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67th Division (Spain)
The 67th Division was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army that existed during the Spanish Civil War, created on the basis of the mixed brigades. It came to be deployed on the fronts of Teruel, Extremadura and Levante. History The unit was created at the end of August 1937, in Ciudad Real, formed with recruits from 1930, 1937 and 1938. The command fell to the infantry commander Fulgencio González Gómez. The new 67th Division, which was formed by the 215th, 216th and 217th mixed brigades, was integrated into the XX Army Corps. The training and instruction of the new unit lasted until the end of 1937, remaining located in the general reserve. At the beginning of 1938 it was sent to the Teruel front, to reinforce the units that were already fighting there. After its arrival, it replaced the seriously broken 68th Division. During the subsequent Battle of Alfambra, the unit withstood the bulk of the enemy attack, emerging very broken from the fighting. It was then sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 1937
The following events occurred in August 1937: August 1, 1937 (Sunday) *The Meuse-Argonne American Memorial was dedicated in Montfaucon-d'Argonne, France. *Born: Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician; in Brooklyn, New York August 2, 1937 (Monday) *The Marihuana Tax Act was enacted in the United States. August 3, 1937 (Tuesday) *The 20th biennial World Zionist Congress opened in Zürich, Switzerland. *A Pan American-Grace Airways Sikorsky S-43 amphibious aircraft plunged into the ocean off Cristóbal, Panama, killing all 14 aboard. *Generalissimo Francisco Franco informed Italy that he had intelligence that the Soviets were shipping arms to the Republic. Franco urged Italian action to stop the transports. August 4, 1937 (Wednesday) *The Venezuelan National Guard was founded. *In Little Rock, Arkansas, the newly formed Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Theatres made its debut, booing loudly when corporate advertising appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
216th Mixed Brigade
16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, the numbers 16 and 60 are sometimes confused, as they sound very similar. Sixteen is the fourth power of two. For this reason, 16 was used in weighing light objects in several cultures. The British have 16 ounces in one pound; the Chinese used to have 16 ''liangs'' in one ''jin''. In old days, weighing was done with a beam balance to make equal splits. It would be easier to split a heap of grains into sixteen equal parts through successive divisions than to split into ten parts. Chinese Taoists did finger computation on the trigrams and hexagrams by counting the finger tips and joints of the fingers with the tip of the thumb. Each hand can count up to 16 in such manner. The Chinese abacus uses two upper beads to represent the 5s and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
