• USS Buttress (PCE-878/ACM-4) was an auxiliary minelayer (ACM) in the United States Navy during World War II. This ship and USS Monadnock (ACM-10) were...
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    except USS Buttress and USS Monadnock were originally US Army mine planters. Chimo class USS Chimo (ACM-1) USS Planter (ACM-2) USS Barricade (ACM-3) USS Barbican (ACM-5)...
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    pages. USS A-1 (SS-2, SP-1370) USS A-2 (SS-3) USS A-3 (SS-4) USS A-4 (SS-5) USS A-5 (SS-6) USS A-6 (SS-7) USS A-7 (SS-8) USS AA-1 (SS-52/SF-1) USS AA-2...
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  • September of 1976. Alberts 1995, p. 243. Alberts 1995, p. 46. Blorenge Buttress USGS. Alberts 1995, p. 731. Alberts 1995, p. 750. Alberts 1995, p. 747...
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  • USS War Hawk (AP-168) was a La Salle-class transport and troopship of the United States Navy, built at the Moore Dry Dock Company in Oakland, California...
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    the embassy, sometimes painstakingly reconstructed after shredding, to buttress their claim that the U.S. was trying to destabilize the new regime. By...
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    Dad's Army. During the evening of 23 August 2006, a lightning bolt hit a buttress on the cliffs, sending 100 tonnes of rock into the sea. Historic England...
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  • typeface produced by Filmotype Flyer, one of the two components of a flying buttress Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a spinning wheel, invented in the late 15th...
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    from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017. F. A. Buttress; H. J. Heaney (6 December 2012). World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations...
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  • Wallsend was a 2,905 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1943 as Empire Buttress for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Completed in July 1943, she was...
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    V-threads, the isosceles triangle is, more specifically, equilateral. For buttress threads, the triangle is scalene. The theoretical triangle is usually truncated...
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    other routes have been completed, including the highly technical North Buttress, first climbed in 1968 using siege tactics (placing fixed ropes and returning...
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    26,000 tons of fuel to Vietnam. Mao Zedong considered it necessary to buttress the Viet Minh to secure his country's southern flank against potential...
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    Cortelyou of New York, the first Secretary of Commerce and Labor. To buttress his hold on the party's nomination, Roosevelt made it clear that anyone...
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  • City Hall and Southern Market Government Street Presbyterian Church USS Alabama (battleship) USS Drum (submarine) Bethel Baptist Church Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
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  • Whitcombe, Mount Perseverance and Mount Arrowsmith to the north, and Red Buttress Peak to the south, to flow into Granite Harbour The small Hunt Glacier...
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    attitude, was a vocal defender of a White Australia policy. Japan's attempt, buttressed by the Chinese emissary Wellington Koo among others, to incorporate a...
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    security—South Korea, Taiwan, or all of NATO—took any significant steps to buttress their military to prepare for the day when the Americans might not be able...
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    it successfully "rallied reluctant Irish Catholic voters to his side, buttressed his claims that he was not going to take the nation into war, and emphasized...
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    between Taiwan and mainland China, that such a consensus only served to buttress the "One China Principle", and that "no such consensus exists" because...
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    are recognizable, but abstracted. Instead of traditional piers, four buttresses form attached arches that are supported by compressed Byzantine columns...
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    spring of 1949 when attacks by guerrillas in the mountainous regions (buttressed by army defectors and North Korean agents) increased.[citation needed]...
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    rhetoric on nuclear war was viewed by many as quite uncompromising, a view buttressed by off-hand comments such as, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the...
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  • contractor Roger Cook uses a pay-as-you-go concrete truck to pour a small buttress wall that will support the exposed rubble stone foundation. 29–07 "Salvage...
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  • 76.617°S 162.133°E / -76.617; 162.133. A prominent, triangular rock buttress over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) high, on the north side of the lower Fry Glacier...
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    ISBN 1 86176 023 X. NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive Buttress (ACM 4) ex-PCE-878 "Naval Battles of the Sri Lanka Civil War". Soviet-Empire...
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    October Jordanian troops deployed to the Jordanian-Syrian frontier to buttress Syrian troops, and Jordanian forces joined Syrian and Iraqi assaults on...
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    delivered succor. The American supply vessels including the tender USS Yankton, buttressed with extra medical personnel and supplies from the battleship fleet...
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    originates in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and flows northeast between Dismal Buttress to the northwest and Roberts Massif to the southeast. It is joined from...
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  • Antarctic Names for Commander Eugene Maher, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of USS Glacier during Operation Deep Freeze, 1955–56. An 51 ha site, comprising...
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