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unusual facts about Silos


Gonzalo de Berceo

These three are saints have a strong regional attachment: Aemilian, a Visigothic saint, was patron of the nearby monastery; Dominic, 11th century abbot of Silos and one of the most important saints in thirteenth-century Iberia, was born in the town of Cañas, near to Berceo; and Aurea was an anchoress who lived in the monastery of San Millán during the late eleventh century.


90th Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile Launch Sites

In November 1982, in a decision statement for Congress, President Ronald Reagan stated his plan to deploy the MX missile (later designated the LGM-118 Peacekeeper) to superhardened silos located at Warren.

Ace Combat: Joint Assault

As the IUPF prepares to attack the silos, Antares Squadron is hired to pilot Andre Olivieri's personal Boeing 747-200B over Valahia-controlled territory.

Air Force Plant Peter J. Kiewit and Sons

HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs were liquid-fueled rockets using LOX/RP-1 propellant which required the missiles to periodically be removed from the launch silos for servicing.

Buffer stock scheme

One such store run by "High Post Grain Silos" leased eighteen unused aircraft hangars at the former Bitteswell airfield and filled them with over 250,000 tonnes of feed wheat.

Chelsea Clock Company

In postwar 1946, the United States Air Force created its Strategic Air Command (SAC) and equipped each if its bombers and nuclear missile silos with Chelsea clocks.

Daniel Liwimbi

In August 2010, Liwimbi stated that 40% of Malawi's grain was lost in the post-harvest period, and announced government plans to construct grain silos in Mzuzu with capacity for 25 thousand metric tones of grain.

Fulton Allem

By the time he came into the world, his family had the largest corn farm in the southern hemisphere and the only privately owned grain silos in South Africa.

Hamilton City, California

The large silos of the former Holly Sugar Plant (formerly served by California Northern Railroad) are visible from all over town.

Lambro

Despite the implementation of sewage treatment, overall water quality remained poor, until the major disaster of 23 February 2010, when unknown criminals poured into the river, near Villasanta, the contents of several silos containing oil and other hydrocarbons, all belonging to a company named "Lombardia Petroli".

Norwegian rocket incident

The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, which included an air corridor that stretches from Minuteman-III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, all the way to the Russian capital city of Moscow.

Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

Satellite photos allegedly reveal an underground city and nuclear silos with Ghauri rockets in Al-Sulaiyil, south of the capital Riyadh.

Silo

Quaker Square, Akron, Ohio, United States, is a former set of tower silos that is now a hotel, restaurants and shops

Social media

Tim Berners-Lee contends that the danger of social networking sites is that most are silos and do not allow users to port data from one site to another.

Tourism in Mauritania

With its rich silos, its irrigated agriculture, Tichitt were visited caravans and merchants from Hodh, from Tagant but also of North Africa and Black Africa.

Weird NJ

Past issues have covered everything from the Jersey Devil and UFO sightings to abandoned Nike missile silos, the legend of the "Hookerman" Lights and the life of Zip the Pinhead.


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