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52nd ADA regimental insignia. The motto is Latin for "Always Prepared." The 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment (United States) is an air defense artillery battalion in the United States Army based at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Project Row Houses. Project Row Houses is a development in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. Project Row Houses includes a group of shotgun houses restored in the 1990s. [2] Eight houses serve as studios for visiting artists. [3] Those houses are art studios for art related to African-American themes. A row behind the art studio houses ...
A balsa bridge breaks after holding a mass of 89 pounds (40.4 kg). The failure of the entire bridge was a result of the failure of just the roadway. Bridges are usually tested by applying a downward force on the bridge. How and where the force is applied varies from one contest to the next. There are two common methods of applying the test ...
In 1984, the city of Houston purchased the non-military portion of Ellington to use as a third civil airport, and it was renamed Ellington Airport on 14 January 2009, while the military cantonment area is known as Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base and Coast Guard Air Station Houston.
A Gerber LMF II ASEK used to sever a 220 volt line; arrows point to the damage done to the cutting edge by the current. In May 2005, Gerber Legendary Blades introduced its own ASEK-compliant knife (available commercially under the name LMF II) to the military for evaluation.
A stick-built home is a wooden house constructed entirely or largely on-site; that is, built on the site which it is intended to occupy upon its completion rather than in a factory or similar facility. [1]
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing.
The Williams Tower, completed in 1982 and rising 901 feet (275 m), is the third-tallest building in Houston. [6] Seven of the ten tallest buildings in Texas are located in Houston. [7] The history of skyscrapers in the city began with the construction of the original Binz Building in 1895.