The original WASP élite supposedly dominated the social structure of the United States since the early 1800s. Legacy admission to prep schools and to large universities in Ivy League or small liberal arts colleges such as the "Little Ivies" taught habit and attitude and formed connections which carried over to the influential spheres of finance, culture, and politics. Intermarriage preserved large inherited fortunes. Diversions such as polo and yachting marked those with sufficient wealth and leisure to pursue them. Social registers and soc ...

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The description of cruelty is both frank and matter of fact: this calm and detached form underscores the baroque evil with which Frank observes his personal religion. The eponymous Wasp Factory is a clock face salvaged from the local dump. Behind each numeral is a trap, which leads to a different ritual death for the wasp. Frank puts a wasp into the hole at the centre and uses the death "chosen" by the wasp to divine the future. There are also the Sacrifice Poles, where the bodies of larger animals Fran ...

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Westland Wasp - Royal Navy. The Wasp HAS.1 was introduced to service in the small ships role in 1964, after an intensive period of trials by 700(W) IFTU between June 1963 and March 1964. It served in this primary role with 829 Naval Air Squadron, but also in training units to supply crews for the front line with 705 NAS between 1965 and 1967 and in 703 NAS between 1972 and 1981. Single airframes also served for light liaison duties in the Commando Assault squadrons, 845 NAS and 848 NAS until 1973. Although ...

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Wasp was essentially a marinised Scout, indeed it was originally to be called the Sea Scout, and differed mainly in design details. It had a unique 4-wheeled castoring undercarriage that allowed the aircraft to be manouvered on the small, pitching flightdeck without the danger of rolling off. Additional fuel tankage was installed in the cabin doors and the tail and main rotor blades were foldable to allow stowage in the tiny hangars fitted to the fir ...

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Most species of gall wasp live as gall-formers on oaks. One of the most well-known of these oak gall wasps is the Common Oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii), which induces characteristic two-centimeter in diameter, spherical galls on the underside of oak leaves. Andricus foecundatrix Andricus quercuscalicis Andricus quercuscalicis These turn reddish in the fall and are commonly known as oak apples. Light lentiform galls on the underside of the same leaves are induced by Neuroterus quercusbaccarum; da ...

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Westland Wasp - General Characteristics. Crew: one pilot, one Aircrewman Capacity: up to four passengers Length: 40 ft 4 in (12.29 m) Main rotor diameter: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m) Height: 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m) Main rotor area: 816 ft² (76 m²) Empty: 3,452 lb (1,566 kg) Loaded: lb ( kg) Maximum takeoff: 5,500 lb (2,495 kg) Powerplant: 1x R ...

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The following characteristics are present in most wasps: Two pairs of wings (exception: female Mutillidae) A stinger (only present in females because it derives from the ovipositor) Few or no hairs (in contrast to bees); exception: Mutillidae. Though less efficient than bees, some wasp species are significant pollinators. Predators or parasitoids, mostly on other insects; some species of Pompilidae, such as the tarantula hawk, spec ...

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The galls of several species, especially Mediterranean variants, were once used as tanning agents. A rose gallnut with stem makes a long-lasting bouquet adornment. ...

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The MATCH system came about because of the increasing speed and attack range of the submarine threat, and the increased range at which this threat could be detected. Contemporary shipboard weapons did not have the neccessary range, therefore MATCH was in essence a stand-off weapon with the helicopter carrying the torpedo to the target and being instructed when and where to drop it. Unlike more modern aircraft, the Wasp carried no sonar of it own, and was limited strictly ...

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The term is redundant because all Anglo-Saxons are white. It is ethnically false because there were no "Anglo-Saxons" in America in the first place. The English who came derived from many different ethnic stocks over 1000 years. The Anglo-Saxon language, or Old English, disappeared 800+ years ago. 'WASP' is a term with an edge--not quite nasty, like "Wop", but not friendly. 3 It is sometimes pejorative, intended to drag up the history of racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicis ...

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Wasps Football Club was originally formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern in North London. The club gained its name because of the fashion of the Victorian period for clubs to adopt the names of insects, birds and animals. As a reasonably well-established club, Wasps were invited to join the Union and were eligible to be founder members. So they would have been had it not been for a mix-up that led to them not being present at the inauguration ceremony. In true rugby fashion the team turned up at the wrong pub, on the wrong day, at the wrong time and so forfeited t ...

