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A page from the Bombardier's Information File ( BIF ) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight.
TAT-10 was AT & T's 10th transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1992 to 2003, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit / s between USA and Norden in Germany.
The D-segment was a special festoon leg that carried 3 x 565 Mbit / s from Norden, repeatered at land at West-Terschelling to Bergen near Alkmaar.
European exploration and travel writings of ancient Egypt commenced from the 13th century onward, with only occasional detours into a more scientific approach, notably by Claude Sicard, Benoît de Maillet, Frederic Louis Norden and Richard Pococke.
Patriotic sentiment is notably absent from the text of the original two verses, due to them being written in the spirit of Scandinavism popular at the time ( Norden in general refers to the Nordic countries in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish ).
* Ritter, Gerhard The Sword and the Scepter ; the Problem of Militarism in Germany, translated from the German by Heinz Norden, Coral Gables, Fla., University of Miami Press 1969-73.
Many of the jokes and comic exchanges from Take It From Here were recycled in the series of Carry On films when scriptwriter Talbot Rothwell ran out of time, and Muir and Norden gave him some old TIFH scripts — for instance the line spoken by Julius Caesar on facing some would-be assassins: " Infamy!
A special show was recorded on 14 May 2006 as a ' farewell tour ' to all his shows over the years, called All the Best from Denis Norden, which was shown on 2 January 2007.
Norden suffers from macular degeneration.
Currently, Jonathan Hewat, who has a personal collection of 3, 000 clips from over four decades of world-wide English-speaking broadcasting, feels that with clanger slots, especially on TV, being taken over by Dennis Norden and then by Terry Wogan and several others, they are no longer sufficiently unusual to warrant transmitting as complete programmes.
The later British show It'll be Alright on the Night, which has been running on ITV since 1977, and hosted by Denis Norden ( replaced by Griff Rhys Jones in 2008 ) showed out-takes from film and TV.
In the ancient records, it is written as Chelchith, which Norden, a writer of considerable note, derives from the Saxon words ceale or cele, meaning " coldness ", and hyd, meaning " hythe ", ( landing-place, port or haven ).
The steam railway has ambitions to extend its service, currently from Swanage to Norden, near Corfe Castle back to Worgret Junction ( where the mainline and branch divided ) and into Wareham again.
In 1996, Workers Vanguard editor Jan Norden and other founders of the League for the Fourth International were expelled, allegedly for maneuvering with a group from Brazil involved in bringing court suit against a trade union.
The vehicle created for Bentley and Edwards, Take It From Here, was written by Muir and Norden from 1948 until 1959 ; a last series in 1960 used other writers.
After graduation Kerényi travelled extensively in the Mediterranean region and spent time as a visiting student at the Universities of Greifswald, Berlin and Heidelberg, learning from the professors of antiquity and classical philology, Eduard Norden, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Franz Boll.
Together, they allowed for unprecedented accuracy in day bombing from high altitudes ; in testing the Norden demonstrated a circular error probable ( CEP ) of 75 feet ( 23 m ), an astonishing performance for the era.
The Norden was initially developed by the Navy in order to provide a system capable of bombing ships from outside the range of their defensive guns, and the Army took up the design for similar missions.
Hitting small targets of this sort demanded high accuracy, and the Norden company joked that they could hit a pickle barrel from 30, 000 feet.
Ironically, by the time the Mission was being planned, the Norden had been removed from the list of items to be discussed, and Roosevelt personally noted this was due largely to political reasons.
The Army felt the combination of the Norden and B-17 Flying Fortress presented an alternate solution, believing that small formations of B-17s could successfully attack shipping at long distances from the USAAC's widespread bases.
In 1940, Barth, president of Carl L. Norden Inc., said that " we do not regard a 15-foot square ... as being a very difficult target to hit from an altitude of 30, 000 feet ".
A page from the Bombardier's Information File ( BIF ) that describes the components and controls of the Norden Bombsight.
* Norden Bombsight from the Hill Aerospace Museum

Norden and two
Key to the operation of the Norden were two features ; a mechanical computer that calculated the bomb's trajectory based on current flight conditions, and a linkage to the bomber's autopilot that let it react quickly and accurately to changes in the wind or other effects.
The Norden thus calculated two angles, the range angle based on the altitude, airspeed and ballistics, and the current angle to the target based on the ground speed of the aircraft.
The Norden bombsight consisted of two primary parts, the gyroscopic stabilization platform on the left side, and the mechanical calculator and sighting head on the right side.
However, the Norden combined two functions, aiming and stabilization.
Muir and Norden together wrote Take It From Here ( 1948 – 60 ), with Edwards and Bentley as two of the three stars.
The famous Norden bombsight fitted to B-26C's could help bombardiers to aim bombs ( up to two tons ) on targets accurately, even in bad weather.
He was married and had at least two sons, John Norden junior, and Josias.
He always kept the two areas of his professional life quite separate, and when in the late 1590s a series of dedications in his devotional works to the Earl of Essex placed him in political difficulties with Sir Robert Cecil he attempted to deny authorship, claiming that the devotional books were the work of a " another of my name ... Norden pretender ".
In 1845 she set out to Scandinavia and Iceland, describing her tour in two volumes, Reise nach dem skandinavischen Norden und der Insel Island (“ Trip to the Scandinavian North and the island of Iceland ,” Pest, 1846 ; English translation: Journey to Iceland, Sweden, and Norway, London, 1852 ).
Gates protected the trenches of the fort with two cannons, one Norden field machine-gun, and 300 to 400 armed inhabitants, who were ready even during peacetime.

Norden and ITV
Norden also hosted an ITV / Channel 4 nostalgia quiz, Looks Familiar.
Norden was also later well-known to television audiences for his ITV shows: Looks Familiar, It'll be Alright on the Night and Laughter File.

Norden and shows
In early shows, once the real answers were given, Muir and Norden were invited to explain the origin of the phrase less seriously.
Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.
The parody sketch, previously used in stage revues but brought to radio by Muir and Norden for Take It From Here, was very influential on comedy shows such as Round The Horne and many television programmes.
In Leland's time the market was held at Marhasdeythyow ( Forum Jovis ), and both Norden ( 1582 ) and Carew ( 1602 ) tell us that Marcajewe signifies the Thursday's market, which, whether etymologically sound or not, shows that the prior's market had prevailed over its rival.
Early Christmas tapes were plundered for outtake shows like LWT's It'll be Alright on the Night, presented by Denis Norden, which started life as an occasional treat in the schedules and eventually grew to become a genre in their own right.
He joined up with writer Denis Norden and guested on many of the leading radio shows of the day.
Both these shows were also written by Muir and Norden.

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