History of Seattle since 1940 - War I, Boeing employed only 28 people, but when the war orders started coming in, Boeing grew to "an enterprising firm with the one customer airplane builders had in those days, the federal government. Employing about four thousand people, with sales just under ten million dollars a year, it was a good if unspectacular business for Seattle." [Roger Sale, Seattle: Past To Present, p.180] The company struggled through the period between the wars, and "began to build dressers, counters and furniture for a corset company and a confectioner's shop, as well as flat-bottomed boats called sea sleds." The Boeing Company, Boeing: History -- Beginnings - Growing Pains However, when World War II started, the government suddenly desired tens of thousands of planes a year, and Boeing was positioned to provide them..
Katharine Kerr - (US title; issued in England as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood) The Dragon Revenant (US title; issued in England as Dragonspell: The Southern Sea) A Time of Exile A Time of Omens Days of Blood and Fire (US title; issued in England as A Time of War) Days of Air and Darkness (US title; issued in England as A Time of Justice) The Black Raven The Red Wyvern The Fire Dragon Science Fiction Resurrection Freeze Frames Polar City Blues Polar City Nightmare (with Kate Daniel) Snare.
Kentucky Derby - Pink Star 1908 Stone Street 1909 Wintergreen 1910 Donau 1911 Meridian 1912 Worth 1913 Donerail 1914 Old Rosebud 1915 Regret 1916 George Smith 1917 Omar Khayyam 1918 Exterminator 1919 Sir Barton* 1920 Paul Jones 1921 Behave Yourself 1922 Morvich 1923 Zev 1924 Black Gold 1925 Flying Ebony 1926 Bubbling Over 1927 Whiskery 1928 Reigh Count 1929 Clyde Van Dusen 1930 Gallant Fox* 1931 Twenty Grand 1932 Burgoo King 1933 Broker's Tip 1934 Cavalcade 1935 Omaha* 1936 Bold Venture 1937 War Admiral* 1938 Lawrin 1939 Johnstown 1940 Gallahadion 1941 Whirlaway* 1942 Shut Out 1943 Count Fleet* 1944 Pensive 1945 Hoop, Jr 1946 Assault* 1947 Jet Pilot 1948 Citation* 1949 Ponder 1950 Middleground 1951 Count Turf 1952 Hill Gail 1953 Dark Star 1954 Determine 1955 Swaps 1956 Needles 1957 Iron Liege 1958 Tim.
Khazars - the independent Khazar kingdom in the 7th century C.E. in the southeastern part of today's Europe, near the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus. In addition to western Kazakhstan, the Khazar kingdom also included territory in what is now eastern Ukraine, southern Russia, and Crimea. The name 'Khazar' itself seems to be tied to a Turkic verb meaning "wandering." Khazar history is intimately tied with that of the Gokturk empire, founded when the Asena clan overthrew the Juan Juan in AD 552. With the collapse of the Gokturk empire/tribal confederation due to internal conflict in the seventh century, the western half of the Turk empire itself split into two confederations, the Bulgars, led by the Dulo clan, and the Khazars, led by the Asena clan, the traditional rulers of the Gok Turk.
Khazaria - the 8th or 9th century. As an independent state, Khazaria existed between about 652 and 1016. Its supreme ruler was known by the title "khagan". Its last khagan was named George Tsul. Much of Khazaria was covered by steppe land. Khazaria bordered the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The Volga River passed through eastern Khazaria. Major cities of Khazaria included: Along the Caspian coast and Volga delta -- Atil Khazaran Samandar In the Caucasus -- Balanjar Sambalut Samiran Sarir Maghas (Alan capital) Sukhumi (Abkhazian capital) In the Crimea and Taman region -- Kerch (also called Bospor) Feodosia Mangup (also called Doros) Samkarsh (also called Tmutorokan, Tamatarkha) Sudak (also called Sugdaia) In the Don valley -- Sarkel.
Khemed - by Herge for Tintin books. Khemed is an Arabic country near the Red Sea and in the Arabic Peninsula. Its capital is Wadesdah (which appears to be derived from the Marols pronunciation of "What is that?"), although its chief economic center appears to be the port city of Khemikhal. Most of the country is desert. In the Tintin stories, Petra appears to be located in Khemed. This is because author Herge originally set the first story in the British Mandate of Palestine and Transjordan, but, created the country to avoid politcal issues. Indeed, Khemikhal was originally supposed to be the Israeli port of Haifa. Khemed is a monarchy, ruled by Emir Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab, whose son Abdullah does all sorts of mischief, most famously with his exploding cigars and cigarettes..