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Use of the term WASP has broadened significantly since its coinage, and it is now sometimes applied to all Protestants of European descent. In the East Coast region of the United States, it generally is used to contrast 'old stock' Americans from the colonial era with the descendants of later European immigrants, such as Irish-American Catholics, Jewish-Americans, Italian-Americans, and other "white ethnics." In the South, where relatively few immigrants settled after 1860, WASP is less commonly used. In the Western United States, 'Anglo' is often used to contrast white Americans of European ancestry from Hispanics. It ...

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The term is redundant because all Anglo-Saxons are white. It is ethnically false because there were no "Anglo-Saxons" in America in the first place. The English who came derived from many different ethnic stocks over 1000 years. The Anglo-Saxon language, or Old English, disappeared 800+ years ago. WASP is sometimes pejorative, intended to drag up the history of racism, nativism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and attitudes of cultural superiority among the white Anglo-Saxon population. "To this day in America, the Wasps are the one group a ...

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Janet van Dyne was a shallow, self-centered, flighty heiress, daughter of wealthy scientist Vernon van Dyne. During an experiment, however, an alien monster was unleashed and Dr. van Dyne was killed. Her father's associate, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, had created a substance called "Pym particles", which allowed the user to grow or shrink in size, and had become the superhero Ant-Man; when Janet's father died, she convinced Pym to help her, and he gave her a supply of "Pym particles" and subjected her to a procedure which granted her the ab ...

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Use of the term WASP has broadened significantly since its coinage. Some people use it to refer to a powerful elite, with little regard to actual ethnicity. Others use it to refer to an ethnic group. Users vary widely in terms of which ethnic group they mean, and some even apply it to all Protestants of European descent. Most dictionaries warn the term is often derogatory or insulting. In the Northeast United States, it generally is used to contrast 'old stock' Americans from the colonial era with the descendants of later European immigrants ...

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The reproduction of the gall wasp is partly pure two-sex propagation, partly pure parthenogenesis, in which a male is completely unnecessary. With most species, however, there is an alternation of generations with one two-sex generation and one parthenogenic generation annually. This process differentiates the various generations primarily in their appearance and the form of the plant galls they induce. The larvae of most gall wasps develop in characteristic plant galls they induce themselves, however many species are also inquilines of oth ...

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The North American cicada killer wasps all belong to the genus Sphecius, of which there are 21 species worldwide. The four cicada-killing species in North America are: Sphecius speciosus (Drury, 1773), the Eastern Cicada Killer, occurs in the eastern and midwest U.S. and in Mexico and Central America. Sphecius convalis (Patton, 1879), the Western Cicada Killer, occurs in the western U.S. and in Mexico. Sphecius grandis (Say, 1823), occurs in the mid- and southwest U.S. ...

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Solitary wasps (such as the Cicada Killer) are very different in their behavior than the social wasps such as hornets, yellowjackets, and paper wasps. Cicada Killer females use their sting to paralyze their prey (cicadas) rather than to defend their nests. Adults feed on flower nectar and other plant sap exudates. Little is known about the biology of most species of cicada killers; the following account is based on what is known about the Eastern Cicada Killer, Sphecius speciosus. Adults emerge in summer, beginning around July ...

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USS Wasp CV-18 - 1943–1944. Following a shakedown cruise which lasted through the end of 1943, Wasp returned to Boston for a brief yard period to correct minor flaws which had been discovered during her time at sea. On 10 January 1944 the new aircraft carrier departed Boston; steamed to Hampton Roads, Virginia; and remained there until the last day of the month, when she sailed for Trinidad, her base of operations through 22 February. She returned to Boston five days later and prepared for service in the ...

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USS Wasp CV-18 - 1947–1951. After receiving the new alterations, Wasp was assigned temporary duty as an Operation Magic Carpet troop transport. On 17 February 1947, Wasp was placed out of commission in reserve, attached to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In the summer of 1948, Wasp was taken out of the reserve fleet and placed in the New York Naval Shipyard for refitting and alterations to enable her to accommodate the larger, heavier, and faster planes of the jet age. Upon the completion of this conversion, the ship was recommissioned on 10 September 1951.

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Following her return to Norfolk on the 13 July 1941, Wasp and her embarked air group conducted refresher training off the Virginia Capes. Meanwhile, the situation in the Atlantic had taken on a new complexion, with American participation in the Battle of the Atlantic only a matter of time, when the United States took another step toward involvement on the side of the British. To protect American security and to free British forces needed elsewhere, the United States made plans to occupy Iceland. < ...

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