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unusual facts about Long-Term Mine Reconnaissance System


Remotely operated underwater vehicle

The AN/BLQ-11 autonomous Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) is designed for covert mine countermeasure capability and can be launched from certain submarines.


'Hours...'

The album cover, designed by Rex Ray with photography by Tim Bret Day and Frank Ockenfels, depicts the short-haired Bowie persona from the intensely energetic previous album Earthling exhausted, resting in the arms of a long-haired, more youthful version of Bowie.

1941 Amateur World Series

Pat Scantlebury pitched for the team and would go on to have a long Negro League career as well as a short stint with the Cincinnati Reds.

2007–08 Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball team

PF Ron Anderson (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), a long time AAU teammate of Beasley's, rounded out the class when he was offered a scholarship after a strong AAU showing in the Summer of 2007.

40-Mile Loop

In 1912, another city planner, Edward H. Bennett, also recommended developing a ridgetop park long the West Hills.

Abitur after twelve years

The principal argument for the reduction are the comparatively long times for vocational education in Germany.

Black Lung Benefits Act of 1973

Arnold Miller (1923–1985) a miner and long time labor activist played a big role in the struggle for this legislation.

Black-footed cat

Wuppertal Zoo acquired black-footed cats as long ago as 1957, and succeeded in breeding them in 1963.

Blu Mar Ten

Following these releases Blu Mar Ten were offered a long-term deal by LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records, which was accepted.

Boomer lit

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach has been turned into a film and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce was long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.

Camilla Henemark

On November 3, 2010,in the during of her illness that was cured by singer Agent unprejudiced the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published excerpts from a book about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, Den motvillige monarken ("The Reluctant Monarch"), claiming that he had a year-long love affair with Henemark in the late 1990s.

Centraco

The ingots, conical cylinders of about 1.5 t are considered as final waste and are sent to the Center of storage l'Aube in Soulaines-Dhuys for a long-term storage.

Clifford Bias

Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died.

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous

The series chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers looking for a planet capable of sustaining life, in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need for a new planet to welcome humankind.

Dean De Benedictis

In its long history, the event has showcased such artists as Nels Cline, Thomas Ronkin, and Richard Derrick.

Diego Bermúdez

He had long since retired from performing, due to an injury, when the Concurso de Cante Jondo was scheduled to be held in Granada during June 1922.

Doug Logan

Logan was the CEO of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking from 2008 to 2010.

Economy of Bălți

The drinking water is supplied into the pipes from a network of local artesian wells (which are insufficient) and from the river Nistru (Dnister) by a 60 km long pipeline connecting Bălți to Soroca (which is not economically feasible).

Edward Dendy

Edward Stephen Dendy (1812-1864), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms during the 19th Century

Gonzalo Bazán

After a long career in lower and some games in the Seleccion Argentina U20 debut in the first of the "Cyclone" on 4 July 2009 to Argentinos Juniors.

Guillaume Bigot

It has a long preface, addressed to Cardinal Jean du Bellay, in which he defends himself against his detractors.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

History of Federal Open Market Committee actions

Although this action was marginally successful in reducing the spread between long-term maturities and short-term maturities, Vincent Reinhart and others have suggested it did not continue for a sufficient period of time to be effective.

Hüon und Amande

It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).

Ian Kelsey

On 9 December 2009 Kelsey appeared on magazine show This Morning, talking to presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby about his upcoming stint in long-running ITV1 police drama The Bill.

Imran Ullah Khan

On graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst UK, he was commissioned into the Frontier Force Regiment on 18 September 1955 in the 12th PMA Long Course.

Isaac Jackman

Jackman prefixed a long dedication to Phillips Glover of Wispington, Lincolnshire, in the form of a letter on Royal and Royalty Theatres: it purported to prove the illegality of the opposition of the existing theatres to one just opened by John Palmer in Wellclose Square, Tower Hamlets.

Khonnor

Connor Long (born July 24, 1986) is an electronic musician from New London, New Hampshire who releases music under the name Khonnor.

