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It triggered much national public discussion about waste disposal, and may have been a factor in increased recycling rates in the late 1980s and after. [ 8 ] According to the Union of Concerned Scientists , the Mobro 4000 incident was caused by a combination of poor decision making by local Islip public officials and short-term difficulties ...
The Lebanese National Movement (LNM; Arabic: الحركة الوطنية اللبنانية, Al-Harakat al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya) was a front of Leftist, pan-Arabist and Syrian nationalist parties and organizations active during the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, which supported the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
September 14 – The first occupation force from the Republic of Venice arrives at the Greek city of Thessalonia, recently purchaed from the Ottoman Empire with six galleys entering the harbor. [12] September 26 – Hundred Years' War: The Battle of La Brossinière is fought in France near Bourgon in what is now the Mayenne département. The ...
The Battle of La Brossinière or Battle of la Gravelle (French – la "besoigne" de la Brossinière) was a battle of the Hundred Years' War on 26 September 1423. It occurred at La Brossinière (commune of Bourgon, Mayenne), between the forces of England and France, shortly after hostilities had resumed, following the battle of Agincourt (1415).
Donald, Lord of the Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Dómhnall; died 1423), was the son and successor of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles and chief of Clan Donald.The Lordship of the Isles was based in and around the Scottish west-coast island of Islay, but under Donald's father had come to include most of the isles and the lands of Somerled, the King of the Isles in the 12th century, Donald's ...
The Battle of Cravant was fought on 31 July 1423, during the Hundred Years' War between English and French forces at the village of Cravant in Burgundy, at a bridge and ford on the banks of the river Yonne, a left-bank tributary of the Seine, southeast of Auxerre. The battle ended in a victory for the English and their Burgundian allies.
A vestige of carriage production, the 35% tariff on vehicles coming into Canada prompted the Detroit automaker to set up branch operations across the river, according to Dimitry Anastakis, the L.R ...
The William B. Umstead Bridge is a two-lane automobile bridge spanning the Croatan Sound, between Manns Harbor and Roanoke Island, in Dare County, North Carolina.The bridge carries US 64 and is utilized by local and seasonal tourist traffic.