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1599626 | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Military%20Order%20of%20the%20Loyal%20Legion%20of%20the%20United%20States | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1885–87.
- Brevet Colonel Elisha Hunt Rhodes – Diarist and author and also served as Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief of the GAR.
- Brevet Colonel Washington A. Roebling – Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Lieutena... | 24,500 |
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Medal of Honor recipient, industrialist and United States Senator.
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hale Ives Goddard – Businessman and reformist politician.
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell – Founder of MOLLUS.
- Major Asa Bird Gardine... | 24,501 |
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Brevet Major Augustus P. Davis – Founder of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
- Brevet Major Ira H. Evans - Medal of Honor recipient.
- Brevet Major Rufus King Jr. – Medal of Honor recipient.
- Brevet Major George H. Maynard – Medal of Honor recipien... | 24,502 |
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executive.
- Captain Samuel Swinfin Burdett – GAR Commander-in-Chief, 1885–86.
- Captain Theodore R. Davis – Illustrator.
- Captain William W. Douglas – Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
- Captain and Governor Elisha Dyer – Governor of Rhode Isl... | 24,503 |
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of Paris (a.k.a. Philippe d'Orleans) – Claimant to the French throne.
- Brevet Captain Joseph B. Foraker – Governor of Ohio and United States Senator.
- 1st Lieutenant Francis E. Brownell – Medal of Honor recipient.
- 1st Lieutenant John Galloway – Medal of Hon... | 24,504 |
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judge.
- 1st Lieutenant William G. Thompson - Mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
- 2nd Lieutenant Marcus A. Hanna – United States Senator and political boss.
- Chaplain Charles Comfort Tiffany – Episcopal clergyman.
- Chaplain Henry Clay Trumbull – Leader in the Sund... | 24,505 |
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Cipriano Andrade – First U.S. Navy admiral born in Mexico.
- Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey
- Rear Admiral John R. Bartlett – Oceanographer.
- Rear Admiral George E. Belknap
- Rear Admiral Gottfried Blocklinger
- Rear Admiral Daniel L. Braine
- Rear Admiral a... | 24,506 |
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of Manila Bay.
- Rear Admiral George Partridge Colvocoresses, USN
- Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook – Commander of the USS "Brooklyn" at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
- Rear Admiral William S. Cowles
- Rear Admiral Arent S. Crowninshield
- Rear Admiral Charles... | 24,507 |
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Bancroft Gherardi – MOLLUS Commander in Chief, 1896–99.
- Rear Admiral James Henry Gillis
- Rear Admiral Henry Glass - Led capture of Guam during the Spanish–American War.
- Rear Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich – President of the Naval War College.
- Rear Admiral P... | 24,508 |
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George W. Melville – MOLLUS Commander in Chief, 1911–12, survivor of the ill-fated "Jeannette" expedition and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
- Rear Admiral John Porter Merrell – President of the Naval War College.
- Rear Admiral Jefferson Franklin Mo... | 24,509 |
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– Commanded cruiser USS "Brooklyn" at the Battle of Santiago.
- Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee – Commanding officer of the USS "Maine".
- Rear Admiral Charles Stewart – Hero of the War of 1812.
- Rear Admiral Yates Stirling
- Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton ... | 24,510 |
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cruiser USS "Boston" at the Battle of Manila Bay.
- Rear Admiral John L. Worden – Commanding officer of the USS "Monitor".
- Commodore Oscar C. Badger
- Commodore Edward André Gabriel Barrett
- Commodore John Guest
- Commodore William H. Macomb
- Commodore W... | 24,511 |
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General Henry Clay Cochrane – Veteran of the Civil War, Spanish–American War and Boxer Rebellion.
- Brigadier General James Forney
- Brigadier General Percival Pope – Recipient of the Marine Corps Brevet Medal.
- Brigadier General Jacob Zeilin – Commandant of t... | 24,512 |
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civilians who contributed outstanding service to the Union during the Civil War were elected into the Order as 3rd Class Companions.
- John Albion Andrew – Governor of Massachusetts.
- Henry B. Anthony – United States Senator and Governor of Rhode Island.
