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155 - Events. Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius starts a new war against the Parthians that ended shortly Pope Anicetus succeeds Pope Pius I First year of Yongshou era of the Chinese Han Dynasty 155 - Births. Dio Cassius, Roman historian Cao Cao, future ruler of the Kingdom of Wei 155 - Deaths. July 11 - Pope Pius I Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (martyred) Including:

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West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a West Caribbean Airways charter flight which crashed in a mountainous region in northwest Venezuela on the morning of Tuesday, August 16, 2005, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, was in route from Tocumen International Airport (PTY) in Panama City, Panama to Fort de France, Martinique (FDF). The pilots reported trouble with one engine, and later the other engine as well. They diverted the plane to Maracaibo for an emergency landing. After a 7,0 ...

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The Abrams remained untested in combat until the Gulf War in 1991. A total of 1,848 M1A1s were deployed to Saudi Arabia. The M1A1 was superior to Iraq's Soviet-era T-55 and T-62 tanks, as well as degraded Russian T-72s which lack night vision and any modern range finders and locally-produced copies (Asad Babil tank). Only 18 M1A1s were taken out of service due to battle damage and none of these losses resulted in crew casualties. The M1A1 was capable of ...

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M1 Abrams, M1 Abrams - Production history, M1 Abrams - Combat history, M1 Abrams - Armor, M1 Abrams - Armament, M1 Abrams - Main armament, M1 Abrams - Secondary armament, M1 Abrams - Aiming, M1 Abrams - Mobility, M1 Abrams - Tank Urban Survival Kit for M1A2, M1 Abrams - Variants & Kits, M1 Abrams - Specifications of variants

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Sun Jian - Early life and career. Born in the Fuchun Prefecture of the Wu Commandery (吳郡富春, present day Fuyang, Zhejiang), Sun Jian was said to be a descendant of the renowned military strategist Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War. He was a civil officer in his prefecture during his youth. When he was sixteen, Sun Jian travelled with his father to Qiantang (錢唐, present day Hanzhou, Zhejiang), where they came upon a band of pirates dividing up their spoils on land. Sun Jian jumped on shore with a ...

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Sun Jian, Sun Jian - Life, Sun Jian - Early life and career, Sun Jian - Coalition against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian - Late life, Sun Jian - Reference

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