Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: Plane passengers - Kelly Booms, 24, Boston, Mass., PricewaterhouseCoopers Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, R.I., Kent County Hospital emergency room secretary Neilie Casey, 32, Wellesley, Mass., TJX Co Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington, Massachusetts, security analyst for Compaq Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester, Mass. Thelma Cuccinello, 71, Wilmot, New Hampshire Patrick Currivan Brian Dale, 43, Warren, N.J. David DiMeglio, Wakefield, Mass. Donald Ditullio, 49, Peabody, Mass., Smith and Nephew Albert Dominguez, 65, Sydney, Australia Alexander Filipov, 70, Concord, Massachusetts, electrical engineer Carol Flyzik, 40, Plaistow, N.H., medical computer equipment demonstrator for Meditech Paul Friedman Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline, Mass., John Hancock Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury, Mass., vice president and general manager, Raytheon Co. plant Linda George, 27, Westboro, Mass., TJX Co Edmund Glazer, 41, Chatsworth, Calif., CFO of MRV Technologies, Inc. Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham,.
SR-71 Blackbird - SR-71 Blackbird United States Air Force SR-71 (Blackbird) The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft by Lockheed's Skunkworks, which was also responsible for the U-2 and many other advanced aircraft.. The first flight of an SR-71 took place on December 22, 1964, and the first SR-71 to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later, 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, California, in January 1966. The U.S. Air Force retired its fleet of SR-71s on January 26, 1990, because of a decreasing defense budget and high costs of operation. The USAF returned the SR-71 to the active Air Force inventory in 1995 and began flying operational missions in January.
USS Wasp (CV-18) - to obtain some knowledge of Spruance's ships, but American scout planes were unable to find Ozawa's force. Early the following morning, 19 June, aircraft from Mitscher's carriers headed for Guam to neutralize that island for the coming battle and in a series of dogfights, destroyed many Japanese land-based planes. During the morning, carriers from Ozawa's fleet launched four massive raids against their American counterparts, but all were thwarted almost completely. Nearly all of the Japanese warplanes were shot down while failing to sink a single American ship. They did manage to score a single bomb hit on South Dakota (BB-57), but that solitary success did not even put the battleship out of action. That day, Mitscher's planes did not find the Japanese ships, but American submarines succeeded in sending two enemy.
Chicago, Illinois - in the era of so-called machine politics. In his time in office, the 1968 Democratic National Convention visited Chicago, four major expressways were built, the Sears Tower became the tallest building in the world and O'Hare Airport was constructed which later became the busiest airport in the world. In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago. Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, became mayor in 1989. Important Historical Events French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet pass through the area that will become Chicago. 1673 French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, passes through Chicago en route to the mouth of the Mississippi River. 1682 French Jesuits establish Fort de Chicago, the area's first true European settlement. 1683 Jesuit missionary Francois Pinet founds.
Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
IMINT - action. Aerial Aerial intelligence goes back hundreds of years. Long in the past (the American Civil War for example) hot air balloons were used to observe enemy formations long in the distance. The use of fixed balloons survived into World War I, when it was accompanied by observation from airships (zeppelins) and the newly invented airplane. Low- and high-flying planes have been used all through the last century to gather intelligence about the enemy. At the start of the Cold War, foreseeing the need to observe the enemy in peacetime as well as war, the US started developing extremely fast, highflying spy planes. The first such plane, the Lockheed U-2, is still in service, as is the newer and faster SR-71 Blackbird. These planes have the advantage over satellites that they.
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - the Church 10.15.11 Challenges to Fundamental Church Doctrine 10.15.12 Handling Mormon Dissidents and Scholars 10.15.13 Dealing with Mormon Polygamist Sects 10.16 The Church and the Information Age 10.16.14 Using the Media for Political Influence 10.16.15 Church Infomercials 10.16.16 The Church and Pornography 10.16.17 The Church and public relations 10.16.18 Novel uses of communications technology Early Mormon History First Vision Mormonism arose in the Burned-over district of upstate New York, the home of Joseph Smith, Sr and Lucy Mack Smith and their poor agricultural family, including Joseph Smith, Jr, who eventually founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Smith was raised during the religiously turbulent Second Great Awakening, in a family of religious "seekers". Smith's paternal grandfather Asael Smith had refused to join any church "because he could not reconcile.
