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    RAID is a data storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy and performance improvement.[1] Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways‚ referred to as RAID levels‚ depending on the specific level of redundancy and performance required. The term "RAID" was first used by David Patterson‚ Garth A. Gibson‚ and Randy Katz at the University of California‚ Berkeley in 1987‚ standing for redundant array of inexpensive

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    Operation Entebbe Operation Entebbe is popularly known as Operation Thunderbolt; the successful operation was carried out by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Commandos. The mission was planned in Tel Aviv but the actual rescue mission took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Notably‚ the operation took place on July 4‚ 1976‚ approximately 2500 miles from Israel (Dunstan‚ 2012). Fundamentally‚ what instigated the attack was the hijacking of Air France Flight 139‚ headed to Paris from Tel Aviv. Within

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    Dieppe Raid

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    In their articles on the Dieppe Raid‚ both Peter Henshaw and Brian Villa go to extreme lengths to recount the events that led up to the raid and the facts of how the raid played out. In his article “Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid”‚ Villa provides a very accurate recount of the events of the raid. However Henshaw’s article “The Dieppe Raid: A Product of Misplaced Canadian Nationalism?” goes a step further to reveal the pre-raid planning process and the chain of events that

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    What is RAID? Although also a bug-killing insecticide‚ RAID in dedicated server hosting terms stands for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (also known as Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Drives or Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks/Drives) and is an important aspect of your dedicated server hosting plan. Especially if you are running a large‚ data-driven website that requires a larger disk or hard drive storage space than normal‚ you can use RAID technology to combine multiple hard drives

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    The Dieppe Raid

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    substantially shaped the Canadian identity as a country that strives to fight in war‚ because of the previous disasters at Dieppe‚ the courageous acts of Canadian soldiers‚ and the deceitful strategy to success. Firstly‚ the devastating failure of the Dieppe Raid in 1942 established Canada as a serious fighting force in war situations. Canadians learned that tanks were vulnerable to the Germans‚ as they easily hindered them by setting various traps on the beach. Air and naval bombings became more essential

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    The Viking Raid

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    The Viking Raid One afternoon I was out working in my fields‚ the king Viking came to me and all my neighbors‚ to take us to go fight the other empires‚ and to take their land. So‚ while we were on our boats going to the other land‚ some of our people died because it took so long to get there and also of malaria. Only a few died so it didn’t matter much. We then realized that we needed weapons‚ so the first village we invaded was little so we could take it without any weapons. Then we stole their

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    Raid on Dieppe

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    pressure on the Eastern front and Stalin asked Churchill and Eisenhower to help the USSR by opening up a Western front in continental Europe‚ to prevent Hitler from throwing all the might of his armies against the Soviets. As a result‚ a series of major raids against German defence installations along the Channel was planned but only one such operation was actually conducted: Dieppe. This turned into a military disaster. But it did pacify Stalin by demonstrating that the western Allies weren’t afriad to

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    The Makin Raid

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    Admiral Chester Nimitz decided towards the end of the summer in 1942‚ that the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion or “Carlson’s Raiders‚” would conduct what would later become one of the most famous special operations missions of the entire war. The Makin Raid came about after the U.S. Navy’s defense of Midway two months prior . As Admiral Nimitz began to plan his next operation‚ he realized he needed a huge diversion to commit the Japanese forces in the opposite direction. The decision was the Raiders would

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    Dieppe Raid

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    3 now charged in Markham murder Apr 15‚ 2011 Kenney McGordy YorkRegion.com Staff Reporter Investigators have arrested two Toronto men in last year’s home invasion and homicide in Markham. And‚ police probing the death of Bich-Ha Pan‚ 53‚ who was gunned down Nov. 8 inside her Helen Avenue home in Markham‚ said today they expect more arrests will be made in the case‚ which shocked residents of the quiet neighbourhood near Kennedy Road and Hwy. 407.

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    The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture‚ arrest and deport radical leftists. The raids took place under the command of A. Mitchell Palmer‚ Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921‚ in November 1919 and January 1920. The Palmer Raids occurred in the main basis of the Red Scare. During World War 1‚ there was a large nationwide campaign in the United States against the political loyalties of immigrants and ethnic groups.The

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