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Vigorous. Look up vigorous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vigorous may refer to: Operation Vigorous, a Second World War Allied operation involving escorting a supply convoy to Malta. HMS Vigorous (P74), a British Second World War submarine. USCGC Vigorous (WMEC-627), a United States Coast Guard cutter. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Vigorish (also known as juice, under-juice, the cut, the take, the margin, the house edge or the vig) is the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager. In American English, it can also refer to the interest owed a loanshark in consideration for credit. The term came to English usage via Yiddish slang ( Yiddish: וויגריש ...
The Strenuous Life. " The Strenuous Life " is the name of a speech given by the then New York Governor, later the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10, 1899. Based upon his personal experiences, he argued that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans ...
Vigorous was commissioned 2 May 1969 and her current homeport is Virginia Beach, VA . Her initial homeport was in New London, Connecticut where she was moored at the United States Coast Guard Academy. She was decommissioned for modernization at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, in early 1992 and was recommissioned on ...
8-10 torpedoes. 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) deck gun. HMS Vigorous was a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy (RN). Pennant number P74 . The boat was laid down by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness on 14 December 1942. She was launched on 15 October 1943, and commissioned into the RN on 13 January 1944. The submarine operated during the late stages ...
PHP generally follows C syntax, with exceptions and enhancements for its main use in web development, which makes heavy use of string manipulation. PHP variables must be prefixed by " $ ". This allows PHP to perform string interpolation in double quoted strings, where backslash is supported as an escape character.
Water-reactive substances [1] are those that spontaneously undergo a chemical reaction with water, as they are highly reducing in nature. [2] Notable examples include alkali metals, lithium through caesium, and alkaline earth metals, magnesium through barium . Some water-reactive substances are also pyrophoric, like organometallics and sulfuric ...
Caliber. 9 mm. Action. Short recoil operated. Feed system. Detachable, two column fifteen-round box magazine. The PHP ( Prvi Hrvatski Pištolj, English: first Croatian pistol) was the first major production pistol in Croatia, chambered in the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.