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  United Kingdom - Search View - MSN Encarta
The population density of the United Kingdom is one of the highest in Europe, exceeded by Netherlands and Belgium.
The British monarch, who must be a member of the Anglican Church, holds the titles of Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith.
British scientists contributed to the 1953 discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as well as subsequent breakthroughs in medicine and genetics, including DNA fingerprinting, gene therapy, in vitro fertilization, and cloning.
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 The Fenestration Glossary
Interior casing is a flat, decorative moulding which covers the inside edge of the jambs and the rough opening between the window unit and the wall.
On a double-hung window, the bottom rail of the upper sash and the upper rail of the lower sash, where the lock is mounted.
The top rail of the lower sash and the bottom rail of the upper sash which meet when a double-hung window is closed.
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 British Artillery Organisations 1939-45
Changes to unit organisation were often the result General Staff policy decisions concerning the scales of equipment such as weapons, vehicles and wirelesses, with Establishments and G1098 being subsequently amended.
British units have 'peace' and 'war' establishments, the former being called 'reduced' prior to 1939.
Unit designations remained unchanged apart from survey regiments being re-designated ‘observation’ and subsequently 'locating’.
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 British Rail coach designations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway both developed a system of identifying carriages by means of alphabetic codes.
When British Railways was formed in 1948, it decided to adopt the former LNER method of carriage classification.
The codes are made up from a combination of letters, some of which can indicate more than one word; their meaning can only be determined according to their position, or the presence of other letters, in the code.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail_coach_designations   (307 words)

  
 Royal Artillery Methods in World War 2
British guns usually used one man laying, by which one man layed in both line (using the dial sight) and elevation using calibrating sights or gun-rule and sight clinometer.
British practice evolved to comparative calibration in which a theatre calibration troop was kept accurately calibrated and moved from unit to unit to shoot alongside their guns and compare the ranges achieved for different charges fired at the same elevation.
British practice was to aim the guns of each troop to give a roughly straight line at right angles to the line of fire.
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 British Rail ModernTraction Timeline 1958 - 1982
Station platform 'BRUTES', British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment, have passed regional trails and are given the go-ahead to be introduced nationwide.
The first of the AM9 electric multiple units appear in blue and grey livery; several examples have the yellow front-end warning panels painted only on the gangway doors, blue and grey being carried round to the front of the units.
British Rail insist that the vehicle is completely destroyed 'as not to be invested with any spurious glamour'.
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 USAREUR Units - 2nd Armd Cav Regt
The unit, as the most advanced element of the 3d Army, had reached that line on May 7 when orders were received to halt the advance.
Aside from this, the unit was occupied tactically with the apprehension of small groups of German soldiers, who were infiltrating from the east in order to avoid being taken prisoners by the Soviet.
The unit's responsibilities included supervising the activities of German authorities, assisiting Military Government detachments located in their sector, checking traffic by means of road blocks and controlling the Czech border.
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 British Rail Class 404 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While all the other carriages for these units were built by the SR at their Eastleigh works, the Trailer First carriages (which were laid out as dining cars) were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) and the Trailer Restaurant Kitchen Third carriages by Metropolitan Cammell.
These new units followed the same design as the Phase 1 stock, except that the restaurant and kitchen facilities of the 4Res units were replaced by the simpler provison of a buffet.
A number of units were reformed to reuse the carriages that survived from individual units, and after the war was over, new carriages were built to replace those destroyed, taking the numbers of the old ones.
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 Rail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This baseline assessment was designed as a foundation for further analysis of the east-west rail corridors.
In both cases, the design standards are derived directly from the characteristics of the vehicles and the intended operation of the facility.
Rail Operations A station has to provide a safe environment for passengers with respect to train operations along the adjacent trackage and be compatible with other passenger and freight operations on the line.
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 Russia
Kommersant reported that a UR-100NUTTKh [NATO designation SS-19 'Stiletto'] ICBM was launched on 26 October 2001 from the Baykonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and 25 minutes later successfully hit its target at the Kura proving ground in Kamchatka.
A UR-100NUTTKh [NATO designation SS-19 'Stiletto'] ICBM was test-launched on 27 June 2001 from the Baykonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
On 11 October 2000 a RS-12M Topol [NATO designation SS-25 'Sickle'] ICBM was successfully test launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and reached its target at the Kura testing ground.[1] Strategic Rocket Forces Commander Vladimir Yakovlev stated that the test launch verified the reliability and technical capabilities of the aging Topol.
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 NCTA: Following the NCT
In spite of considerable interest in Rails to Trails development nationwide and considerable study of possible rail-trail routes for the NCT, only two have been developed for a long distance, both of them in Ohio; the first is the Little Miami Scenic Park.
Mackinac Island was designated as our second national park in 1875, a status it retained until 1895 when the park was turned over to the state.
The 60-mile trail in the Chequamegon National Forest was designed for backpackers, and was built and named the North Country Trail years before the concept of the seven-state trail arose.
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 Underreported News: United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
MADCAP student is embarking on an epic 18,000-mile journey across the United States to break the law in a "crime" spree worthy of Bonnie and Clyde.
Deaths from asbestos exposure have surged in the United States and are set to keep rising in the next decade, as more workers succumb to the lung disease caused by the industrial mineral, federal health experts warned Thursday.
The United States' declared war on terror is closer to the beginning than the end, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told graduates of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday.
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 Update on Operation Swarmer (The Fourth Rail)
The United Nations endorsed an African peacekeeping force in Somalia.
ING was disestablished and units consolodated into regular army last summer.
The "1st Emergency Battalion" is probably the "Emergency Response Unit" of the MOI.
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 Welcome to RailSpeeders.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This car was shipped to CP on 7 June 1983 and spent its life in British Columbia, based out of Vancouver, as part of a thermite welding crew.
Most of the miles have been run during public rides at rail festivals, where “Ole Yeller” has introduced over 250 members of the public to our motorcar hobby.
At 3,300 pounds, “Ole Yeller” is an armful, but I have installed a set of wheels on a rear bumper mounted jack that facilitate seton and setoff, as well as turning the car at the end of track (at a crossing).
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