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- Crusading movement (Borsoka)
- This article looks at the framework of ideologies and institutions that described, regulated, and promoted the Crusades, a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Members of the Church defined the movement in legal and theological terms based on the concepts of holy war and pilgrimage. Growing out of the Gregorian Reform of the 11th century, the Crusading movement declined after the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
- Manhattan Project feed materials program (Hawkeye7)
- Another instalment in Hawkeye's series on the Manhattan Project of World War II, this program was responsible for locating and procuring uranium ores, refining and processing them into feed materials for the isotope enrichment plants at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and its nuclear reactors at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state. The highly enriched uranium product of the enrichment plants and the plutonium from the reactors was used to make atomic bombs.
- Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring (SchroCat)
- An excellent example of realist art used as propaganda for the home front in World War II, Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring was painted by British artist Laura Knight in 1943. Per Schrocat's FAC nomination statement, "it caught the public's imagination in the 1940s and is still well thought-of over eighty years later".
- Battle of Goodrich's Landing (Hog Farm)
- Continuing Hog Farm's work on the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War, the Battle of Goodrich's Landing was fought in Louisiana on 29-30 June, 1863. Confederate forces tried to aid the defenders of besieged Vicksburg by raiding plantations and disrupting military encampments along the west bank of the Mississippi. The initial attack against Goodrich's Landing on 29 June was repelled by its African-American defenders; their officers surrendered after this engagement and eyewitness accounts indicate that some of the black enlisted men were murdered by Confederate soldiers. The Confederates continued their raid the next day before pulling back.
- Yugoslav torpedo boat T8 (Peacemaker67)
- The latest in Peacemaker's series on Yugoslav torpedo boats, T8 was operated by the Royal Yugoslav Navy between 1921 and 1941, after spending World War I in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She performed convoy, patrol, escort and minesweeping, and anti-submarine tasks during World War I, and became one of the Royal Yugoslav Navy's few vessels upon its formation. The ship was captured by Italy during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, and later served with the Royal Italian Navy. Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, she was sunk by German aircraft.
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- USS Missouri (1841) (GGOTCC)
- USS Missouri was a sidewheel steam frigate of the United States Navy. Alongside USS Mississippi, she was one of the first steam warships of the Navy. Commissioned in 1842, she carried 10 guns and was among the fleet's largest ships. In her first year, she conducted trials off the US East Coast, followed by a deployment to the Gulf of Mexico. In 1843, she made the US Navy's first steam-powered Atlantic crossing, bound for Egypt. The ship was destroyed by an accidental fire while anchored off Gibraltar in late August 1843.
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