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2 unusual facts about Lublin R-XVIII


Lublin R-XVIII

Lublin R-XVIII (otherwise known as Lublin R.XVIII) was a Polish heavy bomber design created by Jerzy Rudlicki of the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin.

The Lublin-based Plage i Laśkiewicz works presented in 1929 the Lublin R–XVIII, while Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów submitted PWS-22 and PWS-23.


Fiat justitia ruat caelum

In De Ira (On Anger), Book I, Chapter XVIII, Seneca tells of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, a Roman governor and lawmaker, when he was angry, ordering the execution of a soldier who had returned from a leave of absence without his comrade, on the ground that if the man did not produce his companion, he had presumably killed the latter.

Francisco Gómez-Jordana, 1st Count of Jordana

Broadly speaking, the XVIII and XIX Military Academies in Spain had been located traditionally at Toledo, Infantry, 1850, Segovia, Artillery, 1764, Alcalá de Henares, Engineers, 1803, Valladolid, Cavalry, 1852.

Goncourt brothers

They published books on aspects of 19th-century French art and society (e.g., Portraits intimes du XVIII siecle), dismissing the vulgarity of the Second Empire in favour of a more refined age.

Hermann von Liebenau

1873–1875 „Urkunden und Regesten zur Geschichte des St. Gotthardpasses“, Archiv für schweizerische Geschichte, XVIII-XX

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

With this agreement from the Holy Alliance, on 28 January 1823 Louis XVIII announced that "a hundred thousand Frenchmen are ready to march, invoking the name of Saint Louis, to safeguard the throne of Spain for a grandson of Henry IV of France".

International Organizations Immunities Act

The 79th United States Congress passed the International Organization Immunities Act on December 29, 1945; the Act can be found under Title 22, chapter 7, sub-chapter XVIII.

John D. Altenburg

As the Staff Judge Advocate, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg he deployed to south Florida in 1992 for humanitarian relief operations after Hurricane Andrew.

Jungle Mahals

In 1805, Regulation XVIII was passed whereby the areas known as Jungle Mahals was separated from the jurisdiction of the Magistrates of the districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Midnapore and placed under a Magistrate of Jungle Mahals.

Lublin R-X

After evaluation by the Polish Air Force, the R-Xa won the contest for a liaison plane in December 1929, over PWS-5t2 and PZL Ł.2, having the shortest take-off and landing, good handling at low speed and satisfactory performance, but the factory was ordered to develop design further.

Lublin R-XII

The Lublin R-XII was the Polish three-seat sports and touring plane, designed in 1930 in the Plage i Laśkiewicz factory in Lublin, that remained a prototype.

Lublin R-XVI

All R-XVIb's were used from 1935 by the Polish Red Cross (PCK), which operated military ambulances in Poland.

Methodius of Olympus

Among the editions of his works are: P.G., XVIII; Jahn, S. Methodii opera et S. Methodius platonizans (Halle, 1865); Bonwetsch, Methodius von Olympus: I, Schriften (Leipzig, 1891).

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Nompar

Anne Nompar de Caumont, countess of Balbi (1753–1832), mistress of the count of Provence, who later became Louis XVIII

Persifor Frazer Smith

New International Encyclopedia, Vol XVIII, New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Restauration

Bourbon Restoration, the restoration of the French monarchy under Louis XVIII.

Sergio María

Sergio María, known by his supporters as Gregory XVIII (born in Mula, Murcia, Spain), is the current Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church.

Strategic Army Corps

STRAC and the XVIII Airborne Corps provided the Army forces to the Navy's CINCLANT as unified commander during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Selected paintings by the 18th-century artists from the Gallery collection include the 'Portrait of the Lee Family' by Joseph Highmore, 'David Garrick in 'The Provoked Wife' by Johann Zoffany, 'Portrait of Erasmus Darwin' (1792) by Joseph Wright of Derby, 'Apotheosis of Penelope Boothby' by Henry Fuseli, 'Arrival of Louis XVIII at Calais' by Wolverhampton-born Edward Bird.


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