Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 - 18 December 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II and a member of the Nazi Party. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one...
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Title: The Loch Leven Crater: Anatomy of a Low-Angle Oblique Impact Structure Authors: B. J. Hamill The Loch Leven basin (56° 12' N, 3° 23' W) in the Midland Valley of Scotland has been identified as the site of the primary impact of a low-angle oblique impact event dating from the end of the Carbonifer...
SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse code distress signal (· · · - - - · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard under the second International Radiotelegraphic...
Cosmic Call 1 was sent to HD 186408 on May 24, 1999. Cosmic Call was the name of two interstellar radio messages that were sent from RT-70 in Yevpatoria in 1999 and 2003 to various nearby stars. The messages were designed with noise resistant format and characters. The project was funded by Team Encou...
The Hawthorn Ridge mine was the northern-most of the ten mines dug by the Royal Engineer tunnelling companies. It was detonated on July 1, 1916, one of the three large mines, the other two being the Lochnagar mine and the Y Sap mine at La Boisselle. The mine contained about 40,000 pounds (18 t) of explos...
The Special Air Service was a unit of the British Army during the Second World War, formed in July 1941 by David Stirling and originally called "L" Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade - the "L" designation and Air Service name being a tie-in to a British disinformation cam...
Al-Hayatham, known in Latin as Alhazen, wrote books on medicine as well as Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy. He wrote commentaries on the works of Aristotle and Galen, and also did original experiments with light, coming up with some of the first accounts of refraction, a mathematical method to...
Tartan Day is a celebration of Scottish heritage on April 6, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. A one-off event was held in New York City in 1982, but the current format originated in Canada in the mid 1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 - 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, whic...
Cape Canaveral is roughly in the middle of Florida's eastern coastline, just over 75 kilometres east of Orlando.
The first rocket launch from the Cape was Bumper 8 from Launch Pad 3 on 24 July 1950. On February 6, 1959 the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile w...
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