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D er Alte Fritz (The Old Fritz) once said, “Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl,” and the Adelbu Panzer assault on Base 113 was dependent on air attacks from RGA Luftgeschwader planes, supported by the Self-Propelled Guns of the Remnants’ arsenal. The Adelburger groups leading the assault used ten Panzer IVs and Panzer Vs (“Panther”), both being Model G variants, with twice as many Sd.Kfz 251 halftracks sporting MG42s manned and crewed by an entire Adelburger crew.…

Nuclear weapons were first used against Japan at the end of the Second World War, with the United States dropping nuclear weapons first on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, and again three days later on Nagasaki. These attacks are the only times nuclear weapons have ever been used directly against another state, with all subsequent detonations serving as either a demonstration of might or for research purposes. Since the culmination of WWII, direct warfare between superpowers has become seemingly…

In the country India, the nation fought nonviolently for their independence, but with this happening there had to be a leader to make sure the violence tendencies are balanced and that leader was Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (history.com). Ghandi was considered the leader of nonviolence around the world during the campaign for independence from Great Britain. Ghandi was born on October 2 1869 in Porbandar, his father was Chief Minister of Porbandar. Because of his father’s high position in the…

B.Ananda Rao M.A,M.Phil,(Ph.D) Asst.Prof, of English Sri Vasavi Engg College, Tadepalligudem. “A study of tradition and culture in the selected plays of Wole Soyinka and Girish karnad”. INTRODUCTION Wole Soyinka is the first African writer to win the Nobel…

Acknowledged as one of the foremost living playwrights of the world, Wole Soyinka is the first African Nobel laureate who was awarded the covetous Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. As a playwright, Wole Soyinka has basically operated within two categories – the tragic and the satiric.Although the dramatic form itself and the Western generic categories are Western import, Soyinka has injected fresh energies into every genre by the incorporation of traditional Yoruba elements. Soyinka’s dramas…

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) director Ken Loach has repeatedly admitted that The Battle of Algiers (1966) has had a large influence on his own filmmaking career. In Martin Evan’s interview with Ken Loach about the Gillo Pontecorvo film, Evans says “[Loach’s] film-making is committed to a realist style; one that strives to give a voice to ordinary people and their daily lives.” The Pontecorvo film as an early example of postcolonial film is a good place to start when looking at The Wind…

private and community based health centers are specialized to provide health care to theses groups. These health centers works closely with refugee health nurses to provide timely care. Medicare bulk billing is provided for general practice; also Commonwealth subsidizes medicines under Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Access to free interpreting services is also available through the Translating and Interpreting Services (TIS)…

Introduction Authorities are investigating what seems to be an indication of murder after an infant child was discovered stuffed in the microwave early morning by relatives. Elizabeth Renee Otte and Joseph Anthony Martinez Sr., the mother and father of infant baby Joseph Lewis Martinez Jr. lived with the father’s elder parents in a small, one brick rancher in Lenexa, Virginia. Elizabeth Otte, who apparently suffers from severe epileptic seizures and blackouts up to 50 minutes, claims that she…

The figure of Mariam in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam has been of tremendous interest to feminist critics who view her as a character embodying the contradictions of female identity in patriarchal culture. The play exposes this culture as conflicted in itself because of contradictory ideas about the proper "performance" of femininity which not only sever the female subject, but also create irreconcilable dilemmas for males. Mariam must choose between speaking as her own "inner" voice…

Background of The Royal Bank of Scotland The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was founded in 1727. It was one of the retail banking subsidiaries of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS Group) and also the second bank operated in Scotland beside the Bank of Scotland, which was founded in 1695. The growing of Royal Bank of Scotland was significantly good especially between 18th to 19th century. RBS mainly operated as a retail banking that provides banking services for personal, business as well as…