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    A chase gun (or chaser), usually distinguished as bow chaser and stern chaser, was a cannon mounted in the bow (aiming forward) or stern (aiming backward)...
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    The deportation of Germans from Romania after World War II, conducted on Soviet order early in 1945, uprooted 60,000 to 75,000 of Romania's Germans to...
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  • Thumbnail for 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
    The 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery is a close support regiment attached to the 7th Brigade at Enoggera Barracks in Queensland. The unit was formed...
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  • HMS Barfleur was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Battle of Barfleur, which involved an Anglo-Dutch Fleet against...
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  • Anthony Noble Frankland CB CBE DFC (4 July 1922 – 31 October 2019) was a British historian who served as Director General of the Imperial War Museum. Frankland...
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    Ned Hanlan is a steam-powered tugboat that operated in Toronto Harbour in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tugboat entered service in 1932 and was retired...
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  • The abbreviation or acronym RITA (sometimes written in low case, "rita") stands for "Resistance Inside the Army", "Resister Inside the Army", or "Resist...
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  • Valery Nikolayevich Korolyov (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Королёв; born 1965, Leningrad) is a Soviet basketball. Centerline. Height - 212 cm[citation needed]...
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  • Igor Vladimirovich Sorin (Russian: Игорь Владимирович Сорин; 10 November 1969 in Moscow – 4 September 1998 in Moscow), was a Russian poet, musician and...
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    General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis (9 May 1811 - 13 March 1880), CB, OBE, Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie was a soldier who fought...
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    Socialist Homeland is in Danger! (Russian: Социалистическое отечество в опасности!) is one of the most notorious decrees of the Sovnarkom, written as a...
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    Viktor Nikolaevich Beletsky (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Белецкий; 1928 – late 1990s) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador. Beletsky defended a habilitation...
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