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War of Nerves

: This article is about the All Saints single "War of Nerves", not to be confused with the Mr Ronz album A War of Nerves.


1995–96 Port Vale F.C. season

Despite a brace from Foyle, the Serie B side were the 5–2 victors, former Italian international Gennaro Ruotolo scoring a hat-trick.

Air Foyle HeavyLift

In 1985 Air Foyle took delivery of the first production Edgley Optica OA7 aerial observation aircraft.

Air Foyle Heavylift was not only responsible for the sales and marketing of charters and leases of Antonov's fleet of Antonov An-124-100, Antonov An-225 and Antonov An-22 heavylift cargo aircraft, but also for their complete commercial and operational management.

In 1994 Air Foyle won a contract to operate one Lockheed L-100 Hercules and one Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft on permanent 24/7 standby for Oil Spill Response Ltd, to provide immediate response on a worldwide basis in the event of a major oil spillage.

Crown and Anchor

Crown and Anchor is one of the dice games played in the British detective series Foyle's War, episode 15, "Casualties of War."

David Arch

Arch toured with Paul McCartney in support of his Memory Almost Full album, and has contributed to the soundtracks of The Queen, the film Harry Potter series, Bridget Jones's Diary, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Foyle's War and The King's Speech.

David Thacker

He has directed more than 30 TV productions, including episodes of The Vice, Silent Witness, Foyle's War and Waking the Dead.

Foyle Bridge

It crosses the River Foyle to the north of the city, and forms only the second of three bridges linking the city centre to the Waterside, the others being the Craigavon Bridge and the Peace Bridge walkway.

Foyle's War

Later in the seventh series, Sam has a new love interest, Adam Wainwright, played by Max Brown, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker who proposes to her in that series' final episode.

There are some running strands, mainly involving the career of Foyle's son Andrew (played by Julian Ovenden), a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, or Foyle's continuing relationships with cameo characters.

She becomes fond of American Private Joe Farnetti (Jonah Lotan) but turns him down when he asks her to marry him, though the relationship appears to have continued until sometime after D Day, since she complains in "Broken Souls" that he "ran off with some French girl".

Foyles

Christopher Foyle was also, from 1978 until 2008, the chairman and CEO of aviation companies Air Foyle & Air Foyle HeavyLift, was chairman and later Deputy President of the Air League, was a Trustee of the Foyle Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Essex.

Inishowen

Then as the road heads South along Lough Foyle it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the Village of Muff where the road turns right and heads back to Bridgend where the journey started.

Londonderry railway station

In 2010, the Minister for Regional Development, Conor Murphy, mooted the possibility of building a new railway station that would connect the railway with a planned foot and cycle bridge across the Foyle, bringing it closer to the centre of the city.

Lough Foyle

In 1792 the four-mile Strabane Canal was constructed from the tidal waters of Lough Foyle at Leck, to Strabane.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

Madeleine Worrall

She also appears in Bunny and the Bull, premiered at the 2009 London Film Festival, and as a guest artist in many British television series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War, alongside David Tennant.

Marie-Louise Muir

From there, she went on to present her own programmes on BBC Radio Foyle, including the daily show 3 To 5 Live and Look West and, for BBC Radio Ulster, the Sunday morning programme This New Day.

Mechanised Transport Corps

Despite the appearance of the character Samantha Stewart in the television series Foyle's War there is no evidence that any MTC member was ever seconded to a police force.

Muirceartach Ua Peatáin

Payton states that most of the Cenél Moen families were driven out of their homeland and east over the Foyle river - "This journey was probably completed by the end of the 13th century, and the O Gormley's, chiefs of the Cinel Moain, thereafter held sway over a territory which extended from Derry to Strabane."

Nicholas Woodeson

He has guest starred on series such as Miami Vice, Midsomer Murders, A Touch of Frost, Foyle's War, and Poirot.

Richard Henders

He has also appeared in dramas such as Pie in the Sky, Foyle's War and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Henders played the role of Merry in the 2006 musical production of The Lord of the Rings in London.

Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly

The only nominee was William Hay, DUP member for Foyle and he was elected unopposed.


see also

66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

One flashback scene of the film, set in 1936, sees Rina and Michaili, in what appears to be an alpine setting in Europe, escaping being bombed by Nazi planes, despite the date preceding the aerial warfare of the Second World War.

