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It was named after a pentagon, it wasn't the 'Pentagon' that named the 'pentagon'.
Hexagon * * * * * A pentagon
Because it's shaped like a pentagon. A pentagon is a five-sized shape.
A regular pentagon does not. An irregular pentagon can.
has to be pentagon
The Pentagon Papers - 1972 TV was released on: USA: 1972
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Claudy bombing happened on 1972-07-31.
Benny's Bar bombing happened on 1972-10-31.
Abercorn Restaurant bombing happened on 1972-03-04.
In the beginning the authorities told is was only a car bomb. According to the March 20, 1996 issue of Strategic Investment newsletter, a classified Pentagon study confirms that the Oklahoma bombing was caused by more than one bomb. A classified report prepared by two independent Pentagon experts has concluded that the destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 was caused by five separate bombs. The two experts reached the same conclusion for the same technical reasons. Sources close to the Pentagon study are reported to have said that Timothy McVeigh did play a role in the bombing but peripherally, as a "useful idiot."
Operation Linebacker II targeted Hanoi .
It was named after a pentagon, it wasn't the 'Pentagon' that named the 'pentagon'.
Hexagon * * * * * A pentagon
The Christmas bombing was From Dec. 18 until Dec. 30 in 1972 in the Vietnam war. The United States conducted a campaign of intensive aerial bombing, using massive B-52s, over North Vietnam. President Richard Nixon unleashed the bombing to make the South and North Vietnamese sit down at the bargaining table to negotiate the end of the Vietnam War.
They are both the same. Pentagon is just a shorter way of saying the pentagon building. As for if you meant the shape pentagon, it is called the pentagon because it's shape is a pentagon.
pentagon A pentagon. A 5-sided figure is called a pentagon. pentagon A five sided figure is called a pentagon