The dogfight is a draw, both sides aborting without losses.Finally, a squadron of American Spitfires flies long-range to Bizerte, engaging the Italian MC.202s there. The Italians take losses and abort. All in all, not a good week for the Axis airforce. The Americans also have some P-...
while in the U.S., it will be more than 40 percent as a result of Obamacare and the planned expiration of the George W. Bush tax-rate cuts at the end of this year. In Switzerland, maximum income tax rates in the cantons range from 10.9 percent in Zug to about 30 percent in ...
Protected areas are critical for biodiversity conservation (Geldmann et al., 2013), but not enough, as they only cover a small fraction of the range of most species (Rodrigues et al., 2004). For instance, 80% of the land area that is of priority for the conservation of mammals is occu...
if it could be developed for a whole range of interven- tions that might be sustainable … [for example if it had] multiple uses … like a Swiss Army Knife, … so that it looked the same and did similar things" (ex post interview 4). The counter-argument is that additional ...
Army veteran with excellent management skills, who is well-qualified to run the Laser Tag. He has held a number of management positions and has been responsible for the professional development of numerous personnel and accountable for in excess of $11 million in military equipment. He served in...
It has real capabilities, and I have confidence that if North Korea launched a long-range missile in the direction of the United States, that we would have a high probability of being able to defend ourselves against it.” Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Hearing of the Defense ...
The cycleRégions d’êtrespans the unwieldy geographical remit of Slavs and Tatars – between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China – while also serving as a prequel to the collective’s practice.Régions d’êtreis the collective’s term for an area that falls between the cr...
At court, Peruvian balsam was valued and used against a cold or beginning influenza but, above all, it was very important in curing sword wounds and for external injuries and was, consequently, highly valued among the Manchu military. A Mongol general in the Qing army requested that the court...
An intermediate value for the parameter, 0 < θ < 1, is defined a priori, which can adapt to a range of different clusterings. The values in the same cluster should be similar to one another, and dissimilar to those in different clusters, in order to obtain a suitable θ The ...
Moreover, chaplains of the Polish Army also work abroad, where Polish soldiers take part in international missions. The dioceses and ordinariates of other liturgical rites also cover the whole territory of Poland. The faithful of these rites recognise the Pope as the head of the Church, but ...