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3 unusual facts about 251


Uyedineniya Island

On September 8, 1942, the German submarine U-251 (Lt. Captain Timm) surfaced close to the island and destroyed the weather station's small building and its garrison by firing grenades against those targets.

VMFA-251

From January to April 1994, the Thunderbolts flew close air support missions while deployed to Aviano, Italy supporting Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Thirteen months later on July 1, 1946, VMF-251 was reactivated at Grosse Ile, Michigan as a ready-reserve squadron.


1986 ICC Trophy

Another lop-sided game saw the Netherlands put on 251 for the first wicket against Israel, Steve Atkinson making 162 and Lifmann 110.

Alpha, New Jersey

In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 334 votes here (48.2% vs. 61.3% countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 251 votes (36.2% vs. 25.7%), Independent Chris Daggett with 64 votes (9.2% vs. 9.8%) and other candidates with 21 votes (3.0% vs. 1.5%), among the 693 ballots cast by the borough's 1,397 registered voters, yielding a 49.6% turnout (vs. 49.6% in the county).

Amagi-class battlecruiser

The class design was 820 ft 3 in (250 m) long at the waterline, and 826 ft 1 in (251.8 m) overall.

Anti-satellite weapon

Only one test flight of the anti-satellite mission was carried out, making a mock attack on the Explorer 6 at an altitude of 156 miles (251 km).

Aryeh Ben-Eliezer

In April 1944 he was once again arrested by the British, and was one of 251 detainees exiled in October of that year to Asmara, Eritrea, where he was the representative of the exiles before the British authorities.

Battle of Panormus

Towards the end of 252 BC or early 251 BC, Carthage had put down a Libyan revolt in Africa and sent an army under the command of Hasdrubal, son of Hanno the Great, to Sicily.

The Battle of Panormus was fought in 251 BC between a Roman consular army led by Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Carthaginians led by Hasdrubal during the First Punic War.

British Tortricoid Moths

Volume 1 (ISBN 0-903874-01-6), viii + 251 pages, with a green dustjacket, published in 1973, covered the Cochylinae and the Tortricinae.

Carlos Mortensen

He won his second bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event, earning $251,680.

Diessenhofen

A hoard of coins from the Roman era (251-270), and the remains of three towers of the Danube-Iller-Rhein Limes (4th century) show Roman settlements in the area.

DR Class E 251

The 15 Co’Co’ engines were supplied by LEW and registered with the Reichsbahn as E 251 001 to 015.

Empress Zhen

Empress Zhen (Cao Fang) (甄皇后, personal name unknown) (died 251), wife of Cao Fang of Cao Wei

Ernan McMullin

Harvard University philosophy professor Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses McMullin's views on Scientific realism in the book Theory and reality (University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 178, 251, 264), citing McMullin's paper "A Case for Scientific Realism" in the book Scientific Realism, edited by Jarrett Leplin (University of California Press, 1984).

Glibovac

In 1919 archaeologists from the Art History Archive in Belgrade discovered remains of an ancient Roman town on the site of the current village.In a field near the hamlet of Bubanj 375 were found coins dating from the reigns of Septimius Severus (193-211AD) and Volusianus (251-253AD).

Gudula

251, Haarlem Gradual of 1494, depiction of Saint Gudula bearing a lantern which the demon endeavors to extinguish

Isaac Scott

He built a log cabin west of Canawaugus Street (now Rochester Street/NYS Routes 251 and 383), north of Oatka Creek and south of what is now Main Street (NYS Route 386).

Jewett Car Company

Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban car 251 built in 1917, is operated regularly at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.

Lay communion

In 251, a letter of Pope Cornelius to Fabius, Bishop of Antioch, informs us that the pope, in presence of all the people received into his communion, but as a layman, one of the bishops guilty of having conferred sacerdotal ordination on the heretic Novatian.

Megan Beyer

She was a regular panelist on To the Contrary, a weekly news-analysis program airing on more than 251 public television stations in the United States, in Canada, and internationally on Worldnet Television.

Michael C. Wholley

Upon returning to the United States, he was assigned to VMFA-251 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort as a pilot, and later, and as the legal officer to Marine Aircraft Groups 31 and 32.

No. 251 Squadron RAF

No. 251 Squadron RAF was first formed in August 1918 from Nos. 504, 505, 506 and 510 (Special Duty) Flights based at Hornsea but operating from Atwick, Greenland Top and Owthorne.

No. 251 Squadron was then reborn after No. 1407 Flight (stationed at Reykjavík) was renumbered for air-sea rescues on 1 August 1944.

North Bergen High School

There were 1,251 students (47.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 145 (5.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Pepperoni

According to Convenience Store Decisions, Americans annually consume 251.7 million pounds of pepperoni on 36% of all pizzas produced nationally.

Peru, Illinois

Maud Powell, the world renowned violinist, was born on 1112 Bluff Street, where the 251 bridge currently stands.

Saint Martial

All that is known about him may be summed up thus: Under the Emperors Decius and Gratius (AD 250-251), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges.

Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr.

Bishop Mackay-Smith House, 251 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1903–04).

Victor Clube

Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 251, 632-648, with D. I. Steel and D. J. Asher.

Weimar Classicism

# Reemtsma, Jan Philipp, “Der Liebe Maskentanz”: Aufsätze zum Werk Christoph Martin Wielands, 1999, ISBN 3-251-00453-0.


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