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    Captain Washington Irving Chambers, USN (April 4, 1856 – September 23, 1934) was a 43-year, career United States Navy officer, who near the end of his...
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  • Sharpe Washington Irving Chambers was born April 4, 1856, in Kingston, to Jacob and Margaret Ann Ayres Chambers. Named after the author Washington Irving, Chambers...
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    commonly known simply as, Chambers Field, and is named after Captain Washington Irving Chambers. It is a military airport in Norfolk, Virginia that is a part...
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    in the same year, Irving told an audience in Toronto, "The gas chambers that are shown to the tourists in Auschwitz are fakes." Irving denied that the Nazis...
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    which she conducted training maneuvers in the Atlantic. Captain Washington Irving Chambers took command of the ship on 1 June. On 1 November 1910, she was...
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    December 2012. Stein, Stephen K. (2007). From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers & Technological Innovation in the New Navy 1876 to 1913. University...
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    state representative and United States Congressman from New York Washington Irving Chambers, United States Naval Officer Cornelius A.J. Hardenbergh, New York...
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    capability to skim along the surface in two-foot (0.61 m) seas. CAPT Washington Irving Chambers expressed confidence in landing in “moderate seas”, but stated...
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    and he was recognized as an aviation expert alongside Captain Washington Irving Chambers. He detached from there in May 1911 to attend the summer session...
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    bomb ships was seen as largely impractical at the time. CAPT Washington Irving Chambers felt it was much easier to defend against airplanes than mines...
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    2016-08-27. Stein, Stephen K. (2007). From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers & Technological Innovation in the New Navy 1876 to 1913. Tuscaloosa:...
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    Severn River from the Naval Academy under orders from Captain Washington Irving Chambers, the first Navy officer assigned to development of the nascent...
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    David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt is a case in English law against American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher Penguin...
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  • the "gas chambers fairy tale" and claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had helped Europe's Jews and that the Holocaust was a "myth". Irving was arrested...
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    possibilities of naval aviation through the efforts of Captain Washington Irving Chambers; he prevailed upon Congress to include in the Naval Appropriation...
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    #17 on October 5, 1910. In October, Ely and Curtiss met Captain Washington Irving Chambers, USN, who had been appointed by George von Lengerke Meyer, the...
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    Zealand (d. 1925) April 4 – Washington Irving Chambers, American naval officer (d. 1934) April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)...
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    participated in an experiment under the direction of Captain Washington Irving Chambers, the first Navy officer assigned to development of the nascent...
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    altitude of 150 ft (officially 50 meters). It was estimated by CAPT Washington Irving Chambers that a student could qualify as a new pilot in about a month,...
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  • American Naval Officer and Naval Aviation Pioneer Washington Irving Chambers. On December 5, 1845, Chambers married Sarah Catherine Sahler (1823–1856), and...
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    attention from American naval authorities. After being refined by Washington Irving Chambers, Poundstone's work was brought to the Naval War College, where...
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    gyroscope". Stein, Stephen K. (2007). From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers & Technological Innovation in the New Navy 1876 to 1913. University...
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    been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew...
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    the four bronze figures: Cavalryman, Infantryman, Artilleryman. Washington Irving Chambers designed the Sailor figure, and Lorado Taft carved the granite...
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    4th edition. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997. Stephen K. Stein, From Torpedoes to Aviation: Washington Irving Chambers & Technological...
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  • The name "S.W. Bay" appears on an 1882 chart compiled by Ens. Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion at Heard Island in January 1882. The bay...
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    Ving Rhames (redirect from Irving Rhames)
    Irving Rameses Rhames (/ˈreɪmz/; born May 12, 1959) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying IMF Agent Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible...
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    what has been described as the birth of naval aviation, Captain Washington Irving Chambers of the United States Navy awarded a contract to Curtiss Aeroplane...
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    Robinson, USMCR 1986 VADM Frederick M. Trapnell, USN 1986 CAPT Washington Irving Chambers, USN 1988 Dr. Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, Civilian 1988 CAPT David...
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  • Denial (2016 film) (category David Irving)
    insists on focusing the trial on Irving. Irving tries to discredit van Pelt's evidence for the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, claiming there were...
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