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American Standard Brands is a North American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, based in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. Since 2013, it has been a subsidiary of the Lixil Group . [ 1 ] The company was formed from American Standard Americas , the North American operations of the kitchen and bathroom division that were previously owned by ...
The plumbing division, Standard Sanitary, would continue to sell their products under the "Standard" label until 1967, when the company changed its name to American Standard Corporation. The American Standard label was used for both divisions from that year on. In 1929, American Standard bought the Kewanee Toilet Boiler Company, which it kept ...
An American teenager with psychological issues heavily wounded both his parents in a sword attack at their home in the U.S. settlement of Pattonville. Police unsuccessfully used tear gas, then shot the attacker when he charged at the officers while wielding two daggers, who dying at the scene from his wounds.
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Silhouette of the original study for the Vulcan B.3 patrol missile carrier. In 1960, the Air Staff approached Avro with a request into a study for a patrol missile carrier armed with up to six Skybolt missiles capable of a mission length of 12 hours. Avro's submission in May 1960 was the Phase 6 Vulcan, which would have been the Vulcan B.3.
The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" [N 1] is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules.
An American trekked there and claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess. Blue Desert Following the Egypt–Israel peace treaty , the United Nations gave several tons of blue paint to a Belgian artist, so he could commemorate it by painting a line of boulders in the Sinai Desert blue.
Henry The Great(16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry V, Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422. Despite his relatively short reign, Henry's outstanding military successes in the Hundred Years' War against France made England one of the strongest military powers in Europe.