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  2. Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Navy ranks, rates and insignia form part of the uniform of the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy uniform is the pattern on which many of the uniforms of the other national navies of the world are based (e.g. Ranks and insignia of NATO navies officers, Uniforms of the United States Navy, Uniforms of the Royal Canadian Navy, French Naval ...

  3. Texas Tech University - Wikipedia

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    Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University System .

  4. History of Texas Tech University - Wikipedia

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    In 2024, Texas Tech cut the ribbon on a new $112.5 million, 130,000-square-foot Academic Sciences Building. [36] In 2016, longtime faculty member and university administrator Lawrence Schovanec was named the 17th president of Texas Tech University. [37] In 2023, Texas voters approved the creation of a new funding mechanism, the Texas University ...

  5. History of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    In 1864, the Navy had 51,500 men in uniform, [71] and almost 700 ships and about 60 monitor-type coastal ironclads which made the U.S. Navy the second largest in the world after the Royal Navy. [72] By 1880 the Navy only had 48 ships in commission, 6,000 men, and the ships and shore facilities were decrepit but Congress saw no need to spend ...

  6. List of Texas Tech University alumni - Wikipedia

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    Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public, coeducational, research university located in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the sixth largest student body in the state of ...

  7. History of the Royal Navy (after 1707) - Wikipedia

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    The Navy had lost control of naval aviation when the Royal Naval Air Service was merged with the Royal Flying Corps to form the Royal Air Force in 1918, but regained control of ship-board aircraft with the return of the Fleet Air Arm to Naval control in 1937.

  8. Texas Tech University System - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Tech University System is a public university system in Texas with five member universities. Headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, the Texas Tech University System is a $3 billion enterprise focused on advancing higher education, health care, research, and outreach with approximately 21,000 employees, more than 63,000 students, nearly 400,000 alumni and an endowment valued at $3.06 billion.

  9. Pax Britannica - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Navy prosecuted the First Opium War (1839–1842) and Second Opium War (1856–1860) against Imperial China. The Royal Navy was superior to any other two navies in the world, combined. [citation needed] Between 1815 and the passage of the German naval laws of 1890 and 1898, only France was a potential naval threat. Apart from the ...