Khosrau I of Persia - Vandals and Goths caused Khosrau to begin the war again in 540. He invaded Syria and carried the inhabitants of Antioch to his residence, where he built for them a new city near Ctesiphon under the name of Khosrau-Antioch or Chosro-Antioch. During the next years he fought successfully in Lazica or Lazistan (the ancient Colchis), on the Black Sea, and in Mesopotamia. The Romans, though led by Belisarius, could do little against him. In 545 an armistice was concluded, but in Lazica the war went on till 556. At last, in 562, a peace was concluded for 50 years, in which the Persians left Lazistan to the Romans, and promised not to persecute the Christians, if they did not attempt to make proselytes among the Zarathustrians; on the other hand, the.
Khwarezmia - centered around the Aral Salt Flats (formerly the Aral Sea) including modern Karakalpakstan across the Ust-Urt plateaux perhaps extending to as far west as the eastern shores of the North Caspian Sea. To the south it bordered on Khorasan to the north the kingdom of Alans to the southeast Kangju and Sogdian Transoxiana, and on the northeast with the Huns of Transiaxartesia. Alternative spellings for the name of the capital city Khiva are numerous and include Khorasam, Khoresm, Khwarezm, Khwarizm, Khwarazm and Chorezm. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early history 2 Classical times 3 Middle Ages 4 Reference 5 External Link Early history According to Tolstov, the first inhabitants of the area were Hurrians from the area of Transcaucasian Iberia and he explains the etymology of Chorezm as Hurri-Land. The first.
Kievan Rus' - cites the Scandinavian Rurik as the progenitor of a dynasty that ruled in Eastern Europe until 1598. Another Varagnian, Oleg (Helgi), who was a close relative of Rurik, moved south from Novgorod to expel the Khazars from Kiev and founded Kievan Rus' about 880. During the next thirty-five years, "Oleg" and his Viking and Slavic, warriors subdued the various Eastern Slavic tribes. In 907, he led an attack against Constantinople, and in 911 he signed a commercial treaty with the Byzantine Empire as an equal partner. The new Slavic Kievan state prospered because it controlled the trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and because it had an abundant supply of furs, wax, honey, and slaves for export. Historians have debated the role of the Varangians in the.
Kirkcudbrightshire - Scotland, bounded on the north and north-west by Ayrshire, W. and S.W. by Wigtownshire, S. and SE. by the Irish Sea and the Solway Firth, and E. and N.E. by Dumfriesshire. It includes the small islands of Hestan and Little Ross. It had an area of 575,565 acres or 899 sq. m. The north-western part of the shire is rugged, wild and desolate. In this quarter the principal mountains are Merrick (2764 feet), the highest in the south of Scotland, and the group of the Rinns of Kells, the chief peaks of which are Corserine (2668 feet), Carlins Cairn (2650 feet), Meikle Millyea (2446 feet) and Millfire (2350 feet). Towards the south-west the chief eminences are Lamachan (2349 feet), Larg (2216 feet), and the bold mass of Cairnsmore of Fleet (2331.
Kington, Herefordshire - is in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, and on the River Arrow. It is 21 miles from Hereford. It is the home of Castle Books, and the Kington Connected Community Company (KC3) project. Nearby attractions The Black and White Village Trail Bradnor Hill Hergest Croft Gardens Kington Festival [1] Kington Golf Club at 1100ft above sea level, the highest golf club in England. The Mortimer Trail a 30-mile walk through countryside, from Ludlow. Shobdon Aerodrome Other meanings There is a village called Kington in the adjacent county of Worcestershire..
King Eider - The King Eider, Somateria spectabilis, is a large sea duck, which is breeds along northern hemisphere arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. The lined nest is built on tundra close to the sea, and 4-6 eggs are laid. It winters somewhat further south in winter to eastern Canada and Norway, where it can form large flocks on suitable coastal waters, and it is annual off the northeastern USA, Scotland and Kamchatka. This species dives for crustaceans and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food. This species is smaller than Common Eider. The male is unmistakable with its black body, white breast and multicoloured head. The drake's call is a deep cooing. The female is a brown bird, but can still be readily distinguished from all ducks except other.
Kronstadt rebellion - to these events in Petrograd, the crews of the battleships Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol held an emergency meeting and agreed to send a delegation to the city to investigate and report back on the ongoing strike movement. On their return, two days later, the delegates informed their fellow sailors of the strikes (with which they had full sympathy with) and the government repression directed against them. Those present at this meeting on the Petropavlovsk then approved a resolution which raised fifteen demands which included free elections to the soviets, freedom of speech, press, assembly and organisation to workers, peasants, anarchists and left-socialists. Of the fifteen demands, only two were related to what Marxists term the "petty-bourgeoisie" (the peasantry and artisans) and these demanded "full freedom of action" for all peasants and artisans.
