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11 unusual facts about Lend


Abadan Airport

During World War II, Abadan Airport was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States.

Bangor Air National Guard Base

Godfrey AAF prepared and maintained the Lend-Lease aircraft that would be flown by AAC Ferrying Command to RCAF Stations in Newfoundland for eventual transport to Britain.

Daggett, California

The airport was built as a modification center for the Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber aircraft that were sent to Russia as part of the Lend-Lease program during World War II.

Lend

Lend, Austria, a town in the district of Zell am See in the state of Salzburg

Loan to allow someone to have possession of something on the understanding that it is later returned in the same or equivalent form

Lend-Lease

New Zealand supplied food to United States forces in the South Pacific, and constructed airports in Nadi, Fiji.

The Gander Air Base (RCAF Station Gander) located at Gander International Airport built in 1936 in Newfoundland was leased by Britain to Canada for 99 years because of its urgent need for the movement of fighter and bomber aircraft to Britain.

Lend-Lease Sherman tanks

The British practice of naming American tanks after American Civil War generals was continued, giving it the name General Sherman after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, usually shortened to Sherman.

Ling Po

Ling Po left war-torn China to work in America, in 1945, under provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.

Markovo, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

During World War II an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian (ALSIB) air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.

Presque Isle Air Force Base

Together with Dow AAF in Bangor, the mission of Presque Isle was the delivery of Lend-Lease aircraft to Great Britain and as an Embarkation point for overseas movement of Army Air Forces personnel and equipment.


1924 Winter Olympics

At the closing of the games a prize was awarded for a sport that did not lend itself very well for tournaments: Pierre de Coubertin presented a prize for alpinisme to Charles Granville Bruce, the leader of the expedition that tried to climb Mount Everest in 1922.

20 Comedy Hits

The sixth to ninth tracks were taken from the album Classic Ray Stevens, the tenth to thirteenth tracks from #1 With a Bullet, and the last seven from Lend Me Your Ears.

Aaron Stainthorpe

In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to a song with Sarah Jezebel Deva's new band Angtoria.

Albert Frost

He also served on the board of the state-owned British Airways – but was generally wary of nationalised industries, and took more persuading to lend his skills to British Leyland (BL), the strike-torn car maker.

Albufera Sauce

Escoffier gives a recipe in Le Guide culinaire which consists of a base of Suprême Sauce to which is added meat glaze in order to lend the latter an ivory-white tint which characterizes it.

Apollo Lunar Module

According to George Low, Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, this was because NASA was afraid that the word "excursion" might lend a frivolous note to Apollo.

Beside Myself

The album was also his last for MCA Records before he moved to Curb Records for his next studio album, 1990's Lend Me Your Ears.

Centre national de formation des Scouts et Guides de France

In 1952, the Chateau de Jambville was purchased by the "Scouts de France" after the new owners of castle of Chamarande, the previous training center, decided to not ever lend the castle to the scouts.

Congressional caucus

CMOs may not use the frank, nor may a Member lend his or her frank to a CMO.

Conor Lenihan

PZ Myers, on his Pharyngula blog, expressed shock that a Minister of State with special responsibility for Science would lend support to such a book.

Curse tablet

Frequently, such curse tablets are also inscribed with additional, otherwise meaningless "curse" words such as Bazagra, Bescu, or Berebescu, seemingly in order to lend them a kind of supernatural efficacy.

Deviationism

Immediately after the Pact, Georgi Dimitrov, chief of the Comintern, sent a ciphered message to Browder explaining that the CPUSA’s line supporting the Pact was not fully correct because while it broke with President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of supporting Britain, France, and Lend-Lease aid, it failed to take the additional step of breaking with FDR’s domestic policies as well.

European Year of Intercultural Dialogue

When Marija Šerifović appeared to lend her support to the Serbian Radical Party, which favours closer cooperation with Russia rather than the EU, the Commission threatened to remove her from the unpaid ambassadorial post.

Falco Lombardi

A variety of voice actors lend their voice to the character in the English language releases, but Hisao Egawa portrays Falco in all Japanese language releases.

First Age

Versions of these stories were later published in The Silmarillion, and tales from this period lend a deep sense of time and history to the later period in which the action of The Lord of the Rings takes place.

Flanimals

Gervais will executively produce the film and also lend the voice to the lead character, while The Simpsons writer Matt Selman will write the script.

Hugh Scott

During his tenure in the House, Scott established himself as a strong internationalist after voting in favor of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, foreign aid to Greece and Turkey, and the Marshall Plan.

Independent software vendor

The companies that make the platforms, such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Google, Oracle, Apple, SAP and salesforce.com encourage and lend support to ISVs, often with special "business partner" programs.

Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods

Williams created a new group of characters to lend the new run of DH Jones comics in its own tone, but also used Brody, who is his favorite element of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

John Wilson McConnell

During World War II, after the United States Lend-lease program was launched in March 1941, fellow Canadian businessman Max Aitken, the then volunteer British Minister of Aircraft Production, asked McConnell to help finance the training of pilots such as Jackie Cochran in the United States to ferry American-built aircraft across the Atlantic.

