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No man's land remained a regular feature of the battlefield until near the end of World War I when mechanised weapons (i.e., tanks and airplanes) made entrenched lines less of an obstacle. Effects from World War I no man's lands persist today, for example at Verdun in France, where the Zone Rouge (Red Zone) contains unexploded ordnance , and is ...
In 1993, Singapore Post introduced Q-TV, a video-based "advertising medium" which shows post office information and commercials, targeting customers waiting for the next available counter. [6] Singapore Post Limited was then incorporated on 28 March and then listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX-ST) on 13 May 2003. It was then ...
The history of Singapore (ABC-CLIO, 2011). "Nation's History". Singapore Infomap. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009; Baker, Jim. Crossroads: a popular history of Malaysia and Singapore (Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, 2020). Bose, Romen (2010). The End of the War: Singapore's Liberation and the Aftermath of the Second ...
Its public postal service is spearheaded by Singapore Post (SingPost), a postal service and courier company that has been the country's designated Public Postal Licensee (PPL), providing both domestic and international postal services. Singapore is a member state of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). [6]
The British return to Singapore after the end of World War II and begin the British Military Administration of the Straits Settlements under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten. 12 September: Singapore revert its time zone back to the pre-war time of GMT+07:30. 1946: 1 April
The no man's land in the Latrun region (between the green lines) Closeup of central area. No man's land in the Latrun area (NML) was a strip of territory covering 46.4 square kilometres (17.9 sq mi), [a] in the area of Latrun. Israel considers the area of the NML to be a part of its state, while Palestinians regard it as a part of the West Bank ...
The Neutral Ground. The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
"No Man's Land" (also known as "The Green Fields of France" or "Willie McBride") is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, the "Last Post" and the "Flowers of the Forest".