USS Olympia (SSN-717) is a Los Angeles-class submarine of the United States Navy. She is the 30th Los Angeles class nuclear powered fast attack submarine.[1] Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the US Navy For other ships with the same name, see USS Olympia. History United States Name USS Olympia […]
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Fuzhou dialect phrasebook
The Fuzhou dialect (福州话 Hók-ciŭ-uâ; Fuzhou speech) dialect is spoken in Fuzhou and the surrounding areas, as well as on the Taiwan-controlled islands of Matsu. It is part of the Mindong (闽东话 Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄; Eastern Min) branch of the Min family of Chinese dialects, which are also spoken throughout the East […]
The Fox and the Cat (fable)
The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master stratagem. Included in collections of Aesop’s fables since the start of printing in Europe, it is number 605 in the Perry Index. […]
Mitchell Dunn
Mitchell Dunn (born 3 February 1997) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward or centre for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL. Australian rugby league footballer Mitchell Dunn Dunn playing for the Cowboys’ NYC team in 2017. Personal information Born (1997-02-03) 3 February […]
Þórólfur Beck Kristjónsson
Þórólfur Beck Kristjónsson (born April 14, 1974) is an entrepreneur, game designer and producer best known for co-founding the video game company CCP Games[1] and creating the board game Hættuspil (Danger Game).[2] Hættuspil remains one of Iceland’s most popular board games[3] and CCP’s video game EVE Online had 500,000 registered […]
Dongfeng Honda
Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Wuhan, China, and a 50:50 joint-venture between Dongfeng Motor Group and Honda Motor Company. It currently produces a variety of Honda models also available in other markets and a handful of China-only products. The company sells vehicles under […]
Environmental issues in Azerbaijan
Like most former republics of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan experienced rapid economic development which has led to an increasingly negative impact on the environment, including the inefficient usage of natural resources.[1] The government of Azerbaijan has aimed to increase environmental protection and ensure rational utilization of natural resources, and has introduced a number of important laws, legal documents […]
Roseberry Topping
Roseberry Topping is a distinctive hill in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Great Ayton and Newton under Roseberry. Its summit has a distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, which has led to many comparisons with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.[1] It forms a symbolic […]
Stockholm environmentalist tour
Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, has been a forerunner in the environmentalist movement and sustainable development. . . . Stockholm environmentalist tour . . . Sweden has had a prominent role in the natural sciences since the 18th century, with Carl Linnaeus founding systematic biology, and Anders Celsius inventing the […]
Sozialistische Monatshefte
Sozialistische Monatshefte (German: [zotsi̯aˈlɪstɪʃə ˈmoːnatsˌhɛftə], “Socialist Monthly Bulletins”) was a German journal edited by Joseph Bloch from 1897 to 1933 and published by the Verlag der Sozialistischen Monatshefte in Berlin. Title page of the Sep 1908 issue . . . Sozialistische Monatshefte . . . It was close to the […]