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None. References. [3] [4] [5] Gruinard Island ( / ˈɡrɪnjərd / GRIN-yərd; [6] Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately 2 kilometres ( 1⁄ miles) long by 1 km ( ⁄ mi) wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. [7] At its closest point to the mainland, it is ...
Dark Harvest Commando. The Dark Harvest Commando of the Scottish Citizen Army (DHC) was a militant group which in 1981 demanded that the British government decontaminate Gruinard Island, a site which had been used for anthrax weapon testing during World War II. They distributed on the mainland potentially anthrax-laden soil.
Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland, the testing site The testing of anthrax as an animal elimination method was done on Gruinard Island , just off the coast of Scotland . [7] [1] The location was chosen because of its small size, only 520 total acres, [8] and its lack of inhabitants, along with there being a nearby military base at Loch ...
The United States and a coalition of six Caribbean countries invaded the small island nation of Grenada, 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela at dawn on 25 October 1983. Codenamed Operation Urgent Fury by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [ 9] It was triggered by strife within the People's Revolutionary ...
RELATED: The most dangerous and violent cities in the US Many of the documents Scientologists made public were the same documents he'd received doing his own research, redacted in the same places.
With limited safe and legal routes open to them, those gathered on the northern French coast can feel compelled to resort to very dangerous methods to reach the UK. Historically many have ...
One challenge Americans face when visiting the United Kingdom is learning to drive on the “wrong” side of the road. The British drive on the left side of the road while we, in America, drive ...
The Battle of Ramree Island ( Burmese: ရမ်းဗြဲကျွန်း တိုက်ပွဲ ), also known as Operation Matador, took place from 14 January to 22 February 1945, in the Second World War as part of the offensive on the Southern Front in the Burma campaign and was conducted by the XV Indian Corps . Ramree Island, part of ...