- Ale... | 24,513 |
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Everett Hale – Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist.
- John B. Henderson – United States Senator and author of the 13th Amendment.
- William W. Hoppin – Governor of Rhode Island.
- David Jerome – State senator from Michigan.
- Benito Juarez – President of Mexi... | 24,514 |
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Roosevelt, Sr. – Treasurer of the Union League Club and father of President Theodore Roosevelt.
- William H. Seward – Secretary of State.
- John Sherman - Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury and United States Senator.
- James Speed – Attorney General.... | 24,515 |
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Companion became a First Class Companion upon the death of his father. This practice was discontinued in 1905, when the MOLLUS Constitution was changed to allow any direct male descendant of a Union officer to become a MOLLUS Companion. The nomenclature of First C... | 24,516 |
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Son of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, Jr.
- General Jonathan Wainwright – Medal of Honor recipient.
- Admiral William V. Pratt – President of the Naval War College and Chief of Naval Operations.
- Lieutenant General Albert Jesse Bowley, Sr. – Veteran of t... | 24,517 |
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– MOLLUS Commander in Chief, 1957–61; Commander in Chief of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1953–55 and President of the Aztec Club of 1847.
- Major General Sherman Miles – Son of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles.
- Major General John H. Russell, ... | 24,518 |
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Emory, Jr., USN
- Rear Admiral John B. Hamilton, USPHS - Second Surgeon General of the United States.
- Rear Admiral Richard Worsam Meade III, USN
- Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., USN
- Rear Admiral Herbert Winslow – Son of Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow.... | 24,519 |
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General Rufus King.
- Brigadier General Charles L. McCawley, USMC
- Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, USAAS – Military air power prophet.
- Brigadier General George C. Reid, II, USMC – Medal of Honor recipient.
- Brevet Brigadier General George Leamy Meade, US... | 24,520 |
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Herbert Jermain Slocum - Commander at the Battle of Columbus, New Mexico.
- Lieutenant Colonel Russell Benjamin Harrison, USV – Son of President Benjamin Harrison.
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Roosevelt, USMC – Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
- Major John Ale... | 24,521 |
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to Japan.
- Warren R. Austin – United States Senator.
- Zenas Work Bliss – Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island.
- Congressman Henry S. Boutell – Minister to Switzerland.
- United States Senator Morgan Bulkeley – President of the Aetna Insurance Company.
- Tho... | 24,522 |
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L. Wilson – Ambassador to Mexico.
- George P. Wheeler – Minister to Paraguay and Albania.
- Robert J. Wynne - U.S. Postmaster General.
### Others.
- Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. – Heraldist and genealogist.
- Delevan Bates Bowley – Commander in chief of the Sons... | 24,523 |
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Don Troiani – Artist and historian.
## Associate companions.
MOLLUS allows state commanderies, at their own discretion, to elect up to one third of their membership as Associate Companions.
- Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (b. 1943) - Eligible for hereditary memb... | 24,524 |
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Potomac
- 1st Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing - Medal of Honor recipient
# Non-members who were or are eligible for membership.
## Eligible veteran officers who did not join MOLLUS.
A number of noteworthy Union officers, although eligible, did not become MOLLUS comp... | 24,525 |
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Charles Vernon Gridley USN, Brevet Major General William S. Harney, Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Major General George Meade, Major General and Governor Edwin D. Morgan, Major General Edward Ord, Major General Daniel Sickles, Brevet Major General Emory Upton, ... | 24,526 |
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his male descendants are, eligible for hereditary membership in MOLLUS by right of his father's service in the Union Army. All other male descendants of Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley
and William Backhouse Astor Sr. are eligible for membership in MOLLUS by co... | 24,527 |
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hereditary membership in MOLLUS by right of his descent from Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.
Major General David D. Porter, USMC, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, was eligible to for membership in MOLLUS by right of his descent from his grandfather, Admir... | 24,528 |
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Captain Philippe d'Orleans, the grandson of King Louis Philippe I of France.
King Felipe VI of Spain and his father, former King of Spain Juan Carlos, are eligible for hereditary companionship in MOLLUS, as are their male descendants. The same is true for the fam... | 24,529 |
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Duke of Aosta (b. 1943), head of the House of Savoy and claimant to the throne of Italy, is eligible for Hereditary MOLLUS membership but was elected as an honorary member instead.
