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- Siege of Breteuil (Gog the Mild)
- The Norman town of Breteuil, held by partisans of Charles II, King of Navarre, was besieged by the French from April to August 1356. On 5 July a small English army under Henry, Earl of Lancaster, relieved and resupplied it. The French king, John II, attempted to engage Lancaster with the much larger royal army, but Lancaster marched away. The garrison eventually evacuated Breteuil after John II offered them free passage and a large bribe.
- Roswell incident (Feoffer)
- One of the best-known UFO conspiracy theories, the "Roswell incident" contends that the 1947 crash of a US Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico, was in fact caused by an alien spacecraft. This article describes actually happened in 1947, as well as the rise of Roswell conspiracy theories and their eventual debunking.
- Battle of Big Black River Bridge (Hog Farm)
- This was a brief, and rather lopsided, engagement during the American Civil War's Vicksburg campaign. To hold a bridgehead east of the Big Black River, the Confederates used a division that had been mauled the day before and a brigade of inexperienced conscripts from a region hostile to the Confederacy. The Confederate position collapsed soon after a Union corps arrived and launched an attack. The surviving Confederates fled to avoid being cut off.
- Yugoslav torpedo boat T6 (Peacemaker67)
- T6 was one of T4's sister ships. She also saw service in World War I with the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and was transferred to the Royal Yugoslav Navy in 1921. The ship was captured by Italian forces during the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. After her main armament was modernised, she served with the Royal Italian Navy under her Yugoslav designation, conducting coastal and second-line escort duties in the Adriatic. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was scuttled by her crew as she had insufficient fuel to reach an Allied port.
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- Lockheed YF-22 (Steve7c8)
- The Lockheed YF-22 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force. The design team, with Lockheed as the prime contractor, was a finalist in the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) competition, and two prototypes were built for the demonstration/validation phase. In 1991 the YF-22 team won the contest against the Northrop YF-23 team for full-scale development and the design was developed into the Lockheed Martin F-22.
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