X-Nico

4 unusual facts about XIII


Fokker D.XIII

It was a development of the Fokker D.XI with a new powerplant and considerably refined aerodynamics, and had been designed to meet the requirements of the clandestine flying school operated by the German Army at Lipetsk in the Soviet Union.

James Armand Meissner

Now flying a SPAD S.XIII fighter, he scored four more kills, one of which was an observation balloon, and another of which was shared with Ralph O'Neill.

Lipetsk fighter-pilot school

In light of the events of the Ruhrkampf, the German Army ordered 100 new aircraft from Fokker in the Netherlands, among them 50 newly developed Fokker D.XIIIs.

The Conspiracy

XIII: The Conspiracy, a 2008 film directed by Duane Clark, starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff


1917 New Zealand rugby league season

Railway XIII included Ces Dacre, who later represented New Zealand at cricket.

1987 Winter Universiade

The 1987 Winter Universiade, the XIII Winter Universiade, took place in Štrbské Pleso, Czechoslovakia.

Antipope Benedict XIV

In 1417, the Council of Constance resolved the Schism, proclaiming Martin V the new Pope and demanding that Benedict XIII renounce his claim.

Apostolici

Apostolici Ministerii was a papal bull issued 23 May 1724 by Pope Innocent XIII for the revival of ecclesiastical discipline in Spain.

Ab Apostolici was a papal encyclical promulgated by Leo XIII on 15 October 1890.

Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad

Colonel Khalil Pasha's XIII Corps, composed up of 35th and 52nd Infantry Divisions, moved down river to block any advance by the Tigris Corps.

Bernhardt Line

Meanwhile, inland of V Corps, Orsogna had suffered three successive assaults but XIII Corps spearheaded by 2nd New Zealand Division could not get past the defending 26th Panzer Division.

Biblical accommodation

In the Epistle to the Hebrews (xiii, 5) the words spoken to Josue, "I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Jos., i, 5), are applied to all Christians.

Brigade de la Légion Rey Alfonso XIII

The Legion Brigade "King Alfonso XIII" (BILREG) is a regiment of the Spanish Legion comprising 2 tercios with elements in Viator (Almeria) and Ronda (Malaga)

Carl II

Charles XIII of Sweden or Carl II, King of Norway (and of Sweden as Carl XIII) (1748–1818)

Coagulation factor XIII, A1 polypeptide

Coagulation factor XIII, A1 polypeptide has been shown to interact with F13B.

Collagen, type XXIII, alpha 1

Collagens XIII, XVII, and XXV, and related proteins such as class A macrophage scavenger receptors, ectodysplasin A or the MARCO1 receptor, are also part of this group.

Concino Concini

The Concinis' chattels and estates, in particular the castle of Lésigny and the palace of Rue de Tournon, were confiscated by King Louis XIII and given to Charles de Luynes.

Epicrates of Ambracia

Two plays of Epicrates, Emporos (Merchant) and Antilais (Against Lais), are mentioned by Suidas (s. «.), and are quoted by Athenaeus (xiv. p. 655, f., xiii. pp. 570, b., 605, e.), who also quotes his Amazones (x. p. 422, f.) and Dyspratos (Hard to Sell) (vi. p. 262, d.), and informs us that in the latter play Epicrates copied some things from the Dyspratos of Antiphanes.

Evangelii Gaudium

The main source is the Propositions of the synodal fathers of the XIII assembly of the Synod of Bishops, cited 27 times.

Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy XV (originally known as Final Fantasy Versus XIII) was announced in the same year as XIII and Type-0.

Gabiniani

At this time at the latest the Gabiniani joined the party of Ptolemy XIII and his three influential guardians and advisors, Pothinus, Achillas, and Theodotus of Chios.

Grahame-White Type XIII

The Grahame-White Type XIII was a racing seaplane built to compete in the Daily Mails 1914 Circuit of Britain air race, to be flown by company founder Claude Grahame-White.

Hamilton Coolidge

On October 27, 1918, he was killed in action, his SPAD S.XIII taking a direct hit from a German anti-aircraft shell near Grandpré, Ardennes.

Heinkel HD 37

It had been designed for the clandestine air force that the Reichswehr was training at Lipetsk, but had been rejected by German officials, who purchased the Fokker D.XIII instead.

Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz

Heinrich XIII married on 9 January 1786 in Kirchheimbolanden to Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Nassau-Weilburg (1765–1837), fourth child and second daughter of Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and his wife, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre

Becoming mestre de camp (equivalent to the modern rank of colonel), Henri II gained glory fighting the Spaniards at Hesdin on 29 June 1639 and, as a reward, Louis XIII made him maréchal de camp.