A number of other individuals of royal descent can join MOLLUS by right of their d... | 24,530 |
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Duke of Penthièvre was a cousin of the Count of Paris and served in the Union Navy as an ensign on the frigate USS "John Adams".
# See also.
- Society of the Cincinnati
- Aztec Club of 1847
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Military Order of the Stars and Bars
... | 24,531 |
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èvre was a cousin of the Count of Paris and served in the Union Navy as an ensign on the frigate USS "John Adams".
# See also.
- Society of the Cincinnati
- Aztec Club of 1847
- Grand Army of the Republic
- Military Order of the Stars and Bars
- Sons of Unio... | 24,532 |
1599740 | Mississauga Goddam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mississauga%20Goddam | Mississauga Goddam
Mississauga Goddam
Mississauga Goddam is a 2004 album by The Hidden Cameras.
The title is an allusion to Nina Simone's civil rights anthem "Mississippi Goddam" (from the album "Nina Simone in Concert"), suggesting suburbia (Mississauga is a suburb of Toronto) as the real battleground for LGBT equal... | 24,533 |
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Plot" – 2:47
- 2. "Builds the Bone" – 3:40
- 3. "The Fear Is On" – 2:41
- 4. "That's When the Ceremony Starts" – 3:07
- 5. "I Believe in the Good of Life" – 3:33
- 6. "In the Union of Wine" – 4:43
- 7. "Music Is My Boyfriend" – 3:28
- 8. "Bboy" – 2:38
- 9. "We Oh We" – 4:32
- 10. "I Want Ano... | 24,534 |
1599740 | Mississauga Goddam | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mississauga%20Goddam | Mississauga Goddam
Scott Good - trombone
- Luis Jacob - aeuwwgha
- Nana Jojura - violin
- Don Kerr - cello
- Amy Laing - cello
- Jeff McMurrich - recording engineer
- Maggie MacDonald - glockenspiel, vibraphone
- Paul Mathew - double bass
- Karen Moffat - viola
- Lief Mosbaugh - viola
- Kristen Moss - harp
-... | 24,535 |
1599760 | Kumbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kumbi | Kumbi
Kumbi
Kumbi is a town and a Municipality in Bishnupur District in the Indian state of Manipur. The Kumbi Constituency of Manipur Legislative Assembly was named after the village. It is 55 km far away from Imphal, capital city of Manipur.
# External links.
- http://villagesinindia.in/manipur/bishnupur/moirang/k... | 24,536 |
1599733 | Radiation implosion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation%20implosion | Radiation implosion
Radiation implosion
Radiation implosion is the compression of a target by the use of high levels of electromagnetic radiation. The major use for this technology is in fusion bombs and inertial confinement fusion research.
# History.
Radiation implosion was first developed by Klaus Fuchs and John ... | 24,537 |
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in developing the hydrogen bomb (its value would become apparent only after the fact). A modified version of the Fuchs-von Neumann scheme was incorporated into the "George" shot of Operation Greenhouse.
In 1951, Stanislaw Ulam had the idea to use hydrodynamic shock of a fission weapon to compress m... | 24,538 |
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embedded inside of the fusion fuel, became what is known as the Teller–Ulam design for the hydrogen bomb.
# Fission bomb radiation source.
Most of the energy released by a fission bomb is in the form of x-rays. The spectrum is approximately that of a black body at a temperature of 50,000,000 kelvi... | 24,539 |
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fusion material, such as lithium deuteride, and its outer layers are a material which is opaque to x-rays, such as lead or uranium-238.
In order to get the x-rays from the surface of the primary, the fission bomb, to the surface of the secondary, a system of "x-ray reflectors" is used.
