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Battle of Scimitar Hill

Scimitar Hill, which guarded the approach to this ridge from the southwest along the Anafarta Spur, had been captured unopposed by the 6th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment, on 8 August but was then abandoned.

Most of them halted in the cover of Green Hill, west of Scimitar Hill but Brigadier-General Lord Longford, led his 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade in a charge over Green Hill and up to the summit of Scimitar Hill.

As a consequence when the 1st Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers managed to capture the summit of Scimitar Hill, they found themselves under fire from the defenders higher up the Anafarta Spur to the east and from the W Hills to the south.

Exercise Tiger

The second ship which was supposed to be present, HMS Scimitar, a World War I destroyer, had been in collision with an LST, suffered structural damage and left the convoy to be repaired at Plymouth.

Judy Spreckels

:Scampering aboard a plane in Los Angeles, impulsive Judy Spreckels, 24, ex-wife of Sugar Daddy Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., was soon in Memphis and the offices of the daily Press-Scimitar.

Masak Scimitar

The Scimitar was destroyed on 22 May 2004 while flying in the US Nationals near Alexandria, Pennsylvania.

Operation Ambassador

At 17:45 the raiding force embarked upon the two destroyers, Scimitar and Saladin and accompanied by six Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launches, who would take them from the destroyers to the landing beaches, they set out for the Guernsey.

Propfan

Since the inside of the propeller is moving slower than the outside, the blade is progressively more swept toward the outside, leading to a curved shape similar to a scimitar - a practice that was first used as far back as 1909, in the Chauvière make of two-bladed wood propeller used on the Blériot XI.

Reliant Scimitar

The fifth Middlebridge Scimitar built was delivered to HRH The Princess Anne.

Sahel

The larger species have been greatly reduced in number by over-hunting and competition with livestock, and several species are vulnerable (Dorcas gazelle and red-fronted gazelle), endangered (Dama gazelle, African wild dog, cheetah, lion), or extinct (the Scimitar-horned oryx is probably extinct in the wild, and both Pelorovis and the Bubal Hartebeest are now extinct.

Studebaker Wagonaire

The Wagonaire roof design was inspired by Stevens' 1959 Scimitar concept car built in Stuttgart Germany by Ruetter for the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation.

World Association of Zoos and Aquariums

Zoo-bred animals of several species listed by IUCN as “extinct in the wild” did survive in zoos and have been reintroduced to parts of their former range in recent years (Partula spp., Père David's deer EW, Scimitar-horned oryx EW).


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