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101Royal Signals Trades — The Royal Signals Trades are the employment specialisations of the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army. Every soldier in the Corps is trained both as a field soldier and a tradesman. There are currently seven different trades, each of… …
102James Everett — (1 May 1894 ndash; 18 December 1967) was a senior Irish politician. On leaving school Everett became an organiser with County Wicklow Agricultural Union, which later merged with the ITGWU. He was a member of Sinn Féin and swrved as a justice in… …
103Steamboats on the Yangtze River — First Opium WarThe first merchant steamer in China, the Jardine , was built to order for the Firm in 1835. She was a small vessel intended for use as a mail and passenger carrier between Lintin, Macao, and Whampoa. However, after several trips,… …
104Nigeria — Nigerian, adj., n. /nuy jear ee euh/, n. a republic in W Africa: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British colony and protectorate. 107,129,469; 356,669 sq. mi. (923,773 sq. km). Cap.: Abuja. Official name, Federal Republic of… …
105Istiwāʾīyah, Al- — ▪ region, The Sudan English Equatoria the southernmost region of The Sudan (Sudan, The). It is bounded by Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda and Congo (Kinshasa) to the south, and the Central African Republic to the west …
106Tewksbury, John Walter — ▪ American athlete in full John Walter Beardsley Tewksbury born March 21, 1878, Ashley, Pa., U.S. died April 24, 1968, Tunkhannock, Pa. American sprinter who won five medals at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. He earned gold medals in the 200 …
107Vertigo — Aside from being the name of a classic 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film (with Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak), vertigo is a feeling that you are dizzily turning around or that things are dizzily turning about you. Vertigo is usually due to a problem with… …
108Corning train wreck — Wreckage of Corning train wreck Details Date July 4, 1912 Time 5.21 a.m. Location …
109Gaelic games county colours — The county colours of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county s representative team in the inter county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The most important of these are the All Ireland Senior Football… …
110Da Lat–Thap Cham Railway — Refurbished rail cars at Da Lat Railway Station, now operated as a tourist attraction. The Da Lat–Thap Cham Railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt Tháp Chàm Đà Lạt) or Da Lat Phan Rang Railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt Phan Rang Đà Lạt) was an 84 km… …
