It is believed the first ship to have sent out an SOS signal was the American steamer Arapahoe in 1909.
In the case of danger, it lets you make an SOS call just by pressing a single button.
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Just as baffled are two U.S. experts who flew to Sarawak after seeing an SOS appeal on the Internet.
In the case of danger for ourselves, a simple button will make an SOS call to someone pre-selected by us.
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That's when the rebels launched an advance toward the capital, Bamako, and Mali's president sent out an SOS to Paris and the U.N.
Sherman thought he was sending an SOS signal to the world by activating an "epirb" -- short for emergency position indicating radiobeacon -- which is a satellite-connecting beacon that resembles a floatable walkie-talkie.
"We want help, we want help, " they chanted for the television cameras, an impromptu SOS to the outside world.
In 1906, SOS was established as an international distress signal at the Berlin Radio Conference.
SOS's emergence as an understandable reaction to the government's failure to defend Kosovo's Serb minority, which numbers around 150, 000.
Her working capital was divvied up among an alphabet of nonprofit organizations, including the SOS (Society of Separationists), UWA (United World Atheists) and PALA (Prison Atheists League of America).
With an opening to the world, he dispatched another SOS: He tethered the epirb to a line and tossed it into the roiling seas.
An estimated 12 camps, or kwan-li-sos, are currently run by the government, which hold between 150, 000-200, 000 total prisoners.
Fifa will also use the event as an opportunity to publicise its "6 villages for 2006" charity campaign in conjunction with SOS Children's Villages.
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