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    The Panama Mount is a form of gun mount for fixed coastal artillery developed by the U.S. Army in Panama during the 1920s. Widely used during the buildup...
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    The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific...
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    The United States invaded Panama in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. The primary purpose of the invasion was to depose the...
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    campaign (1941–1942). Some of the guns were originally emplaced in "Panama mounts" on Corregidor, Caballo and Carabao islands at the entrance of Manila...
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    in 1937. Also, an unnamed battery of four 155 mm guns on concrete "Panama mounts" was built at the fort circa 1938. In 1940 Battery Davis was joined...
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    rearmed with "Panama mounts" for towed artillery early in World War II. The new 16-inch and 12-inch batteries of the 1920s were all in open mounts, unprotected...
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    The Panama Canal Railway (PCR, Spanish: Ferrocarril de Panamá) is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The...
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    The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila...
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    Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The population can be mainly broken into two categories: "Afro-Colonials", those descended from slaves...
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  • Iran Mount Berlin 3,478 11,411 Antarctica Volcán Barú 3,474 11,398 Panama Mount Nyiragongo 3,470 11,385 Democratic Republic of the Congo Mount Takahe...
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    The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus...
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    version of the M1919 mount for the naval guns. However, only ten of these guns were deployed until 1940, in Pearl Harbor, Panama, and San Francisco. They...
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    medium tank chassis, never advanced past proposal stage. A portable "Panama mount" M1 was also provided. The gun utilized separate loading, bagged charge...
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  • The Mount Hope Formation is a geologic formation of the Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal Zone in Panama. The limestones, mudstones and siltstones preserve...
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    Chile, via the Panama Canal to provide communications support for President Eisenhower's good will visit to Latin America. On 19 April, Mount McKinley deployed...
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    May 1946, bound for San Diego, the Panama Canal, and New York Harbor, arriving on 7 July 1946. In September, Mount Olympus was made the flagship for Operation...
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    Mount Wellington (Māori: Maungarei) is a suburb in East Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres southeast of the city centre. It is surrounded by...
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    The Panama Defense Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas de Defensa de Panamá; FFDD), formerly the National Guard (of Panama) (Spanish: Guardia Nacional), were the...
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    The Costa Rica–Panama border is the 348 km (216 mi) international boundary between Costa Rica and Panama. The border in its present state is demarcated...
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    Garden Island in 1942. Two US-supplied mobile Canon de 155 mm guns on Panama mount were installed to protect Garden Island, Cockburn Sound and the Challenger...
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    two partial batteries of the 21st Coast Artillery Regiment. Concrete "Panama mounts" for these were completed in June 1942. On 5 June 1941 elements of the...
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  • Strip search phone call scam (category Panama City, Florida)
    cards was Walmart, they contacted the police in Panama City. The Panama City police informed the Mount Washington police that Detective Flaherty in Massachusetts...
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    (Costa Rica, Panama) H. c. tabaconas Brown, 1976 – (Peru, Costa Rica) H. c. montanus Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama H. c. montanus Mount Totumas cloud...
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    155 mm (6.1 in) guns were deployed at Fort Story; circular concrete "Panama mounts" were built to improve their firing positions. These were a stopgap...
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  • unclear). Some of the disarmed commands were rearmed in World War II with "Panama mounts", circular concrete platforms for towed 155 mm guns. Some of these rearmed...
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  • weapon of choice in coastal defense, with the circular or semicircular Panama mount. In anticipation of a conflict with Japan, most of the limited funds...
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    batteries had four 90 mm dual-purpose guns each, two on fixed mounts and two on towed mounts. The 24th Coast Artillery was reduced to a battalion on 23 March...
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    Abenakee Golf Club. It had four circular concrete platforms called "Panama mounts" for 155 mm guns, three of which remain today. From December 1941 to...
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    built. The unnamed battery of four 155 mm M1918 towed guns on concrete Panama mounts was established in 1941 to quickly augment Charleston's harbor defenses...
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    during World War II. A 145 Mle 1916 on a Panama mount in Norway during World War II. A 145 Mle 1916 on a Panama mount near Cherbourg France. A 155 Mle 1916...
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