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unusual facts about USS ''Cole'' bombing



1856 in the United States

January 26 – Puget Sound War/Yakima WarBattle of Seattle: Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

On March 22, two MV-22 Osprey, containing a payload of twenty five Recon Marines as a TRAP force, and operated by the 26th MEU operating off of the USS Kearsage recovered the pilot of a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle who ejected after an equipment malfunction.

8th millennium BC

In 2268 of Star Trek: The Original Series, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise rush to stop an asteroid from colliding with a Federation world, but discover the asteroid called Yonada is actually an inhabited multi-generation ship of millions of people.

Angels Revenge

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Lieu Chinh
Jacqueline Cole
Liza Greer
Robin Greer
Susan Kiger
Peter Lawford
Jack Palance
Jim Backus

Archerfish

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Archerfish, the first one holding the distinction of sinking the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine, the 68,059-ton Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, on November 29, 1944.

Atka Iceport

It was named by personnel of the USS Atka, under U.S. Navy Commander Glen Jacobsen, which moored here in February 1955 while investigating possible base sites for International Geophysical Year operations.

Benner

USS Benner, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Bobby Mackey's Music World

On October 30, 1992, on his show, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Mackey, his wife, Lawson, and Cole, along with Hell's Gate author Douglas Hensley and others.

Brazil Squadron

An expedition to the Falkland Islands was launched in late 1831 when the sloop-of-war USS Lexington was sent to Puerto Soledad to investigate the capture and possible armament of two American whalers.

Brendan Cole

Cole has supported several charity functions including children's anti-bullying campaigning group Act Against Bullying.

Catherine McGeoch

Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems.

Charles Knickerbocker Harley

The Arthur H. Cole Prize for the outstanding article in the Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1981-June 1982 for “British Industrialization Before 1841.He is a Professor of Economic History and an Emeritus Fellow at St Antony's College both at the University of Oxford.

Charles W. Cole

Cole was also involved with the Committee on the National Security Organization, American Cancer Society, U.S. Air Force, Merrill Foundation for the Advancement of Financial Knowledge, Educational Testing Service, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association.

Choc ice

On 14 July 2012 the term 'choc ice' became the focus of a racism row when footballer Rio Ferdinand seemingly endorsed a tweet by a Twitter user who had used the term pejoratively in criticising fellow footballer Ashley Cole, suggesting Cole was figuratively "black on the outside, white on the inside".

Cole Black

Matthew H. Gore, "The Thiry Year History of Cole Black," Cole Black Comics, vol.

Cole Hernandez

The episode titled "I Call Him Butter Feet" consisted of dancing and comedy from Rob Dyrdek, and Cole Hernandez, cameos included Adam Sevani and Johnny Knoxville.

D'Lo, Mississippi

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington which was sunk in 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea was constructed in some areas with lumber that had been milled in D'Lo.

David Geddes

David Cole Idema (born July 1, 1950), best known by the stage name David Geddes, is a soft rock singer who had a U.S. Top 5 hit with "Run Joey Run" in 1975, which peaked at #4 in October 1975.

Dominique Lefèbvre

The US Captain John Percival of the USS Constitution failed in his attempts to have him released, but managed to inform Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille who obtained his release.

Evan Peter Aurand

He remained active in civic affairs in Honolulu until his death at 71 on June 7, 1989 and was buried at sea from the USS Benjamin Stoddert off Kawaihoa Point (Koko Head), Oahu.

Frank H. Hiscock

He was born in 1856 to L. Harris Hiscock, a lawyer and assemblymen who founded the Hiscock & Barclay law firm in Syracuse, New York, and who was murdered on 4 June 1867, by General George W. Cole, a brother of Cornelius Cole.

Fruit at the Bottom

Wendy Melvoin's twin sister Susannah and Cole Ynda, Lisa's sister, contributed background vocal work to the record as well as touring extensively with their sisters.

G. Emerson Cole

After the war, Cole became a television commercial writer, director, and producer at Benton & Bowles Advertising Agency working directly under Shepherd Mead, author of the best-selling book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

George Caines

(page), while his edited versions of cases reported by William Coleman are titled Coleman & Caines' Cases, abbreviated as (vol) Cole.

