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On and ground
On the parade ground the net may be similar to that shown in Figure 3.
On the narrower ground of poetic form, he felt that in the drama of the future the Greek conception of tragic fate should be joined to the Shakespearean vision of tragic will.
On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.
On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.
On Monday, 8 May 1972, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar.
On 9 / 11, the sucicide hijackers did not make any attempt to contact ground control to inform anyone about their hijackings, nor engage in any dialogue or negotiations at all.
On bare ground or roads during the winter, various species of snakes and lizards bask in the sun, but they are rarely seen during the summer months.
On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi s left flank.
On the islands of Orkney and Shetland there are very few cells at ground floor.
On the ground, four giant panzer armies encircled surprised and disorganized Soviet forces, followed by marching infantry which completed the encirclement and defeated the trapped forces.
On April 1970, US President Nixon announced to the American public that US and South Vietnamese ground forces had entered Cambodia in a campaign aimed at destroying NVA base areas in Cambodia ( see Cambodian Incursion ).
On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).
On the other hand, balls are much less likely to remain stuck above ground than discs are as they fly through trees.
On October 28, 2009 the agency broke ground on a new facility in Arlington, Virginia a few miles from the Pentagon.
On the ground and in the air it was powered by a Studebaker engine.
On the ground it has a top speed of and a maximum range of.
On the barren, rocky land there are Barbary ground squirrels and geckos.
On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the town was razed to the ground by German aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, sent by Hitler to support Franco's troops.
On February 29, 2004, a coup d ' état ousted the popularly elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, allegedly with the assistance of the French and United States governments ; U. S. and French soldiers were on the ground in Haiti at the time, recently arrived ( See controversy ).
On the ground in Poland in October – November the final upsurge of the push for independence was taking place, with Ignacy Daszyński heading a short-lived Polish government in Lublin from November 6.
On the flat surface of the ground.
On 20 March 1939, Ribbentrop summoned the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbšys to Berlin and informed him that if a Lithuanian plenipotentiary did not arrive at once to negotiate turning over the Memelland to Germany the Luftwaffe would raze Kaunas to the ground.
On December 21, construction machinery was already on the Legends site waiting to break ground.
On the evidence of Schwitters ' correspondence, by 1937 it had spread to two rooms of his parents ' apartment on the ground floor, the adjoining balcony, the space below the balcony, one or two rooms of the attic and possibly part of the cellar.
On the exterior Le Corbusier installed a stairway to provide second-floor access from ground level.

On and Engineers
On an early trade card, Robert Stephenson & Co were described as " Engineers, Millwrights & Machinists, Brass & Iron Founders ".
On 18 November, she was received by Henry Ford in Detroit and Olympia was shown at " The Chicago Engineers Club " two days later.
On the Ringworld, there is an analogous ( and apparently more potent ) compound developed from Tree-of-Life, but they are mutually incompatible ; in The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu learns that the character Halrloprillalar died when in ARM custody after leaving the Ringworld, as a result of having taken boosterspice after having used the Ringworld equivalent.
On graduation he was posted to the 7th Engineers at Fort Benning, Georgia, as a company commander.
On graduation in August 1921, he was posted to the 4th Engineers, stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington.
On June 9, 1922, he gave the first reported U. S. demonstration of a sound-on-film motion picture to members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
On 2 May 1975, upon the 200th anniversary of the Corps, retired General Sverdrup, who had civil engineering projects including the landmark-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to his credit, presented the Gold Castles to then-Chief of Engineers Lieutenant General William C. Gribble, Jr., who had also served under General MacArthur in the Pacific.
On February 4, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel rejected the appeal brought by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Nez Perce and other tribes on the grounds that they were unable to show any evidence of kinship.
On 14 June 1942, Companies A, B and C of the 46th Engineers boarded the MS Dona Nati at Townsville and arrived at Portland Roads on 16 June 1942.
On 27 October 1942, Headquarters Detachment of the 46th Engineers left Townsville and arrived at Iron Range on 29 October 1942.
On September 27, 1993 the cryogenic cooling system of the Tevatron Accelerator was named an International Historic Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
On 21 August 1972, the Army Corps of Engineers turned over the PAR to the Safeguard Systems Command ( SAFSCOM ) Site Activation Team.
On October 7, 2007, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority opened the Canyon Lake Gorge, under a lease from the Army Corps of Engineers, with limited public tours.
On July 14, 1958, the Army Corps of Engineers Northern Pacific Division directed its Seattle District to begin survey and mapping operations for the first Atlas-E site to be located in the vicinity of Spokane.
On January 8, 2009, the Army Corps of Engineers released water from Mud Mountain Dam into the White River.
On 21 September 1940, Lt John MacMillan Stevenson Patton of the Royal Canadian Engineers risked his life when he and five others manhandled an unexploded German bomb away from the Hawker aircraft factory at Brooklands and rolled it into an existing bomb crater where it later exploded harmlessly-his bravery was subsequently recognised by the award of the George Cross.
On January 14, 2004, Engineers from Fairlight, Waveframe and AMS were awarded Scientific and Technical Academy Awards for the development of hard disk recording technology.
On an early trade card, Robert Stephenson & Co were described as " Engineers, Millwrights & Machinists, Brass & Iron Founders.
* On March 28, 2005, 16 American contractors and three Iraqi aides from Zapata Engineering, under contract to the US Army Corps of Engineers to manage an ammunition storage depot, were detained following two incidents in which they allegedly fired upon U. S. Marine checkpoint.
On successful completion of Part-I & II Technician Examination of Institution of Mechanical Engineers ( India ), it is equivalent to Diploma in Mechanical Engineering as per Govt of India circular.
On completion they were towed across the English Channel by tugs to the Normandy coast at only 4. 3 Knots ( 8 km / h or 5 mph ), built, operated and maintained by the Corps of Royal Engineers, under the guidance of Reginald D. Gwyther, who received a CBE for his efforts.
On the last Friday of every June, the public is allowed to go behind the security fence and cross the lock gates of the U. S. Soo Locks for the annual Engineers Day Open House.
On 1 May 1884, ' C ' Troop was amalgamated with the 22nd and 34th Companies, Royal Engineers, to form the Telegraph Battalion Royal Engineers ; ' C ' Troop formed the 1st Division ( Field Force, based at Aldershot ) while the two Royal Engineers companies formed the 2nd Division ( Postal and Telegraph, based in London ).

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