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unusual facts about Pathfinder



92d Operations Group

On 15 September 1943, the 92d BG was moved to RAF Podington (Station 109), near Wellingborough in Bedfordshire when the decision was made to take Alconbury off operational bombing missions and change the airfield's mission to pathfinder and radar-guided bombing with the 482d and 801st Bomb Groups.

Beazer

While the pathfinder prospectus was still being circulated, Beazer received a rescue bid from Hanson plc.

Dual Survival

For the first two seasons the show featured the differing outdoor survival philosophies and skills of Cody Lundin, a naturalist and primitive-skills expert who runs the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Arizona and Dave Canterbury, a military-trained survival instructor who runs the Pathfinder Training School in Ohio.

Holden Hurricane

Other features included Pathfinder, an early style of GPS, which acted in conjunction with magnetic signals built into the road to guide the driver.

Karl Palmgreen

From 1939 to 1941 he was commander of the Sperrbrecher (Mine Sweeper; Pathfinder) IX and I and thereafter until 1943 chief of the 4th Sperrbrecherflottille, followed by service positions as head of the 36th Minensuchflottille, German Chief of Staff to the Italian admiral in the Italian Navy Command, 1st class admiral staff officer at the 2nd Sicherungsdivision and head of the 38th Minensuchflottille.

Lead ship

The same custom is often followed in fiction: the Constitution-class cruiser is the basis for the Enterprise of Star Trek (although in Star Trek the term pathfinder is also occasionally used in lieu of lead ship) and the Imperial-class Star Destroyer appears in Star Wars.

NASA Pathfinder

Major science activities of Pathfinder missions have included detection of forest nutrient status, forest regrowth after damage caused by Hurricane Iniki in 1992, sediment/algal concentrations in coastal waters and assessment of coral reef health.

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

Ngee Ann Secondary School

Construction works for PRIME have been fully completed in late 2010.Besides being name as the COE of ICT, the school have achieve names such as Microsoft Mentor School, Microsoft Pathfinder School and Microsoft Living Lab by CEO of Microsoft.

Nicole Muñoz

Muñoz has also played small roles in big-budget movies shot in Canada in including Fantastic Four, Pathfinder, Another Cinderella Story Center Stage: Turn It Up and the Dwayne Johnson starrer, Tooth Fairy.

Operation Savanna

This SOE mission, requested by the Air Ministry, was to ambush and kill as many pilots as possible of the Kampfgeschwader 100, a German Pathfinder formation stationed at Meucon airfield which spearheaded night raids on Britain.

Pathfinder International

In 2012, Purnima Mane joined Pathfinder as President and CEO, after serving as Deputy Director of United Nations Population Fund.

The pioneering family planning work, however, began decades earlier in the late 1920s when Pathfinder founder, Clarence Gamble, heir of the Procter & Gamble soap company fortune, supported efforts to introduce contraception to women and couples in the United States and 60 other countries.

RAF Trimingham

Oboe worked using two stations at different and well-separated locations in England to transmit a signal to a Mosquito Pathfinder bomber carrying a radio transponder.

Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Soon after, she assisted in the founding of the Family Planning Association of Iran which, with assistance from the Pathfinder Fund (now Pathfinder International), attempted to educate young mothers on family planning and the use of birth control in accordance with Islamic law.

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840.

Wichita Collegiate School

Wichita Collegiate School chemistry teacher Janice Crowley received the Milken Family Foundation Educator Pathfinder Award for leading her students in investigating a carcinogenic source of breast cancer in area fast food restaurants.

Winter Fantasy

The 2013 convention included Pathfinder Society games run by Paizo Publishing in addition to Wizards of the Coast organized play events.


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