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- Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...is time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of E...
8: ... lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her ...
10: ...gan to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic cross...
14: ...Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
16: ...rsey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]... - Airline (29546 bytes)
1: ...humb|right|250px|Photography of Air Kenya, Kenya Africa. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart....
7: The scale and scope of airline companies ranges from those with a single airplane carrying mail or c...
11: ...mpanies. This occurs as regulators permit greater freedom, in steps that are usually decades apart. Th...
15: ...ion provided more competition and greater pricing freedom resulted in lower fares and sometimes dramat...
19: ... airlines form new business combinations, ranging from loose, limited bilateral partnerships to long-t... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
4: ...text-align:center;" | The Hubble Space Telescope, from the [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] during the seco...
8: ...avelength regime'''||optical, ultraviolet, near-infrared
45: ...h, it was found that the main [[mirror]] suffered from [[spherical aberration]], severely compromising...
54: ...be that a space-based telescope could observe [[infrared]] and [[ultraviolet]] light, which are strong...
58: ...observations of [[star]]s and [[galaxy|galaxies]] from its launch in 1968 until 1972, well beyond its ... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ... [[1909]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
26: ...ss]]es.{{fn|1}} His mother was active in the sect from 1895, when Dwight was five years old, until she...
30: ...te)|Georgia]]. He then served with the Tank Corps from [[1918]] to [[1922]] at [[Camp Meade]], [[Maryl...
34: ...[George V. Moseley]], Assistant Secretary of War, from [[1929]] to [[1933]]. He then served as chief m...
36: ...] he had never held an active command and was far from being considered as a potential commander of ma... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ...lete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the [[United States]], in [[1934]]...
4: ...hnical High School]]). He was reportedly expelled from this school. At 16 he became an engineering app...
6: ...VII-3M monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from [[Oakland, California]] to [[Hawaii]], then to ...
10: ... its destination. Eighteen months later, wreckage from the aircraft was located off the south coast of...
12: ... on the Australian $20 paper note (in circulation from [[1966]] until [[1994]], when the $20 [[polymer... - Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
1: ... '''Cuban Missile Crisis Gooney''' was a tense confrontation between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Un...
7: ...USSR and would provide little warning of a launch from Cuba.
9: ...edy's administration had received repeated claims from Soviet diplomats that there were no missiles in...
13: ...— first, to defend this new Communist state from an American or American-sponsored invasion, and...
19: A [[Lockheed U-2|U-2]] flight in late August photographed a ne... - Dick Cheney (23685 bytes)
41: ...for the Humanities]] by Ronald Reagan, she served from 1986 to 1993. She is now a public speaker, auth...
43: ...e Perrys have four children. Elizabeth graduated from the [[University of Chicago]] Law School in [[1...
46: ...cided after three semesters to take some time off from Yale, on account of difficulty with his studies...
50: ... degree in [[political science]] in [[1966]] both from the University of Wyoming.
52: ...ive [[William Steiger]], a Republican congressman from Wisconsin. - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ...ody. The land forming the original District came from the states of Virginia and Maryland, but only t...
7: ...institutions. All of this has made Washington the frequent focal point of massive political demonstrat...
48: ...h their [[constituent]]s by distancing themselves from the negative image of an out-of-touch centraliz...
56: ...nce exempt from local property taxes, the city is frequently cash-strapped. Public services in the ci...
81: ... with work contributed by such noted figures as [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Daniel Burnham]]. Howe... - Wind (17871 bytes)
2: ...ing tens of minutes to [[global]] winds resulting from [[solar heating]] of the [[Earth]]. The two maj...
4: ...nd will arise between the two which tends to flow from the area of [[high pressure area|high pressure]...
6: ...re those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the winds which bl...
20: ...pe to North and South America. Their name derives from the Old English 'trade', meaning "path" or "tra...
24: Along the east coast of North America, friction twists the flow of the Trades even further ...
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