A Popham panel, or T-signalling panel, was a means of ground-to-air communication, in Morse code, developed during the First World War, before the introduction...
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC (18 September 1878 – 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal...
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World War I planes were not outfitted with radios, so soldiers used large panel cut outs to distinguish friendly forces. These cut outs could also be used...
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mission from Kohat to the Legation with the intention of dropping a Popham panel which would enable ground-to-air signalling. However, before they could...
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Popham was born on August 4, 1939, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Louisa McCord (Stoney) Popham and William Sherbrooke Popham. William S. Popham was...
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Virgin of the Rocks (section Side panels)
Leonardo, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1996), pp. 197–200, The MIT Press, JSTOR A.E. Popham (1946). The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-60462-8...
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referring to the installation of a simpler telegraph invented by Sir Home Popham.[citation needed] Semaphore telegraphs are also called, "Chappe telegraphs"...
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portrait Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci, has been the subject of a considerable deal of speculation...
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1967, p. 103. Wasserman 1975, p. 150. Ottino della Chiesa 1967, p. 109. Popham, A. E. (1946). The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Ottino della Chiesa 1967...
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possessing "a Roman resolution". On 6 November, the Lord Chief Justice, Sir John Popham (a man with a deep-seated hatred of Catholics) questioned Rookwood's servants...
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