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Pointe du Hoc lies 6.5 km (4.0 miles) west of the center of Omaha Beach. [1] [2] During the Nazi occupation of France, as part of the Atlantic Wall fortifications, the prominent cliff top location was fortified by the Germans. At the end of the two-day action, the initial Ranger landing force of 225 was reduced to about 90 fighting men. [3] [4]
In World War II, Pointe du Hoc was the location of a series of German bunkers and machine gun posts. Prior to the invasion of Normandy, the German army fortified the area with concrete casemates and gun pits. On D-Day, the United States Army Provisional Ranger Group attacked and captured
Have Your Say is a weekly discussion-based television programme, produced by the BBC and broadcast on international news channel BBC World News and BBC World Service ...
World Have Your Say (WHYS) was an international BBC global discussion show, that was broadcast on BBC World Service every weekday at 16:00 UTC and on BBC World News every Friday at 15:00 UTC. World Have Your Say won Gold in the 2008 Sony Radio Awards , in the category Listener Participation.
Example: Alan Turing was a computer scientist ante litteram, since the field of "computer science" was not yet recognized in Turing's day. ante meridiem (a.m.) before midday: From midnight to noon; confer post meridiem: ante mortem: before death: See post mortem ("after death") ante omnia armari: before all else, be armed: ante prandium (a.p ...
Causality between two phenomena is not established (cf. post hoc, ergo propter hoc) post cibum (p.c.) after food: Medical shorthand for "after meals" (cf. ante cibum) post coitum: After sex: After sexual intercourse post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier: After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock and the woman
in hoc sensu, or in sensu hoc (s.h.) in this sense: Recent academic abbreviation for "in this sense". in hoc signo vinces: by this sign you will conquer: Words Constantine the Great claimed to have seen in a vision before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. in hunc effectum: for this purpose: Describes a meeting called for a particular stated ...
Also rendered fui quod sis ("I have been what you are") and tu fui ego eris ("I have been you, you will be I"). sum quod sum: I am what I am: from Augustine's Sermon No. 76. [16] summa cum laude: with highest praise: summa potestas: sum or totality of power: It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example, power of the ...