The action of 23 March 2010 was an attack by Somali pirates on a Panamanian-flagged merchant vessel and the subsequent capture of the pirates by the Spanish Navy. The encounter happened off the coast of Somalia and ended with the death of one pirate and the capture of six others....
The action of 4 April 1918 was a naval action fought somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. An unidentified Kaiserliche Marine U-boat attacked three armed transports of the United States Army and Navy, but failed to damage the American ships before she was sunk. Acti...
The Action of 7 May 1968 refers to an air battle which involved elements of the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) and the United States Navy’s aircraft carrier . The air battle took place over the skies of southern North Vietnam as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, during the Vi...
Action on Poverty (AOP) is an independent, secular, not-for-profit, fully accredited Australian non-government organisation (NGO) that was founded in 1968 and incorporated in the state of New South Wales in 1983.In January 2018, the organisation changed its legal name to Action o...
Action Pack is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Publication historyCreated by Dan Slott, they first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative #7.Fictional team biographyFollowing the events of the superhero civil war, the Fifty St...
Action Palestine is a UK wide student body dedicated to defending Palestinian rights on university campuses around the UK. Action Palestine is a non-party affiliated organization established in 2006.Action Palestine is concerned with building a strong movement on UK campuses for ...
"Action Radius" is a song written by Silver Surfing Rubeboy and recorded by electronica DJ Junkie XL (who included the writer of the song as a special guest).The song has been widely thought by fans to been recorded in 1999, but the actual date is unknown. Contrary to popular bel...
Action Tuam was established as a non-profit organisation in 1990 to assist in creating employment for the people of North Galway, South Mayo and Roscommon. Action Tuam is registered in Ireland with the Government Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation - Companies Registrat...
Action Zealandia (AZ) is a White identitarian youth organisation in New Zealand. History Action Zealandia was founded in 2019.On January 12, 2020, Auckland members of Action Zealandia put up posters espousing anti-Chinese sentiment outside the office of Jian Yang, a Chinese-born ...
ActionScript Foundry is an open source framework. It was created by the ServeBox company. The project contains productivity tools and an ActionScript 3 / java framework specialised in Flex applications' development. It is under Apache 2.0 licence. History The ActionScript Foundry...
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. is a company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that designs and sells networking and broadband equipment. They are best known for the Actiontec MI424WR router that is provide to Verizon customers, specifically its FiOS customers.The company sells...
ActionTrip.com, founded in 1999 by Uros "2lions" Jojic, is an independent computer and video game related website dedicated to providing the latest news of the gaming industry. Beginning as a modest gaming portal, tracking and linking to off-site news and reviews, ActionTrip grad...
Actium ERP was developed by Cara Information Systems Ltd. a developer of enterprise software solutions for small to medium size companies. Actium ERP is proprietary software using open source postgreSQL object-relational database system as back-end. Actium ERP is a feature rich a...
Active adult retail is a specific category of age-targeted specialty shops and professional services strategically catering to the daily needs of active adults. Active adults, also known as leading-edge baby boomers and those somewhat older, are characterized as people who are ag...
Active intelligence is a term used to describe software systems and business processes containing functionality or components that evaluate information and drive actions of linked systems or processes in real-time. Active intelligence builds upon the business intelligence (BI) ca...
Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a stretching technique that was created and developed by Aaron Mattes*, MS, RKT, LMT who continues to develop AIS in his clinical practice. Aaron Mattes was inducted into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame, and his work is described in chapter 7 ...
The following is a list of active Major League Baseball players who have played their entire MLB career (of at least 10 seasons) with only one team:* John Smoltz (20 seasons with Atlanta Braves)* Chipper Jones (15 seasons with Atlanta Braves)* Garret Anderson (14 seasons with Cal...
An active pause system is a feature of a video game that allows commands to be given while the game is paused. These commands will take effect as soon as the game is unpaused. An example of this would be a first-person shooter that allows the player to change weapons while the ga...
Active Release Techniques (ART) is a soft tissue massage treatment system that treats problems with muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and nerves. Headaches, back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, shin splints, shoulder pain, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, and tennis el...
Active Risk (LSE:ARI) formerly known as Strategic Thought Group, is a software company that specialises in enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software. It is a subsidiary of Sword Group. Corporate history Strategic Thought was founded ...