The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
H is the eighth letter of the English alphabet, often called the aspirate, as being a mereaspiration or breathing, though not the only aspirated letter in English. The sound that distinctively belongs to it is that which it has at the beginning of a syllable before a vowel, as in hard, heavy. It is very commonly joined to other consonants to represent sounds for which there are no special letters in the alphabet, as in the digraphs ch, sh, th (child, ship, thin, this), or in other consonantal combinations of various origins and values, as in the words enough (gh=-f), plough (gh silent), philosophy (ph=-f), rhetoric (h silent), etc. Ch is common in words taken from the Greek, but in this case it generally has the k sound, as in chemistry, chyle, logomachy, etc.
Madame Albani, maiden name Marie Louise Emma Cecile Lajeunesse, was a Canadian singer. She was born in 1852 near Montreal and died after 1905. Sh was trained at home by her father, and studied also in Paris and Milan. She made her first public appearance in Europe at Messina, in Bellini's La Sonnambula, and in 1872 sang in the Royal Italian Opera in London. Since then she attained the position of one of the world's foremost singers, both in opera and oratorio. She was an especial favourite of Queen Victoria. In 1878 she was married to Ernest Gye, the operatic manager. She adopted the professional name of Albani from Albany, in the United States, where as a girl she sang in the Roman Catholic cathedral. Research Madame Albani
The Penguin is a Norwegianhelicopter launched anti-ship missile developed for use on SH-60 Sea-Hawk helicopters and NATOallies. Penguin has a range of 35 km and a flight speed of Mach 1.2. Penguin is armed with a 120.5 kilogram, semi armour-piercing warhead. Research Penguin
The Sh-6-30 is a Soviet aircraft mounted gun firing HEFI rounds and AO-18 cartridges. The maximum fire rate is 5,000 rounds per minute and the muzzle velocity is 850 metres per second. Research Sh-6-30
Perl is an interpreted language optimised for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh. Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. Unlike most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data - if you've got the memory, Perl can read in an entire file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth. And the hash tables used by associative arrays grow as necessary to prevent degraded performance. Perl uses sophisticated pattern matching techniques to scan large amounts of data very quickly. Although optimised for scanning text, Perl can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like associative arrays. Research Perl More information about Perl
The Bucker Bu 133 (Jungmeister) was a highly aerobatic German single-seater advanced trainer biplane of the Second World War. The Bucker Bu 133C was powered by a 160 hp Siemens Sh 14A-4 seven-cylinder radial piston engine providing a top speed of 220 kmh and a range of 500 km. Research Bucker Bu 133
The Dornier Do 11 (Flying Coffin) was a German all-metal, shoulder-wing monoplane used as a heavy bomber of the Second World War in service from 1934 to 1940. The Dornier Do 11 was manned by a crew of four comprising a pilot, navigator/bombardier/gunner, radio operator/gunner and a dedicated gunner. Two Siemens Sh. 22B-2 (BristolJupiter) radial piston engines provided a top speed of 260 kmh and a range of 960 km. Armaments consisted of 1000 kg of disposable ordinance carried in a lower-fuselage weapons bay and generally comprising ten 100 kg or twenty 50 kg bombs; one 7.92 mm MG15 trainable forward firing machine-gun in the nose, one 7.92 mm calibre trainable machine-gun in the dorsal position and two 7.92 mm calibre rearward-firing trainable machine-guns in the ventral position. Research Dornier Do 11
The Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz was a German two-seater trainer biplane first produced in 1932 and used throughout the Second World War to train Luftwaffe pilots. The Fw 44 was powered by a 150 hp Siemens Sh 14a 7-cylinder radial piston engine providing a top speed of 185 kmh and a range of 675 km. Research Fw 44
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