The reflect... | 24,540 |
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are diffused or scattered, but the majority of the energy transport happens by a two-step process: the x-ray reflector is heated to a high temperature by the flux from the primary, and then it emits x-rays which travel to the secondary. Various classified methods are used to improve the performance ... | 24,541 |
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is crushed by radiation pressure, and calculations show that while this pressure is very large, the pressure of the materials vaporized by the radiation is much larger. The outer layers of the secondary become so hot that they vaporize and fly off the surface at high speeds. The recoil from this sur... | 24,542 |
1599733 | Radiation implosion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation%20implosion | Radiation implosion
as inertial confinement fusion (ICF). As part of that research, much information on radiation implosion technology has been declassified.
When using optical lasers, there is a distinction made between "direct drive" and "indirect drive" systems. In a direct drive system, the laser beam(s) are direc... | 24,543 |
1599733 | Radiation implosion | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiation%20implosion | Radiation implosion
time of the laser system determines what kind of compression profile will be achieved.
In an indirect drive system, the target is surrounded by a shell (called a Hohlraum) of some intermediate-Z material, such as selenium. The laser heats this shell to a temperature such that it emits x-rays, and t... | 24,544 |
1599744 | Tandem rotors | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tandem%20rotors | Tandem rotors
Tandem rotors
Tandem rotor helicopters have two large horizontal rotor assemblies mounted one in front of the other. Currently this configuration is mainly used for large cargo helicopters.
Single rotor helicopters need a mechanism to neutralize the yawing movement produced by the single large rotor. Th... | 24,545 |
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configuration. The first successful tandem rotor helicopter was built by Nicolas Florine in 1927.
Advantages of the tandem-rotor system are a larger center of gravity range, and good longitudinal stability. Disadvantages of the tandem-rotor system are a complex transmission, and the need for two large ro... | 24,546 |
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produced at one end, while increasing lift at the opposite end, effectively tilting the helicopter forward or back.
Tandem rotor helicopters have the advantage of being able to hold more weight with shorter blades, since there are two sets. However, the rear rotor works in the aerodynamic shadow of the f... | 24,547 |
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configurations typically require the same power to achieve high speed flight.
# List of some tandem rotor helicopters.
- HRP Rescuer (1945)
- Piasecki PV-14 (1948)
- HERC Jov-3 (1948)
- Piasecki H-21 (1949)
- McCulloch MC-4 (1951)
- Chu CJC-3/CJC-3A, The Republic Of China prototype helicopter with ... | 24,548 |
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ulloch MC-4 (1951)
- Chu CJC-3/CJC-3A, The Republic Of China prototype helicopter with 190HP engine (1952)
- Piasecki H-25/HUP Retriever (1952)
- Yakovlev Yak-24 (1952)
- Bristol Belvedere (1952)
- Piasecki H-16 (1953)
- Bell HSL (1953)
- Boeing Vertol 107-II (1958)
- CH-46 Sea Knight (1960)
- Bo... | 24,549 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
Big Bear Stores
Big Bear Stores was a regional supermarket chain operating in Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York-based Penn Traffic in 1989. Upon Penn Traffic's bankruptcy in 20... | 24,550 |
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the beginning of self-service supermarketing in the Midwest. This first store was adjacent to the campus of The Ohio State University (now the site of the Riverwatch Tower apartments); within a year, a second store opened in Columbus. By the end of the second year, two more stores had opened, followed b... | 24,551 |
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of store #272), as well as the Big Bear Bakery, located near the OSU campus. In 1948, Brown, along with other supermarket operators, founded Topco Associates, and Big Bear distributed their products (i.e. Food Club, Valu Time) as their "house brand", as well as their own private brand "Betty Brown", nam... | 24,552 |
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lower per-hour salary rate, according to Big Bear executives in the 1960s, the company's employees at all levels had routine, confidential access to corporate representatives who would investigate any complaint on the part of any employee about working conditions at any Big Bear store.
In the 1950s, Bi... | 24,553 |
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Harts Stores, a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space.
For a period of several years in the early to mid-1980s, some of the groce... | 24,554 |
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Ohio (), and Bridgeport, Ohio (), the stores featured 40 percent food and 60 percent general merchandise. The hyperstore concept was a combination of its Harts Stores (29 stores in 1991) and the Big Bear Grocery format.
