Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Operation Tannenbaum ("Fir Tree"), known earlier as Operation Grün ("Green"), was a planned invasion of Switzerland and Liechtenstein by the Axis Powers during World War II. Background [ edit ]
Operation Christmas. Operation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season of 2010 to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize. [1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message encouraging them to come home.
Remains of the tree that was the object of the 1976 axe murder incident, as seen in 1984. Deliberately left standing after Operation Paul Bunyan , the stump was replaced by a monument in 1987. North Korean and UNC forces during the 1976 axe attack
The "Christmas tree" practice was dropped in 1984. [4] One reason why the Christmas tree symbol was used may have been the fact that the tune of the Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" is the same as that of "The Red Flag", [5] although this was coincidental; the "Christmas tree" symbols were arrows, indicating that an individual's file should be ...
Christmas tree (drag racing) A pre-2011 CompuLink drag racing Christmas Tree as currently in use on the Curacao International Raceway. Modern drag races are started electronically by a system known as a Christmas tree. A common Christmas tree consists of a column of seven lights for each driver or lane. Each side of the column of lights is the ...
Oct. 30—Operation Christmas Child will soon begin its National Collection Week, with more than 4,500 drop-off sites open Nov. 13 to 20. The program is run by Samaritan's Purse, an international ...
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The tree is put in place in mid November and lit in a public ceremony on the Wednesday evening following Thanksgiving. Since 1997, the lighting has been broadcast live, to hundreds of ...
Briefs: Operation Christmas Child, Behind the Mask, Bullington Gardens holiday sale, St. Jonn in the Wilderness's A Christmas Memory set.