* 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.

Five years after the early Able space probe missions ended, NASA Ames Research Center used the Pioneer name for a new series of missions, initially aimed at the inner solar system, before the bold flyby missions to Jupiter and Saturn.

It was reported that one of the aims of the programme was to prepare São Toméan troops for international peacekeeping missions. Previous phases of reform saw the armed forces downsized considerably in the early 1990s in line with a reduction in regional threat assessment.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

Garfield had urged that the nation's ties to its southern neighbors be strengthened ; as early as 1876, he said, " I would rather blot out five or six European missions than these South American ones ... They are our neighbors and friends.

Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early 16th century led to a massive decline in the Amerindian population of Barbados so that by 1541 a Spanish writer could claim they were uninhabited.

* During early Apollo program missions to the Moon, the spacecraft was put on a free return trajectory — if the engines had failed at lunar orbit insertion, the craft would have safely coasted back to Earth.

In one of his early missions he destroyed eight German fighter planes with a jeep's machine gun and, after running out of ammo, he destroyed four more by crashing his jeep into them.

* The SSTV system used in NASA's early Apollo missions transferred ten frames per second with a resolution of 320 frame lines using less bandwidth than a normal TV transmission.

According to one estimate, the native population in and around the missions proper was approximately 80, 000 at the time of the confiscation ; others claim that the < u > statewide </ u > population had dwindled to approximately 100, 000 by the early 1840s, due in no small part to the natives ' exposure to European diseases they lacked immunity from, and from the Franciscan practice of cloistering women in the convento and controlling sexuality during the child-bearing age.

The popularity of the missions also stemmed largely from Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona and the subsequent efforts of Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Randolph Hearst, and other members of the " Landmarks Club of Southern California " to restore three of the southern missions in the early 20th century ( San Juan Capistrano, San Diego de Alcalá, and San Fernando ; the Pala Asistencia was also restored by this effort ).

An early map illustrating the route of " El Camino Real " in 1821, along with the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California.

The existence of the belt was confirmed by the Explorer 1 and Explorer 3 missions in early 1958, under Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa.

The shuffling of the Gemini prime and backup crew assignments that occurred after See and Bassett's deaths had an effect on the crew selections for some of the early Apollo manned missions.

The Prince took part in several reconnaissance missions, though his eagerness for action almost led him into an early ambush, when he exceeded orders in a party led by Colonel Redvers Buller.

Several other failed attempts at Venus flyby probes were launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, but were not announced as planetary missions at the time, and hence did not officially receive the " Venera " designation.

However, early accounts of missions to the Jews, such as Epiphanius of Salamis ' record of the conversion of Count Joseph of Tiberias, and Sozomen's accounts of Jewish conversions, do not mention converted Jews playing any leading role in proselytization.

Twelve O ' Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II.

The Claretians ( The Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, or The Claretian Order ) of the Roman Catholic Church had come to Southern California by way of Mexico in the early 1900s, working in Los Angeles inner city missions.

During the early twentieth century, Brethren invested heavily in foreign missions in India, China, and other locations.

Supporting this theory is the report that 36 of the 39 astronauts involved in high-radiation-mission, such as the nine Apollo missions to leave Earth orbit, have developed early stage cataracts that have been shown to be caused by exposure to cosmic rays during their trips.

At his urging, several early settlers of Eagle Pass were emigres of the Mexican river villages and missions of San Juan Bautista, San José, Santo Domingo, San Nicolás, La Navaja, and San Isidro.

In the early months of 1714, the battle between Swift and Steele over the issue of the Succession entered its major phase.

In the early days of this controversy over the theater one of the interested parties, Stephen Gosson, published a little tract in which he objected mildly to the abuses of art, rather than the art itself.

Charles Plummer in the introduction and notes to his splendid edition of Bede voiced some early doubts concerning the `` elaborate superstructure '' they raised up over the slim foundations afforded by the traditional narratives of the conquest.

He flew over Rome one day during the early days of Mussolini and scattered leaflets over the city, denouncing the Fascists.

In the relatively short time since these early observations, Venus has been observed at additional wave lengths in the range from 0.8 to 10.2 cm, and Jupiter has been observed over the wave-length range from 3.03 to 68 Aj.

We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;

This carried over into the more urbanized late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the man ruled the roost in the best bull-roaring Life With Father manner.

But she does indicate festivities will start early, that a jazz combo will `` give with the Basin Street beat '' during the cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take over during the dancing.

Portugal has been present in Angola for 400 years, occupied the territory in the 19th and early 20th century, and ruled over it for about 50 years.

The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.

Ancient-There are few remaining examples with early art often favouring drawing over colour.

Lord Dufferin, the current Governor General, expressed early misgivings about a stonemason taking over government.

Subgenus Alnus: Trees with stalked shoot buds, male and female catkins produced in autumn ( fall ) but stay closed over winter, pollinating in late winter or early spring, about 15 – 25 species, including:

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin-soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin ( Almoravids )-set out on campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.

He initially sought to maintain the Aragonese control over Sicily early in his reign by supporting the claims to island of his brother, James II of Aragon.

In 1800, as the result of a professional disagreement over the galvanic response advocated by Galvani, he invented the voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.

As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.