Lend Lease Residential Development

Lend Lease Residential Development (formerly Crosby Lend Lease or Crosby Homes, trading as Lend Lease) is the British residential development division of the Australia-based global property developer Lend Lease.

Markus Johansson

For A Lethal Dose of Truth, Sylencer's album, Johansson produced and called on some of hard rock and metal's most gifted musicians to lend their chops to the recordings.

Michael Tchong

, Tchong enlisted noted basketball player Dennis Rodman to lend excitement to the online marketing arena.

Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma

The only actors from the films to lend their voices were Ving Rhames, to the character of Luther Stickell, and actor John Polson, to the character of Billy Baird, reprising their roles from Mission: Impossible II.

Tom Cruise, the actor that portrays Hunt in the movies, does not lend his likeness nor his voice acting to the character in the game.

Nansenhjelpen

It was a professor of German at the University of Oslo, Fredrik Paasche, who approached architect Odd Nansen, the son of famed scientific explorer and Nobel Peace laureate Fridtjof Nansen to lend his name to an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews.

Netherlands Naval Aviation Service

The Royal Netherlands Military Flying School was established in the United States, at Jackson Field (also known as Hawkins Field), Jackson, Mississippi, operating lend-lease aircraft, training all military aircrew for the Netherlands.

Non-belligerent

The economic support given by the Americans was through the Lend Lease Program which saw the United States provide the United Kingdom "all possible assistance short of war" in the words of Winston Churchill, but they remained a non-belligerent state in the war until President Roosevelt formally declared war on Japan following the attacks on Pearl harbor.

Nycole Turmel

From 1992 onwards, Turmel acted as one of the PSAC leaders helping to coordinate and officially lend the union's support to the United Way's Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign.

Opus Dei and politics

Felzmann, on saying these things, is being inconsistent with a testimony he wrote in 1980 saying that Escrivá is "a saint for today." (Documentation Service Vol V, 3, March 1992) They claim that former members, called "apostates" by their former organization, often lend their voices to coalitions fighting their previous religious organizations (see Dr. Bryan R. Wilson).

Otto III, Count of Waldeck

The deed mentions that they received in 1000 guilders in return, plus he village of Twiste in the Twistetal valley, plus an annual sum, and that they had also lend Louis I 1000 guilders — a relatively small sum for the renunciation of their rights to such a large inheritance.

Patterson Park

The American defenses were far stronger than anticipated, and U.S. defenders at Fort McHenry successfully stopped British naval forces from advancing close enough to lend artillery support, and British attempts to flank the defense were countered.

Pig Business

The film in altered form then made its UK debut at the Barbican on 20 May 2009, with Zac Goldsmith on hand to lend support.

Politics of the United States during World War II

Foreign Economic Administration under Director Crowley, formed September 1943 from the Office of Economic Warfare, the Office of Lend Lease Administration, and the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations.

Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership

Created in 1999 by the Heritage Canada Foundation, the award is named for Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, who agreed to lend his title as he has personal interests in architecture and inner-city renewal.

Republic P-43 Lancer

An additional 125 P-43A-1s were ordered for China through the Lend-Lease program, originally intended to equip the Third American Volunteer Group (AVG).

The Lend-Lease aircraft were delivered to China through Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group, the "Flying Tigers".

Roger Tubby

During the war, he was in the Board of Economic Warfare and when that became the Foreign Economic Administration, a combination of BEW and Lend-Lease, he became assistant to the administrator, Leo Crowley.

Roy H. Park

In the late 1940s, the Grange approached Park to find a way to market their excess food products; Park approached well-known food critic Duncan Hines to lend his name to a brand of packaged food products.

Sambad Kaumudi

In the prospectus for the Sambad Kaumudi, published in English and Bengali in November 1821, Ram Mohan appealed to his countrymen to lend him "the support and patronage of all who feel themselves interested in the moral and intellectual improvement of our countrymen".

Sather Tower

--Professor "of" Greek?-->Greek Isaac Flag, "We ring, we chime, we toll, / Lend ye the silent part / Some answer in the heart, / Some echo in the soul." The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10,500 pound "Great Bear Bell," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

Silent protagonist

A silent protagonist may be employed to lend a sense of mystery or uncertainty of identity to the gameplay, or to help the player identify better with them.

There Is a Happy Land

It is also a favorite song of Krazy Kat, the main character from George Herriman's eponymous newspaper comic strip (1913-1944), where the song's opening verse is often willingly misspelled as "There is a heppy lend fur fur away... sic".

USS Bentinck

One ship of the United States Navy under a lend lease program has been named Bentinck in honor of John Bentinck.

Zambry Abdul Kadir

After three state assemblypersons from the Pakatan Rakyat coalition announced their intention to support a BN candidate for Menteri Besar, and to lend their support to a vote of no confidence in the incumbent Pakatan Rakyat Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak requested Nizar's resignation and swore in Zambry as the new Menteri Besar on 6 February 2009.