District Line - District Line The District Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. It is a "sub-surface" line, running through the central area in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels which were built by the Metropolitan District Railway and opened in stages between 1868 and 1871. The MDR was later bought by Charles Yerkes, forming part of the "Underground" group until it was nationalised in the 1930s. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Stations 1.1 Richmond branch 1.2 Ealing branch 1.3 Wimbledon branch 1.4 Kensington (Olympia) branch 1.5 Edgware Road branch 2 Current service pattern 3 History 4 External Links Stations In order from west to east Richmond branch Richmond Kew Gardens Gunnersbury Ealing branch Ealing Broadway Ealing Common Acton Town Chiswick Park The Richmond.
Kwun Tong Line - Kwun Tong Line The Kwun Tong Line is one of the 6 lines of the MTR metro network in Hong Kong. It starts in Yau Ma Tei on Kowloon West and ends at Tiu King Leng, Kowloon East. List of stations: Station District Connection(s) Yau Ma Tei Yau Tsim Mong Tsuen Wan Line Mong Kok Yau Tsim Mong Tsuen Wan Line Prince Edward Yau Tsim Mong Tsuen Wan Line Shek Kip Mei Sham Shui Po Kowloon Tong Kowloon City KCR Lok Fu Wong Tai Sin Wong Tai Sin Wong Tai Sin Diamond Hill Wong Tai Sin Choi Hung Wong Tai Sin Kowloon Bay Kwun Tong Ngau Tau Kok Kwun Tong Kwun Tong Kwun Tong Lam Tin Kwun Tong Yau Tong Kwun Tong Tseung Kwan O Line Tiu King.
Jacqueline Cochran - 25 outstanding businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in 1953 and 1954 the Associated Press named her "Woman of the Year in Business." After a friend offered her a ride in an airplane, a thrilled Jacqueline Cochran began taking flying lessons at Roosevelt Airfield on Long Island. A natural, she was quickly flying solo and within two years obtained her commercial pilot's license. Her companion, Floyd Odlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "Wings," she flew her own airplane around the country promoting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get Marilyn Monroe to endorse her line of lipstick. Known.
Island Line - Island Line Island Line is one of the 6 lines of the MTR metro system in Hong Kong. It runs West-East along the northern coastline of Hong Kong Island. The stations of the line are (from West to East): Station District Connection(s) Sheung Wan Central and Western Central Central and Western Tsuen Wan Line Airport Express via Hong Kong station Tung Chung Line via Hong Kong station Admiralty Central and Western Tsuen Wan Line Wanchai Wanchai Causeway Bay Wanchai Tin Hau Eastern Fortress Hill Eastern North Point Eastern Tseung Kwan O Line Quarry Bay Eastern Tseung Kwan O Line Tai Koo Eastern Sai Wan Ho Eastern Shau Kei Wan Eastern Heng Fa Chuen Eastern Chai Wan Eastern See also: Transportation in Hong Kong List of buildings, sites.
Houston Museum District - Houston Museum District The Houston Museum District is an area of Houston, Texas. The Museum District is named as it houses most of the city's museums. The district is centered around the pink-colored Wyndham-Warwick Hotel and the large water fountain next to it. The Museum District also houses Rice University, the Houston Zoo, and Hermann Park. Some of the museums include: Holocaust Museum Houston Children's Museum Houston Museum of Health and Medical Science Museum of Contemporary Arts Museum of Fine Arts Houston Museum of Natural Science The area is served by two light rail stations on the Red Line of the METRORail light rail system. One of the stations is used for northbound traffic and one is used for southbound traffic..
District Heights, Maryland - District Heights, Maryland District Heights is a city located in Prince George's County, Maryland. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,958. Geography \nDistrict Heights is located at 38°51'34" North, 76°53'21" West (38.859545, -76.889139)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 5,958 people, 2,070 households, and 1,538 families residing in the city. The population density is 2,556.0/km² (6,649.1/mi²). There are 2,170 housing units at an average density of 930.9/km² (2,421.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 9.20% White, 87.95% African American, 0.12% Native American,.
District Township, Pennsylvania - District Township, Pennsylvania District Township is a township located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 1,449. Geography \nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 30.2 km² (11.6 mi²). 30.2 km² (11.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 1,449 people, 522 households, and 416 families residing in the township. The population density is 48.0/km² (124.4/mi²). There are 548 housing units at an average density of 18.2/km² (47.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the township is 99.03% White, 0.41% African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.14% from other races, and 0.14%.