Towards the end of 1990, the company decided to favor the Big Bear Plus store forma... | 24,555 |
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Kroger card which was introduced a year earlier. It was known as the "Big Bear Wild Card". After Penn Traffic announced that Big Bear was ceasing operations, Kroger announced that it would now honor the Big Bear Wild Cards at their stores.
# Slogans.
- You'll Be Surprised By A Big Bear (late 1970s–198... | 24,556 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
Big Bear Stores Company, located at 770 W. Goodale Blvd. in Columbus, Ohio. In 1983, the credit union moved its office to a Big Bear Stores satellite office, located at 1184 Dublin Road in Columbus. The new location allowed the credit union to double its space, and provided enough room for six employees... | 24,557 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
credit union with a brand new identity. By the end of 2003, Big Bear Stores announced that their company would cease operations by the beginning of 2004. In March 2004, the credit union moved into a newly built facility, located at 1445 W. Goodale Blvd. in the heart of the Grandview / Marble Cliff area.... | 24,558 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
auction block in late 1988 after 54 years as an independent company, including periods of both public and private ownership.
Big Bear was bought out in April 1989 for $35 per share, or $352 million, for all outstanding common stock by a large supermarket holding company Penn Traffic, which owns several... | 24,559 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
Big Bear President Steven Breech and his leadership team. Breech's replacement, Phillip Hawkins, a former Vons Supermarket CEO was promoted as a turn around specialist.
One of his first tasks was responding to reduced sales volumes at most store locations by lowering overhead costs as much as possible.... | 24,560 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
level by reducing overhead in store operations. As sales volumes continued to drop due to increased competition, it resulted in lower payroll costs which caused conditions in the stores to decline.
As the Big Bear division began to have cash flow issues in 2003, product suppliers pulled their items fro... | 24,561 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
the last Big Bear store closed its doors, following Penn Traffic's second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a decade. Better store locations were acquired and reopened as Giant Eagle or Kroger stores; as of May 2014 many former Big Bear stores (especially in Ohio and West Virginia) remain empty.
# California.
... | 24,562 |
1599738 | Big Bear Stores | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Bear%20Stores | Big Bear Stores
following Penn Traffic's second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a decade. Better store locations were acquired and reopened as Giant Eagle or Kroger stores; as of May 2014 many former Big Bear stores (especially in Ohio and West Virginia) remain empty.
# California.
From the 1950s, until its merger with Albe... | 24,563 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
Sedan (nuclear test)
Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes. T... | 24,564 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
similar to that used in Shot Bluestone and Swanee of operation Dominic conducted days and months prior to Sedan respectively, and was therefore not unlike the W56 high yield Minuteman I missile warhead. The device had a diameter of , length of , and a weight of .
The timing of the test put it with... | 24,565 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
of TNT (435 terajoules) and lifted a dome of earth above the desert floor before it vented at three seconds after detonation, exploding upward and outward displacing more than of soil. The resulting crater is deep with a diameter of about . A circular area of the desert floor five miles across was ... | 24,566 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
of the crater could be safely walked upon with no protective clothing, with radiation levels at 35 mR per hour after 167 days.
# Fallout.
The Sedan shot resulted in a radioactive cloud that separated into two plumes, rising to 3.0 km and 4.9 km (10,000 ft and 16,000 ft). The two plumes headed nor... | 24,567 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
Iowa, as well as Washabaugh County in South Dakota, an area that has since been incorporated into Jackson County and is wholly within Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. These four counties measured maximum levels higher than 6,000 microcuries per square meter (220 MBq/m).
Of all the nuclear tests cond... | 24,568 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
Co and Mn. Sedan ranked third in the detected amount of Na in fallout. In countrywide deposition of radionuclides, Sedan was highest in the amount of Be, Mn, Ru and Cm, and second highest in the amount of deposited Te. While Sedan ranks highest in percentages of Au-198 detected, it is not the most ... | 24,569 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
fell on the U.S. population during all of the nuclear tests at NTS. Sedan's effects were similar to shot "George" of Operation Tumbler–Snapper, detonated on June 1, 1952, which also contributed about 7% to the total radioactive fallout. Uncertainty regarding exact amounts of exposure prevents knowi... | 24,570 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
feasible.
