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22 hours ago · The top, or upper, side of a bird's wing. [ 433 ]Compare: underwing. uropygial gland. Also, preen gland; oil gland. A gland found at the rump, at the base of the tail that produces a waxy secretion made up of oils, fatty acids, fats and water that the majority of birds use in daily preening of their feathers.
22 hours ago · Black, green, red. Party flag. Politics of United States. Political parties. Elections. The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s.
22 hours ago · Shield (subdued) Strategic Air Command (SAC) was a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces [2] from 1946 to 1992.
22 hours ago · Unicameral Legislature/No Lower House. No regularly-scheduled elections. The 2024 United States state legislative elections will be held on November 5, 2024, for 85 state legislative chambers in 44 states. Across the fifty states, approximately 65 percent of all upper house seats and 85 percent of all lower house seats will be up for election.
22 hours ago · The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. August 2024 1 Jürgen Ahrend, 94, German pipe organ builder (Rysum organ, Schnitker organ (Groningen), Schnitger organ (Hamburg)). Pina Bottin, 94, Italian ...
22 hours ago · Dies ist eine chronologische Liste aller bemannten Missionen zur Internationalen Raumstation (ISS), einschließlich der nächsten geplanten Flüge. Besuche unbemannter Raumschiffe sind nicht enthalten. Die Mitglieder der ISS-Langzeitbesatzungen sind fett dargestellt. Die „Zeit angedockt“ bezieht sich auf das Raumschiff und stimmt nicht ...
