HMS Onslaught was a British Onslow Class destroyer of 1540 tons displacement launched in 1941 as HMS Pathfinder. HMS Onslaught was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She was armed with two 4.7 inch guns; four 2 pdrpom-pom guns; eight 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes. Research Onslaught
HMS Onslaught is a British Oberon Class patrol submarine of 2410 tons displacement dived launched in 1960. HMS Onslaught is powered by two Admiralty Standard Range 16 VMS diesel engines providing a top speed of 17 knots dived and a range of 9000 miles at 12 knots surfaced. She carries a crew of 69 including seven officers and is armed with six 21 inch bow torpedo tubes taking the MarconiTigerfish Mk 24 Mod 2 torpedo or mines in place of torpedoes. Research Onslaught II
The Sacre-Coeur is a magnificentchurch in the Montmartre region of Paris, France. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 two Parisien Catholic businessmen, Alexandre Legentil and Rohault de Fleury, vowed to build a church dedicated to the SacredHeart of Christ should Paris be spared the impending onslaught. The two men lived and Paris was saved, despite a lengthy siege, so they commenced work to build the Sacre-Coeur basilica in 1875. The design was drawn up by Paul Abadie and the project taken on by Archbishop Guibert of Paris, and the church finished in 1914 but not consecrated until 1919 due to the German invasion during the Great War. The bell tower of the Sacre-Coeur is 83 meters tall and contains one of the world's heaviest bells, weighing 18.5 tonnes. Research Sacre-Coeur
Country dance is a traditional form of British folk and aristocratic dance, from which many variations developed. Flirtatious and social, it is danced by a 'set', or group of couples, who execute various patterns or figures with one another. A set can have various formations. In a longways set, for example, partners face each other in parallel lines of men and women, while in a Sicilian circle couple faces couple. Sets are generally divided into ' minor sets' of two or three couples. By the end of the overall pattern, each leading couple has exchanged places with another couple, and the dance repeats until all couples have had a chance to be leaders. Country dances, although known earlier, were first printed in 'The English Dancing Master' published in 1650 by the English musician John Playford. By 1700 English dancing had become a European fashion, and continental forms acquired a French name, contredanse, and more intricate footwork. One French dance in square formation, the cotillion, gave rise to the quadrille, which, like other contredanses, became the vogue in England and the USA. The quadrille absorbed other influences in North America and evolved into the square dance. A popular form of country dance is the Virginia Reel, an American version of an English dance called the Sir Roger de Coverley, which was one of the few older English dances to survive the onslaught of the contredanse. Research Country Dance
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