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1Julia Duffy (Axis of Time) — In John Birmingham s Axis of Time trilogy, Julia Duffy is a New York Times reporter who was born on July 20, 1989, Pre Transition Timeline. She was embedded with the 82nd Marine Expeditionary Unit when the UNPROFLEETwas caught in a temporal… …
2Littorio class battleship — The Littorio (or Vittorio Veneto ; the two ships were laid down on the same date) was a class of battleship of the Regia Marina, the Italian navy, the most modern used by Italy during World War II. The Littorios were developed in response to the… …
3Surfware — Infobox Company company name = Surfware, Inc. company type = Private foundation = 1988 location = Camarillo, California, USA key people = Alan Diehl, Founder; Stephen Diehl, President and CEO industry = CAD/CAM Software products = SURFCAM… …
4Operation Crusader — Part of Western Desert Campaign A Crusader mk.I passes a burning German Panzer IV …
5international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
6Gear — For the gear like device used to drive a roller chain, see Sprocket. This article is about mechanical gears. For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). Two meshing gears transmitting rotational motion. Note that the smaller gear is rotating… …
7World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
8U.S. Carrier Group tactics — Naval tactics have played a crucial role in modern battles and wars. The presence of land, changing water depths, weather, detection and electronic warfare, the speed at which actual combat occurs and other factors especially air power render… …
9Second Battle of Sirte — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Second Battle of Sirte caption=Italian battleship Littorio , Admiral Iachino s flag ship partof=the Mediterranean Theater of World War II date=22 March 1942 place=Gulf of Sirte, Mediterranean Sea result=British… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
