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Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...
The Nike Hercules, initially designated SAM-A-25 and later MIM-14, was a surface-to-air missile (SAM) used by U.S. and NATO armed forces for medium- and high-altitude long-range air defense. [ 4] It was normally armed with the W31 nuclear warhead, but could also be fitted with a conventional warhead for export use.
Nike, Inc.[ note 1 ] (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States. [ 5 ] It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ]
Fed-up civil rights leaders met in New York and chose the centennial of Lincoln's birthday, Feb. 12, 1909, to form the NAACP, whose original board included scholar W.E.B. DuBois.
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THALIA BEATY. July 29, 2024 at 8:09 AM. NEW YORK (AP) — Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness ...
July 24, 2024 at 7:12 AM. (Reuters) -Pfizer's gene therapy for hemophilia A significantly cut the number of annual bleeding episodes in patients with the rare disorder in a late-stage study and ...
In The Last Olympian, he manipulates the winds to form a barrier around Olympus protect it from the Titans. [4] In The Lost Hero, he is portrayed as frenetic and unbalanced by attempting to fill all the requests of the gods and hopes to be made god of the wind. Amphitrite/Salacia – The Queen of the Sea and wife of Poseidon/Neptune.