# Conclusions.
The Plowshare project developed the Sedan test in order to determine the feasibility of using nuclear detonations to quickly and economically excavate large amounts of earth and rock. Proposed applications included the creation of harbors, canals, open pit mines, railroad... | 24,571 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
Soviet Union continued to pursue the concept through their program Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy, particularly with their 140 kiloton Chagan (nuclear test), which created an artificial lake reservoir (see Lake Chagan).
# Diplomatic issue with Sedan.
On March 2, 2005, Ellen Tauscher,... | 24,572 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
took notice. Sudanese officials responded by stating that "the Sudanese government takes this issue seriously and with extreme importance". The Chinese Xinhua General News Service even published an article claiming that the Sudanese government blamed the U.S. for raising cancer rates among the Suda... | 24,573 |
1599683 | Sedan (nuclear test) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedan%20(nuclear%20test) | Sedan (nuclear test)
s this issue seriously and with extreme importance". The Chinese Xinhua General News Service even published an article claiming that the Sudanese government blamed the U.S. for raising cancer rates among the Sudanese people. Despite the U.S. embassy in Khartoum issuing a statement clarifying that i... | 24,574 |
1599775 | Couch of Power | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Couch%20of%20Power | Couch of Power
Couch of Power
Couch of Power is a group game of strategy and memory in which two teams shuffle seats until one team controls every seat on the couch and wins. It is sometimes known as "Parliament" or "Four on the Couch".
# Equipment.
- Seats arranged in a circle. There must be one seat for each playe... | 24,575 |
1599775 | Couch of Power | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Couch%20of%20Power | Couch of Power
The game works best if the teams are even. To avoid later confusion, instruct one team to distinguish themselves from the other team by wearing headbands, rolling up their pants legs or shirt sleeves, etc. — boys vs. girls may work. Hand out the slips of paper with players' names; it doesn't matter if yo... | 24,576 |
1599775 | Couch of Power | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Couch%20of%20Power | Couch of Power
making their former seat the new empty seat.
To make the game particularly challenging, every time someone moves to the empty seat, they should exchange slips of paper with the person who called their name (now on their left). Now everyone will know what the person who called the name has, but will not ... | 24,577 |
1599775 | Couch of Power | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Couch%20of%20Power | Couch of Power
lled their name (now on their left). Now everyone will know what the person who called the name has, but will not know what the person who moved has (unless said earlier in the game).
Play always passes to the player to the left of the empty seat. The same name cannot be called twice in a row, and you c... | 24,578 |
1599781 | Buck's Fizz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buck's%20Fizz | Buck's Fizz
Buck's Fizz
The Buck's Fizz is an alcoholic cocktail made of two parts champagne to one part orange juice. It is very similar to the Mimosa, which also contains champagne and orange juice, but in equal measures. Other sparkling wines can also be used.
# Overview.
The drink is named after London's Buck's ... | 24,579 |
1599781 | Buck's Fizz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buck's%20Fizz | Buck's Fizz
uice. Some older recipes list grenadine as an additional ingredient, but the International Bartenders Association recipe does not include it. The original Buck's Club recipe is said to contain additional ingredients known only to the club's bartenders.
Four years later, the mimosa cocktail was invented in ... | 24,580 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
California State Route 78
State Route 78 (SR 78) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Oceanside east to Blythe, traversing nearly the entire width of the state. Its western terminus is at Interstate 5 (I-5) in San Diego County and its eastern terminus is at I-10 i... | 24,581 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
of the original state highways designated in 1934, although portions of the route existed as early as 1900. However, it was not designated east of Brawley until 1959. The freeway section in the North County of San Diego that connects Oceanside and Escondido was built in the middle of the twent... | 24,582 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
and crosses over I-5, the route becomes a suburban freeway traveling east through Oceanside. The freeway loosely parallels Buena Vista Creek before entering the city of Vista. Turning southeast, SR 78 continues into the city of San Marcos near California State University San Marcos and enters ... | 24,583 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
Washington Avenue and south onto Ash Street, which becomes San Pasqual Valley Road.
