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Serpente was one of seven s built for the (Royal Italian Navy) during the early 1930s.
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The "Argonauta" class was derived from the earlier s. They displaced surfaced and submerged.
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The submarines were long, had a beam of and a draft of .
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They had a operational diving depth of .
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Their crew numbered 44 officers and enlisted men.
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For surface running, the boats were powered by two diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft.
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When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor.
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They could reach on the surface and underwater.
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On the surface, the "Settembrini" class had a range of at ; submerged, they had a range of at .
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The boats were armed with six torpedo tubes, four in the bow and two in the stern for which they carried a total of 12 torpedoes.
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They were also armed with a single deck gun forward of the conning tower for combat on the surface.
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Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of two single machine guns.
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"Serpente" was laid down by Cantieri navali Tosi di Taranto at their Taranto shipyard in 1930, launched on 28 February 1932 and completed the following year.
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George Feldstein
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George Feldstein (Born 1941 in Manhattan, NY) was an engineer known for his contributions to audio-visual technologies.
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Feldstein is responsible for the creation of several audio and video control devices, such as a remote for 35mm projects, the first HD digital touch panel, and the RF wireless control system.
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Feldstein holds 14 patents.
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Feldstein was the founder and CEO of Crestron Electronics, an audiovisual technologies company.
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Feldstein holds awards from InfoComm International and the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for his contributions to the AV industry.
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Feldstein received his B.S.
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in electronic engineering from New York University.
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Roy V. McCarty
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Major General Roy Van McCarty is an Officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard who currently serves as South Carolina Adjutant General, he was appointed to the position by Governor Henry McMaster on January 17, 2019.
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As the states senior military officer, he serves as commander of the South Carolina Military Department which includes the South Carolina Army National Guard, South Carolina Air National Guard, South Carolina State Guard and the Emergency Management Division; he also advises the Governor of the state on military matters.
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A native of Saluda, South Carolina he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from The Citadel in 1982.
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He is also a graduate of the Field Artillery Officer Advanced Course, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Senior Reserve Component Officer Course and the Senior Service Fellowship at Old Dominion University.
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Upon graduation from The Citadel McCarty was commissioned as a Field Artillery Officer into the United States Army serving for 5 years with the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia; after spending a year with the United States Army Reserve in St. Louis, he joined the South Carolina Army National Guard in 1986 and was assigned to the 178th Field Artillery Regiment at Andrews, South Carolina.
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He then served as a Forward Observer, Battery Commander, Battalion Assistant Training Officer and Headquarters Company Commander.
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Moving to the 151st Field Artillery Brigade at Sumter, South Carolina, he was a Fire Control Officer, Battery Operations Officer and Headquarters Battery Commander and also served as an Operations Officer with the 178th Field Artillery Brigade deploying to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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He was subsequently a Logistics Officer and Plans, Operations and Training Officer with the 59th Troop Command in Columbia.
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Returning to the 151st in 2007, he served as a Headquarters and Headquarters Battery Commander deploying to Operation Enduring Freedom.
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In Afghanistan, he was a Battalion Commander and Regional Police Advisory Commander.
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Promoted to Colonel, he was elevated to Deputy Commander of the 59th Troop Command.
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Then, he moved to a position as Air Defense Artillery Officer with the 263rd Army Air and Missile Command.
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He next was assigned as Director of the Joint Staff for the Joint Force Headquarters of the South Carolina National Guard; promoted to Brigadier General in 2012, he became Commanding General of the 59th Troop Command.
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McCarty was elevated to Assistant Adjutant General – Army for the South Carolina National Guard in 2013 and was promoted to Major General in 2017.
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McCarty succeeded Major General Robert Livingston who was elected Adjutant General in 2011, a change in state law in 2014 made the position an appointee of the Governor.
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In civilian life, General McCarty served for 24 years in the Law Enforcement Division of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
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His military awards include the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
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List of awards and nominations received by Yoo Jae-suk
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This is a list of awards and nominations received by Yoo Jae-suk.
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RAF Hope Cove
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Royal Air Force Hope Cove or more simply RAF Hope Cove is a former Royal Air Force radar station.
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It is located about south west of Salcombe on the south Devon coast, England, co-located with the former RAF Bolt Head airstrip, which was the RAF closed in 1945 but remains in service for general aviation to this day.
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Hope Cove was originally built in 1941 to host an AMES Type 7 ground control interception (GCI) station.
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In the 1950s it joined the ROTOR network and was upgraded with an AMES Type 80 radar.
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It was one of six Type 80 stations that featured a R6 bunker, which was semi-sunken.
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When the GCI role was moved to the new Master Radar Stations, the bunker was made redundant and taken over by the Home Office as a regional seat of government (RSG) bunker.
