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In 1945 Nevil Shute used the incident as material for his fictional account of wartime racism The Chequer Board, which was published in 1947. [11] The author Anthony Burgess , who lived in the Bamber Bridge area after the war, wrote about the event briefly in The New York Times in 1973 and in his autobiography , Little Wilson and Big God .
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
An infobox for articles about significant accidents, incidents or other occurrences involving one, two or three aircraft Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Name name Name Occurrence's commonly-known name (usually the article's title) Default {{PAGENAME}} Example TWA Flight 800 String optional image image Crash image ...
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us was an American Facebook event that took place on and around September 20, 2019, in the desert surrounding Area 51, a highly-classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and many other options. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth , Copernix.io and Wikimedia's map ...
Randonautica (a portmanteau of "random" + "nautica") is an app launched on February 22, 2020 founded by Auburn Salcedo and Joshua Lengfelder.It randomly generates coordinates that enable the user to explore their local area and report on their findings.
A game later in the series, Cold War, uses the duga as location for a possible final mission and as a map in the Zombies game-mode “Outbreak”, the map being appropriately named "Duga". The said map has rappel lines that can take the player(s) up to the top or middle of the Duga, despite the actual radar array lacking this.