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USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
Beginning in late mid-1800s, Iowa Wesleyan maintained an active Military Department, in which students organized as a corps of cadets received training under the guidance of United States Army officers. [6] Among Iowa Wesleyan's commandants were Ulysses G. McAlexander (1891 to 1895) and Charles L. Hodges (1895 to 1897) [7]
Captain Alex Eida RHA, army officer, killed in action in Afghanistan, 1 August 2006 [68] Anthony Eyre, RAF officer and flying ace [69] Captain Kenneth Lockwood, prisoner at Colditz, honorary secretary of Colditz Association [70]
Ouachita River Navigation Project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers A 337-mile-long "Ouachita–Black Rivers Navigation Project" began in 1902, to create a navigable waterway from Camden, Arkansas to Jonesville, Louisiana , and when completed in 1924 included six locks and dams that were 84 feet wide and 600 feet in length, having from 3 to 5 ...
The Anioma people (/æˈniːomɑː/ ah-NEE-o-ma, US: /əˈniːomɑː/ uh-NEE-o-mah; Ndí Ániọ̀mà) are a subgroup of igbo people predominantly indigenous to present day Delta State, Nigeria, The Anioma people encompass and are native to the nine northeastern Local Government Areas of Delta State and the Ika-Igbo communities of Edo State.
Delta State covers a landmass of about 18,050 km 2 (6,970 sq mi), of which more than 60% is land. The state lies approximately between 5°00' and 6°45' E and 5°00' and 6°30' N. [12] It is geographically located in Nigeria's Midwest, bounded in the north and west by Edo State for 350 km (218 miles), the east by Anambra, and Rivers States for about 93 km and about 50 km respectively ...
Osun (/ ˈ oʊ ʃ uː n /; Yoruba: Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun), is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states for 84 km and for 78 km respectively, to the north by Kwara State for 73 km, to the south by Ogun State for 84 km and to the west by Oyo State, mostly across the River Osun.