Kurashiki - of Okayama, Japan, siting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Inland Sea. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 433,477 and the density of 1,450.14 persons per km². The total area is 298.92 km². The city was founded on April 1, 1928. Kurashiki is famous within Japan for a number of reasons: Kurashiki is the home to Japan's first Western art museum, the Ohara Museum of Art. Established in 1930 by Magosaburu Ohara, it contains masterpieces by El Greco, Monet, Matisse, Gauguin, and Renoir. The collection also has fine examples of Asian and contemporary art. The museum itself is housed in a neo-Classical building; Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts; the ancient merchant quarter, called the Bikan historical area. This area of the city.
James Hutton - on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw around him. Moving to Edinburgh, then in the throes of the Scottish Enlightenment, he fell in with several first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair and Joseph Black. His new theories placed him into opposition with the then-popular Neptunist theories of Abraham Gottlob Werner, that all rocks had precipitated out of a single enormous flood. He noted, for example, that many layers of sedimentary rocks butted up against other layers at unusual angles, which suggested that one had been laid down, then tilted, then another layer deposited. He proposed that the interior of the Earth was hot, and that this heat was the engine which drove the creation of new rock: land was eroded by air and water.
Jack London - Chaney refers to Jack London's mother Flora Wellman, as having been his "wife." Stasz also notes an advertisement in which Flora calls herself "Florence Wellman Chaney." Early life Jack London was essentially self-taught. In 1883 he found and read Ouida's long Victorian novel Signa, which describes an unschooled Italian peasant child who achieves fame as an opera composer. He credited this as the seed of his literary aspiration. After graduating from grammar school in 1889, Jack London began working from twelve to eighteen hours a day at Hickmott's Cannery. Seeking a way out of this gruelling labor, he borrowed money from his black foster mother Jennie Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate himself. In John Barleycorn he claims to have.
Jamestown, Virginia - forced the remaining 90 settlers to stay. While president of the colony, Smith led a food-gathering expedition up the Chickahominy River. His men were set upon by Indians and when his men were killed, Smith strapped his Indian guide in front of him to use as a shield. Captured by Opechancanough, Powhatan's half-brother, Smith gives him a compass, which makes the Indian decide to let Smith live. When Smith was brought before Powhatan, however, the chief decided to execute him, a course of action which was stopped by the pleas of Powhatan’s young daughter, Pocahontas, who was originally named Matoaka, but whose nickname meant “Playful one.”. Although Pocahontas’s life would be tied to the English after this first meeting, she is not tied to Smith, except in his report in his.
January 2002 - champion in the men's competition (2. Casey Fitzrandolph, USA, 3. Michael Ireland, Can.). January 8, 2002 Fast-food restaurant chain Wendy's founder Dave Thomas dies at 69. Ozzie Smith is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Michael Jordan's wife files for divorce. January 4, 2002 U.S. officials announce they have custody of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi. January 4, 2002 The Israeli Army seizes the Karine A on the Red Sea, claiming the arms on the ship were bound for the Palestinian Authority. Tom Daschle accuses President Bush and the Republicans have caused the "most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation's history." The United States Department of Labor announces that the United States unemployment rate rose to 5.8% in December. U2, India Arie, and Alicia Keys lead the nominations for the 44th annual.
Velvet Scoter - name Melanitta fusca The Velvet Scoter, Melanitta fusca, is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe, Asia and North America, where it is known as the White-winged Scoter. It winters further south in temperate zones, on the Great Lakes, the coasts of the northern USA and the southern coasts of Canada, Europe as far south as Great Britain, and Asia as far south as China. It forms large flocks on suitable coastal waters. These are tightly packed, and the birds tend to take off together. The lined nest is built on the ground close to the sea, lakes or rivers, in woodland or tundra. 5-8 eggs are laid. It is characterised by its bulky shape and large bill. It is the largest scoter. The male is.
Jakten på Odin - intention was to seek the origins of the Asas, following the trade set out by Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, from the Black Sea and the river Don (former Tanakvisl) via Saxon homelands in northern Germany, Odense on Fyn, Denmark to Sigtuna, ancient Sweden. When he died, the second season of excavations were just finished. The excavations performed in Azov, Russia, near the entry of the Don into the Black Sea have shown that Azov actually did have a population at the time of the emigration of the Asas (sometimes around 60 B.C., according to the references to Roman expansion into the Kaukasus). Furthermore, there exists today a people called the Odin-people, living in Azerbadjan, who consider themselves to be descended from the very same ancient people that supposedly emigrated.
