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See list. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Motion camouflage is camouflage which provides a degree of concealment for a moving object, given that motion makes objects easy to detect however well their coloration matches their background or breaks up their outlines. The principal form of motion camouflage, and the type generally meant by the term, involves an attacker's mimicking the ...
Jason Kempin/Getty Images Reba McEntire had the support of her boyfriend, Rex Linn, as she prepared to host the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, May 16. The singer, 69, and the ...
The Silver Stick is the Commander of the Household Cavalry and holds the rank of colonel. [6] Silver Stick-in-Waiting is the deputy (assistant) to Gold Stick-in-Waiting, but there are occasions when Silver Stick only is summoned for duty—for example, on the arrival of a head of state on a state visit . The office was created in 1678, [7] and ...
In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtēcuhtli [ʃiʍˈteːkʷt͡ɬi] (" Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), [3] was the god of fire, day and heat. [4] In historical sources he is called by many names, which reflect his varied aspects and dwellings in the three parts of the cosmos. [5] He was the lord of volcanoes, [6] the personification of life after ...
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin: ascensio Iesu, lit. 'ascent of Jesus') is the Christian belief, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection, where he was exalted as Lord and Christ, sitting at the right hand of God.
Other rumors indicate that Cianghella would beat her servants with a stick. In Dante's Divine Comedy. In Canto XV of Paradiso, Dante uses Cianghella as an example of the corrupt nature of Florentine citizens in his time, in contrast to the virtue of the idealized Florence in which his ancestor, Cacciaguida lived in the eleventh century.