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In total 25 tons of bombs fell on Leeds during the raid, a quarter of the 100 tons often used as the threshold for a "major raid". [ 11 ] [ 17 ] By comparison, that night in Glasgow 203 aircraft dropped 231 tons of high explosives, nearly ten times the amount dropped on Leeds, and 1,650 incendiary canisters, while in nearby Sheffield 117 ...
Looking towards Leeds city centre from Beeston Hill. Beeston is an inner-city area located close to Leeds city centre. It is severed from the areas to the north by the M621 motorway, separated from Middleton by Middleton Park and from Cottingley by the Leeds Outer Ring Road. Beeston can be described as three distinct areas.
Stratford Street Mosque (officially the Omar Mosque or Masjid-e-Umar) is a mosque in Beeston, Leeds, England. Three people responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings (Shehzad Tanweer, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Hasib Hussain) were regulars at Friday prayers at the mosque. Stratford Street mosque is just a few streets away from the Colwyn ...
A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine.
A 1725 map of Leeds An 1806 map of Leeds An 1866 map of Leeds A 1900 map of Leeds. ... Beeston had more bombs dropped on it than any other district of the city, ...
A WWII area bombing range near Myrtle Beach, SC is still being cleared of ordnance over 70 years later in one of the areas fastest growing communities.
The map from NASA's Earth Observatory land surface temperature changes across America compared to 2001-2010 average for the same day period, stretching from December 26, 2017 to January 2, 2018.
The GBU-28 (Guided Bomb Unit‐28) is a 4,000–5,000-pound (1,800–2,300 kg) class laser-guided "bunker busting" bomb produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York. It was designed, manufactured, and deployed in less than three weeks due to an urgent need during Operation Desert Storm to penetrate hardened Iraqi command ...