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Drop zone flash. The Second Battalion, Parachute Regiment ( 2 PARA ), is a formation of the Parachute Regiment, part of the British Army, and subordinate unit within 16th Air Assault Brigade . 2 PARA is an airborne light infantry battalion capable of a wide range of operational tasks, based at Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison, England.
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
2 Georges Pompidou: 1911–1974 15 June 1969 2 April 1974 (died in office) UDR – Alain Poher: 1909–1996 2 April 1974 19 May 1974 (interim) CD: 3 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: 1926–2020 19 May 1974 21 May 1981 UDF: 4 François Mitterrand: 1916–1996 21 May 1981 17 May 1995 Socialist: 5 Jacques Chirac: 1932–2019 17 May 1995 16 May 2007 RPR ...
Germany portal. History portal. v. t. e. The Kingdom of the Franks ( Latin: Regnum Francorum ), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle ...
Mechelen incident. Coordinates: 50.9729°N 5.7158°E. A Messerschmitt Bf.108, the type of aircraft that Erich Hoenmanns flew. The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans ...
Rudi van den Abbeele (born 13 November 1952) is a French former Paralympic athlete. He won several medals in para-athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics held in Seoul, South Korea. In 2017, he was elected president of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS). He is also a recipient of the Paralympic Order.
According to the report contrarily to expectations, the agreement has a significant effect: while in 2010 the expected temperature rise by 2100 was 3.7–4.8 °C, at COP 27 it was 2.4–2.6°C and if all countries will fulfill their long-term pledges 1.7–2.1 °C. However, the world remains very far from limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.
Franciscus van den Enden, in later life also known as 'Affinius' (Latinized form of 'Van den Enden') [ 1][ 2][ 3] ( c. 5 February 1602 – 27 November 1674) was a Flemish former Jesuit, [ 4] Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher, and plotter against Louis XIV of France. Born in Antwerp, where he had a truncated career as a Jesuit ...