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Box office. $3.4 million (US/Canada rentals) [2] Rally Round the Flag, Boys! is a 1958 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey from a screenplay he co-wrote with Claude Binyon, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Max Shulman. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, and Jack Carson.
Early life (1732–1752) Further information: Washington family and British America Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball ...
Herbert Putnam. George Herbert Putnam (September 20, 1861 – August 14, 1955) [1] was an American librarian. He was the eighth (and also the longest-serving) Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. [2] He implemented his vision of a universal collection with strengths in many languages, especially from Europe and Latin America.
The design, originally known as the HPR.3 Herald, emanated from the drawing office at Handley Page (Reading) Limited—the former Miles Aircraft factory site, which had developed an earlier airliner design, the Miles Marathon. The Herald was an extensive re-development of the original concept of the Marathon, notable for its high mounted wing. [2]
World War I [j] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia.
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Protective relay. v. t. e. A DC-to-DC converter is an electronic circuit or electromechanical device that converts a source of direct current (DC) from one voltage level to another. It is a type of electric power converter. Power levels range from very low (small batteries) to very high (high-voltage power transmission).
Whitney Portal (formerly Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp) is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles (22 km) west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet (2,552 m). Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mount Whitney , the highest point in the contiguous United States; it is the trailhead for the Mount Whitney Trail .