Let's Talk About the History of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, a Universally Adopted Spelling Code
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThe NATO phonetic alphabet is a universally adopted spelling code. For example, the Spanish...
Fact check: COVID-19 variants named after Greek letters, not military code
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe World Health Organization said Nov. 29 that global spread of a new coronavirus variant, named...
People Are Sharing Things You Can Learn In One Minute That Can Be Useful For The Rest Of Your Life
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It's been 75 years since the first-named hurricane struck US soil
AccuWeather via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYou know Katrina, Harvey and Sandy. Before that came Andrew, Hugo and Agnes. These are some of the...
Zulu Time Conversion: Defining Zulu Time and GMT's Value
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Art Beat: Alex Buchanan's 'Screaming in Cursive' celebrates craft of making knots
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThere is likely no SouthCoast artist in history more closely associated with knots than New...
QSL? Roger roger.
Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJan. 6—MOSES LAKE — "Whiskey 7 Bravo Juliet November, is that a roger?" The man's voice, using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell out a call sign, had a clear Caribbean lilt discernable even ...
After tragedy, US Air Force probes English training for foreign pilots
Air Force Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas — Two years after a Japanese air force pilot and his American...
This Device Reads Your Brain’s Thoughts and Spells Them Out
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Kelly Caminero / The Daily Beast / GettyOne of the great tragedies of...