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The TT Course was first used as an automobile road-racing circuit for the 1908 Tourist Trophy event for racing automobiles, then known as the Four Inch Course. For the 1911 Isle of Man TT race motor-cycle races, the event was moved from the St John's Short Course to the Four Inch Course by the UK Auto-Cycle Club, and became known as the Isle of ...
The namesake of the regiment – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg. Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment "Prince of Schwarzenberg" No. 2. was a regiment in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . The regiment could trace its antecedence to 1790 and the formation of the Ulanen Free Corps ( Ulanen-Frei-Korp) for the Imperial Habsburg Army.
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in the World War II conflict.
June 20, 2024 at 6:10 AM. A mammoth tax debate that will dominate Washington in 2025 is already well underway in 2024. The latest example came Monday with a speech from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the ...
Vitamix recalls almost 570,000 blender parts. Ramishah Maruf, CNN. June 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM. US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Parts of a pricey blender that can cost up to $990 can cause ...
This announcement was known as "releasing the roll" ( 放榜 ). ( c. 1540, by Qiu Ying) The imperial examination ( Chinese: 科舉; pinyin: kējǔ; lit. "subject recommendation") was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
Justinian II ( Latin: Iustinianus; Greek: Ἰουστινιανός, romanized : Ioustinianós; 668/69 – 4 November 711), nicknamed " the Slit-Nosed " ( Latin: Rhinotmetus; Greek: ὁ Ῥινότμητος, romanized : ho Rhīnótmētos ), was the last Byzantine emperor of the Heraclian dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711.
The Nakano School was initially focused on Russia, teaching primarily Russian as a foreign language. In 1940, administration of the school was handed over to Lt. Col. Masao Ueda (上田昌雄), who in 1938 had provided considerable intelligence on Russia from his post as military attaché (a common position for Nakano graduates) in Poland.