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Plans to move this station to Norton Manor Camp were never carried out, and it remained in use as a RSG (although the name change on occasion) until 1994 with the ending of the Cold War.
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The bunker is currently a Grade II Listed Building.
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List of works written in Sylheti Nagri
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This is a list of notable books and poems written in the endangered Sylheti Nagri script.
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"Since the 2000s, the spelling of the script was changed to Syloti Nagri in accordance with Unicode."
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Benedetto Ala
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Benedetto Ala (died 1620) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Urbino (1610–1620).
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Benedetto Ala was born in Cremona, Italy.
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On 5 May 1610, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Paul V as Archbishop of Urbino.
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On 9 May 1610, he was consecrated bishop by Michelangelo Tonti, Bishop of Cesena, with Metello Bichi, Bishop Emeritus of Sovana, and Alessandro Borghi, Bishop Emeritus of Sansepolcro, serving as co-consecrators.
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He served as Archbishop of Urbino until his death on 27 Apr 1620.
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Johann Baptist Placht
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Johann Baptist Placht was an Austrian soldier, clerk and confidence trickster who was indicted in 1874 for running a Ponzi scheme in 19th-century Vienna.
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Placht's birth date and place are unknown.
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Since he was 36 years old at the time of his trial on 10 February 1874, he must have been born in 1837 or 1838.
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Placht was originally a soldier in the rank of an officer in the "Freiherr von Ramming" infantry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
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He had to quit the service because of his debt and was hired as a clerk at a bank in Vienna.
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Shortly after he started working at the bank, numerous bonds went missing.
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Despite multiple reasonable grounds for suspecting Placht of the theft, his guilt could not be prove and he was instead fired with a severance.
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In the first half of 1872, Placht began advertising his business in all major newspapers, promising investors cheap rates for orders of securities.
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By June, he invited customers to deposit at least 500 gulden with his "Börsen-Comptoir" which he promised to invest at no risk to the customers and claiming that he had been able to make 15% profit for other customers.
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By November, he increased his claim to 20%.
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Placht never invested any money but used the investments to further his gambling addiction.
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After being able to keep up the charade for several months by paying out new customers with the investments of old customers, his business fell apart when the stock market crashed in May of 1873 and his trades were largely fictitious.
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On 18 May 1873, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated.
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At this time, his liabilities measured 2,820,346 gulden and 29 franks with assets worth only approximately 12,000 gulden.
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Placht himself had not documented his use of the funds and kept no records.
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On 10 February 1874, at age 36, he was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of fraud and embezzlement.
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The gullibility and greed of his customers was emphasized as a mitigating factor by both the prosecutor and the judge as well as the stock market crash.
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He was incarcerated in a prison in Stein (Krems an der Donau).
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In September 1877, he was pardoned by the emperor.
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After his release, his further life is not documented.
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Contemporary reports on the trial pointed to similarities to the case of Adele Spitzeder, who had run a similar business in Munich until November 1872; Spitzeder, however, unlike Placht, never claimed to invest the money people gave her or in fact explained how she intended to make a profit at all.
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In both cases, the customers were mainly from the lower classes of society.
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Hylda Sims
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Hylda Sims (3 April 1932 – 13 January 2020) was an English folk musician and poet.
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She was born in 1932, to parents who travelled the country in a caravan selling homemade herbal remedies.
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Her father, Thomas Sims, was a member of the Plebs' League, and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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During the Second World War, Hilda attended Summerhill School in Suffolk, before leaving in her mid-teens and starting to live in Swiss Cottage, London.
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Her first guitar was a gift from Ivor Cutler.
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She joined the Young Communist League, and then the London Youth Choir set up by university lecturer John Hasted.
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She travelled with the choir to festivals in communist eastern Europe, and by the mid-1950s also sang and played guitar in coffee bars in central London, while working at Collet's book and record shop.
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From 1954, she was in a personal relationship with modernist painter Russell Quaye.
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Together with John Pilgrim and John Lapthorne, they formed the City Ramblers (later the City Ramblers Skiffle Group), playing a mixture of jazz, blues, music hall and folk songs, and in 1955 set up the weekly Studio Skiffle club in Holborn.
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During the British skiffle boom of the mid to late 1950s, and later, Sims toured widely as a member of the City Ramblers, and recorded for the Storyville and Topic labels.
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In the 1960s, she studied at Hull University.
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She later taught English as a foreign language in London and Spain, and established a residential community on the South Yorkshire moors.
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She received a B.A.
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and an MSc in Russian Studies, and published three novels and two collections of poetry, "Sayling the Babel" (2006) and "Reaching Peckham" (2009).
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She regularly read her verse at poetry events, and performed with the City Ramblers Revival.
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Sims died in January 2020 at the age of 87.
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Mikhail Mishustin
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