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6 days ago · In the age of sail, a gunboat was usually a small undecked vessel carrying a single smoothbore cannon in the bow, or just two or three such cannons. A gunboat could carry one or two masts or be oar-powered only, but the single-masted version of about 15 m (49 ft) length was most typical.
2 days ago · Canon NS (1939) New Standard. A Canon S without the slow shutter speeds. Canon J (1939) J stands for Junior a non-rangefinder model. Canon J II (1946) Similar if not the same as prewar cameras. Canon S (1946) Similar if not the same as prewar cameras. Canon S II (1946) A redesign with combined range finder and viewfinder functions – two windows.
4 days ago · George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings .
3 days ago · On July 15, 2024, a Reddit user made a post ( archived) to the r/todayilearned subreddit reading, "TIL that the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris featured cannon shooting, firefighting, lifesaving...
5 days ago · Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. In No Ordinary Dog, Will Chesney, Cairo’s handler, tells his remarkable story.
3 days ago · Suez Canal, sea-level waterway running north-south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and Red seas. It separates the African continent from Asia, and it provides the shortest maritime route between Europe and the lands lying around the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
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5 days ago · Whatever happened to the pavements that used to line the streets of many Egyptian towns and cities Nesmahar Sayed finds out.
