History of radar for various purposes; on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the entire planet was mapped at a 30-m resolution. The Jodrell Bank Observatory, an operation of the University of Manchester in Britain, was originally started by Bernard Lovell to be a radar astronomy facility. It initially used a war-surplus GL-II radar system operating at 71 MHz (4.2 m). The first observations were of ionized trails in the Geminids meteor shower during December 1945. While the facility soon evolved to become the third largest radio observatory in the world, some radar astronomy continued. The largest (250-ft or 76-m in diameter) of their
A Warm December recently widowed American, who takes his daughter (Yvette Curtis) on a month long vacation in London. While there, he meets Catherine (Anderson), the daughter of an African Ambassador (Earl Cameron). As the pair begin to develop feelings for one another, Dr. Younger learns that the men following Catherine are her bodyguards that protect her, not only because she is the niece of an important ambassador, but also because she has a Sickle-cell disease. When Dr. Younger proposes, Catherine must decide between love and loyalty to her country. A Warm December A Warm December is a 1973 American romantic drama film