Allied forces

Marathon Watch and the Jeep® Brand Join Forces for a Powerful Collaboration, Over 80 Years in the Making

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星期四, 五月 2, 2024
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TORONTO, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Marathon Watch and the Jeep® Brand proudly announced the launch of the new Jeep® x Marathon collection – introducing four feature timepieces that honor each brand's rich history and honorable service supplying the Allied Forces dating back to 1941.

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  • Some say that Soldiers shortened the "General Purpose" designation to "GP," from which the easily pronounceable word "Jeep" was derived.
  • Meanwhile Marathon Watch Company officially began manufacturing timing instruments for infantry of the Allied Forces.
  • "We are thrilled to embark on this partnership with Jeep," said Mitchell Wein, President of Marathon Watch Company.
  • For more information about the Jeep x Marathon collection or the Marathon Watch brand, visit marathonwatch.com and follow @MarathonWatch on Instagram , Facebook , and @MarathonWatchCompany on YouTube .

US Air Force Awards Skyloom $18M to Develop Hybrid Space Optical Satellite Communications to Support Assured C3ISR

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星期一, 四月 8, 2024
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The contract will allow Skyloom to develop network infrastructure elements of Space Optical Satellite Communications for a Hybrid Space Architecture to augment assured communications in a contested environment.

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  • The contract will allow Skyloom to develop network infrastructure elements of Space Optical Satellite Communications for a Hybrid Space Architecture to augment assured communications in a contested environment.
  • Skyloom and SkyBridge, a subsidiary of Knowledge Bridge International, Inc. (KBI) will collaborate to bring the solutions to use.
  • Each of these elements are fundamental building blocks for the future of U.S. and Allied assured communications that are already evolving through free-space optical technology.
  • “STRATFI accelerates the production and operational readiness of Space Optical Satellite Communications for Government and Commercial End-Users.

Tulips for breakfast: the flower as food from the war to contemporary gastronomy

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星期三, 五月 3, 2023
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Trains and river transport were blocked by rivers that had frozen over so people found it more difficult to access food.

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  • Trains and river transport were blocked by rivers that had frozen over so people found it more difficult to access food.
  • Calorie consumption went from 1,800 to 500 kilocalories per person per day from May 1944 to February 1945.
  • It is estimated that from the fall of 1944 until May 1945, between 20,000 and 25,000 Dutch citizens died of malnutrition.

Tulip soup to soothe the soul

    • During this stage of war, tulips were no longer cultivated and a large reserve of unplanted bulbs remained.
    • Tulip bulb soup was cooked during the only hour of gas that was available per day.
    • Although tulip bulbs are rich in starch, they will not thicken the soup as flour does.

Toxic bulbs

    • Their bulbs mainly contain an allergen: the compound called tulipalin A, which is primarily found in the bulb’s outer layer, but also in the stem, leaves and petals.
    • Experts have detected the poisoning of cows which have eaten hay and tulip bulbs, in addition to the compound’s role as a causative agent of so-called “tulip fingers”.
    • The danger of consuming tulip bulbs lies in the variety or in the way in which they are prepared.

In modern cuisine

    • The ornamental use of sugared petals on a cake or eating them with syrup is also noteworthy.
    • Caron invented dishes such as tomato confit, fennel and tulip bulb salad and oysters with tulip bulbs.
    • The Dutch bulb industry paid tribute to her by naming a white variety of the flower with exceptional luminosity, the Audrey Hepburn tulip.