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The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.
This article contains a list of the top 50 accounts with the largest number of followers on the social media platform Facebook. [1] [2] As of March 2024, the most-followed page is Facebook App's page with more than 189 million. The most-followed person is Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, with over 168 million followers as of March 2024.
The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
50+ aircraft. The first USS Saipan (CVL-48/AVT-6/CC-3) was a light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of her class of carrier. She was later selected for conversion into a command ship in 1963–1964, but instead of becoming a command ship she was converted to the Major Communications Relay Ship Arlington (AGMR-2) in 1965.
70–90. USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was the second of four Forrestal -class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War . Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in the ...
Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the United States Pacific Fleet, consisting of over 50 ships and over 150 tenant commands. The base is composed of 13 piers stretched over 1,600 acres (650 ha) of land and 326 acres (132 ha) of water. [1] The total on base population is over 24,000 military personnel and over 10,000 civilians .
Mission. Implement policies, develop regional strategies and plans, prioritizes resources and provides services, direction, and oversight through assigned U.S. Marine Corps Installations in order to support the Operating Forces, tenant commands and activities.
USS Carney (DDG-64) is the 14th Arleigh Burke -class destroyer in the United States Navy. The guided-missile destroyer is the first to be named after Admiral Robert Carney, who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration . Carney was laid down in 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.