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    The Flower-class corvette (also referred to as the Gladiolus class after the lead ship) was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II...
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  • Dominican Republic La Independencia, Chiapas, Mexico Independencia, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico Independencia, Paraguay Villa Independencia, original...
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  • Battista, two churches in Italy and Switzerland Italian corvette San Giovanni, a steam corvette of the Italian Royal Navy San Giovanni (Rome Metro), an...
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    steam frigates Reina Blanca, Resolución, Berenguela, Villa de Madrid, Almansa and the corvette Vencedora. A V-Shaped formation characterized the Spanish...
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  • Flower-class corvette for British Admiralty, launched 7 March 1940, completed 22 April 1940, scrapped 1947. HMS Calendula, Flower-class corvette for British...
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    the Peruvian Navy frigate Apurímac and corvettes América and Unión and the Chilean Navy schooner Covadonga. Villa de Madrid also participated in the bombardment...
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    (corvette) (1847–1890) Mexicana (schooner) Princesa (corvette) Sutil (schooner) Villa de Bilbao (corvette - later used as a school ship) (1845–1930) Puigcerdá...
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    Race Track in 1876, all on the grounds of what had been Rosas' pleasure villa. During the 20th century, the Buenos Aires Botanical Gardens (1902), Jorge...
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    town of Ancud to the island of Abtao to await the arrival of two new corvettes acquired by Peru. The Spanish commander Casto Méndez Núñez, informed of...
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    of residents. In rural areas, the houses in the villas miseria might be made of mud and wood. Villas miseria are found around and inside the large cities...
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    of four warships: the twin steam frigates Triunfo and Resolución, the corvette Vencedora [es] and the schooner Virgen de Covadonga.[citation needed] The...
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  • Films with the most nominations: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest...
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  • brought the first African slaves to Louisiana in 1719 from Senegambia French corvette Aurore (1767), a snow commissioned by the French Navy for scientific purposes...
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    University of Kentucky Fountain Square in Bowling Green, a base of GM's Corvette production Covington, a suburb of Cincinnati Paducah Newport Danville,...
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    O'Higgins embarked from the port of Valparaíso in July 1823, in the British corvette Fly, never to see Chile again. Originally destined for Ireland, while he...
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    brand name "Avanti II". which initially had a 327 cu in (5.4 L) Chevrolet Corvette engine. This evolved to the 400, then the small-block 350, and then the...
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    Italian destroyer Giacinto Carini (category La Masa-class destroyers)
    island left Corfu between 24 and 29 September 1923. Capitano di corvetta (Corvette Captain) Carlo Bergamini, a future admiral and commander of the Italian...
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    The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France...
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    voyages, including one to Australia, as a cadet aboard the sail training corvette SMS Saida II. On the voyage home, he visited the Holy Land, where he met...
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    The Parque de la Ciudad (English: City Park) is a former amusement park in the Villa Soldati neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The park was planned...
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    commanding the corvette América [es]. He stood out in the combat of Abtao, where the allied Peruvian-Chilean fleet faced the Spanish frigates Villa de Madrid...
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    He was also a member of the fine-dining society La Chaine des Rotisseurs. He died at his home the Villa Solbacken in Stockholm in 1997, with Princess Lilian...
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    Gil 2006, p. 461; at that time the coast was patrolled by the Liberal corvette Consuelo, but thanks to news from Carlist oyalateros, watching Consuelo’s...
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  • Year Title Studio Genre Cast Notes 1943 Corvette K-225 Universal Pictures War Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald producer, directed by Richard...
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  • films) Revolution Trilogy (1933 - 1936) Viva Villa! (1934) Sucedió en Jalisco (Los cristeros) (1947) La negra Angustias (1950) Viva Zapata! (1952) They...
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    April 2024. Ndeke Luka, Ndeke Luka. "Centrafrique : le bilan du naufrage sur la rivière Mpoko s'alourdit et les recherches se poursuivent". radiondekeluka...
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  • Wagon (Known as the "Mini Buby" series): Citroën 3CV Citroën Ami Chevrolet Corvette Chrysler Valiant I De Tomaso Pantera Fiat 600 Fiat 697 truck Ford Van Ford...
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    June 1937. Carrero Blanco then served in the Nationalist navy first as corvette captain aboard the destroyer Huesca and later the submarine General Sanjurjo...
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    Pereira Pinto again encountered the Villa del Salto sailing from Salto to Paysandú. The two Brazilian corvettes attacked the Uruguayan ship as it again...
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    assigned Covadonga's command. On 3 May the corvette Abtao, under lieutenant commander Carlos Condell de la Haza's command, and Covadonga, under Prat's...
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