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Raymond Fredric Dasmann (May 27, 1919 – November 5, 2002) was an American biologist and environmental conservationist whose works were formative to the field of environmental science. Among other achievements, he helped develop the idea of sustainable development and wrote an influential textbook, Environmental Conservation, first published ...
Battle. On 2 August 1990, shortly after 00:00 local time, Iraq invaded Kuwait. [1] [2] The attack on Dasman Palace, the residence of the Emir of Kuwait, by Iraqi special forces commenced sometime between 04:00 and 06:00; [2] [3] these forces have been variously reported as helicopter airborne troops, [4] or as infiltrators in civilian clothes. [2]
The Battle of Wadi al-Batin, also known as the Battle of Ruqi Pocket, took place before the beginning of the Desert Storm operations on 16 February 1991. This is not to be confused with the "Battle of Wadi al-Batin" which was fought later in the four-day ground war between elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (United States) and the Iraqi Republican Guard.
Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity. The Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity ( Romanian: Partidul Libertate, Unitate și Solidaritate, PLUS) was a pro-European, liberal [1] political party established on 26 October 2018, [2] [3] whose president was Dacian Cioloș, former Prime Minister of Romania from 2015 until 2017, elected on 26 ...
The Dasam Granth (Gurmukhi: ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ dasama gratha) is a collection of various poetic compositions attributed to Guru Gobind Singh. The text enjoyed an equal status with the Adi Granth, or Guru Granth Sahib, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were installed side by side on the same platform.
The Kuwait Towers are a group of three thin towers in Kuwait City, standing on a promontory into the Arabian Gulf.They were the sixth, and last, group in the larger Kuwait Water Towers system of 34 towers (33 store water; one stores equipment), and were built in a style considerably different from the other five groups.
Plus System, Inc. started out as a consortium formed by 34 major U.S. banks to build a national network of automated teller machines (ATM). It initially was composed of 2,000 ATMs linking 1,000 banks and their customers in 47 states. [2] As the booming ATM industry outgrew regional networks and began to go nationwide in the mid-1980s, credit ...
The Social Liberal Humanist Party ( Romanian: Partidul Umanist Social Liberal, PUSL ), formerly Humanist Power Party (Social-Liberal) ( Romanian: Partidul Puterii Umaniste (social-liberal), PPU-SL) is a centrist [5] to centre-left [citation needed] political party in Romania. It was founded in 2015 by members of the Conservative Party (PC) who ...