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Sergeant. Unit. 75th Ranger Regiment. 3rd Ranger Battalion. Battles/wars. Iraq War. War in Afghanistan. Nicholas Irving (born November 28, 1986) is an American author and former soldier. He was a special operations sniper in the 3rd Ranger Battalion for the U.S. Army. [1]
Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers .
Christopher Scott Kyle was born on April 8, 1974, in Odessa, Texas, the eldest of two boys born to Deborah Lynn ( née Mercer) and Wayne Kenneth Kyle, a Sunday school teacher and deacon. [3] [10] His father bought Kyle his first rifle at the age of eight, a bolt-action .30-06 Springfield rifle, and later a shotgun, with which they hunted deer ...
36°07′17″N 115°10′08″W. / 36.12139°N 115.16889°W / 36.12139; -115.16889. The Sands Hotel and Casino was a historic American hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996. Designed by architect Wayne McAllister, with a prominent 56-foot (17 m) high sign, the Sands ...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles ...
John James Rambo (born July 6, 1945) is a fictional character in the Rambo franchise. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone.
In 1952, Ed Lehner discovered extinct mammoth bone fragments on his ranch, at the locality now known as the Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site. He notified the Arizona State Museum, and a summer of heavy rains in 1955 exposed more bones. Excavations, led by William W. Wasley and Emil Haury, took place in 1955–56, and again in 1974–75.
Sports in San Diego. Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres. Snapdragon Stadium, home of San Diego State Aztecs football, San Diego FC, San Diego Wave FC, and the San Diego Legion. Viejas Arena, home of San Diego State Aztecs men's and women's basketball and the San Diego Mojo. Sports in San Diego includes two major professional league teams ...
Rancho Peñasquitos, San Diego. / 32.9594000°N 117.1155750°W / 32.9594000; -117.1155750. Rancho Peñasquitos is a suburban community in the northeastern part of the city of San Diego, California. It is named after the first Mexican land grant in the county, Rancho Santa Maria de Los Peñasquitos. ( Peñasquitos is Spanish for "little ...
Robles Junction is a neighborhood of Three Points [2] in Pima County, Arizona, United States. Robles Junction is located at the intersection of Arizona State Route 86 and Arizona State Route 286 southwest of Tucson . Route 286 traverses the center of the north-northeast-trending Altar Valley; Sasabe is at the southern terminus, and Robles ...