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– in Europe (light green & dark grey) – in the European Union (light green) Sovereign state Kingdom of the Netherlands Before independence Spanish Netherlands Act of Abjuration 26 July 1581 Peace of Münster 30 January 1648 Kingdom established 16 March 1815 Liberation Day 5 May 1945 Kingdom Charter 15 December 1954 Caribbean reorganisation 10 October 2010 Capital and largest city Amsterdam ...
Titanic. conspiracy theories. On April 14, 1912, the Titanic collided with an iceberg, damaging the hull's plates below the waterline on the starboard side, causing the front compartments to flood. The ship then sank two hours and forty minutes later, with approximately 1,496 fatalities as a result of drowning or hypothermia. [1]
The expedition was initially led by Pánfilo de Narváez, who died in 1528. Many more people died as the expedition traveled west along the explored Gulf Coast of the present-day United States and into the American southwest. Only four of the expedition's original members survived, reaching Mexico City in 1536.
The Bf 109A was the first version of the Bf 109. Armament was initially planned to be just two cowl-mounted 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns.However, possibly due to the introduction of the Hurricane and Spitfire, each with eight 7.7 mm (.303 in) machine guns, experiments were carried out with a third machine gun firing through the propeller shaft.
The Channel Tunnel ( French: Tunnel sous la Manche ), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35 mi) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone ( Kent, England) with Coquelles ( Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
A ship is a watercraft or spacecraft that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways or outer space, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity and purpose.
Plot At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. [a] After critically wounding Rocket, Adam is stabbed by Nebula and flees. The Guardians' med-packs are ineffective at healing Rocket's wounds due to a kill switch embedded in him by the ...
PIE English Gothic Latin Ancient Greek Sanskrit Iranian Slavic Baltic Celtic Armenian Albanian Tocharian Hittite *méh₂tēr "mother": mother (< OE mōdor) : mōdar "mother" : māter "mother" ⇒