Many novels hint that a good portion of the Commissars slain in battle are " accidentally " hit by friendly fire ; the 4th-Edition Codex for the notoriously anti-authoritarian Catachan regiments of the Imperial Guard includes the " Oops, Sorry Sir " rule that gives Commissar models included in a Catachan army a 1-in-6 chance of having been killed-or more appropriately, fragged-before the game begins.

The conflict is between the invading Orks under the leadership of the Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and the Imperial world of Armageddon's defence forces under the joint command of Herman von Strab, Overlord of Armageddon ; Commander Dante of the Blood Angels ; and Imperial Commissar Yarrick.

Although genealogy information described in Shaku Nihongi leaves room for discussion, many scholars acknowledge the blood relationship with the Okinaga clan, a powerful local ruling family or the collateral line of the Imperial family-governed Oumi region ( a part of present-day Shiga Prefecture ).

Another Super-class Star Destroyer, the Lusankya, is described in Michael Stackpole's X-Wing novels as Ysanne Isard's private prison and, later, the primary Imperial support vessel during Isard's time on Thyferra.

It can also be described in Imperial units of BTU /( ft³ · F °).

Thrawn's early Imperial career has been described in several Star Wars stories.

The late Republican Ceres Mater ( Mother Ceres ) is described as genetrix ( progenitress ) and alma ( nourishing ); in the early Imperial era she becomes an Imperial deity, and receives joint cult with Ops Augusta, Ceres ' own mother in Imperial guise and a bountiful genetrix in her own right.

Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff and co-chairman of the Anglo-US Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee for most of the Second World War, described the art of military strategy as: " to derive from the aim a series of military objectives to be achieved: to assess these objectives as to the military requirements they create, and the pre-conditions which the achievement of each is likely to necessitate: to measure available and potential resources against the requirements and to chart from this process a coherent pattern of priorities and a rational course of action.

In the 1870s Plaistow was described by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales as a village, a chapelry and a ward in the Parish of West Ham in Essex.

The precise boundaries of Del Aire are complex, but can be roughly described as the area south of Imperial Highway between Aviation Blvd and the 405 Freeway to El Segundo Blvd and the area south of El Segundo Blvd between the 405 Freeway and Inglewood Ave to Rosecrans Ave.

Villa Park's boundaries are best described as Santiago Boulevard, which generally runs north-south, eastward to Santiago Creek and Cannon Street ( Orange ) or Imperial Highway ( Anaheim Hills ), and from Meats Avenue ( north ) southward to approximately Villa Park Road / Lincoln Avenue.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Effingham like this:

However, Spee was wary of the Allies ' strength, especially the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Royal Australian Navy — in fact he described the latter's flagship, the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, as being superior to his entire force by itself.

They are named after Dr. Nikolai Korotkoff, a Russian physician who described them in 1905, when he was working at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg.

The Imperial planet of Sparta occupies a system containing an orange dwarf K0 primary with a red dwarf companion ( described in The Gripping Hand ) which makes passes close enough to impact Sparta's climate.

The two were friends and Sipple would also be later described as a " prominent figure " in the gay community who had worked in a gay bar and was active in the Imperial Court System.

At this time, an aerial report described small groups of the Magdhaba garrison beginning to retreat, and as a result the still-mounted reserve ; the 1st Light Horse Brigade, was ordered to move directly on the town, passing the dismounted Imperial Camel Corps Brigade battalions on their way. After meeting severe shrapnel fire as they trotted over the open plain, they were forced to take cover in the Wadi el Arish where they dismounted, continuing their advance at 10: 30 against the Ottoman left.

One of the birds collected and described by King is the Imperial Shag.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cambridge like this:

It is described as a location within the Imperial Palace in the Himalazia ( Himalaya ) region of Terra.

As described by Alito, if the law accorded with Summum and its supporters, New York would have been required to accept a Statue of Autocracy from the German Empire or Imperial Russia when it accepted the Statue of Liberty from France.

The Martian rebellion led by the former Imperial Knight Harabec Weathers and the consequent Cybrid Wars are described in Starsiege ( 1998 ).

Mr. Taşlıalan obtained his Ph. D. thesis on the Imperial Sanctuary and described the building known as the Great Basilica as the Church of St. Paul.

Richard Nixon — whose presidency is sometimes described as " Imperial " ( see Imperial Presidency )— used national security as a basis for his expansion of power.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

But by the 1940s, many of Boas ' anthropologist contemporaries were active in the allied war effort against the " Axis " ( Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan ).

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.

* 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.

* 1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

* 1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz.

** The Aquila Lander is a light shuttle used by the Imperial Navy

Instead the two court owned theaters would be reopened under new management, and partly subsidized by the Imperial Court, as a new National Theater.

Beginning in 1778 Emperor wished to have new works, in German, composed by his own subjects and brought on the stage with clear Imperial support.

* 1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy, launches.

In the letter William Louis discusses the use of ranks by soldiers of Imperial Rome as discussed in Aelian's Tactica.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.

After an initial success, his first line of cavalry, under the Imperial General of Horse, Prince Maximilian of Hanover, were pressed by the second line of Marsin's cavalry, and were forced back across the Nebel in confusion.

Recent research by the Imperial College London has focused on finding new cell wall proteins which trigger an immune response and are suitable for use in a vaccine to provide long-term protection against M. tuberculosis.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto IV of Germany.

Here too the Imperial forces suffered defeat, Otto himself being saved only by the devotion of a handful of Saxon knights.

The Imperial Eagle Standard was captured by the French.

Eventually, and long after the Imperial army had begun its retreat, the gallant Schiltron was ridden down and annihilated by a charge of three thousand men-at-arms.