Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gaff Memorial is a public artwork by French artist Jules Déchin, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. Gaff Memorial was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture.
Gaff rig [1] is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.
Operation Gaff: Six British commandos parachuted into German-occupied Orléans, France with the aim of killing or kidnapping German field marshal Erwin Rommel. When they learned that Rommel had already been injured they moved toward advancing U.S. Army lines on foot. Hitler named Joseph Goebbels "Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort". [5]
'I think people are yearning for a connection with a time when they believed the country was united,' said the museum's director. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please ...
The Old Gaffers Association (OGA - The Association for Gaff Rig Sailing) is an unincorporated association formed in 1963 in the United Kingdom to promote the use of the Gaff rig. It currently states its aim as 'to encourage interest in gaff rig, lug and spritsail rigs'. It was originally created in the early 1960s when some recreational sailors ...
Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin painted Blowing from Guns in British India in 1884, after his second trip to British India in 1882. A proponent of Realism and Orientalism in art, Vereshchagin had extensive experience in painting Orientalist scenes for Western and Russian audiences; though his work contained many realist aspects, it also presented life in the Asia as exaggeratedly exotic ...
Kriegsmarine: The Illustrated History of the German Navy in WWII. Osceola: MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-7603-1026-7. Koop, Gerhard & Schmolke, Klaus-Peter (2014). Pocket battleships of the Deutschland class: Deutschland/Lützow, Admiral Scheer, Admiral Graf Spee. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-196-0. Miller, David (2013).
Photos and videos captured the "biblical devastation" in Asheville, North Carolina as residents scramble to find resources after flooding and power outages caused gas and water shortages.. Roads ...