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Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943

Fire-Brigade: The Battle for Kiev - 1943 (commonly abbreviated Fire-Brigade) is a Computer Wargame developed and published by Panther Games in Australia in 1988.


1st Helicopter Brigade

The 1st Helicopter Brigade was first established on March 20, 1959 by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Aviation School in the JGSDF Camp Kasumigaura in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki.

66th Military Intelligence Brigade

Members of the brigade provide mission support by utilizing databases running on computer clusters and communicate on encrypted networks, such as the NSA-certified TACLANE encrypted network.

Aden Emergency

British forces had opened fire 40 times, and during that period there were 60 grenade and shooting attacks against British forces, including the bombing of an Aden Airways Douglas DC-3, which was bombed in mid-air, killing all people on board.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Adolph Walter Rich

He helped raise funds for the relief of the several yellow fever epidemics, the 1875 Oshkosh fire, the 1889 Johnstown flood, and the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

Albert G. Blanchard

Afterwards, he was replaced by Ambrose R. Wright because of his advancing age and the desire for a younger officer to lead the brigade in the field.

Alexander S. Webb

The brigade repulsed the assault of Brig. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade of Georgians as it topped the ridge late in the afternoon, chasing the Confederates back as far as the Emmitsburg Road, where they captured about 300 men and reclaimed a Union battery.

Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Their routine was a fusion of Foxtrot, Jive and Hip Hop, and was performed to a medley of "The Third Man/Harry Lime theme by Anton Karas, "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire/Falco, "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, all of which were performed by the Dance For Europe Orchestra.

Ayodhyecha Raja

After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.

Battle of Ammunition Hill

The task of capturing the hill was given to the Israeli 3rd company of the 66th Battalion, of the Paratroopers Brigade's reserve force (55th Brigade), and during the battle, a force of the 2nd company joined the fighting.

Battle of Palmyra

An expanded Brigade group called Habforce had during the Anglo-Iraqi war advanced across the desert from Trans-Jordan to relieve the British garrison at RAF Habbaniya on the Euphrates River and had then assisted in the taking of Baghdad.

Battle of the Hotels

As a counter-move, Christian fighters of the Phalange Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia headed by William Hawi and Bashir Gemayel began to take positions between and around the main hotels, but quickly found themselves at a disadvantage as they were under constant observation and heavy machine gun fire from the Murr Tower.

Chakan: The Forever Man

The player, as Chakan, starts off in a central hub stage, from which he can select one of four elemental-based "planes" of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, each with three levels.

Channel Tunnel fire

1996 Channel Tunnel fire, a fire which burned for over seven hours on 18 November 1996.

Coonass

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban came under fire in early 2007 for using the term while speaking "off the record" to a reporter.

Corny Casanovas

The rapid fire release works well at first, but Larry and Shemp argue over who gets the next round, leading the rifle firing right at Moe's gluteus maximus.

Devil World

He navigates through a series of mazes and touches Crosses to power up and summon the ability to breathe fire and eat the dots in the maze.

Dragan Obrenović

Captain Vinko Pandurević was in command of the whole brigade involvement.

Esther Goris

Her film career started in 1983 with Los enemigos and Gracias por el fuego (Thanks for the Fire, based on Mario Benedetti homonymous novel).

Field Harris

His first assignment was for a brief period aboard the USS Nevada and subsequently was assigned to the Third Provisional Brigade at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Fire and Fame

Fire And Fame is a memoir co-written by Joerg Deisinger, former bassist and founding member of the German hard rock band Bonfire, and Carl Begai, a Canadian writer and music journalist.

Fire investigation

Also, Kirk's Fire Investigation by John D. DeHaan and David J. Icove has long been regarded as the primary textbook in the field of fire investigation.

Gerry, New York

In 2006 the Gerry Fire Dept. sponsored their 62nd PRCA Rodeo.

Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo

In May 1877, she gave birth to Rhinelander Waldo, a future Fire and Police Commissioner of New York.

Green Fire

The author of the novel Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890-1946, a South African whose great-great-grand-uncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Inflammatory

The word inflammatory is not used to refer literally to fire and flammability, but is used in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions, however in English this is not technically correct.

John Crocker

Landed at Cherbourg as the rest of the BEF retreated to Dunkirk, 1st Armoured Division unsuccessfully attacked the German bridgeheads over the River Somme before returning to Cherbourg where the remnants (including the brigade's last 13 tanks) were evacuated.

John Erasmus Blackett

He was one of the original partners of the Newcastle upon Tyne Fire Office, now part of Aviva plc.

Kainuu Brigade

Kainuu brigade (Finnish Kainuun prikaati) is a Finnish Army unit situated in Kajaani.

KSDB-FM

The only piece of music to survive the fire was the Wabash Cannonball, which became one of K-State's main fight songs.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000.

Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz

On 3 August, his reinforced brigade repulsed the attacks of Despinoy and Dallemagne near Paitone and Gavardo.

Philolaus

By nature the middle is first, and around it dance ten divine bodies - the sky, the planets, then the sun, next the moon, next the earth, next the counterearth, and after all of them the fire of the hearth which holds position at the centre.

Pierre Daura

From 1925 to 1927, Daura and Gustavo Cochet, an Argentine artist, designed and made batik material for couturiers, until fire destroyed their studio and business.

Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps

In 1862, under the auspices of the mayor of Ponce, Luis Quijano Font, the fire corps was reorganized as The Fire Services and Thomas Cladellas was appointed Fire Chief.

Radio Éireann Players

After the depredations of the war-time years and a devastating fire in the Abbey Theatre in 1951, the Radio Éireann Players' powerful weekly performances inspired interest in drama throughout the country.

Rudi Hansen

Her last film was "far til Fire, for fuld musik", where she met football player Harald Nielsen.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

San Marco Marine Brigade

Air support for the Brigade employs SH3D Sikorsky Sea King and Agusta-Bell AB 212, grouped in the "Reparto Eliassalto", formerly Amphibious Fight Team of the 4th Helicopters Group, located in Station Aircraft Grottaglie.

Sidney Clive

He died on 7 October 1959 in a disastrous fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross-on-Wye.

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

Slymenstra Hymen

On the tours for the Carnival of Chaos album, she danced to the song "Sammy," because "Horror of Yig" often followed the Slymenstra-Techno wedding section, which required at least two costume changes for Stampe; as such, the fire dance was set to "Sammy," which required none.

Sprinkler

Fire sprinkler system, the entire systems of pipes and sprinklers intended for fire suppression within buildings

STN Atlas

STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations.

The Fire Eternal

The Fire Eternal is a 2007 novel by an English author, Chris d'Lacey.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Tibetan incense

Tibetan medical theory states that everything in the universe is made up of the 5 proto-elements: sa (Earth), chu (Water), me (Fire), rLung (Wind or Air), and Nam-mkha (Space).

Volker Wieker

Upon his return to Germany, he was assigned as the operations officer of an armored brigade in Augustdorf.

Wandsworth

A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47, West Hill.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).


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