Ghislain Barbe

In the videogames industry, apart from art directing console games (Teen Titans, Monster House, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings), he designed some of the newer characters of the Carmen Sandiego franchise, such as Cole Gannon and the V.I.L.E. Bots for the videogame Carmen Sandiego: The Secret of the Stolen Drums.

Holly Graf

Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63), a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet.

International Atomic Energy Agency

Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

Jennifer Cole

In addition to being a former Hawaiian Tropic model and winner of that company's swimsuit competition, Cole has either starred and/or hosted a number of shows broadcast on both network and cable television, including Sex Wars, House of Style, and Strip Poker.

John Cole's Book Shop

The cottage had housed Ellen Browning Scripps' half-sister Virginia, and La Jolla Country Day School, prior to becoming the location of John Cole's Book Shop.

Jonathan Barnett

As the player agent for Ashley Cole, in 2006 he was found guilty of two misconduct charges in relation to a meeting between Cole and Chelsea FC in January 2005, whilst Cole was still playing for Arsenal FC.

Junius Ralph Magee

He was born 3 June 1880 in Maquoketa, Iowa, the son of John Calvin and Jane Amelia (Cole) Magee.

Louis N. Stodder

In 1863 Stodder was commander of the USS Adela, a former blockade runner which was attached to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Manning Kimmel

Asakaze was sunk on August 23, 1944 off Cape Bilinao (Luzon) by USS Haddo (SS-255), and Yūnagi was sunk August 25, 1944 off N.W. Luzon by the USS Picuda (SS-382).

Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation

Other beneficiaries have included the children of those who died as a result of the bombing of the USS Cole, of the Air Force personnel killed at Khobar Towers, and of the passengers on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Mayne Island

Active Pass is named after the American survey ship USS Active, the first steam vessel to navigate the pass.

Memory Boy

The day before the single's announcement, the band played an extended version of the song with guest musicians Cole Alexander (of The Black Lips) and Adam Bruneau (of the Back Pockets) on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

Nate Cole

Cole and his bandmates appeared in a video in 2001 entitled Plus One: The Home Video that accompanied the release of their first album.

Navy Electronics Laboratory

World headlines came early in this program from several events—the submerged voyage of USS Nautilus from the Pacific to the Atlantic, via the North Pole, in 1958, and the surfacing at the pole of USS Skate the following year, both with NEL’s Dr. Waldo Lyon aboard as chief scientist and ice pilot.

Our Family Honor

She was romantically involved with Vincent's other son, Jerry (Michael Woods), who wanted out of his father's business and used the name "Jerry Cole" in order to minimize any connection with his father's family.

Peter Cole

Cole has also translated contemporary Hebrew and Arabic poetry and fiction by Aharon Shabtai, Yoel Hoffmann, Taha Muhammad Ali, Avraham Ben Yitzhak, and others.

River Cole, West Midlands

Crossing Slade Lane at a ford, the 'slade' is the Cole's black siltted boggy valley, it begins a journey through the seven kilometres, between Yardley Wood and Small Heath of the Shire Country Park.

Robert Christopher

Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

S5G reactor

This nuclear reactor was installed both as a land-based prototype at the Nuclear Power Training Unit, Idaho National Laboratory near Arco, Idaho, and on board the USS Narwhal (SSN-671); both have been decommissioned.

Terrorism in Yemen

A CIA-controlled Predator drone fired a Hellfire missile at an SUV in the Yemeni desert containing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected senior al-Qaeda lieutenant believed to have been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 Americans.

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama

The painting commemorates the Battle of Cherbourg of 1864, a naval engagement between the Union cruiser USS Kearsarge and the rebel privateer CSS Alabama.

USS Whitehead

On 1–2 March 1864, Whitehead and Southfield sailed up the Chowan River and freed USS Bombshell from her encirclement by Confederate shore batteries.

VFA-81

Their first deployment was with CVG-17 in late 1956 aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Suez Crisis.

Weapon System Safety

The United States Navy formed the Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) in 1968 as a result of the tragic fire on the USS Forrestal (CV-59).


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