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  2. Castle Koon - Wikipedia

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    The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The "dry" two-stage device was known as "Morgenstern" and had a highly innovative secondary stage. It was tested on April 7, 1954.

  3. Beaches Resorts - Wikipedia

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    Beaches Resorts is an operator of all-inclusive resorts for couples & families in the Caribbean, founded in 1997. [1] Beaches Resorts and Sandals Resorts are part of Sandals Resorts International (SRI) which is a parent company to five resort brands across seven countries.

  4. Samuel Hall Lord - Wikipedia

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    For a while the Government of Barbados was proposing a buy-out. On 20 October 2010 Sam Lord's Castle was gutted by a major fire. [3] [4] The castle and surrounding property were eventually acquired by the Wyndham Hotel Group. Construction on a new resort started in 2017. [5] Architect's plans show the castle walls stabilized as a preserved ruin ...

  5. Fizzle (nuclear explosion) - Wikipedia

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    Such fizzles can have very high yields, as in the case of Castle Koon, where the secondary stage of a device with a 1 megaton design fizzled, but its primary still generated a yield of 100 kilotons, and even the fizzled secondary still contributed another 10 kilotons, for a total yield of 110 kT.

  6. Tripadvisor - Wikipedia

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    Tripadvisor has been the subject of controversy for allowing unsubstantiated anonymous reviews to be posted about any hotel, bed and breakfast, inn, or restaurant. [64]In May 2021, Tripadvisor was criticized for allowing an offensive review to be posted about the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in which a visitor described bringing a baby to the gas chambers.

  7. Saint Lawrence Gap - Wikipedia

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    Often known as "the Gap", Saint Lawrence Gap is located on the southern coast of Barbados along the island's Highway 7. Found between Oistins to the east and Worthing to the west, it features a 1.5-kilometer stretch of bars, hotels, dance clubs, restaurants, inns, resorts, and shops along a white powdery-sand beachfront.

  8. List of Caribbean islands - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean Sea. Most of the Caribbean countries are islands in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes.The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.

  9. Paynes Bay, Barbados - Wikipedia

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    Paynes Bay, sometimes called the "Platinum Coast", is located on the west coast of Barbados.Many locals believe that it is one of the island's best swimming beaches for both the calm seas of the Caribbean (in comparison to the strong south or east coast surf) and the colorful neighborhood.