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16 mm to 1 foot or 1:19.05 is a popular scale of model railway in the UK which represents narrow gauge prototypes. [1] The most common gauge for such railways is 32 mm ( 1.26 in ), representing 2 ft ( 610 mm ) gauge prototypes.
The "Zebra" murders were a string of racially motivated murders and related attacks which were committed by a group of four black serial killers in San Francisco, California, United States, from October 1973 to April 1974; [1] they killed at least 15 white people and wounded eight others. Police gave the case the name "Zebra" after the special ...
In the 1960s, the gauge was selected for use in the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART), serving the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the only place in the United States where this gauge is in use. The rapid transit segment of the system covers 109 miles (175 km) of double track in revenue service with additional sidings and maintenance facilities.
A TV tray table, TV dinner tray, TV table, or personal table is a type of collapsible furniture that functions as a small and easily portable, folding table. These small tables were originally designed to be a surface from which one could eat a meal while watching television. The phrase tray-table can also refer to a fold-away tray, such as ...
In 1940, the US Navy conducted experiments with dazzle-type camouflage for aircraft. The artist McClelland Barclay designed "pattern camouflage" schemes for US Navy aircraft such as the Douglas TBD Devastator and the Brewster F2A Buffalo to make it difficult for the enemy to gauge the shape and position of the aircraft. [45]
A mountain zebra (right) with a Burchell's zebra. Hartmann's mountain zebra (Equus zebra hartmannae) is a subspecies of the mountain zebra found in far south-western Angola and western Namibia, easily distinguished from other similar zebra species by its dewlap as well as the lack of stripes on its belly.
Ice Station Zebra is a 1968 American espionage thriller film directed by John Sturges and starring Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The screenplay is by Douglas Heyes , Harry Julian Fink , and W. R. Burnett , loosely based on Alistair MacLean 's 1963 novel .