Abington School District v. Schempp - Abington School District v. Schempp The neutrality of this article is disputed. In Abington Township School District v. Schempp 374 US 203 (1963) (decided 17 June 1963) the United States Supreme Court invalidated mandatory devotional Bible reading in public schools. In February 1963, the Supreme Court of the United States heard a First Amendment case which would forever change the way Americans viewed the Court and the value given religion by the highest magistrate in the land. In fact, this case is vilified as one that "kicked God and prayer out of the schools." [1] With its watershed decision in June of that year, the Court found for an Abington Township Unitarian who pursued litigation to purge a 1949 Pennsylvania state law providing for mandatory devotional Bible reading.
Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 - Germosen, Nathan Hays, Bryan Bertrand, and Jeannette Winters. Winters, 25, was the first female Marine ever to be killed in a combat zone. The U.S government blocked the financial assets of two organizations, Afghan Support Committee and the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society, and two individuals, Abu Bakr Al-Jaziri and Abd al-Mushin Al-Libi. They were each suspected of financing terrorism. In a television address, President Hamid Karzai outlined a plan aimed at restoring political and economic stability in Afghanistan. His main priorities were controlling inflation, improving domestic products, increasing jobs and encouraging the private sector. U.S airstrikes continued against a complex of caves, tunnels and buildings used as an al-Qaida training camp at Zawar Kili in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. A tip from a shepherd led Afghan officials to what.
Afghanistan timeline November 2002 - Qatar. On the tape, he warned U.S. allies that they would be targets of new attacks if they continued to back the United States. He also hailed attacks in Bali, Kuwait, Yemen and Jordan and the Moscow theatre siege a month earlier. The cassette was handed to an Al-Jazeera television correspondent in Islamabad by an unidentified man who disappeared immediately. November 11, 2002 A team of representatives of the Afghan Human Rights Commission and the U.N was dispatched to the north to look into the reports that witnesses of mass killings were being harassed, detained, tortured and executed. A dozen gaunt Pakistani men, some wrapped in ragged shawls against the cold, were released from a prison in Kabul, Afghanistan.They had been held since the collapse of the Taliban one year earlier..
Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 - were still subsisting on insufficient diets. Some of the major organizations distributing food within Afghanistan included the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the Iranian Red Crescent, Japan's Peace Winds, Tzu Chi of Taiwan and Mercy Corps International. In a meeting with the U.S Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said that democracy would someday thrive in Afghanistan and that elections would be held in two years. He promised that his interim government would never abandon the war against terrorism. Karzai added that Afghanistan needed an immediate infusion of cash to get the process started. Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai gave his full backing to the U.S position on war detainees held in Cuba. "The people that are detained in Guantanamo Bay, they are terrorists, they are not.
Afghanistan timeline March 1-15, 2003 - of Pakistan and the United States denied the reports. March 11, 2003 U.S President George W. Bush apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the way Karzai was treated by a U.S. Senate committee on February 26. Some senators said they feared Karzai, by highlighting facts like millions of children returning to school and the government's smooth introduction of a new currency, had put too positive a spin on Afghanistan's problems. One senator said stressing the positive could hurt Karzai's credibility. A delegation of Afghan legal officials and experts gathered in Washington, DC, completed a four-day conference managed by International Resources Group and hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace. The participants worked by consensus to lay out the future of the justice system in Afghanistan. Three judges on a U.S.
Afghanistan timeline April 16-30, 2003 - in every 1,000 pregnancies died, and one child in four died before the age of five. Such rates were said to be among the worst in human history. The ministry planned to employ more than 20,000 health workers, mostly women nurses and midwives, over the span of a year. April 29, 2003 Rebel forces attacked military posts, an ammunition depot, the district commissioner's office and other government installations in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, killing three Afghan soldiers and injuring two. A Belgian court opened and immediately adjourned the trial of 12 suspects linked to the September 9, 2001 murder of Afghan rebel Ahmad Shah Masood. The presiding judge ruled that the trial would resume May 22. Also, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a commission to track down those who ordered the murder..
Afghanistan timeline August 2003 - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami faction was arrested in a raid along with four colleagues August 30, 2003 Afghan soldiers swarmed over remote mountain peaks in an ongoing battle with suspected Taliban holdouts, killing and capturing several enemy fighters. In a new offensive dubbed Operation Mountain Viper, U.S planes launched a second night of bombing in the Dai Chopan area of Zabul province, Afghanistan. Pakistan announced that it had set up 23 new check-posts over a 60 kilometer region along the Durand Line border with Afghanistan. A grenade was thrown at the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. No one was injured in the explosion. U.S-led troopslaunched a new offensive against suspected Taliban forces in Zabul province. August 29, 2003 Three Afghan government soldiers were killed and one Afghan commander, Haji Wali Shah, was.
