The Exeter bombing was a failed bombing attempt that took place on 22 May 2008, at the Giraffe cafe and restaurant in Princesshay, Exeter, England. The...
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Murder of Lee Rigby (section Attempted copycat cases)
Barracks bombing 7 July 2005 London bombings 21 July 2005 London bombings 2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier 2008 Exeter attempted bombing 2015...
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Exeter (/ˈɛksɪtər/ EK-sit-ər) is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately 36 mi...
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unsuccessfully attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight Nicky Reilly – resident of Plymouth, England, known for the 2008 Exeter attempted bombing; his...
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the 22 May 2008 Exeter bombing, a nail bomb explosive was detonated in the toilets of Giraffe café in the Princesshay Shopping Centre in Exeter, Devon. The...
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59. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"...
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(132 lb) bombs assisted in the sinking of Pope, already crippled by bombing from seaplanes and land-based air, and closed in to make a level bombing attack...
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University of Exeter. 2007 – Princesshay rebuilt. 2008 – 22 May: Attempted bombing in Princesshay. 2011 – Population: 117,773. 2017 – Exeter Chiefs rugby...
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The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...
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Both were also responsible for the Glasgow Airport Attack. 2008, 22 May: Exeter attempted bombing in a café toilet by an Islamist extremist, injuring only...
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strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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The Blitz (redirect from Bombing of London)
the Soviet Union. Bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or do much damage to the war economy; eight months of bombing never seriously...
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The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The bombing of cities...
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related to Darwin bombings. Library resources about Bombing of Darwin Resources in your library Resources in other libraries Bombing of Darwin, Northern...
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was also a cultural centre and only lightly defended. The bombing followed the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942 which authorised...
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August 14, 1943 (a day after the last Allied bombing raid) by the defending Italian forces. The first bombing raid was on July 19, 1943, when 690 aircraft...
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reached the staff of Luftflotte 2 in Berlin. Instead of a precision bombing, a carpet bombing by Heinkel He 111 bombers was carried out, with only a Gruppe...
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Princesshay (redirect from Bedford Circus, Exeter)
Princesshay is a shopping precinct in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built in the early 1950s to replace buildings that had been severely damaged...
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Attack on Pearl Harbor (redirect from Pearl Harbor bombing)
Shaw Dorr & Borch 2008. Arakaki 1991, ch. IV. Potter 1982. Toland 1970, p. 235. Watson 2007, p. 592 United States Strategic Bombing Survey 1946, p. 18...
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Air raids on Japan (redirect from Bombing of Japan)
Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division (1947). The Effects of Bombing on Health and Medical Services in Japan. United States Strategic Bombing Survey...
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responded by making smoke, and later attempted a torpedo attack, while Exeter returned fire, but at 11:20 Exeter sustained a major hit in her boiler room...
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emphasized the precision bombing of key industrial facilities over area bombing of cities. Early American strategic bombing attacks on Germany used precision...
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frequencies. Exeter was the only ship in the battle equipped with radar, an emerging technology at the time. The battle consisted of a series of attempts over...
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Zeppelins attempted a raid on the Midlands but headwinds caused them to mistake their position and two dropped their bombs in the sea, the rest bombing the...
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military significance was gradually abandoned in favour of "area bombing", the large-scale bombing of German cities to destroy housing and civilian infrastructure...
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French heavy bombers attempted to repeat the bombing of the factory. This time, again the factory was not hit by a single bomb out of the 48, but another...
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initial bombing as 05:40. Even if the time 04:40 was to be correct, several historians identify the first (aerial) action of the war as the bombing of the...
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University of Exeter halls of residence were evacuated after the discovery of an unexploded 2,200-pound (1,000 kg) World War II German bomb in Exeter and a controlled...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (redirect from Father of the atomic bomb)
visiting fireman". Phillips Exeter Academy. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2023. Wolverton 2008, pp. 105–106 Bethe, H...
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Saif al-Adel (category 1998 United States embassy bombings)
over Saif al-Adel's real name and identity. According to the University of Exeter professor Omar Ashour, the FBI's previous information on Saif al-Adel had...
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