Beard and the WE. 177A ( Mod A, 10 kiloton yield ) nuclear bombs.
Ford also claimed improved corrosion protection on Mk. V models ; as a result, more Mk. V's have survived ; however, corrosion was still quite a problem.
Mk 16: 16 ; Jn 3: 5 ), and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through baptism as through a door.
) These Cockles ranged from the Mk 1 early frame-and fabric ' folbot ' type to the four man boats made of aluminum alloy ; most were ' collapsible ' rather than being boats that could be completely disassembled, as with modern day folding boats.
3: 15-16 ; 28: 19 ; Mk.
26: 26-29 ; Mk.
25: 21 ; Mk.
; Chipmunk T. 10 ( Mk 10 )
; Chipmunk Mk 20
; Chipmunk Mk 21
; Chipmunk Mk 22
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Model 1910 ( Mk III ) was made with a totally different bolt head ; instead of having the solid bolt lugs travel in a vertical position and lock in a horizontal position, like for the Mk II and Mk II ** ( see illustration ), Ross turned it 90 degrees so it travels in an horizontal position and locks vertically.

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After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.
Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.
Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time ; however, they both had second thoughts about their relationship.
Lincoln's father-in-law was based in Lexington, Kentucky ; he and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders.
He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.
Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.
Lincoln rarely raised objections in the courtroom ; but in an 1859 case, where he defended a cousin Peachy Harrison, who was accused of stabbing another to death, Lincoln angrily protested the judge's decision to exclude evidence favorable to his client.
In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.
In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.
The Republican Party's production of campaign literature dwarfed the combined opposition ; a Chicago Tribune writer produced a pamphlet that detailed Lincoln's life, and sold 100, 000 to 200, 000 copies.
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
The only resolution of these contradictory positions was for the confederates to fire the first shot ; they did just that.
Secession sentiment was strong in Missouri and Maryland, but did not prevail ; Kentucky tried to be neutral.
Lincoln believed that Fremont's emancipation was political ; neither militarily necessary nor legal.
The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.
Lincoln's foreign policy approach had been initially hands off, due to his inexperience ; he left most diplomacy appointments and other foreign policy matters to his Secretary of State, William Seward.
In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.
Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops in defense of the capital ; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.

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