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D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon , to Seattle , Washington, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, and demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...
Giglioli's Whale, Rhinoceros dolphin, High-finned sperm whale, Alula whale, Unidentified beaked whales Sea animal Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean Dobhar-chú [15] Water Hound, King Otter Extra-large otter-like carnivorous aquatic mammal Ireland Gloucester sea serpent [16] Large serpent Gloucester, Cape Ann: Great auk (surviving ...
In some occasions in literature (a novel by famous Russian and Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol) unknown or deliberately unidentified places are referred to as ...ское место (featuring a widespread adjective ending ской). Latin N is sometimes used as a placeholder for the actual name of the site, e.g. город N ("city N").
Diver – radio-telephony code word for a sighted V-1 flying bomb. Fighter night – introduced in November 1940, night patrols above a specified height with orders to shoot down any multi-engined aircraft. [1] Flower – counter-air patrols in the area of enemy airfields to preventing aircraft from taking off and attacking those aircraft that ...
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Unidentified decedent, or unidentified person (also abbreviated as UID or UP), is a corpse of a person whose identity cannot be established by police and medical examiners. In many cases, it is several years before the identities of some UIDs are found, while in some cases, they are never identified. [ 1 ]
The word anonymous was borrowed into English around 1600 from the Late Latin word "anonymus", from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (anṓnumos, "without name"), from ᾰ̓ν- (an-, "un-") with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónuma), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónoma, "name").
Bogey – an unidentified aircraft, suspected of being hostile. [18] Bone Dome – a flying helmet. [15] Bought it – to be killed, or shot down by enemy fire. [7] Brolly – a parachute, particularly when used to 'Bale out'. [19] Buckshee – something that was free, gratis. [20] Bumf – paperwork or boring reading. Originally used to ...