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The toponym of Sámi origin "Vottovaara" is bicompound; the first part is "votto", and the second part is "vaara". In Sámi toponyms, the name usually starts with the description of the object, followed by a nomenclatural term such as lake, mountain, river, etc. [citation needed]
Karapetyan was born on May 19, 1953, in Armenia's third largest city of Kirovakan (now called Vanadzor again), then part of the Soviet Union. His family moved to Yerevan in 1964, where Shavarsh finished eight years of school and then attended a technical school for auto-mechanics.
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectuals, escape from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II.
SS Chelyuskin [2] (Russian: «Челю́скин», IPA: [tɕɪˈlʲuskʲɪn]) was a Soviet steamship, reinforced to navigate through polar ice, that in 1934 became ice-bound in Arctic waters during a navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok and sank. 111 people were on board the Chelyuskin, and all but one were rescued by air.
Air support for the rescue attempt was to be provided again by B1s, dropping precision-guided JDAMs, and supported by A-10s. [7] A widely circulated report afterwards described how only prompt action by one of the A-10 pilots avoided a further serious friendly-fire incident, when the JTAC passed the wrong GPS coordinates to the B1 crew for ...
A journalist, Alexander Cann, was dropped into the site to document the rescue attempt, and the interactions with the native people. On May 26, two paratrooper medics from the U.S. Army’s 1st Filipino Regiment parachuted near the crash site to care for the survivors before leading them on a 10-mile trek down the mountain.
Christina Soontornvat (Thai: คริสติน่า สุนทรวัฒน์; born 1980) is an American author, educator, and mechanical engineer.She won two Newbery Honors in 2021 for the children's books A Wish in the Dark and All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team (fiction and nonfiction, respectively), and another Newbery Honor in 2023 for the ...
In 1914–1915 Otto Sverdrup led a search-and-rescue expedition aboard the ship Eklips in the Kara Sea on behalf of the Russian Imperial Navy. He aimed to find two missing arctic expeditions, those of Captain Brusilov on the Svyataya Anna and Vladimir Rusanov on the Gerkules , but found no trace of either.