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unusual facts about VMSB-243


VMSB-243

On October 26, 1943 the squadron departed for the South Pacific, The flying echelon of the squadron was based out of Munda (Solomon Islands) while the ground echelon was based at Efate.


Aalsmeer Flower Auction

The auction building of the flower auction in Aalsmeer is the largest building by footprint in the world, covering 990,000 m² (10.6 million sq ft; 243 acres).

Boston and Albany Railroad

Stilgoe, John R., Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1983, pages 223-243.

Edward Brydges Willyams

Edwin Jaggard Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9, Chapter 6–8.

Edward Loranus Rice

The development of the skull of the skink, Eumeces quinquelineatus L. Journal of Morphology 34(1):120-243.

Franz Johann Joseph Bock

Baldachin-Altäre aus St. Stephan in Wien und aus der Teinkirche zu Prag; oder: wie ist es mit dem Neubaue von Altären zu halten?, In: Organ für christliche Kunst, 7 (1857), Nr. 21, 241–243 u.

Geoffrey Fisken

In October 1941, as fears of Japanese aggression increased, No. 67 Squadron moved to Mingaladon, Burma, but Fisken was posted back to Kallang to join No. 243 Squadron.

Goldschmidt House

The Goldschmidt House, also known as Casa Tres Vistas, is located at 243 Avenida La Cuesta in San Clemente, California.

Gustavus Blin Wright

On August 16, 1862, Wright won the contract to build the 47 mile (76 km) long section of the Old Cariboo Road from Lillooet to Cut-Off Valley, which connects from the Fraser River at Pavlion, over Pavilion Mountain via Kelly Lake to Clinton, British Columbia, as "47 Mile House" would become known.He was also given the option to complete the rest of the 151 miles (243 km) of construction to Alexandria, which he also undertook.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

Maier-Leibnitz: Absolute Zählrohrmessungen an γ-Strahlen, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 1, 243 (1946).

Irving Nature Park

It encompasses a total of 243 hectares (600 acres) and is sandwiched between a salt marsh and the Bay of Fundy.

Magnificat

Vivaldi composed a setting of the Latin text for soloists, choir and orchestra, also Johann Sebastian Bach in his "Magnificat", BWV 243, for the Christmas vespers of 1723.

Michael DeMichele

His biggest finish at the WSOP was in 2008, where he finished runner-up to Scotty Nguyen at the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, earning $1,243,200, earlier that same year in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, DeMichele finished 4th and earned $139,872

Middlesex, New Jersey

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), photo-journalist whose childhood home, at 243 Hazelwood Avenue in the Beechwood Heights section of the town, is listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.

Norfolk Constabulary

As of March 2009 the force had a strength of 1,668 police officers, 243 Special Constables, 277 PCSOs and just over 1,300 police staff.

Parliamentary representation from Cornwall

Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790–1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9

Paul Knobel

Paul Knobel (born 1948) is an Australian poet and the author of "An Encyclopedia of Male Homosexual Poetry and its Reception History" (2002), a CD-ROM encyclopedia of 1 million words covering 243 languages and 118 countries and with 6,300 entries.

Pegaso Z-102

Furthermore, on September 25, 1953, in Jabbeke (Belgium), a Z-102 Touring BS/2.8 (the old Barchetta used at Le Mans, 2.8 litre single supercharger), driven by Celso Fernández, broke four official R.A.C.B. (Royal Automobile Club de Belgique) worldwide records (fastest of them, 243.079 km/h (= 151.042 mph) average in the flying-start kilometer), previously owned by a Jaguar XK120.

Peter Ayerst

After a spell instructing, when he shared in the destruction of a He111 with two other instructors, he had postings with both 145 and 243 Squadrons.

Poluwat

The Japanese garrison during World War II was composed of 2,769 IJA men of the 11th Independent Mixed Regiment under the command of Colonel Tatsuo Yasui and 243 IJN men.

Pope John XI

According to Liutprand of Cremona (Antapodosis, ii. c. 48) and the "Liber Pontificalis," he was the natural son of Pope Sergius III (904–911), ("Johannes, natione Romanus ex patre Sergio papa," "Liber Pont." ed. Duchesne, II, 243).

Prusias I of Bithynia

Prusias I Cholus (in Greek Προυσίας Α' ὁ Χωλός "the Lame") (lived c. 243 BC – 182 BC, reigned c. 228 BC – 182 BC) was a king of Bithynia.

Toni Stone

During the fifty games that Stone played for the Clowns, she maintained a .243 batting average, and one of her hits was off the legendary Satchel Paige.

U.S. Route 331

It currently runs for 151 miles (243 km) from Montgomery, Alabama at U.S. Route 80 and U.S. Route 82 to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida east of Fort Walton Beach at U.S. Route 98.

Via Caecilia

A branch ran to Interamna Praetuttiorum (Teramo) and thence probably to the sea at Castrum Novum (Giulianova), a distance of about 151 miles (243 km) from Rome.

VMSB-342

Some of the squadron's pilots would go for follow on training to Boca Chica Key, Florida at the site of what today is Naval Air Station Key West.

Waubonsee Community College

The Sugar Grove campus - the first and still today the main campus of the college, is 243 acres in size and is located north of Sugar Grove on Route 47.

Willie Blount

In 1827, Blount ran for governor against Congressman Sam Houston and ex-Congressman Newton Cannon (the incumbent, William Carroll, was term-limited), but placed a distant third, winning just 1,784 votes to 44,243 for Houston and 32,929 for Cannon.


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