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Aztec Two-Step is an American folk-rock band, formed by Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman at a chance meeting on open stage, at a Boston coffee house, the Stone Phoenix, [1] in 1971. Fowler grew up in Connecticut and Maine, and Shulman grew up in Manhattan.
The Aiguille du Midi (French pronunciation: [eɡɥij dy midi], "Needle at midday" [2]) is a 3,842-metre-tall (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif within the French Alps. It is a popular tourist destination and can be directly accessed by cable car from Chamonix that takes visitors close to Mont Blanc.
An arête (/ ə ˈ r ɛ t / ə-RET; French:) [1] is a narrow ridge of rock that separates two valleys. It is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys . Arêtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequently this results in a saddle-shaped pass, called a col . [ 2 ]
Arete is a significant part of the paideia of ancient Greeks: the training of the boy to manhood. This training in arete included physical training, for which the Greeks developed the gymnasion; mental training, which included oratory, rhetoric, and basic sciences; and spiritual training, which included music and what is called virtue.
Arete learned philosophy from her father, Aristippus, who had himself learned philosophy from Socrates. Arete, in turn, taught philosophy to her son - Aristippus the Younger - and her son was nicknamed "Mother-taught" (Greek: μητροδίδακτος). [2] Arete reportedly took over the leadership of the School of Cyrene upon her father's death.
[2] [3] On 1 February 1939 the 132nd Motorized Artillery Regiment was formed in Rovereto and assigned to the brigade, which on that date was renamed 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" [4] (the Italian word ariete means ram). During the invasion of France in June 1940, the division was kept in reserve.
The Ariete features two side-mounted, electronically fired GALIX 80mm grenade launchers. [2] Each launcher consists of four 80 mm barrels which can be intermixed with either smoke or chaff grenades. The smoke grenades are capable of shrouding the tank from visual or thermal detection, while the chaff grenades disperse the tank's radar cross section
On 1 October 1952 the brigade was expanded to full division and consisted of the following units: [2] Armored Division "Ariete" 8th Bersaglieri Regiment. III Bersaglieri Battalion (M3 Half-tracks) V Bersaglieri Battalion (M3 Half-tracks) XII Bersaglieri Battalion (M3 Half-tracks) Bersaglieri Anti-tank Company (M40 recoilless rifles) 132nd Tank ...