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 * SMS Nymphe (1863) : Lead ship of her class of steam corvettes built for the Prussian Navy, Nymphe was ordered as part of a naval expansion program to counter the Danish Navy. She was commissioned in 1863 and saw action against Danish forces the next year; despite being hit 70 times in one engagement she was not seriously damaged. Nymphe missed the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, but battled French warships during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. She spent 1871 to 1874 in distant waters, and was used as a training ship until the mid-1880s, being stricken from the naval register in 1887.


 * Edgar Kain (Zawed) : Edgar Kain, also known as Cobber Kain, was the Royal Air Force's first flying ace of the Second World War. A New Zealander, he joined the RAF in 1936 and served with No. 73 Squadron in the early stages of the war. His successes saw him develop a high profile in the media during the Phoney War and Battle of France. A bit of a reckless flier, he was killed when he beat up his airfield on his way back to England on leave.


 * Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law (Buidhe) : This article covers an Israeli law which was was famously used to prosecute Adolf Eichmann and Ivan Demjanjuk, and less famously to prosecute around 40 Holocaust survivors accused of collaboration between 1951 and 1972. The law was passed in 1950, and mainly targeted Jewish Holocaust survivors alleged to have collaborated with the Nazis. While the law led to serious criminals being brought to justice, it includes a number of unusual provisions and the trials of collaborators have been criticised.


 * Shuttle-Centaur (Hawkeye7) : Shuttle-Centaur was an unsuccessful joint NASA-USAF program to develop a launch system for military satellites and deep space probes. It involved launching payloads from Space Shuttles with the Centaur upper stage rocket. Development began in the late 1970s, but the project was cancelled following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster due to safety concerns.


 * Second Battle of Newtonia (Hog Farm) : This article and the one below continue Hog Farm's impressive work on the American Civil War in Missouri. The Second Battle of Newtonia took place on 28 October 1864 and was fought between a Union cavalry force and the rear guard of a Confederate army. While both sides claimed victory at the time, modern historians credit the Union with the victory. Estimates of casualties suffered during the battle range greatly.


 * Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Hog Farm) : Nichols's Missouri Cavalry Regiment served in the Confederate States Army during the late stages of the American Civil War. Formed in June 1864, the regiment mainly operated in Missouri and Kansas. It participated in Price's Missouri Expedition, and saw combat in several other battles including the disastrous Confederate defeat in the Battle of Mine Creek. The date in which the unit was disbanded is not known, but it was before the end of the war.


 * Battle of Saint-Malo (Nick-D) : This article covers an engagement between Allied and German forces in August and September 1944, fought at the tail end of the Normandy Campaign. A reinforced US Army division assaulted a heavily fortified French port town which was garrisoned by around 12,000 Germans. The always-quotable war correspondent Lee Miller described the fighting as "fortress warfare reminiscent of crusader times". Nick first became aware of this battle at an exhibition of Miller's photographs.