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- Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Airline (29546 bytes)
2: ...owns or [[lease]]s [[airliner]]s with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alli...
7: ...ernational airlines operating many hundreds of airplanes in various types. Airline services can be cat...
9: ...akes analysis of the airline industry somewhat complex. Nevertheless, some patterns have emerged in th...
11: ...ually decades apart. This pattern has not been completed for all airlines in all regions.
17: ...t airlines begin paying for new generations of airplanes and other service upgrades they ordered to re... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
45: ...ission in 1993, the telescope was restored to its planned quality, and became a vital research tool as...
58: ...unch in 1968 until 1972, well beyond its original planned lifetime of one year.
60: ...y working life, and the concurrent development of plans for the re-usable [[Space Shuttle]] indicated ...
64: ... telescope, and forced cuts in the budget for the planning stages which at the time consisted of very ...
68: ... the [[European Space Agency]]. ESA agreed to supply some of the instruments for the telescope as wel... - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Denison, Texas]]
13: | place of death=[[Washington, D.C.]]
30: ...[1922]] at [[Camp Meade]], [[Maryland]] and other places. He was promoted to Captain in [[1917]] and M...
38: ...w]], and then succeeded Gerow as Chief of the War Plans Division. Then he was appointed Assistant Chie...
45: ...ration Dragoon|invasion of southern France]] took place, control for the forces which took part in the... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
2: ... to [[New Zealand]], and was also the first to complete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing f...
6: ...aft)|Southern Cross]]'', a [[Fokker]] FVII-3M monoplane. The flight was in three stages, from [[Oaklan...
10: ...[[India]] for a leg to [[Singapore]], flying in [[Lockheed Altair]] ''Lady Southern Cross''. The aircraft di...
12: ... honour his contribution to aviation and his accomplishments during his life.
22: ...photos of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his aeroplane, the ''Southern Cross'')] - - Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
1: ...ion]] and the [[United States]] over the Soviet deployment of [[nuclear weapon|nuclear missiles]] in [...
5: The U.S. had begun to deploy fifteen [[Jupiter IRBM]] (intermediate-range ba...
7: ...tain kind of equality could be quickly reached by placing missiles in Cuba. Soviet MRBMs on Cuba, with...
9: ... there were no missiles in Cuba, nor any plans to place any, and that the Soviets were not interested ...
19: ...th a range of 4,000 km (2,400 statute miles). The planned arsenal was forty launchers, an increase in ... - Dick Cheney (23685 bytes)
18: ! Place of Birth:
38: ...[http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/07/19/build/wyoming/20-cheney-reun...
43: ... in [[1966]] and is married to Philip J. Perry, a Lockheed Martin Corp. lobbyist who was nominated by Pres. ...
48: ...orking, building power lines, having been in a couple of scrapes with the law." He said that the arres...
52: ...idate, but he left and entered politics before completing his doctorate. Cheney was selected for a one... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
46: ... its surrounding [[suburb]]s refer to the city simply as '''the District''' or '''D.C.''', to contrast...
54: ...nt to the United States Constitution]] does not apply to the District of Columbia.
59: ...ge:Dctaxationsample small.jpg|thumb|153px|License plate reading "Washington, D.C." at the top and "Tax...
72: ...fferson]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]]. The initial plan for the Federal City was a diamond, ten miles w...
81: The [[Washington Monument]] opened in [[1888]]. Plans were laid to further develop the monumental as... - Wind (17871 bytes)
2: ...he equator and the poles, and the rotation of the planet ([[Coriolis effect]]).
18: ... levels. Because of the Earth's rotation, this simple situation is vastly modified in the real atmosph...
20: ...ost familiar consistent and reliable winds on the planet, exceeded in constancy only by the [[katabati...
26: ...y of winds to move in a curved path on a rotating planet. Together with the airflow in the Ferrel cell...
30: ...as an F4 on the [[Fujita scale]] and killed 27 people, is evidence that powerful tornadoes can occur n...
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