A front is simply the interface between two air masses of different temperatures. Given this situation, the less dense air mass will move over the more dense air mass. When this occurs, the rising air mass may cool to the dew point and produce precipitation. This can be accomplished either...
and after producing his first Talkie, New York Nights (1929), he was hired by Carl Laemmle to direct a prestige production, an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s merciless but popular antiwar novel All Quiet On the Western Front (1930). Easily...
wind/ cold front passagesAD 1988 01 to 02surface wind changesSouthern AlpsNew ZealandSoutherly Change ExperimentCanterbury regionSouth Islandsoutherly changesThe movement of cold fronts along the eastern side of the Southern Alps has been studied in detail during the Southerly Change Experiment (SOUCHEX...
Chasseur de Char de 76.2mm AMX sur châssis R35 (Front-Facing Proposal) France (1945) Tank Destroyer – None Built The liberation of France began in June of 1944 and was mostly concluded, with the exception of a few areas towards Alsace and some western ports, by the end of August of...
United States of America (1984-1987) MBT – Models Only In 1984, the US military was considering the problems connected with a new range of vehicles, such as the new M1 Abrams main battle tank and M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). As part of the evaluation of trends in future...
The exception is in strong cold advection patterns, such as behind a cold front. HOW THE WIND BLOWS: Sorry, we can't teach you to sing like Bette Midler ("Wind Beneath My Wings"), but we can explain the movement of the air through which you fly Unusually high pressure south of the ...
While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a bro...
a two-decade civil war replaced the anti-colonial struggle as fighting erupted between the communist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), backed by the Cubans and Soviets, and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), backed by the United States, the People's Republic...
Cold War US Unarmored Vehicles Crawler-Crusher, or “The Monster” United States of America (1968-1969) Civil Engineering Vehicle – 1 Built Background – The Cross Florida Barge Canal: “The Ditch of Dreams” As far back as 1565 with Governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, when Florida was ...
Cold BreathCreates an area of extreme cold, originating in front of you and spreading outward in a cone. It drains heat, dealing 1d3+3colddamage per caster level to a maximum of 15d3+45 damage atcaster level15. Cold SpikeLob a vial of freezing liquid at a single flot that deals heavy...