John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania

Johann Friedrich together with his brother, Barnim XII, received the Teilherzogtum Pomerania-Stettin, while his other brothers, Ernst Ludwig and Bogislaw XIII, received Pomerania-Wolgast and Casimir VI received the bishopric of Cammin, which he took over from Johann Friedrich in 1574.

Juan III

Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913–1993), third surviving son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

Mary Feik

She restored antique and classic aircraft and has participated in the construction of reproduction World War I aircraft, helping restore the National Air and Space Museum’s 1910 Wiseman-Cooke aircraft, a WWI Spad XIII fighter, Betty Skelton's Little Stinker and a 1930 Northrop “Alpha” mail plane.

Mirae Caritatis

Leo XIII's encyclical has been subsequently cited by Popes Pius XII and Paul VI in their own teaching documents, respectively Mediator Dei and Mysterium fidei.

Mountainhood

Chapter XIII: Arthurdesh - MV + EE, Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) and the Ether Frolic Mob, Jack Rose, Jana Hunter & TJO, quad (Helen Rush, PG Six, Samara Lubelski, Bob Bannister), Sharon Van Etten, Mountainhood, Headdress, White Hills

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

In March 2008 she was elected conseillère générale of the Rhône department in the cantonal elections with 58.52% of the votes in the second round, under the banner of the Socialist Party in the canton of Lyon-XIII.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Stanza XIII of the Hymn portion of this poem was set by Stephen Paulus in the second movement - "Ring Out! Ye Crystal Spheres" - of his 1990 work "Canticum Novum".

Operation Crusader

XIII Corps comprised 4th Indian Infantry Division (commanded by Major-General Frank Messervy), the newly arrived 2nd New Zealand Division (commanded by Major-General Bernard Freyberg) and the 1st Army Tank Brigade.

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

On 20 September 1415, the Emperor met with Pope Benedict XIII at the palace with the King Ferdinand I of Aragon and the delegations of the Counts of Foix, Provence, Savoy, Lorraine, the embassy of the Roman church for the Council of Constance, and embassies from the Kings of France, England, Hungary, Castille and Navarre.

Papal conclave, 1922

His social encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno {Forty Years After), continuing the ground-breaking social policies of Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum, demanded the end of social inequalities while providing bases for fair working conditions and a just living wage for employees.

Parmalim

In his book "Toba na Sae; Sejarah lembaga sosial politik abad XIII-XX ( Jakarta: Komunitas Bambu, 2004) the Indonesian poet Sitor Situmorang describes the encounter between Guru Somalaing and Elio Modigliani who later wrote a book about his journeys into the independent Batak lands in his book "Fra i Batacchi indipendenti; Viaggio di Elio Modigliani" (1892 Roma: Società Geografica Italiana).

Pope Clement XIII

Clement XIII placed the Encyclopédie of D'Alembert and Diderot on the Index, but this index was not as effective as it had been in the previous century.

Pope Leo XIII and Russia

Relations improved further, when Pope Leo XIII, due to Italian considerations, distanced the Vatican from the Rome- Vienna, Berlin alliance and helped to facilitate a rapprochement between Paris and St. Petersburg.

Pope Pius V

An article by Agostino Paravicini Bagliani on L'Osservatore Romano of 31 August 2013 states that the earliest document that speaks explicitly of the Pope wearing white is the Ordo XIII, a book of ceremonies compiled in about 1274 under Pope Gregory X.

Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII

Port-Vendres Côte Rocheuse XIII are a French Rugby League club based in Port-Vendres, Pyrénées Orientales in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Regular polyhedron

When these solids were all discovered and by whom is not known, but Theaetetus, (an Athenian), was the first to give a mathematical description of all five (Van der Waerden, 1954), (Euclid, book XIII).

Ron James

Ronald James, Welsh rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s for Commonwealth XIII, and Halifax

Saint-Cannat

In the thirteenth century, villagers turned on their archbishop and pledged allegiance to the Lord of the Baux-de-Provence, and then to the Kings of Sicily (namely, Frederic III of Aragon, or perhaps Louis XIII).

Saint-Juéry XIII

Saint-Juéry XIII, nicknamed the Scorpions, are a French Rugby League club based in Saint-Juéry, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Thomas Jefferson Conant

He translated and edited Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar (1839; 1877)—and criticized a competing translation by Moses Stuart—and published revised versions with notes of Job (1856), Genesis (1868), Psalms (1871), Proverbs (1872), Isaiah i.xiii.

Urban the Ninth

A Catholic comic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I (successor of Leo XIV and Pius XIII) dies in an air crash.

Walter Major

License-built in Poland by the state-owned Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (as the PZInż. Major 4), the engine was used in, among others, Zlin Z-XIII, RWD-11 and one of the PWS-35 Ogar prototypes.


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