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  2. Typhon missile launcher - Wikipedia

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    The Typhon Medium Range Capability (MRC) is a US Army transporter erector launcher for Standard SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles. Mk 70 Mod 1 Payload Delivery System. The Lockheed Martin Mk 70 Mod 1 is a containerised system containing four strike-length cells from the Mk 41 vertical launch system mounted in the footprint of a 40-foot ISO container.

  3. Sonic Drive-In - Wikipedia

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    Originally a walk-up root beer stand outside a log-cabin steakhouse selling soda, hamburgers, and hotdogs, Sonic currently has 3,545 locations in the United States. [8] [9] Sonic is known for its use of carhops on roller skates , and hosts an annual competition (in most locations) to determine the top skating carhop in the company. [10]

  4. Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals - Wikipedia

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    The Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals, or informally typhoon signals, are a set of signals used to indicate the threat or effects of a tropical cyclone.The Hong Kong Observatory issues the warning signal if a tropical cyclone approaches within 800 kilometres (432 nmi; 497 mi) of Hong Kong and poses a threat of deteriorating conditions in Hong Kong.

  5. Typhoon - Wikipedia

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    Three different tropical cyclones active over the Western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006 ( Maria, Bopha, and Saomai ). The cyclones on the lower and upper right are typhoons. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h ...

  6. Sicily - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under the mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky. Mount Etna is widely regarded as a cultural symbol and icon of Sicily. Mount Etna rising over suburbs of Catania. The Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, to the northeast of mainland Sicily form a volcanic complex.

  7. Pink-winged phasma - Wikipedia

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    The mesothorax of the pink-winged phasma is reduced in size and has small spines. The large wings are attached to the mesothorax. Underneath the body are spines that cover a small part of the thorax and abdomen. The legs are reddish pink. P. typhon is a small stick insect compared to the titan stick insect. Its size is similar to the children's ...

  8. Typhoon Vamco - Wikipedia

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    Typhoon Vamco, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ulysses, was a powerful and very destructive Category 4-equivalent typhoon that struck the Philippines and Vietnam. It also caused the worst flooding in Metro Manila since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009. The twenty-second named storm and tenth typhoon of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season, Vamco ...

  9. Typhon - Wikipedia

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    Birth. According to Hesiod 's Theogony ( c. 8th – 7th century BC), Typhon was the son of Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus: "when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite ". [2] The mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD) adds that Gaia bore ...