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3 unusual facts about Code name


Code Name: Diamond Head

The substance was being secretly created by a top battalion of Marines at the request of a Pentagon official.

Code Name: Eternity

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment announced Code Name: Eternity: The Complete series on DVD.

PENTTBOM

PENTTBOM is the codename for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into the September 11 attacks of 2001, the largest criminal inquiry in United States history.


Anechoic tile

The technology of anechoic tiles was developed by the Kriegsmarine in the Second World War, codenamed Alberich after the invisible dwarf from Germanic Mythology.

Bruce Baron

Baron also appeared as the villain in Ruggero Deodato's sci-fi actioner The Atlantis Interceptors (1983), in Code Name: Wild Geese (1984), directed by Antonio Margheriti starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski, and in Overdose (1987), by French softcore/exploitation director Jean-Marie Pallardy.

Copper Green

Copper Green is reported by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to be one of several code names for a U.S. black ops program, according to an article in the May 24, 2004, issue of The New Yorker.

Green Anarchist

Starting in 1995, Hampshire Police began a series of at least 56 raids, code named 'Operation Washington', that eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG) newsletter editor Simon Russell.

Jack Goldsmith

That day Ashcroft had ruled that Bush's domestic intelligence program, Stellar Wind, was illegal.

Operation Willi

Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to work with German dictator Adolf Hitler for either a peace settlement with Britain, or a restoration to the throne after the German conquest of Great Britain.


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A.W. Hill

Halsey took on her "first new client in years" and introduced the writer to those in her circle, including Dr. Mani Lal Bhaumik, with whom Hill developed the memoir Code Name God, and Laura Huxley, with whom he briefly collaborated on a film adaptation of her late husband's novel, The Island.

Airavat

The code name for the Airborne Surveillance Platform, a prototype/experimental Indian early warning aircraft design.

Amiga 500

The Amiga 500 - also known as the A500 (or its code name "Rock Lobster") - was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer.

Bela Gold

This is a 350+ page file describing allegations against the Golds (and many other people) by Elizabeth Bentley (code name Gregory).

CrunchBang Linux

The first letter of the code name also corresponds to the first letter of the upstream Debian release (previously Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler and currently Debian Wheezy and CrunchBang Waldorf).

Digendra Kumar

Operation Pawan was the code name assigned to operations by the Indian Peace Keeping Force to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE in late 1987, enforcing the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.

Diomid

George Blake, a British spy for the Soviet Union whose KGB code name was 'Diomid'

Écouché in the Second World War

Parachute drops took place generally near Brûlevain wood towards Rânes, ground with the code name Levite Ouest 136, and also in the valley near the Château de la Motte at Joué du Plain.At Sentilly, aircraft landed and took off straight away after collecting or dropping off a passenger, who quickly vanished into the darkness.These operations never took place in Ecouché proper, but always in the nearby countryside.

Edward Chapman

Eddie Chapman (1914–1997), British double agent code name Zig-Zag during World War II

Exercise Tiger

Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place on Slapton Sands or Slapton Beach in Devon.

Fog bank

FOGBANK, a code name given to a material used in nuclear weapons

Ford EUCD platform

2007– Ford Galaxy (code name CD340) large MPV (introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show)

Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Lady Une (voiced by Sayuri Yamauchi, and by Enuka Okuma in the English release); another former enemy of the Gundam pilots, now their ally and the head of the Preventers (code name: "Gold").

Sally Po (voiced by Yumi Touma, and by Samantha Ferris in the English release); another ally of the Gundam pilots and a member of the Preventers (code name: "Water").

Kokusai Ku-7

The Kokusai Ku-7 Manazuru (真鶴 "White-naped Crane"; Allied code-name Buzzard) was a large experimental twin boom Japanese military glider.

Major Mapleleaf

Bearing the rank of Staff Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sadler took the code name of Major Mapleleaf out of respect for his father.

