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unusual facts about VMF-215



113 Squadron

VMF-113 (Marine Fighter Squadron 113), a unit of the United States Marine Corps

1924 Cuba hurricane

The next day, the storm reached hurricane status about 130 mi (215 km) southeast of Cozumel, Quintana Roo.

Agesipolis

Agesipolis III (died 183 BC), the last Agiad king of Sparta, 219 to 215 BC

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Battle of Dertosa

The Battle of Dertosa, also known as the Battle of Ibera, was fought in the spring of 215 BC on the south bank of the Ebro River across from the town of Dertosa.

Battle of Hefei

Battle of Xiaoyao Ford, also known as the Battle of Hefei, fought between Sun Quan and Cao Cao between 215 and 217

Bob Wise

In one instance, the state issued $215 million in grants to spur $1 billion investment in projects, such as the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Cabela's, the Marshall University Biotechnology Development Center and the West Virginia High Technology Consortium.

Captain goes down with the ship

February 7, 1943: Commander Howard W. Gilmore, captain of the American submarine USS Growler (SS-215), gave the order to "clear the bridge," as his crew was being attacked by a Japanese gunboat.

Casetas

Casetas is situated in the northwest corner of the municipality of Zaragoza, at 215 m (705 ft) of altitude, it borders Sobradiel on the north, Garrapinillos on the south, Utebo on the east and Pinseque, Alagón and La Joyosa on the west.

Dick Anthony

B. D. Zablocki and Thomas Robbins, University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8020-8188-9: 215–317

Elena Tonetta

In the first round they were too strong for the team from Chinese Taipei, beating them 215–211.

Emergency Relief and Construction Act

The Brooklyn Navy Yard received an allotment of $880,000, marked for specific projects such as $215,000 for repairs and the maintenance of roofs, waterfront quays and docks, and Yard's railroad system.

Epiphanes

Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 215–164 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire

Freemans

A year later, newly named Freemans of London moved to larger premises at 215 Lavender Hill, Wandsworth.

Gladys

The launch name used for USA-215, an American reconnaissance satellite operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office

Hasdrubal Gisco

Hasdrubal Gisco was sent to Iberia with an army following the defeat of Hasdrubal Barca at the Battle of Dertosa in the spring of 215 BC.

Jasmine Yeong-Nathan

At the 2008 AMF World Cup, the then 20-year-old student from Singapore Polytechnic defeated the defending ladies champion Australian Ann-Maree Putney in straight sets (263-222 and 298-215) to become the first Singaporean to win an AMF World Cup title.

Jasper McLevy

The 24-year-old idealist first ran for the Connecticut General Assembly under the Socialist banner in 1902, collecting a grand total of 215 votes.

Jon Sieben

-- Michael Groß article says 202/215. --> He also faced the 100 m butterfly world record holder, the United States' Pablo Morales.

Jose Rubin Statham

Statham had his best victory to date when he defeated Pablo Andújar of Spain, who was ranked number 215 at the time, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of qualifying for the Heineken Open in January 2007.

Kory Sheets

Kory Sheets finished the season with 1,598 rushing yards, 215 yards behind Jon Cornish who led the league with 1813 rushing yards.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

There is a cheap facsimile edition of another contemporary book in which he polemized with the author, albeit it was no printed at the time of the morisco´s war in the Alpujarra by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: GUERRA DE GRANADA (FACSIMIL, edition of 1842), de HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO , 15.0x21.0 cm , 215 pages , softcover, ISBN 978-84-9761-157-2

McKenzie River Corporation

On August 14, 2006, Miller Brewing announced it had completed the purchase of Sparks and Steel Reserve brands from McKenzie River Corp. for $215 million.

Meteorological history of Hurricane Ivan

After reaching hurricane status, Ivan began to rapidly intensify with continued favorable conditions, and in an 18 hour period the pressure dropped 39 mbar (1.15 inHg) as the winds increased by 60 mph (95 km/h); early on September 6 Ivan attained an initial peak intensity of 135 mph (215 km/h) while located about 825 miles (1330 km) east of the island of Tobago in the southern Lesser Antilles.

