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In the Second World War, Hugh Cott worked to persuade the British army to use more effective camouflage techniques, including countershading.
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The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.
The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.
On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.
Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.
Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.
* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
Following the Second World War, far-reaching social, economic and political changes profoundly affected a number of areas where Ismāʿīlīs resided.
* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.
This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.
Aerial armour has been used to protect pilots and aircraft systems since the Second World War.
Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).
With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.
Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.
The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.
The armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) is a relatively recent development, stemming from trials and experiences during the Second World War.
Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.
The Memorial Hall and Gymnasium honours students who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.
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During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.
In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.
* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
His paternal great-grandfather was a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War.
* 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.
* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".
He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.
* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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In the Second World War, zoologists such as Hugh Cott designed camouflage schemes to protect large targets such as airfields and gun batteries from detection from the air, using techniques from nature such as countershading.
Some writers that emerged after the Second World War followed Hugh MacDiarmid by writing in Scots, including Robert Garioch and Sydney Goodsir Smith.
* Candide – Second Version ( 1974 ) ( new lyrics by Sondheim ; original lyrics by Richard Wilbur ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; book by Hugh Wheeler )
Hugh was an emissary of Prince Raymond of Antioch seeking Western aid against the Saracens after the Siege of Edessa, and his counsel incited Eugene to call for the Second Crusade.
At the outbreak of the Second World War the college site was requisitioned by the military for use as the Hospital for Head Injuries under the directorship of Hugh Cairns, the Professor of Surgery at Nuffield College.
Eye began to lose its strategic importance after 1173 when the castle was attacked by Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, during the rebellion against Henry II, and later during the Second Barons ' War of 1265 after which it never regained its former status.
It was while producing Hugh and I that he was introduced to actor Jimmy Perry, who handed him an unsolicited script for a pilot called The Fighting Tigers about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.
Together with his younger brother Hugh Bigod ( 1211-1266 ), Justiciar, he was prominent among the barons who wrested control of government from the hands of King Henry III and assisted Simon de Montfort in the Second Barons ' War.
Campbell next saw action in India, in the Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848-1849, under Sir Hugh Gough.
* Second to Isabelle of Lusignan, daughter of the King Hugh III of Cyprus and widow of Constantine of Neghir, Lord of Partzerpert.
Richard Hugh Cecil ( 1924 – 1944 ) was killed in the Second World War.
McKay's counselors in the First Presidency were Stephen L Richards ( First Counselor, 1951 – 1959 ); J. Reuben Clark, Jr. ( Second Counselor ( 1951 – 1959, First Counselor 1959 – 1961 ); Henry D. Moyle ( Second Counselor 1959 – 1961, First Counselor 1961 – 1963 ); Hugh B.
* Second Chances ( 1998 ) – Dr. Hugh Olson
The design may have been inspired by the death in 1792 of Hugh Munro, son of General Sir Hector Munro, who had commanded a division during Sir Eyre Coote's victory at the Battle of Porto Novo ( Parangipettai ) in 1781 when Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan's father, was defeated with a loss of 10, 000 men during the Second Anglo-Mysore War.
:* Second Round — Defeated Hugh Dyer ( BEL ), RSC-2
in 1848 following the outbreak in April that year of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and Captain Coke joined the army of Sir Hugh Gough, Commander-in-Chief, India, at Ramnagar as a volunteer in 1849, doing
Seely's nephew Sir Hugh Seely, 3rd Baronet and 1st Baron Sherwood, was Under-Secretary of State for Air during the Second World War.
* Lord Hugh Hastings Russell ( 1923 – 2005 ), a conscientious objector in the Second World War, married Rosemary Markby and had issue.
Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor KCB, CMG ( 1871 – 1965 ) was a British soldier who fought as a junior officer in the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ), and as a senior officer in the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), but is now remembered chiefly for his part in the Irish War of Independence ( 1920 – 21 ) and the Palestine Police.
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