Maurice Halperin

Halperin's NKVD code name was 'Hare', and he became a member of the Golos spy network operated by the NKVD's chief of American espionage operations Gaik Ovakimian.

Netscape Navigator

During development, the Netscape browser was known by the code name Mozilla, which became the name of a Godzilla-like cartoon dragon mascot used prominently on the company's web site.

Opel Speedster

Produced by Lotus at their Hethel, Norfolk factory, the Speedster carried the Lotus internal model identification Lotus 116 and the code name Skipton for the 2.2N/A version and Tornado for the 2.0 L Turbo.

Operation Rocky Top

The code name for the investigation was derived from Rocky Top, one of the state's official songs.

Outernet

He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil).

Phire CMS

The project started under the code name Phoenix, but was changed to Phire before the official release.

Post Rice Lofts

In 1962 the Rice Hotel was used for a meeting of NASA Astronaut Group 2 - The New Nine - all of whom booked in with the code name "Max Peck" as portrayed on the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

Project Silver Bug

Project Silver Bug was a code name given to an experimental saucer-shaped aircraft in the 1950s built by Avro Aircraft Ltd. in Malton, Ontario, Canada for the US military.

Sam Seaborn

"Princeton" is his Secret Service code name, and he mentions being the recording secretary of the Princeton Gilbert and Sullivan Society.

Scooby

Scooby Web Calendar, the former code name for Web-UI of the Cosmo Web Calendar project from the Open Source Applications Foundation

Scooby Web Calendar

Scooby is the code name formerly used for the Internet-based calendar user-interface for the Cosmo Web Calendar, currently being developed by the Open Source Applications Foundation.

Siméon Bourgeois

He held the rank of captain when he presented together with Bourdelle his project for the submarine Plongeur in 1858, and when he created the plans in 1860, under the code name Q00.

Solo Piano

Piano Solo, code name for an envisaged plot for an Italian coup in 1964

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

The game's existence was first revealed on GameSpot on September 9, 2009, under the code name Project Needlemouse (the name was derived from Mr. Needlemouse, an early prototype of Sonic pitched to Sega by designer Naoto Ōshima).

SS-100

SS-100-X, the United States Secret Service code name for the Presidential limousine used by President John F. Kennedy

Tachikawa Ki-92

Allied intelligence organizations such as ATAIU SEA were unaware of the existence of the Ki-92 and did not assign a code name to it.

Timestorm 2009–2099

He also meets a new generation mutant named Henri Huang (code name Meanstreak) and robot bodyguard Junkpile, as well as two other mutants in the facility: Ruth Kristen Porter (Krystalin) and Lemuel (Bloodhawk).

Toyota WISH

The Wish was developed under code name "760N" by the team, led by Chief engineer named Takeshi Yoshida and was introduced to the public for the first time at Tokyo Motor Show in October 2002 (Commercial vehicles & welcab show) and then launched in Japan in January,20th 2003, under a massive publicity campaign with Japanese singer Hikaru Utada.

Treo 650

A string inside the Bluetooth driver file indicates that another internal code name may have been "Ace Ventura", a reference to the movie of the same name.

Turkish Brigade

In 1954, a Turkish film bearing the operation code name of the Turkish Brigade (Şimal Yıldızı), directed by Atıf Yılmaz and starring Ayhan Işık, which praised the deeds of the unit was released.

Type 730 CIWS

The radar TR47C is a derivative of the EFR-1/LR66 J-band radar (NATO code name: Rice Lamp) by Xi'an Research Institute of Navigation Technology, but it is unclear that if this derivative is developed by the same institution.

W91

The design has been described as being named the "New Mexico 1" code name, and as using TATB based insensitive plastic bonded explosive and a fire resistant nuclear fissile material core or pit.

Witold Bieńkowski

Witold Bieńkowski, code-name Wencki (1906–1965), was a Polish politician, publicist and during World War II, leader of