The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

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 A-segment was the part on the US continental shelf, the B-segment went North of Scotland, the C-segment crossed the North-Sea continental shelf to Norden.

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.

It was originally named " Sång till Norden " (" Song to the North "), and the first words of its lyrics have become adopted as the title in the interim.

A Swedish population evidently settled here, and a local cemetery in Uxbridge was their burial site, Norden cemetery, near the Millville line.

The district was established in 1977 by merging the former districts of Aurich and Norden.

He was cast in this role by adaptors Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had seen him in the West End.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

Ustinov and Jones improvised on a tape, which was very difficult then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part.

One of the " witnesses ", a supposed SA man, appeared in court wearing a mask and claimed that it was the SA that really set the fire ; in fact, the " SA man " was really Albert Norden, the editor of the German Communist newspaper Rote Fahne.

It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, famous in Britain for the series Take It From Here.

It was a companion program to My Word !, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir.

It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.

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.

Norden was born in Mare Street, Hackney, East London, and educated at the City of London School where he was a contemporary of Kingsley Amis.

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.

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.

As the show's closing credits were shown, the studio audience gave Norden a standing ovation, which was followed by Norden placing his trademark clipboard on his desk, which the camera then zoomed in on to as the credits ended.

Norden was initially unconvinced this was workable, but was eventually convinced by the Navy to try to build a synchronous design of his own, and a development contract was offered in June 1929.

Under the trade name of Norden, the company was one of the largest film producers in the United Kingdom in the 1900s, with the slogans of " Local Films For Local People " and " We take them and make them ", they operated initially from their respective business premises at 40 Northgate and 21 King Street, Blackburn.

At the Navy, Norden worked on a catapult system for a proposed flying bomb that was never fully developed, but this work introduced various Navy personnel to Norden's expertise with gyro stabilization.

Starting in 1932 and proceeding in fits and starts for the next six years, Norden developed the Stabilized Bombing Approach Equipment ( SBAE ), a mechanical autopilot that attached to the bombsight.

Carl Frische had developed a new system to automatically level the platform, eliminating the time-consuming process needed on the Norden.

The Norden bombsight was developed during a period of United States non-interventionism when the dominant U. S. military strategy was the defense of the U. S. and its possessions.

Engineering projects of historical or military significance developed at NSWC Dahlgren include the triggering device on the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the Norden Bombsight used on most American bombers such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress during World War II, the Standard missile used on modern United States Navy warships, and the warhead for the AIM-54 Phoenix.

The Unknown God or Agnostos Theos () is a theory by Eduard Norden first published in 1913 that proposes, based on Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17: 23, that in addition to the twelve main gods and the innumerable lesser deities, ancient Greeks worshipped a deity they called " Agnostos Theos ", that is: the " Unknown god ", which Norden called " Un-Greek ".

Translated by Heinz Norden.

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.

Balham, Gateway to the South is a comedy sketch performed by Peter Sellers and written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden as part of a BBC radio series called Third Division.

The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole ( who also engraved the fine title page ).

* Replacement of their Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt.

* 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.

* Race, Steve ( 1979 ) My Music ; with the contributions of Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Ian Wallace, John Amis and David Franklin ; drawings by John Jensen.

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!

In 1965, Norden wrote, narrated and starred in a featurette jointly made by the James Bond producers and The Ford Motor Company.

In 1930, the Trocadero, a monumental neo-gothic picture house, seating over 3000 and fitted with the biggest Wurlitzer organ in Europe, was built at the northern corner of the New Kent Road ( there is now a plaque commemorating the building and unveiled in 2008 by Denis Norden who had worked there in his youth.

Fragments of his writings were published by Cramer, under the title of Sibyllinische Blätter des Magus aus Norden ( 1819 ), and a complete edition by Roth ( 7 vols., 1821-25, with a volume of additions and explanations by Wiener, 1843 ).

The US Navy, developing the Norden, made plans for most of its new aircraft to be able to level bomb.

The Norden bombsight was a tachometric bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars to aid the crew of bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately.

In operations, the Norden proved to be far less accurate than in testing, and early attacks by the US Navy and USAAF in the Pacific failed to hit their targets.

In 1911, Norden joined Sperry Gyroscope to work on ship gyrostabilizers, and then moved to work directly for the US Navy as a consultant.

Even small errors in levelling could produce dramatic errors in bombing, so the Navy had Norden design a gyro platform for their existing Mark III bombsight ( a copy of the RAF's Course Setting Bomb Sight ) to eliminate this source of error.

During development, the Navy suggested that Norden consider taking on a partner to handle the business and leave Norden free to develop on the engineering side.

Six months later, after a change of leadership within the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, on 8 March 1939 Pirie was once again instructed to ask the Navy about the Norden, this time sweetening the deal with offers of British power-operated turrets.

However, Pirie expressed concern as he noted the Norden had become as much political as technical, and its relative merits were being publicly debated in Congress weekly while the Navy continued to say the Norden was " the United States ' most closely guarded secret ".

The Navy brass was concerned that giving the Norden to the RAF would increase its chances of falling into German hands, which could put the US's own fleet at risk.

During the first year after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Norden produced 6, 900 bombsights, three-quarters of which went to the Navy.

Ironically, during this period the Navy abandoned the Norden in favour of dive bombing, reducing the demand.

An appearance on Navy Mixture teamed him successfully with Jimmy Edwards, and indirectly led to the pairing of Denis Norden with Frank Muir, who was Edwards ' writer.

In 1920, he started work on the Norden bombsight for the United States Navy.