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  2. Vanguard 2 - Wikipedia

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    Vanguard SLV-5 →. Vanguard 2 (or Vanguard 2E before launch) is an Earth-orbiting satellite launched 17 February 1959 at 15:55:02 GMT, aboard a Vanguard SLV-4 rocket as part of the United States Navy's Project Vanguard. [4] The satellite was designed to measure cloud cover distribution over the daylight portion of its orbit, for a period of 19 ...

  3. Vanguard - Wikipedia

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    The vanguard (sometimes abbreviated to van and also called the advance guard) is the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and securing ground in advance of the main force. In naval warfare the van is the advance ship, or fleet, that will make the initial engagement with ...

  4. HMS Vanguard (23) - Wikipedia

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    HMS. Vanguard. (23) HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of the Royal Navy 's battleships, [3] the only ship of her class, and the last battleship to be built.

  5. The Vanguard Group - Wikipedia

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    The Vanguard Group, Inc. The Vanguard Group, Inc. (commonly known as simply Vanguard ), is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, with about $7.7 trillion in global assets under management, as of April 2023. [3] It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds ...

  6. Asterigos: Curse of the Stars - Wikipedia

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    Hack and slash. Mode (s) Single-player. Asterigos: Curse of the Stars is a third-person hack and slash role-playing video game with Soulslike elements, developed by Acme Gamestudio and published by TinyBuild. The game was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on October 11, 2022. [1]

  7. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    An operating system ( OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs . Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, peripherals, and ...

  8. Leninism - Wikipedia

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    Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party as the political prelude to the establishment of communism . Lenin's ideological contributions to the Marxist ideology relate to his theories on ...

  9. Vickers Vanguard - Wikipedia

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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs.. The Vanguard was developed during the mid-to-late 1950s in response to a specification issued by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seat airliner; Vickers decided to design such an airliner as a follow-up to the existing Viscount series, the ...