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Radar beacon. Racon signal as seen on a radar screen. This beacon receives using sidelobe suppression and transmits the letter "Q" in Morse code near Boston Harbor (Nahant) 17 January 1985. Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1 ...
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets ...
Rayon, also called viscose [1] and commercialised in some countries as sabra silk or cactus silk, [2] is a semi-synthetic fiber, [3] made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. [4] It has the same molecular structure as cellulose.
An allergy occurs when the immune system overreacts to a substance or environment by mistaking it for a pathogen, producing an exaggerated immune response that can include fatigue, swelling ...
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Historically, Mont-Saint-Michel was the Norman counterpart of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, UK, which was given to the Benedictines, the religious order of Mont-Saint-Michel, by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. The two mounts share the same tidal island characteristics and a similar conical shape, though Mont-Saint-Michel is much taller.
One World Trade Center. / 40.71306°N 74.01333°W / 40.71306; -74.01333. One World Trade Center, also known as One World Trade, One WTC, and formerly called the Freedom Tower during initial planning stages, [note 1] is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Shōgun. James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a novel based on events and figures of 1600 Japan when the Azuchi–Momoyama period neared its end as the Edo period was about to begin. The third book published, but the first chronologically placed, in Clavell's six-volume Asian Saga, by 1980 it had sold six million copies worldwide.