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From Topographia Hibernica British Library MS 13 B VIII (c. 1188 CE)The barnacle goose myth is a widely-reported historical misconception about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta bernicla). [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...
The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
Measuring 4.57 metres (15.0 ft) in diameter and 5.47 metres (17.9 ft) in length, Unity was constructed of steel by Boeing for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It was the first of three connecting nodes – Unity , Harmony , and Tranquility – that forms the structural backbone of the U.S. segment of the ISS.
Juul Labs, Inc. (/ ˈ dʒ uː l /, stylized as JUUL Labs) is an American electronic cigarette company headquartered in San Francisco. [1] Its flagship product is the Juul electronic cigarette, which atomizes nicotine salts derived from tobacco supplied by one-time use cartridges. [8]