Molecular electronic transition

Benzene has three aromatic π → π* transitions; two E-bands at 180 and 200 nm and one B-band at 255 nm with extinction coefficients respectively 60,000, 8,000 and 215.

Moses Mielziner

In 1857 he was called as principal of the religious school to Copenhagen, where he remained until 1865, when he was called to the rabbinate of the Congregation Anshe Chesed in New York ("New Yorker Staats-Zeitung," 1865, No. 215).

Munda Airport

The first American aircraft landed at Munda on August 14, 1943 with landings by F4U Corsairs piloted by Robert Owen of VMF-215, a 44th Fighter Squadron (44th FS) P-40 Warhawk and a J2F Duck with Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy aboard.

Norco, California

According to the City of Norco, the major area employers are Corona-Norco Unified School District with 5,215 employees, California Rehabilitation Center with 1,146 employees, and Naval Surface Warfare Center with 1,010 employees.

Presentational and representational acting

A good example is the line spoken by Cleopatra in act five of Antony and Cleopatra (1607), when she contemplates her humiliation in Rome at the hands of Octavius Caesar; she imagines mocking theatrical renditions of her own story: "And I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness in the posture of a whore" (5.2.215-217).

Robert Steiner

Steiner was loaned out twice to Queens Park Rangers and once to Walsall before he was signed permanently by QPR for £215,000.

Salisbury, Missouri

Floyd B. Parks -- U.S. Marine aviator who earned the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions leading Marine fighter squadron VMF-221 during the Battle of Midway.

Soviet submarine Shch-215

On 20 June 1942, south of the mouth of the Sulina branch of the Danube Delta, Shch-215 attacked the German minesweepers FR 1 and FR 11 with two torpedoes at the vessels, both of which missed.

On 16 April, midway between Constanța and Sevastopol, Shch-215 attacked a German convoy.

Superior rectus muscle

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Ulmus 'Homestead'

The cultivar arose from a 1970 crossing of the Siberian Elm Ulmus pumila (female parent) with the hybrid N 215 ('Commelin' × (U. pumila var. arborea × U. minor 'Hoersholmiensis')), the latter grown from seed sent in 1960 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison elm breeding team by Hans Heybroek of the De Dorschkamp Research Institute in the Netherlands.

Utah State Route 171

Between about SR-154 and Market Street (near 2700 West and I-215), dedicated bus lanes for UTA's 3500 South MAX bus rapid transit line run in the median.

VMA-223

VMF-223 left the island on October 16, 1942 having accounted for 110½ enemy aircraft shot down including that of Japanese ace Junichi Sasai.

VMA-231

The squadron served in a reserve status as VMF-231 in Akron, Ohio and Grosse Ile Township, Michigan until they were deactivated on August 31, 1962.

VMF-113

VMF-113 was reactivated sometime after the war and was stationed at Naval Air Station Olathe, Kansas along with VMF-215.

VMF-155

In April 1943, with their training complete, a detachment from the squadron was ordered aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) to participate in the invasion of Attu in the Aleutian Islands.

VMF-222

On January 11, 1945, the squadron, along with other from MAG-14, landed on the island of Guinan in the Philippines.

VMF-413

In July 1944, VMB-413 began operating from Munda from where they began to raid both Kahili and Choiseul on a regular basis until October 18, 1944 when they moved to Emirau.

VMF-441

By March 1944 the squadron was again on the offensive conducting raids against Mili and Jaluit.

VMFAT-501

In October 1954, VMF-451 upgraded to the North American FJ-2 Fury, and adopted the name "Warlords", redesigning their unit insignia to feature a jet punching through a Carling beer label and sporting the motif, "Vini, Vici" meaning "we conquered some wine" as opposed to "Veni, Vici" which means "I came, I conquered".

Wat Phra Kaew

While legend traces this statue to India, its rich historical records dates its finding in Cambodia in the 15th century, moved to Laos in the 16th century and then to Vientiane where it remained for 215 years, and finally to Thailand in the 18th century.

Western Desert Campaign

According to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the approximately 215,000 Italians in Libya faced approximately 35,000 British in Egypt.

Zaranj

The 215-km long highway, a symbol of India's developmental work in the war-ravaged country, was handed over to Afghan authorities by Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in January 2009 in the presence of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta.


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