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2 unusual facts about TH-495


TH-495

TH-495 was a infantry combat vehicle being proposed by German-based Thyssen-Henschel for NATO countries, but it was primarily being pitched to the Canadian Forces and the then government of Brian Mulroney in the 1990s.

The lobby process for this vehicle by Karlheinz Schreiber and the involvement of Mulroney has led to a public inquiry The Oliphant Commission.


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1977–78 Football League

Manchester United broke the British transfer fee record on 9 February by paying Leeds United £ 495,000 for Scottish defender Gordon McQueen.

Aimpoint CompM2

A variant known as the ECOS-N (NSN: 1240-01-495-1385) is also issued as part of the U.S. SOPMOD kit.

Antenna amplifier

Belden 1829AC Coax - Series 6 has a loss of 4db/100 feet at 500 MHz (TV Channel 18)- 495.250

Beihai Park

In Beihai Park, one could find Taihu rocks shipped from the Henan province and a variety of art collections ranging from jade jars from the Yuan-era to a collection of 495 steles bearing inscriptions by trees of hundreds of years old.

Beltway bandits

(The entire road is officially called Interstate 495, although the eastern half is cosigned with Interstate 95, which traverses most of the East Coast.)

Castaic Dam

The 1,495 MW (Nominal) Castaic Power Plant is located at the upper end of the West arm of Castaic Lake.

Darfur Peace and Accountability Act

The Darfur Accountability Act (S. 495) was introduced on 2 March 2005, by former Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ).

Extreme points of Russia

The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan, and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan, at 7,495 m.

Forest Heights, Maryland

The Capital Beltway (I-95/495), which was opened in the early 1960s and which includes the Woodrow Wilson Bridge that connects Oxon Hill to Alexandria, Virginia, is directly south of the town.

Heaton Park Metrolink station

Local daytime Maytree Travel bus service 495 operates between Prestwich village and the nearby rural village of Simister and First service 484 runs from Prestwich village to Kersal, Agecroft, Pendlebury, Swinton, Monton and Eccles.

John Akpata

In 2004, Akpata ran in the federal constituency of Ottawa South, where he won 495 votes.

Kimberley West railway station

It was built in 1882 for the Midland Railways Basford to Bennerley Junction branch, at a cost of £2,495 15s 7d, designed by Charles Trubshaw who went on to become a major railway architect.

Maryland Route 192

There, the highway has a four-way intersection with Seminary Road, which continues southeast across I-495 (Capital Beltway), and Linden Lane, which heads southwest across an at-grade crossing of the rail line toward the redeveloped National Park Seminary and the U.S. Army's Forest Glen Annex.

Metabotropic glutamate receptor

LY-341,495 and MGS-0039 are drugs that act as a selective antagonist blocking both of the group II metabotropic glutamate receptors, mGluR2 and mGluR3.

North Chevy Chase, Maryland

It lies immediately south of the Capital Beltway (I-495) just to the east of the interchange with Connecticut Avenue (MD 185).

Shock jock

April 8, 2004: Howard Stern's show was cancelled by Clear Channel Communications after they were fined $495,000 USD for a number of statements made during a Stern show.

Skandagupta

Skandagupta died in 467 and was succeeded by his half-brother Purugupta (467–473), Kumaragupta II (473–476), Budhagupta (476–495?) and Narasimhagupta, whose kingdom in the plains of Northern India was continuously attacked by the Hunas.

Snow Leopard award

In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are 3 Snow Leopard peaks, Ismail Samani Peak (formerly Communism Peak) 7,495 m (24,590 ft), Peak Korzhenevskaya 7,105 m (23,310 ft), and Ibn Sina Peak (formerly Lenin Peak) 7,134 m (23,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.

Socket 495

This socket is a 495 pin CPU socket designed to house any processor in the Socket 495 package.

Virginia HOT lanes

At the left is the I-495 interchange with Route 123 and the elevated ramp access to the HOT lanes from Route 123 (Tysons Corner), in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Weber State Wildcats

Weber State's Men's basketball team (852-495), long hailed as a powerhouse in the Big Sky Conference, acquired new head coach Randy Rahe for the 2006-2007 season.

Westford, Massachusetts

By the 1990s, Westford was home to offices for Red Hat, Samsung, Seagate, Iris Associates, Visual Solutions, and many other technology firms, most located along Massachusetts Route 110, parallel to I-495.


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