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  Swastika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mannerheim cross with a swastika is the Finnish equivalent of the Victoria Cross, the Croix de guerre and the Medal of Honor.
The 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army used a yellow swastika on a red background as a unit symbol until the 1930s, when it was switched to a thunderbird.
It was adopted as a regimental insignia by the artillery units of the 21st and 22nd Infantry Divisions, as well as by the soldiers of the 4th Legions' Infantry, the 2nd and the 4th Podhale Rifles.
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 Talk:Finnish Defence Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I also think it'd be nice to have 2 sets of articles, one describing up-to-date organisation, the other for historical (and data will naturally get moved from one to the other).
But there are at least two good ways to name the articles, Finnish army in 1939 and Finnish army (1939).
It is a common misconception among Finnish conscripts that appointment (note: really "appointed", never "promoted", as is the case with higher ranks) to korpraali is a reward of some kind: this is not true, but understandable, since those deserving a reward are usually also fit for leadership.
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 Altace Generic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Generic programming In computer science, generics are a technique that allows one value to take different datatype (so-called polymorphism) as long as certain contracts (so-called subtype) are kept.
Generic drug A generic drug is a drug which is identical or equivalent to a brand name drug in dosage, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics and intended use but is usually cheaper than the branded version.
In mathematics, for a generic point in algebraic geometry; in topology a generic property is usually defined to be one defining a co-meagre subset of a space X (see Baire space).
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 Finnish literature - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Finnish literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Some fragments of Finnish literature survive from the 12th century; the first book was a primer published 1544.
But the predominance of the Swedes and Swedish in Finland inhibited the growth of literature in Finnish until the 19th century, when it was launched with the publication in 1835 of Elias Lönnrot's epic folk verse compilation Kalevala.
The earliest Finnish writer was Aleksis Kivi, whose classic comedy Seitsemän veljestä/Seven Brothers was published in 1870.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Finnish+literature   (279 words)

  
 FINNISH 6TH DIVISION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
During the mobilization prior to the Winter War, the 6th Division was placed in the reserve of the Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Mannerheim.
The Finnish lines broke on the January 13 and the forces retreated to the Intermediate Line (Väliasema).
Infantry Regiment 16 (JR 16), from January 1940 JR 6
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/FINNISH+6TH+DIVISION   (279 words)

  
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Divisions should now be sorted according to type in the unit window.
Japanese militia divisions upgraded to infantry in the 1936 scenario.
Organisation recovery is now a fraction of the speed of previous.
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 Dhahran peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
Dhahran was the first of the group, founded in the late 1930's, and is still the largest, with 11,300 residents, including approximately 6,200 North Americans.
The town consists of two main divisions: Dhahran "main camp" (the oldest section) and Dhahran Hills.
Saudi and Islamic laws are applied to a lesser extent there than outside of the compound, and English is the common language of communication and education).
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 List of Articles with links to complete stories on other Websites
After generations of sword-like desert heat, they take tea in the morning, endure an oven-like day without sustenance, and then sip another scalding tea at dusk.
General Michel Aoun fled in his pyjamas to the French embassy as Syrian aircraft bombed his presidential palace 15 years ago.
The General was a slim 58-year-old, his hair fl, big hands, a suit that hung uneasily upon him, a bespoke tailor's work that could never equal his pea-green uniform with swords on the epaulettes.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> swastika   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
As a solar symbol, it was painted or carved on various parts of houses in the Tatra Mountains and was thought to save the household from evil.
]] The ancient symbol used by the Góral societies was adopted by the Polish mountain infantry units in the 1920's.
The Red Swastika was also suggested as an emblem of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in India and Sri Lanka, but the idea was not put into practice http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/int-ifrc.html.
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 Swastika - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Later Rosen also gained more closer connection to Germany when Hermann Göring got married with Karin Kantzow whose sister was married to Rosen.
In the much respected wartime medals of honor it was a visible element, first drafted by Axel Gallen-Kallela 1918–19.
The complete lack of any far-right connotations of the swastika in South Asia is best illustrated by its use as a generic electoral symbol even by parties of the far-left.
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 THE FIRE THIS TIME - IS DU SAFE
Meantime, in August, the WHO had announced it was undertaking a "generic" (general) study of depleted uranium, but no details were available.
When the task force chairman, former Finnish environmental minister Pekka Haavisto, called a press conference to disclose the map and its accompanying letter, it was Toepfer’s spokesperson, the man who had cut out the 70 pages from the October report, not Haavisto’s, who orchestrated the event.
Division, commanded by General Barry McCaffrey, whose armour and ordnance was lying about three miles away from the causeway.
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While robotics is still in its "Wright Brothers" stage, where the first generation of these technologies is still being explored, the robotic technologies available today are being deployed dynamically for national security applications.
Its founder, Frank N. Piasecki is one of the original pioneers of the helicopter industry and inventor of the tandem helicopter, winner of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museums Lifetime Achievement Award, and was awarded Americas highest technical honor, the National Medal of Technology.
BAE Systems, as part of the FCS One Team, is teamed with General Dynamics to develop and field a family of transportable, deployable, lethal, and survivable Manned Ground Vehicles.
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 Signs of the Times - 2005-05-18
She was then transfered to the UN where she has been one of the loudest conspirators in bringing down UN Secretary General Kofi Annan over the Oil for Food scandal.
FBI officials and then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft said at the time that the interviews were based on indications that radical protesters may be planning violent disruptions.
Another memo from December 2004 indicated that Sarah Bardwell, one of the Denver activists singled out for interviews, was targeted because she had helped organize an antiwar protest and was a member of a group called Food Not Bombs, which the memo characterized as having a "close association" with a radical anarchist group.
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 nmazca.blog : embedded in the floating world
A term first coined by security technologist Bruce Schneier in his book 'Beyond Fear' to describe what generally passes for 'security' these days -- namely, presenting the appearance and reassuring illusion of security (or improved security) despite however ineffective such postures might seem to those who know what real security is all about.
There are no reliable statistics about the sexual abuse of children in Togo, but there is a general perception among social workers and child protection volunteers that the phenomenon has increased alarmingly in recent years.
At a conference where all the UN organisations have been loudly and clearly stating that abstinence doesn't work for women without the power to say no, he is yet to win any new friends...
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 scaramouche
Barghouti's generation rose through the ranks during the first Palestinian uprising, from 1987-1993, but was kept out leadership positions by the oldtimers.
Barghouti, 46, is seen as a potential successor to Abbas even though he is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison for involvement in shooting attacks that killed five Israelis.
The British Empire is a huge heterogeneous organisation held together largely by mutual consent, and it is often necessary to flatter the less reliable elements at the expense of the more loyal ones.
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 ARTICLES AND REPORTS BY ROBERT FISK FROM MARCH 2001 ONWARDS
Not even Saddam could achieve the divisions this election will bring
Future generations will struggle to escape the legacy of the disaster in Iraq
'America is not a charitable organisation - they came to steal from Iraq'
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 Bibliography of Cartridge and Ammunition Books
Folded Ammunition A Collectors Guide to Folded Ammunition and Related Documentary Data Generated From 1965 to 1983.
Suomalaiset Sotilaspatruunat 1918 - 1945 (Finnish Military Cartridges 1918 - 1945) (Text in Finnish with English summaries).
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Weapons Systems Research Laboratory.
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