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7 hours ago · This week's best tech deals include a new low on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, Apple's MacBook Air M3 for $989 and Anker's Soundcore Space A40 earbuds for $49, among others.
1 day ago · Frank Vincent Zappa (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
1 day ago · The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6 ), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners. SIS is one of the British intelligence ...
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- Single Intelligence Account £3.711 billion (2021–22)
- 4 July 1909; 114 years ago
1 day ago · 1969–1991. Number built. 712. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy 's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B ...
- 21 December 1970
- 1969–1991
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- Grumman
1 day ago · Cold War; Part of the post-World War II era: Clockwise from top right: Checkpoint Charlie, 1970; A U.S. Navy Lockheed SP-2H Neptune flying over a Soviet freighter, 1962; George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign agreements to end chemical weapon production 1990; Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989; Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968; the Berlin Wall at the ...
1 day ago · Tanks and mechanised infantry of the 24th Panzer Division advancing through Ukraine, June 1942, typifying fast-moving combined arms forces of classic blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg (/ ˈ b l ɪ t s k r iː ɡ / BLITS-kreeg, German: [ˈblɪtskʁiːk] ⓘ; from Blitz "lightning" + Krieg "war") or Bewegungskrieg is a word used to describe a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force ...
1 day ago · The Republic of China ( ROC ), or simply China, was a sovereign state based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949 prior to the government's relocation to Taiwan, where it continues to be based today. [f] The ROC was established on 1 January 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing dynasty, ending the imperial history of China.
