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A balaclava, also called a ski mask, is a form of cloth headgear designed to expose only part of the face, usually the eyes and mouth. Depending on style and how it is worn, only the eyes, mouth and nose, or just the front of the face are unprotected.
On 2 August 1890, trumpeter Martin Leonard Landfried, from the 17th Lancers, who may [34] have sounded the bugle charge at Balaclava, made a recording on an Edison cylinder that can be heard here, with a bugle which had been used at Waterloo in 1815. [35] In 2004, on the 150th anniversary of the charge, a commemoration of the event was held at ...
Baklava (/ b ɑː k l ə ˈ v ɑː, ˈ b ɑː k l ə v ɑː / ⓘ, [1] or / b ə ˈ k l ɑː v ə /; [2] Ottoman Turkish: باقلوا) is a layered pastry dessert made of filo pastry, filled with chopped nuts, and sweetened with syrup or honey.
Balaclava (clothing), a form of cloth headgear Balaklava, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive; Balaklava, by Pearls Before Swine, 1968 "Balaclava" (song), a song by the Arctic Monkeys from the 2007 album Favourite Worst Nightmare
The cardigan was named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British Army major general who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. [4] It is modelled after the knitted wool waistcoat that British officers supposedly wore during the war. The legend of the event and the fame that Lord ...
Balaklava harbor, 1830 Balaklava harbor, 1855, photographed by Roger Fenton. Balaklava has changed possession several times during its history. A settlement at its present location was founded under the name of Symbolon (Σύμβολον) by the Ancient Greeks, for whom it was an important commercial city.
The day after the November election of reformist Dist. Atty. George Gascón, the prosecutors finally offered Drakeo a deal: If he pled guilty to the two remaining charges, he could come home that ...
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea.