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VMM-263

During the nine-month deployment as part of the 24th MEU in 2002-2003, the Thunder Chickens, as they were then known, flew an unprecedented 9568 hours and participated in Operation Enduring Freedom in the Horn of Africa, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in and around Baghdad, Tikrit, and Al Kut, Iraq.


1948 Democratic National Convention

In the absence of three dozen Southern delegates who walked out of the convention with Thurmond, 947 Democrats voted to nominate Truman as their candidate (against 263 for Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia).

Apurímac Region

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Audioslave discography

The follow-up, 2005's Out of Exile, topped the Billboard 200 chart, and sold 263,000 copies in its first week.

Bundesautobahn 671

It begins as a continuation of Mainzer Straße (Bundesstraße 263) in Wiesbaden from its junction with A 66 and connects the center of the Hessian capital city with A 60.

Congo at the Olympics

The youngest participant was Alphonse Yanghat, who ran in the 100 m sprint in 1972 at 15 years, 120 days, while the oldest was Gilles Coudray (36 years, 263 days) who competed in the 50 metres freestyle swimming event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Dulwich, South Australia

Dulwich, named after the settlement in the London Borough of Southwark, has its origins in Section 263 of the Adelaide region as laid out by South Australia's first chief surveyor, Colonel William Light.

Embedded hypervisor

VirtualLogix appears to take the position that an approach based on a dedicated Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) would be even smaller and more efficient.

Firhill Stadium

The stand was constructed in 1994 with a capacity of 6,263 and is named after former Thistle player Jackie Husband.

Fox, Arkansas

Fox is the home to Rural Special School, although the school is located two miles away from the town center at 13237 Highway 263.

Fu Qian

In 263, during the campaign on Shu by the rival state of Cao Wei, Fu Qian was sent into battle to resist the enemy.

Guanting, Minhe County

Local legends accounted that the name came from the famous general, Guan Yu (关羽), who stopped by in the area on his way to look for his sworn brother, Liu Bei, the founder of the Shu Han Kingdom (221-263) in the southwest, after having left Cao Cao of the Cao Wei Kingdom (220-265) in China proper.

Japan National Route 263

National Route 263 is a national highway of Japan connecting Sawara-ku, Fukuoka and Saga, Saga in Japan, with a total length of 48 km (29.83 mi).

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.

John Home

The tragedy of Douglas was suggested to him by hearing a lady sing the ballad of Gil Morrice or Child Maurice (FJ Child, Popular Ballads, ii. 263).

Kentucky Route 263

Until recent years, KY 263 extended northwest for another 1.5 miles to a ferry site at the confluence of the Barren and Green Rivers.

When the ferry service that provided service to bordering Butler County across the rivers was recently discontinued, the final 1.5 miles of KY 263 reverted to county maintenance.

Liu Shan

Liu Shan eventually surrendered to Wei in 263 after Deng Ai led a surprise attack on the Shu capital Chengdu.

London Buses route 236

Today's 236 traces its history back to an "independently operated" route 263, which commenced operation on 1 April 1926 between London Fields and Leyton (Essex Cricket Ground) via Albion Road, Victoria Park Road, Hackney Wick, Eastway, Leyton, Grove Green Road.

Messerschmitt Me 263

The two projects also got names - the Ju 248 Flunder (Flounder) and the Me 263 Scholle (Plaice).

Minnesota State Highway 263

Minnesota State Highway 263 is a highway in southwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Martin County Road 8 in Ceylon and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate 90 near Welcome, nine miles west of Fairmont.

Operation Karbala-5

26:263 Despite their losses, the Iranian high command issued a statement, claiming capture of 155 km2 (60 sq mi) of enemy-occupied territory and the Iranian town of Shalamcheh;12 the destruction of 81 Iraqi brigades and battalions; the destruction of 700 tanks and 1,500 other vehicles; the downing of 80 Iraqi warplanes; the destruction of 250 anti-aircraft guns and 400 pieces of military hardware; the capture of 220 tanks and armoured personnel carriers; and 40,000 enemy dead.

Pang Hui

According to the Record of Shu (蜀記) by Wang Yin (王隱), after Shu Han was conquered by Cao Wei in 263, Pang massacred the descendants of Guan Yu to avenge his father.

Paraho process

The semiworks unit achieved a maximum throughput capacity of 290 tons (263 tonnes) of raw oil shale per day.

Parliamentary records of the United Kingdom

Since stricter standing orders were introduced, the longest back-bench speech was given by Ivan Lawrence on 5-6 March 1985 speaking for 263 minutes against the Water Fluoridation Bill.

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).

Pennsylvania Route 263

What is now PA 263 was originally built as part of the Old York Road, a road established in the 18th century to connect Philadelphia to New York City.

Posse Comitatus Act

The original provision was enacted as Section 15 of chapter 263, of the Acts of the 2nd session of the 45th Congress.

Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah

Some scholars (I.H. Weiss, Dor iii. 263-264; and Adolf Jellinek, in a letter to Theodor, reprinted in Monatsschrift, 1879, pp. 237 et seq.), moreover, have assumed a direct connection between such ancient discourses and the present Canticles Rabbah, regarding this midrash as an old collection of these discourses, increased by various later additions.

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport

16 June 1955: a Panair do Brasil Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation registration PP-PDJ operating flight 263 from São Paulo-Congonhas to Asunción hit a 12m tree while on final approach to land at Asunción.

SNCF Class Y 7400

The first 120 were built by Decauville, with further batches built by De Dietrich (105) and Moyse (263).

The Blue Knight

VMM-365 or the "Blue Knights", a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron

Theora

More recently however, Xiph developers have compared the 1.1 Theora encoder to YouTube's H.264 and H.263+ encoders, in response to concerns raised in 2009 about Theora's inferior performance by Chris DiBona, a Google employee.

VMM-161

This climb into the history books began back in August 1995 and culminated with a ground crew appreciation flight over the Hoover Dam and the Las Vegas Strip.

Immediate preparations were begun, and the Squadron used its December deployment to Indian Springs, Nevada to train for the conditions that would be faced during OIF II.

VMM-162

During March 1957, six Marines of the squadron were awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor for their gallant conduct in the recovery operations at the scene of the death of President Ramon Magsaysay on Cebu Island.

VMM-166

On 5 May 2009 a SuperCobra belonging to the squadron crashed at 1154 hrs PST into the Cleveland National Forest, California.

VMM-261

During the deployment, the main body of the 22nd MEU participated in two major operations: Operation Guardian Retrieval, operating out of Brazzaville, Congo; and Operation Noble Obelisk, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which resulted in the evacuation of more than 2,500 American citizens and foreign nationals.

VMM-264

The squadron returned to flood ravaged North Carolina and provided real world contingency operations in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the citizens of North Carolina.

Over a two-month period the Black Knights supported Marines and the U.S. Embassy over long distances in austere, inclement conditions from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

VMM-266

On January 4, 1991, the squadron arrived in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, and provided assault support in the form of Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP), troop movement, casualty evacuation (CASEVAC), and re-supply missions.

VMM-365

During the deployment, the Blue Knights supported Operation Decisive Endeavor in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Operation Silver Wake, the Non-combatant Evacuation of the American Embassy in Tirana, Albania.

Wang Yuanji

Wang Yuanji's prediction came true later as Zhong Hui started a rebellion in 263 after helping Wei conquer its rival state Shu Han.


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