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The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. [1] The group publicly announced their existence in March 2016. [2]The NDA is known for attacking oil-producing facilities in the deltas, causing the shutdown of oil terminals and a fall in Nigeria's oil production to its lowest level in twenty years. [2]
It became the National Communicable Disease Center effective July 1, 1967, and the Center for Disease Control on June 24, 1970. At the end of the Public Health Service reorganizations of 1966–1973 , it was promoted to being a principal operating agency of PHS.
Space Delta 18 (DEL 18) is a United States Space Force unit that serves as the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC). It is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio and activated on 24 June 2022.
University of Perpetual Help DALTA Medical Center in Las Piñas Antonio Laperal Tamayo and Daisy Moran Tamayo founded the University Of Perpetual Help System DALTA on February 5, 1975. The term “DALTA” in the name of the university is the acronym for Daisy Antonio Laperal Tamayo , the conjugal founders.
The center has distributed more than 125 million doses of Mectizan (ivermectin) [61] – a drug donated by Merck & Co., Inc., that treats and prevents river blindness. [62] Center health workers also prevent transmission of trachoma – a bacterial infection that is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Trachoma is prevalent in ...
The Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) is a family-centered cultural tourist attraction and living museum located in Laie, on the northern shore of Oahu, Hawaii. [1] The PCC is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), was dedicated on October 12, 1963, and occupies 42 acres (17 hectares) of land belonging to nearby Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii).
Delta Delta Delta (ΔΔΔ), also known as Tri Delta, is a global [1] women's fraternity and Greek life organization founded on November 27, 1888 at Boston University. With over 200,000 living initiates at 141 chapters and over $450M assets under management, Tri Delta is one of the largest National Panhellenic Conference Greek-letter societies.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is no longer used for scientific research but is instead open to the public alongside educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.