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  2. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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    Area 51. Coordinates: 37°14′0″N 115°48′30″W. Homey Airport. Near Rachel, Lincoln County, Nevada in United States. A satellite image taken in 2022 captured by Sentinel-2 of ESA showing the base with Groom Lake just to the north-northeast. Homey Airport.

  3. Las Vegas Aviators - Wikipedia

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    A Las Vegas 51s baseball game against the Iowa Cubs at Cashman Field in 2008. In 2001, Las Vegas became the top farm club of the Los Angeles Dodgers.The new affiliation was accompanied by rebranding to the Las Vegas 51s in reference to Area 51, a military base located north-northwest of Las Vegas legendary for rumors of its housing UFOs and other extraterrestrial technology.

  4. List of people banned from Major League Baseball - Wikipedia

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    A ban from Major League Baseball is a form of punishment levied by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) against a player, manager, executive, or other person connected with the league as a denunciation of some action that person committed deemed to have violated the integrity of the game and/or otherwise tarnished its image.

  5. Ban Me Thuot East Airfield - Wikipedia

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    1,759 feet (536 m) AMSL. Runways. Direction. Length and surface. 09/27. 5,900 feet (1,798 m) Asphalt. Ban Me Thuot East Airfield (also known as Ban Me Thuot FSB, Camp Torres, FSB Aquarius, Hoa Binh Airfield, LZ Ban Me Thuot and Phung Duc Airfield) was a military and civilian airfield and army base located approximately 8 km southeast of Buôn ...

  6. Rescue of Bat 21 Bravo - Wikipedia

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    North Vietnamese personnel scramble to ready an SA-2 missile to engage American aircraft. On Easter Sunday, 2 April 1972, two six-seat EB-66s (call signs Bat 21 and Bat 22) were flying pathfinder escort for a cell of three B-52s, which were given assignments to bomb Mu Gia or the Ban Karai Pass, the two primary access routes to the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos.

  7. Phase-out of polystyrene foam - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, Maryland was the first state to enact a ban, which went into effect on October 1, 2020. [79] Bans were also passed that year in Maine and Vermont, with both states' laws taking effect on July 1, 2021. [80] [81] In 2020, New York passed a ban that took effect on January 1, 2022, while New Jersey passed a ban that took effect on May 4 ...

  8. Tet offensive attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base, headquarters of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF) 7th Air Force, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968. Tan Son Nhut Air Base was one of the major air bases used for offensive air operations within South Vietnam and for the support of United ...

  9. 1968 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 678 billion in 2024) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.