Kingsmill Key

In the course of a long career he played for, among others, Surrey (whom he captained for several years in the 1890s), Oxford University, MCC and the Gentlemen.

Koil

The koil in Tamil Nadu and kovil of Ceylon has a long history and has always been associated with the ruler of the time.

Kokoda Track

John Landy, the long-distance runner, set a record of four days for the crossing using carriers and guides during the 1950s, and in 1964 Angus Henry, the art teacher at Sogeri High School with two of his students, John Kadiba and Misty Baloiloi, set a new record which was to stand until after the millennium by completing the journey in three and a quarter days without guides, carriers or any signposts or bridges.

Lamine Diarra

On 27 June 2010, it was announced that Diarra would be joining Al Shabab Al Arabi Club, on a season long loan.

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.

Mat Stevenson

He is best known for playing the long running regular role of Adam Cameron in the television soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 1994, making a return appearance in 1999.

Minnekirken

Minnekirken serves as a reminder of a neighborhood heritage long past in which Scandinavians played a significant part.

Pakington family

Their grandson, Sir John, the 4th baronet (1671–1727) was a pronounced high Tory and was very prominent in political life; for long he was regarded as the original of Joseph Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley, but the reasons for this supposition are now regarded as inadequate.

Saif Mohammed Al Bishr

Saif was finally transferred to Al Ain FC in the summer of 2008, after a long negotiation period with his previous club Al-Shaab, Al Ain finally got the youngster for 15 million AED.

Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho

After Astitva with 9 years long gap Mahesh Manjrekar directed Marathi film.This film was later remade in Tamil & Telugu as Dhoni and in Bengali as "Cholo Paltaai" starring Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Shut It

The song was released to promote the Not of This Earth album, recorded by a new line-up which featured long-term members Dave Vanian and Rat Scabies, and new members Kris Dollimore (Guitar), Allan Lee Shaw (Guitar), and Moose (Bass).

St-Gervais-et-St-Protais

On 29 March 1918, a German shell, fired by the long-range "Paris Gun", fell on the church, killing 88 people and wounding 68 others; the explosion collapsed the roof when a Good Friday service was in progress.

Star's End

Star's End was started in 1976 by Steve Pross and John Diliberto as a five hour-long evening program.

Steinebach an der Wied

Steinebach an der Wied is linked to the long-distance road network by Bundesstraße 8, which also links the community with the middle centres of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen.

Tanner Moor

A six kilometer long trail leads through the moorland, over bridges and past bogs to highlands of mountain pine (Pinus mugo), whence the entire moor can be viewed.

The Felix Culpa

After a long, quiet period, 2009 held the release of a digital EP called SoSo Remission. The release consisted of two re-worked songs and a previously unheard track and was offered up for free; the band also had a link to donate to their paypal if you felt so inclined; it was comparable to the model that Radiohead used for the release of their 7th album, In Rainbows.

The Taking of Planet 5

The Taking of Planet 5 is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon Bucher-Jones & Mark Clapham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Trot Nixon

When teammate Gabe Kapler (who often acted as Nixon's right field replacement) hit a long fly ball off of the Green Monster, the umpires ruled it a double.

UFC 76

The main event was anticipated to be Chuck Liddell versus Wanderlei Silva, a long-awaited match between the two popular former champions of the UFC and PRIDE, respectively; however, the main event featured a fight between former Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell and The Ultimate Fighter 2 alum Keith Jardine, with both fighters returning from knockout losses at UFC 71.

Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose!

Side One closes with the long progressive-rock influenced "Whaler", pairing Ronnie Montrose's acoustic guitar alongside Novi Novog's viola.

Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia

The next day they chose the Palatine Elector as their king at Rhens, though Wenceslaus refused to acknowledge this successor's decade-long reign.

Willy Polleunis

Willy Polleunis (born 27 December 1947) is a retired long-distance runner from Belgium who won the silver medal in the 3000 metres at the 1973 European Indoor Championships, behind his clubmate Emiel Puttemans.


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