USS Escalante (AO-70) was a T3 Kennebec-class oiler built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Navy ship named for the...
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List of United States Navy ships: D–F (redirect from USS Dubhe (ID-2562))
(DDG-141) USS Ernest G. Small (DD-838/DDR-838) USS Erskine M. Phelps (YON-147) USS Errol (AG-133/AKL-4) USS Escalante (AO-70) USS Escalante River (LSM(R)-502)...
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USS Shabonee, a T3-S-A1 tanker, was sold to the US Navy and renamed USS Escalante (AO-70). In 1947 she was sold and renamed SS George MacDonald. On 30 June...
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Sparrows Point Shipyard: SS Shabonee (1942) (MC hull number 518), became USS Escalante (AO-70)[1]; sold for commercial use in 1947 as SS George MacDonald;...
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USS LSM-1 USS LSM-2 USS LSM-3 USS LSM-4 USS LSM-5 USS LSM-6 USS LSM-7 USS LSM-8 USS LSM-9 USS LSM-10 USS LSM-11 USS LSM-12 USS LSM-13 USS LSM-14 USS LSM-15...
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Valley of the Wind. For his performance as high school math teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988), he was nominated for the Academy Award for...
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Pineapple Press/Googlebooks. 1998. ISBN 9781561641635. Retrieved 25 May 2020. "USS S-16 (SS_121) (+1944)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 25 May 2020. "U-1221". Uboat...
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USS Thornton (DD-270/AVD-11) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for James and Ryan Thornton, naval...
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for several cocktail names, including the "Malecón cocktail" by John Escalante that can be traced back to his 1915 Cuban cocktail guide, Manual Del Cantinero...
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Washington, a barangay in Catarman, Northern Samar Washington, a barangay in Escalante, Negros Occidental Washington, a barangay in San Jacinto, Masbate Washington...
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USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (redirect from USS General Harry Taylor)
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) (originally named USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145)) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship in the...
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units. USS Lexington on fire during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 Light cruiser USS Birmingham coming alongside burning aircraft carrier USS Princeton...
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government survey amendments. In 1776, Spanish priest Silvestre Vélez de Escalante recorded that Native Americans in the area knew the river as el Rio Colorado...
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Patty Hearst Patty Hearst Natasha Richardson Stand and Deliver Jaime Escalante Edward James Olmos Tucker: The Man and His Dream Preston Tucker Jeff Bridges...
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working as a wrestler and circus artist. c. November 1934 Everett Ruess 20 Escalante, Utah, U.S. Ruess, a young American artist, disappeared while traveling...
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USS Talladega (APA/LPA-208) was a Haskell-class attack transport of the US Navy. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type. Talladega was named...
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USS Essex, plus helicopter assault carrier USS Boxer, destroyers USS Hank, USS John W. Weeks, USS Purdy, USS Wren, and submarines USS Cobbler and USS Threadfin...
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impeachment charges against Pres. Marcos. September 20 A massacre in Escalante, Negros Occidental kills at least 20 people. October 18 Typhoon Dot (Saling)...
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and a top speed of 15.3 knots. Three of the ships — Chiwawa (AO-68), Escalante (AO-70), and Neshanic (AO-71) — were decommissioned at the end of the...
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USS Sherburne (APA-205) was a US Navy Haskell-class attack transport, built and used during World War II. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design...
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Agoncillo 1990, pp. 247–260, 294–297 Escalante 2007, pp. 86–87. Taft 1908, p. 1 Ellis 2008, p. 2143 Escalante 2007, pp. 86–169 (ch. 5, Laying the Foundations...
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War and Etymology. Retrieved July 3, 2024 – via YouTube. Escalante 2007, pp. 223–224. Escalante 2007, p. 226. "Act No. 926 (enacted October 7, 1903)". ChanRobles...
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USS General A. W. Greely (AP-141) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship named for U.S. Army general Adolphus Greely. She was transferred to...
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SS Red Oak Victory (redirect from USS Red Oak Victory)
United States Navy on December 5, 1944, and commissioned the same day as USS Red Oak Victory (AK-235). Following a fitting-out period, Red Oak Victory...
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economic assistance. In March 1962, Castro ordered the ousting of Anibal Escalante and his pro-Moscow comrades from Cuba's Integrated Revolutionary Organizations...
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who traveled as far north as the nearby Utah Valley (the 1776 Dominguez-Escalante expedition were undoubtedly aware of Salt Lake Valley's existence). U...
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In 1948, he began officer training for submarine duty and served aboard USS Pomfret. Carter was promoted to lieutenant junior grade in 1949, and his...
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(d. 2018) 1929 – Peter May, English cricketer (d. 1994) 1930 – Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010) 1930 – Odetta, American singer-songwriter...
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USS Montrose (APA/LPA-212) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1969. She was...
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USS Casper (PG-120/PF-12), a Tacoma-class patrol frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casper, Wyoming. Casper, originally...
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