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Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [3][4] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [5]
Blackwater Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Blackwater, Cooper County, Missouri. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Blackwater. It developed between about 1891 and 1946, and includes representative examples of Queen Anne and Bungalow / American ...
Erik Prince. Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman, investor, and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and as its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource ...
2004 Fallujah ambush. The 2004 Fallujah ambush occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater USA who were conducting a delivery for food caterers ESS. [1]
Blackwater is a city in northwest Cooper County, Missouri, United States located along the Blackwater River, from which it takes its name. [4] The population was 162 at the 2010 census . Founded by the Missouri Pacific Railroad , Blackwater's economy was largely defined by freight until the mid-twentieth century.
Blackwater, Cornwall. Blackwater (Cornish: Dowrdu) [1] is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in the parish of St Agnes between Truro and Redruth. The village lies on the old course of the A30 north of the current course which bypasses it. [2] The village has a primary school (built in 1877) which serves the village ...
Betsy Dibnah Dibnah had watched the activities of steeplejacks throughout his childhood, and first witnessed a chimney felling from his father's allotment near Bolton's greyhound track at Raikes Park. The steeplejacks removed the top of the chimney and then created a hole in its base, propped with blocks of wood. They then lit a fire, destroying the supports and causing the chimney to collapse ...
The Craver farmhouse is a fine vernacular example of the Federal style of architecture. The Craver farmhouse also provides a rich historical example of the type of home in which generation after generation of upstate New York farmers resided and reared their families and retains a high degree of integrity of location, feeling, association, materials, and craftsmanship.