Turning east once again, SR 78 leaves the Escondido city limits and enters the San Pasqual Valley as it provides access to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and San Pasqual Battlefield State Park. After leaving th... | 24,584 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
SR 79 across the headwaters of the San Diego River and through the hamlet of Wynola, briefly entering Cleveland National Forest before reaching Julian and entering the town as Washington Street. The route, still concurrent with SR 79, turns east onto Main Street and travels through downtown Ju... | 24,585 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
south of the town of Borrego Springs, it provides access to the town via CR S3. SR 78 travels through the town of Ocotillo Wells before exiting the state park and entering Imperial County.
In Imperial County, SR 78 intersects with SR 86, running concurrently with it southwest of the Salton Se... | 24,586 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
with SR 78 for a short duration before the latter exits from the freeway and continues east.
Then, SR 78 intersects with SR 115 east of Brawley, running concurrently with it for a brief distance. Shortly after passing through the small community of Glamis, the road turns northeast and eventua... | 24,587 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
north on Rannels Boulevard. It makes a right on 28th Avenue before turning north on South Neighbours Boulevard and passing through Ripley. SR 78 continues north for a few more miles to its terminus at I-10, approximately west of the Arizona border. North of I-10, Neighbours Boulevard becomes I... | 24,588 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
of SR 78 from SR 86 in Brawley to CR S3 near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is designated as part of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail auto tour route, promoted by the National Park Service. An informal nickname for the road is "the Hops Highway," referring to the fact that the... | 24,589 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
Highway System; however, only the section in Anza Borrego Desert State Park has officially been designated by Caltrans as being part of the system, meaning that it is a substantial section of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the potential desig... | 24,590 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
daily traffic (AADT) of 670 between the San Diego–Imperial county line and the western SR 86 junction, and 163,000 between Twin Oaks Valley Road and Nordahl Road, the latter of which was the highest AADT for the highway.
# History.
## Original highway.
The Old Banner Toll Road connected the... | 24,591 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
and accessible for horse teams. In the meantime, the City of Oceanside began discussions regarding a road east from Oceanside through the San Marcos valley. Efforts to realign the road from Ramona to Julian began in 1892, when a county surveyor examined the prospect of shifting the road away f... | 24,592 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
No road connected Brawley with Glamis in 1919; it was necessary to travel north through Calipatria to reach Blythe. East of the Sand Hills, there was a road from Glamis passing by Smith Well into Palo Verde, which roughly follows the routing of SR 78.
At this time, when the road from the west... | 24,593 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
road. The work to pave the road from Santa Ysabel to Julian was nearing completion in September 1920. Grading was completed by August 1921, and paving work continued, as well as grading on the Santa Ysabel and Julian grades. In 1922, the Automobile Club of Southern California scouting expediti... | 24,594 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
cross-country road through Borrego Springs were being discussed by county government officials in 1927, as there were no east–west state highways in between Mountain Springs and Riverside. Those living in Calipatria and Westmorland supported the prospect of the road to Julian being improved, a... | 24,595 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
of commerce in the Imperial Valley generally agreed with Witter, proposing that the El Centro–Calexico road be made a part of the state highway system, and the Kane Springs–Julian road be given second priority for inclusion.
In June 1930, an agreement was made between the county and the state... | 24,596 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
(about $ in dollars).
## Construction in San Diego County.
SR 78 was originally formed along with the originally signed state highways in California (Sign Routes) in 1934; however, it only extended to what was then US 99 near Kane Springs. In the North County, SR 78 was legislatively designa... | 24,597 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
Vista to Escondido before continuing along Santa Fe Avenue to Bonsall and Fallbrook and rejoining its alignment during the 1970s. At this time, all of SR 78 that existed had been paved. Before the present-day freeway was built, SR 78 was routed on the Vista Way Freeway (which was an expressway... | 24,598 |
1599654 | California State Route 78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=California%20State%20Route%2078 | California State Route 78
for its curves, even though it went over relatively flat terrain; this reduced its efficiency.
The portion of the SR 78 freeway in Oceanside opened to traffic on February 11, 1954. This highway was extended to Vista in May 1955, at a cost of $1,159,000 (about $ in dollars). The part of the fr... | 24,599 |
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