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"Me and My Winston" A female singer performs the 'Me and My Winston' jingle in front of a giant Winston cigarette box. Insurance New York Life "Happiness" A New York Life agent offers happiness to a hippy family through life insurance. Petroleum American Oil Company "De-Icer"
The BMW K75 is a standard motorcycle produced by BMW Motorrad from 1985 to 1995. The three-cylinder BMW K75 was developed alongside the K100, but was introduced a year after the K100 as a marketing strategy.
Establishment of the first headquarters of the Finnish Defence Forces on 2 February 1918. After Finland's declaration of independence on 6 December 1917, the Civic Guards were proclaimed the troops of the government on 25 January 1918 and then Lieutenant General of the Russian Imperial Army Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was appointed as Commander-in-Chief of these forces the next day. [11]
Types of military government include: Military occupation of acquired foreign territory and the administration thereof; Martial law, temporary military rule of domestic territory; Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally
Alexander is a white bulldog with a military collar who looks down haughtily upon Diogenes, represented as a scruffy farrier's dog in a barrel. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Landseer was inspired to create the painting when he encountered two dogs in the street, one observing the other from within a barrel, and was reminded of the encounter between Alexander ...
Polish 120 mm battery during the Battle of Warsaw; Polish–Soviet War, August 1920. When Poland regained independence in 1918, it recreated its military which participated in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921, and in the two smaller conflicts ( Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–1919) and the Polish–Lithuanian War (1919–1920)).
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...