Abermule

The composer Peter Warlock, the pseudonym of Peter Heseltine lived at Abermule before and after the First War.

Anne E. DeChant

Examples include Girls and Airplanes (gender equality), Green Hand (supporting troops post-war), Swastika (Holocaust denial), 25 (imbalance in economic status), and Second Class Citizen (prejudice and intolerance toward the gay community).

Battle of Hill 60

Illowra Battery otherwise known as Hill 60, is a World War II fortification, in Port Kembla, New South Wales

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

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.

Benjamin Alvord

Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I

Brian Schwager

The 'Ares' nickname came from his days of playing the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game, where his character was called 'Ares' (also known as the Olympian God of War).

Bruce Chadwick

His first American Civil War book, Brother Again Brother: The Lost Civil War Diary of Lt. Edmund Halsey (Citadel Press, 1997), was followed by the dual biography of the Civil War’s leaders, Two American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, 1861 1865 (Citadel, 1999), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

C.E. Humphry

After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.

Caius Bruttius Praesens

He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.

Chiasm

Optic chiasm, the part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross

Communist Action Organization in Lebanon

Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process,no that was no Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, p. 67.

Dominic Waghorn

He worked there for almost five years, during which time he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the aftermath of the War in Lebanon, and the Arab Spring.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

Heinz Reinefarth

After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag.

Holborn tube station

The pre-war operation of the station and the branch line features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by enemy agents sees them repeatedly using the station's escalators, passageways and the shuttle service.

Honor Bound

Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin

Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford

In 1282, war with Wales broke out again; this time it would not be simply a punitive campaign, but a full-scale war of conquest.

Japanese War Crimes: Murder Under The Sun

According to Hulu, "Over 14 dreadful years between 1932 and 1945, Japan went on a rampage of war and atrocity beyond comprehension."

John Everingham

During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand — when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing, which led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.

Karl Hanke

During the waning months of World War II, as the Soviet army advanced into Silesia and encircled Fortress (Festung) Breslau, Hanke was named by Hitler to be the city's "Battle Commander" (Kampfkommandant).

Kouprasith Abhay

General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.

Kubi Indi

In 1989 she produced I Am the Future, a film about a young woman (played by Stella Chiweshe) who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas.

Larry Catá Backer

“The CCP was not merely a vanguard party, but for a long time a revolutionary party. Even after the end of the civil war, the CCP continued to think of itself as outside the apparatus.” Therefore, in terms of the relationship between the CCP and the state, there was a lengthy process of internalization where the Party as an outsider became internalized into the state through its Mass Line.

Lithuanian resistance

Lithuanian partisans, resistance against Soviet regime after World War II

Lord Kitchener

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.

Maffett

Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

Margaret Wade Labarge

She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.

Nickajack Cave

Soon after the war started, the operation at Nickajack Cave was taken over by the Confederate government.

Over Here!

The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Sylvia Pankhurst

After the post-war liberation of Ethiopia, she became a strong supporter of union between Ethiopia and the former Italian Somaliland, and MI5's file continued to follow her activities.

Tadhg Ó Cellaigh

Rudhri was defeated, and Fedlim "plundered the officers of Ruaidri O Conchobair and seized the kingship of Connacht from Assaroe (Assaroe Falls) to Slieve Aughty himself .. and took hostages of the Clann Cellaig." Forced to submit, Tadhg now accompanied Fedlim, who switched sides and proceeded to wage war against his former allies, the Anglo-Irish of Connacht.

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

Thaddäus Haenke

The Mulovsky expedition was prevented from leaving the Baltic by the outbreak of war with Sweden in 1787.

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The son of a former Iranian ambassador, French-Iranian journalist and war correspondent Freidoune Sahebjam has also reported on the crimes of the Iranian government against the Bahá'í community in Iran.

The Torrents of Greed

Stone notes to Schiff (Steven Hill) that he fears a family war, resulting in many murders.

Vladimir Estragon

Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.

William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton

He held no military commission during the Civil War but was an active Commissioner of Array and garrisoned Brereton.

Wyre Piddle

It was the home village of Claude Choules, who was born in Pershore on 3 March 1901 and became the last surviving male veteran of World War I.

X-files unit

It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.

Yanks Air Museum

Aircraft displayed from the Inter-War period include the Ryan Brougham, American Eagle A-101 and Swallow TP.

Yuri Dolgorukov

Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin