• The Joan-Eleanor system (or J-E for short) was a clandestine very high frequency (VHF) radio system developed by the United States OSS during World War...
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    Alfred J. Gross, a radio engineer and one of the developers of the Joan-Eleanor system, also worked on the early technology behind the walkie-talkie between...
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    air-to-ground communications system for the U.S. OSS (a forerunner to the CIA) for use in military operations, known as the Joan-Eleanor system. It comprised a hand-held...
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    Eleanor was born in Burgos to Ferdinand III of Castile and Joan, Countess of Ponthieu. She was named after her paternal great-grandmother Eleanor of...
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    force. They also undertook "[Joan-Eleanor Project]" OSS missions using an air-to-ground radio system known as Joan-Eleanor system. This required modifications...
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    Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɪnɔːr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ EL-in-or ROH-zə-velt; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and...
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    Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis...
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  • give new orders, etc. One approach used in World War II was the Joan-Eleanor system, which put the case officer into an aircraft at high altitude. From...
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    Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician, lawyer, and human rights activist. Norton serves as a congressional delegate to...
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  • "Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with...
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    – 2 April 1272) Joan, Queen of Scotland (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238) Isabella, Holy Roman Empress (1214 – 1 December 1241) Eleanor, Countess of Pembroke...
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    Eleanor Rosalynn Carter (/ˈroʊzəlɪn/ ROH-zə-lin; née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American writer, activist, and humanitarian who...
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    Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg (/ˈbeɪdər ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg; née Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who...
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    Berengaria of Leon, Urraca of Portugal, Blanche of France and Eleanor of Aragon. Joan, Queen of Sicily (1165–1199) – married firstly King William II...
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    had four legitimate younger brothers and sisters – Richard, Joan, Isabella, and Eleanor – and various older illegitimate siblings. In 1212 his education...
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  • for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (written by his then-wife Eleanor Perry). The couple collaborated on five more films, including The Swimmer...
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  • Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS (née Peachey; 12 August 1919 – 5 April 2020) was a British-American observational astronomer and astrophysicist. In the...
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    Eleanor Florence Rathbone (12 May 1872 – 2 January 1946) was an independent British Member of Parliament (MP) and long-term campaigner for family allowance...
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    Young Henry, Richard, Geoffrey and John; and three daughters, Matilda, Eleanor and Joan. He had several long-term mistresses, including Annabel de Balliol...
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    October; when it fell, Isabella was able to recover her daughters Eleanor and Joan, who had been kept in the Despensers' custody. By now desperate and...
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    Edward's children with Eleanor were: Katherine (1261 or 1263–1264) Joan (1265–1265) John (1266–1271) Henry (1268–1274) Eleanor (1269–1298) Unnamed daughter...
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    Joan, often called Joan of Constantinople (c. 1199 – 5 December 1244), ruled as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut from 1205 (at the age of six) until her...
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  • headed by the estranged couple Henry (referring to Henry II) and Nora (Eleanor of Aquitaine) and their sons Richard (Richard II) and Johnny (John) after...
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    journalist and long-term friend and possibly romantic partner of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. After an unhappy and unsettled childhood, Hickok found success...
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    celebrations, and three more children followed: John in 1316, Eleanor in 1318 and Joan in 1321. Gaveston's return from exile in 1307 was initially accepted...
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    Chicago, Illinois. Their daughter Marilyn was born in 1924. His third wife, Joan Kroc, was a philanthropist who significantly increased her charitable contributions...
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    Garapedian to System of a Down Denying the 'other' Holocaust Turkey finally hears its past Henry Morgenthau interview, 1994 November Joan Morgenthau Hirschhorn...
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    Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston and Debbie Reynolds. Ford installed the recording system to eavesdrop on the conversations...
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  • however, was disturbed by the ambition of William IX and his granddaughter, Eleanor of Aquitaine, who urged her husband Louis VII of France to support her...
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  • Retrieved 19 January 2008. Elizabeth Wyse; Jo Aitchison; Zöe Gullen; Eleanor Mathieson, eds. (2006). "Forms of Address". Debrett's Correct Form (2006 ed...
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