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VMFA-314

In the 1996 science fiction film Independence Day, Will Smith plays a U.S. Marine Corps pilot from VMFA-314, Captain Steven Hiller, stationed at MCAS El Toro.


Albin Vega

A 36 year old Albin Vega sailboat, christened the St. Brendan in honor of the 6th-century Irish explorer monk, was used by Matt Rutherford of Annapolis, Maryland in his successful 314 day, 27,077 mile solo circumnavigation of North and South America which was officially completed on April 18, 2012, when Rutherford crossed the start and finish line -- the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel outside of Norfolk, Virginia .

Ancient Diocese of Vaison

The oldest known bishop of the see is Daphnus, who assisted at the Council of Arles in 314.

Area code 506

Moncton: (506) - 204 227 229 232 233 314 378 380 381 382 383 384 386 387 388 389 588 777 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 830 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 866 867 869 870 871 872 874 875 877 878 893 899 961 962 980 988

Bagratuni Dynasty

According to Prince Cyril Toumanoff, the earliest Bagratid prince was chronicled as early as AD 314.

Benton, Tennessee

Benton is centered around the junction of U.S. Route 411, which connects the town to Etowah to the north and Tennga, Georgia to the south, and Tennessee State Route 314, which connects Benton to Parksville and the Ocoee Dam area to the southeast.

Caeionius

Gaius Caeionius Rufius Volusianus (255 – after 321), a Consul of Rome in February, 311 and March, 314, etc.

Cecil Travis

His career batting average of .314 is a record for AL shortstops, and ranks third among all shortstops behind Honus Wagner (.327) and Arky Vaughan (.318).

Danie Keulder

He also participated in a not-so crushing defeat by the Netherlands, which saw Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk and Feiko Kloppenburg score 255 of the 314 runs between six batsmen in 50 overs, including a 228 second-wicket partnership.

Dimasaua

5650, Peillard in footnote 118 on page 314 and footnote 154 on page 317 assert Mazaua is in the latitude calculated by The Genoese Pilot at 9° north and that Mazaua was in fact part of Mindanao ("Elle en fait partie, en realite". It Mazaua forms part of it Mindanao).

Engelberg Codex

A recording with 18 pieces from the codex entitled Engelberg 314 by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) was published in 1990 by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (DHM), the label of Sony BMG predominantly devoted to preclassical music.

Frank L. Pinckney

After leaving Dundee, Pinckney joined the Illinois militia as a sergeant in with the 314 motor supply train in the American Expeditionary Forces serving in France.

Heinrich von Kittlitz

He provided the museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg with 754 specimens of 314 bird species, including species that subsequently became extinct.

Heraclea Minoa

Hence it is probable that the treaty between Dionysius and the Carthaginians which had fixed the Halycus as the boundary of the latter, had left Heraclea, though on its southeast bank, still in their hands: and, in accordance with this, we find it stipulated by the similar treaty concluded with them by Agathocles (314 BC), that Heraclea, Selinus, and Himera should continue subject to Carthage, as they had been before.

Himera

Thus, in 314 BCE, Diodorus tells us that, by the treaty between Agathocles and the Carthaginians, it was stipulated that Heracleia, Selinus and Himera should continue subject to Carthage as they had been before.

Jackson Pollard

Jackson Pollard (December 15, 1866/December 25, 1869? — October 25, 1995) was an American longevity claimant (128 years, 314 days) He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, as a farmer's son.

Jesuit China missions

According to research by David E. Mungello, from 1552 (i.e. the death of St. Francis Xavier) to 1800, a total of 920 Jesuits participated in the China mission; of whom 314 were Portuguese, and another 130 were French.

Judith Fox

Fox's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida.

Marine Wing Support Squadron 373

In addition personnel were deployed on aircraft carriers in support of three separate VMFA Squadrons.

Michael C. Wholley

Upon returning to the United States, he was assigned to VMFA-251 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort as a pilot, and later, and as the legal officer to Marine Aircraft Groups 31 and 32.

National League Division One in 2005

Middlesex Crusaders used their home batting paradise at Southgate to good effect, smashing Nottinghamshire Outlaws bowlers to all corners as they amassed 314 for 7 in 45 overs – Paul Weekes top-scoring with a run-a-ball 106, while Irishman Ed Joyce pushed the accelerator in the final overs with an 18-ball 41 including six boundaries.

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in 2005

Middlesex Crusaders used their home batting paradise at Southgate to good effect, smashing Nottinghamshire Outlaws bowlers to all corners as they amassed 314 for 7 in 45 overs - Paul Weekes top-scoring with a run-a-ball 106, while Irishman Ed Joyce pushed the accelerator in the final overs with an 18-ball 41 including six boundaries.

Penitential canons

The relative penitential canons are contained in the canonical letter of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (about 263; P. G., X, 1019), the Councils of Ancyra (314), Neocaesarea (314-20), Nicaea (325), and the three canonical letters of St. Basil to Amphilochus (Ep. 188, 199, 217 in P. G., XXXII, 663, 719, 794).

Rathausball-Tänze

The first is not so consequential as it marked Strauss incorporation of many snatches of his famous The Blue Danube waltz op. 314 resulting in the entire Coda (tail-piece) being dominated with anticipation of the waltz proper as is Strauss incorporation of Haydn's Austrian hymn Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser into various sections of the Coda.

Schmiddis

Two bridges cross the Schmiddis, one for the state road 314, and a second one close to the mouth of the stream near the retention basin Rappenbach.

Selinunte

The Halycus, which was established as the eastern boundary of the Carthaginian dominion in Sicily by the treaty of 383 BCE, seems to have generally continued to be so recognized, notwithstanding temporary interruptions; and was again fixed as their limit by the treaty with Agathocles in 314 BCE.

Synod of Ancyra

The Synod of Ancyra was an ecclesiastical council, or synod, convened in Ancyra (modern-day Ankara, the capital of Turkey), the seat of the Roman administration for the province of Galatia, in 314.

The Memoirs of Dolly Morton

Donald Serrell Thomas, "A long time burning: the history of literary censorship in England", Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969, p.314

Thomas R. Morgan

Reassigned to Quantico, he entered the Command and Staff College, completing the course in June 1966.Morgan was ordered to Marine Aircraft Group 32, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina in July 1966, where he served as Group Operations and later as Commanding Officer, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312.

VMFA-121

During the Korean War the Squadron insignia depicted Al Capp's "WolfGirl" from the comic strip Li'l Abner.

The squadron also fought from the forward air bases of Espirito Santo, Turtle Bay, Bougainville, and Emirau.

VMFA-232

Early in the Nimitz deployment, several of the squadron members were interviewed for the PBS documentary Carrier.

VMFA-251

From January to April 1994, the Thunderbolts flew close air support missions while deployed to Aviano, Italy supporting Operation Deny Flight in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Thirteen months later on July 1, 1946, VMF-251 was reactivated at Grosse Ile, Michigan as a ready-reserve squadron.

VMFA-312

During the cruise, VMFA-312 participated in Operations Southern Watch from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, then Operation Sharp Guard and Operation Deny Flight from the Adriatic Sea.

VMFA-333

It was during this deployment that the squadron got its only air to air kill when Major Lee T Lasseter, USMC along with his RIO, Capt. John D. Cummings shot down a MiG-21 over North Vietnam, near Hanoi.


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