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Combat Kid – Air Force test of chemical-agents, cancelled. Combat King – Deployment and combat evaluation of Gunship K, cancelled. Combat Knife – TAC OpOrd (unit code name) for (Combat Talon) Skyhook C-130E-Is, starting in late 1965 with the 779th Troop Carrier Squadron – 'Blackbirds', at Pope AFB, NC.
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [ 1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity ...
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Frisbee (1950s) Gyroscope. Hula hoop (1950s) Magnet Space Wheel (Whee-Lo) Pinwheel. Top. Yo-yo (1930s onwards) A child with pinwheels. A 1791 illustration of a woman playing with an early version of the yo-yo, then known as a "bandalore".
This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database. [ 1 ]
The following list (organized by faction) covers every known character in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line to have received his/her own action figure.It includes the year the characters' version 1 action figure debuted, their code names and real names, function, and original rank/grade (if applicable).
The code name was reused in 2005 for a character named Alejandro Garcia. This version of Long Range is the Joes' transportation expert who drives a Rolling Operations Command Center (R.O.C.C.). He appeared in the Devil's Due G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 comics and the 2005 G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 animated series, where he additionally served as the team's sniper.
Fortnight. A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks ). The word derives from the Old English term fēowertīene niht, meaning " fourteen nights " (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights). [ 1][ 2]