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Improvised armour added to a truck by railway shop workers for the Danish resistance movement near the end of World War II. Improvised vehicle armour is a form of vehicle armour consisting of protective materials added to a vehicle such as a car, truck, or tank in an irregular and extemporized fashion using available materials.
The 2015 Rhino Linings 350 was the 18th stock car race of the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and the 19th iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, October 3, 2015, in North Las Vegas, Nevada at Las Vegas Motor Speedway , a 1.5 mi (2.4 km) permanent tri-oval shaped racetrack.
Many owners install a simple sheet of wood as a means to protect the floor from being scratched or dented. As pickup trucks were designed to haul cargo, a more advanced method was created. Thermoforming , a technique that has been around since the 1940s in acrylics and styrene, would eventually through advances in development and research ...
Rhino Ranch is a 2009 American novel by Larry McMurtry. [1] [2] It is the fifth and final in a series of novels about Duane Moore from The Last Picture Show. McMurtry wrote the last two novels in the series "are about the coming of age. "[3] The novel ends with Moore's death. McMurtry later wrote, " I never thought of Duane as me.
Rhino tank" (initially called "Rhinoceros") [1] was the American nickname for Allied tanks fitted with "tusks", or bocage cutting devices, during World War II. The British designation for the modifications was Prongs .
The value of U.S. power and utilities deals fell over the last year to $27.8 billion, down by 36% from 2023, as political uncertainty ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election slowed transactions ...
A rhino ferry is a barge constructed from several pontoons which are connected and equipped with outboard engines, used to transport heavy equipment and people. Rhino ferries were used extensively during the Normandy landings [ 1 ] and other theaters (Attu, Africa, Sicily , Italy ); their low draft was well-suited for shallow beaches, and they ...
Nasi, a female born at Dvůr Králové Zoo on 11 November 1977. Her mother was Nasima and her father was a southern white rhino, which made her a northern and southern white rhino hybrid. She died in 2008, aged about 31. [8] [57] Suni, a male born at Dvůr Králové Zoo on 8 June 1980.