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The 9K32 Strela-2 (Russian: Cтрела, lit. 'Arrow'; NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a light-weight, shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile or MANPADS system. It is designed to target aircraft at low altitudes with passive infrared-homing guidance and destroy them with a high-explosive warhead.
Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a greenish-red fiery light reminiscent of fireflies; Gold-digging ant – Reported by Herodotus to live in either Ethiopia or Indian subcontinent; Iktomi - (Lakota) Name for a very narrowly believed in trickster spider. Also known in parts of the Rockies.
In 1655, a fort was built on the site of Carolusborg under the hands of the Swedish. [7] It switch hands several times before 1664, when it was captured from the Dutch by a joint English and Dutch force. [8] [5]: 165, 166 After the attack, the English named Cape Coast the headquarters of the Royal African Company [a] in 1678. The Danes acquired ...
In one instance, a red-tailed hawk failed to kill a healthy drake red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator), with this duck estimated to weigh 1,100 g (2.4 lb), later the same red-tail was able to dispatch a malnourished red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena) (a species usually about as heavy as the merganser), weighing an estimated 657 g (1.448 ...
The first story, Red Tide, focuses on a family in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who meet the town's mysterious true inhabitants. The second story, Death Valley , follows a group of camping students who find themselves in the midst of a conspiracy involving extraterrestrials.