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Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.
Maps Printed on Silk, Barbara Bond, Map Collector, No. 22, 1983, pages 10–13. Cloth Maps of World War 2, John G. Doll, Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol 20, No.1, Nov 1988, pp24–35. US Navy Handkerchief Charts of World War 2, John G. Doll, UNKNOWN PUB, pp 190–192. The Making of Military Maps, William H. Nicholas, National ...
By the end of the Polish Defensive War the Soviet Union had taken over 52.1% of the territory of Poland (circa 200,000 km 2), with over 13,700,000 people.The estimates vary; Professor Elżbieta Trela-Mazur gives the following numbers in regards to the ethnic composition of these areas: 38% Poles (ca. 5.1 million people), 37% Ukrainians, 14.5% Belarusians, 8.4% Jews, 0.9% Russians and 0.6% Germans.
Queen's Battery in 1908, showing the excellent view of the entrances of the Derwent River. The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships.
The British joke is said to have been laid to rest when "peace broke out" at the end of the war, and countries agree to a joke warfare ban at the Geneva Convention. [3] In 1950, the last copy of the joke is sealed under a monument in the Berkshire countryside, bearing the inscription " To the Unknown Joke ".
MV Tassie III (S-77) was a 120-ton steel motor vessel, which was requisitioned by the United States Army during the Second World War. She was carrying 80 tons of condemned ammunition when she was wrecked 28°38′20″S 153°36′50″E / 28.638795°S 153.613906°E / -28.638795; 153.613906 while sheltering at the jetty at Byron Bay ...
The Australian swim team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games were issued training swimsuits with a stylised design featuring maps of Australia, along with kangaroos and emus. The animals obscured Tasmania, and the design was criticized for leaving Tasmania off the map. Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman called the omission "un-Australian and ...
National Grid maps began to be issued after the war, but it was some time before there was full coverage. In the interim, the public were allowed to purchase War Office Cassini Grid maps. [1] National Grid maps at 1:25,000 scale (often referred to as 2 1 ⁄ 2 inches to the mile, or just 2 1 ⁄ 2-inch maps) were not introduced until as late as ...