Afghanistan timeline 1941-1950 - with the signing of a treaty of friendship establishing diplomatic and consular relations between the two countries. 1945 There is little change in internal affairs as Zahir Shah continues a peaceful rule and the end of World War II sees an unbroken record of neutrality for the country. During the year, Eli E. Palmer, formerly with the foreign service at the Australian embassy, succeeds Cornelius Van H. Engbert as U.S. minister at Kabul. July 1945 The Red Crescent Society of Afghanistan donates £5,000 to the fund opened by the International Red Cross at Geneva as a token of its sympathy with the fate of European peoples. May 1946 Sardar Shah Mahmud succeeds Sardar Mohammad Hashim as prime minister. This change of government, after a period of 17 years without change, leads.
Afghanistan timeline 1931-1940 - Khan, son of Abdor Rahman's famous general, Haidar Khan Charkhi, who was himself for many years Afghan minister at Moscow under King Amanullah, and made an abortive attempt to restore that monarch in May 1929, with Russian assistance, returns to Kabul from Berlin, where he had been living since the accession of Nadir Khan. Early in November he is arrested on a charge of fomenting rebellion among the tribes of the southeast among whom his family has great influence, and of intriguing with the Soviet government, with a view to procuring the restoration of King Amanullah. He is brought to trial before the Loya Jirga, or Great Assembly, early in November, and, incriminating documents being produced, he is condemned to death and shot. One of his brothers, Gholam Jilani Khan, who.
Afghanistan timeline 1896-1900 - slave traffic in Kafirs, for it was alleged that after the victories in the Bashgal Valley at the beginning of the year certain captives were reduced to an atrocious form of slavery. The amir also gives orders to the Afghan officers to treat the Kafirs kindly, and not seek to convert them by force to Islam. Summer 1896 The amir sends a force of militia to occupy the Mittai Valley in Bajaur, where the clans previously received a demand for taxes. The Khan of Nawagai, who rendered excellent service in the Chitral campaign, is alarmed and complains to the government of India. The amir, after some hesitation, acknowledges his obligations under the Durand Treaty, but at the close of the year the Afghan outpost still remains at Mittai. October 1896 On.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - Kailua-Kona is a town located in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in the North Kona District of the Island of Hawai'i. As of the 2000 Census, the town had a total population of 9,870. Although the correct name is just "Kailua", this town is known as Kailua-Kona to differentiate it from the much larger, Kailua on windward O'ahu. Many place names in the Hawaiian Islands are repeated on several islands, but the two Kailua's are the only confusing conflict in this regard. Geography Kailua is located at 19°38'60" North, 155°59'39" West (19.649973, -155.994028)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 103.0 km² (39.8 mi²). 91.9 km² (35.5 mi²) of it is land and 11.0 km² (4.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 10.71%.
Kaaawa, Hawaii - here: Ka'a'awa is a town located in the windward district of Ko'olauloa, City & County of Honolulu on the Island of O'ahu, Hawai'i. As of the 2000 Census, the total population for Ka'a'awa was 1,324. In Hawaiian, ka'a'awa means "the wrasse (fish)". The word always delights visitors who stumble on pronouncing three as in a row. In Hawaiian spelling (Ka'a'awa), it is seen that each a is pronounced separately and distinctly, set apart by the two glottal stops (i.e., ka-'A-'AVA). Ka'a'awa is north of Kāne'ohe Bay (north of Ka'ō'io Point, also Kalaeoka'ō'io), and the Pacific Ocean shore here is fronted by a broad fringing reef with a narrow, but quite inviting beach (Kanenelu Beach, Kalae'ō'io Beach Park, and Ka'a'awa Beach Park). The around-the-island-highway (Kamehameha Highway, State Rte. 83) and the houses.
Kahaluu, Hawaii - is a town located in the City & County of Honolulu, in the District of Ko'olaupoko on the island of O'ahu. In Hawaiian ka halu'u means literally "diving place". As of the 2000 Census, the town had a total population of 2,935. At Kahulu'u, visitors to the windward side travelling via the Pali Highway, H-3, or Likelike Highway first encounter the ocean (actually Kāne'ohe Bay) close beside the highway (Kamehameha Highway or State Rte. 83). Kahalu'u is a mostly rural area slowly transforming into a denser residential community. The U.S. postal code for Kahalu'u is 96744. Geography Kahaluu is located at 21°27'40" North, 157°50'28" West (21.461146, -157.841155)1. It is directly adjacent to 'Āhuimanu to the south and Wai'ahole to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has.
