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An alleged naval military experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania, in October, 1943, in which the destroyer USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible (i.e., cloaked) to human observers for a brief period of time
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No explosives or firearms were discovered following their arrest in March, when police were tipped off that McKnight made a drunken telephone call to a female friend in which he boasted about carrying out Project Rainbow.
I will complete Project Rainbow. I will show no mercy.
The computers will be given to schools, mental health community center groups, Project Rainbow families (which is part of Easter Seals of Southwest Florida) and to migrant children through the Christmas in the Park Program.
Formerly known as Project Rainbow, Cometa plans to sell this service to telecommunication companies, ISPs, cable operators, and wireless carriers, who then offer their customers Wi-Fi (802.11) Internet access.
For instance, Project Rainbow, a consortium of companies including Intel, AT&T Wireless, Verizon and IBM are investigating a unified, national network.
WHEN "LAWANDA" FIRST CAME TO PROject Rainbow at Drueding Center in hardscrabble North Philadelphia, all she owned was "the air in [her] lungs" and a fervent desire to get clean of drugs.
It is believed that the firm is now planning for a GBP1bn initial public offering (IPO) of the business, known internally as Project Rainbow.
Swift, who was a former pupil at Audenshaw High School in Greater Manchester, and McKnight, who still attended, are accused of plotting the attack on the tenth anniversary of the Columbine massacre, a plan they named Project Rainbow.
And Ryan Groves, 18, said both defendants told him about "Project Rainbow" - an alleged plan to make a bomb and plant it at the school.
Meanwhile, said Mr Rowley, Railtrack's own proposals for restructuring the company - Project Rainbow - had been developed in ignorance of Project Ariel.
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