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H-Hour. The specific time at which an operation or exercise commences, or is due to commence (this term is used also as a reference for the designation of days/hours before or after the event). (NATO); also known as 'Zero Hour'. I-Day. Used informally within the U.S. military bureaucracy to variously designate the "Implementation Day" or the ...
Running time. 107 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Box office. $41.1 million [ 1] Murder at 1600 is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Dwight Little and starring Wesley Snipes and Diane Lane .
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, [ 1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in Europe and led European trade, science, and art.
The Battle of Poitiers in 1356, in a manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles of c. 1410. Military art is art with a military subject matter, regardless of its style or medium. The battle scene is one of the oldest types of art in developed civilizations, as rulers have always been keen to celebrate their victories and intimidate potential opponents.
Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums ( muraqqa ), originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. It emerged from Persian miniature painting (itself partly of Chinese origin) and developed in the ...
The United States Army Art Program or U.S. Army Combat Art Program is a U.S. Army program to create artwork documenting its involvements in war and peacetime engagements. The art collection associated with the program is held by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. The United States Army Centre of Military History built the National Museum ...
Bollongier, still life Dutch painter (died 1645) Domenico Bruni, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (died 1666) Bernabé de Ayala, Spanish historical painter (died 1678) Jacob Duck, Dutch painter (died 1667) Aniello Falcone, Italian painter noted for his depictions of battle scenes (died 1665)
A 1786 depiction of the Montgolfier brothers ' balloon. Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before.