Unobtainium - in ironic reaction to invented element names in, for example, Star Trek. It may also be a reference to the naming system for the heaviest actual chemical elements, which tend to start with the letters "Un". In the movie The Core, the hull of the machine that dug to Earth's core was explicitly said by the characters to be made of a material called unobtainium. An alternative source for "unobtainium" exists within the aerospace industry, which has frequently encountered design problems beyond the capabilities of the available materials. Engineers working for Lockheed Corporation at the Skunk works refer to the SR-71 Blackbird as being being made of "unobtainium" because of the radical decision to use an untried new material, titanium, in the construction of this remarkable aircraft. At the time, "unobtainium".
Grammy Award for Best Album for Children - cast Grammy Awards of 1973 Christopher Cerf, Lee Chamberlin, Joe Raposo (producers), Bill Cosby & Rita Moreno for The Electric Company Grammy Awards of 1972 Bill Cosby for Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs Grammy Awards of 1971 Joan Cooney & Thomas Z. Shepard (producers) for Sesame Street performed by The Muppets Grammy Awards of 1970 Peter, Paul and Mary for Peter, Paul and Mommy 1960s Grammy Awards of 1969 none Grammy Awards of 1968 Boris Karloff for Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas Grammy Awards of 1967 Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran the Zoo" and "Sleep Book" Grammy Awards of 1966 Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" Grammy Awards of 1965 Julie Andrews, Dick Van.
USS Hancock (CV-19) - off her eight(?) deck. On the morning of the third day of operations against this enemy stronghold Hancock lashed out again at airfields and shipping before retiring to the southeast with her task force. As the American ships withdrew a heavy force of Japanese aircraft roared in for a parting crack. One dropped a bomb off Hancocks port bow a few seconds before the carrier's guns splashed her into the sea. Another bomb penetrated a gun platform but exploded harmlessly in the water. The surviving attackers then turned tail, and the task force was thereafter unmolested as they sailed toward the Philippines to support the landings at Leyte. On 18 October she launched planes against airfields and shipping at Laoag, Aparri, and Camiguin Island in Northern Luzon. Her planes struck the.
Deaths in 2003 - 11 February 2003 12 January 2003 December 2003 31 Yoshio Shirai, 80, first Japanese world boxing champion 30 John Gregory Dunne, 71, American novelist and screenwriter 30 Anita Mui, 40, Hong Kong pop queen 29 Earl Hindman, 61, U.S. actor, played "Wilson" on Home Improvement TV series 29 Bob Monkhouse, 75, British comedian and game show host 28 Isabelle Stevenson, chairman of the board of the American Theatre Wing, presenters of the Tony Awards. [1] 27 Ivan Calderon, (41 years) Puerto Rican former major league baseball star 27 Sir Alan Bates, British actor 22 Dave Dudley, 75, Country music singer 20 John Halfpenny Australian unionist (68 years) 19 Hope Lange, actress in Peyton Place 19 Peter Carter-Ruck UK libel lawyer (89 years) 17 Ed Devereaux, Australian actor 17 Otto Graham, Cleveland.
1966 - with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one into the sea January 19 - Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India. January 26 - Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires. January 29 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City. January - First SR-71 spy plane goes into service. February 3 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. February 23 - A military coup in Syria replaces the previous government. February 24 - A military coup in Ghana raises sacked general Ankrah to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad. March 1 - Venera 3.
American government position on war on Iraq - forgery. [1] There have also been charges by the Bush administration that Iraq has ties to Al Quada and other terrorist organizations. However, some analysts believe that such an accusation "stretches the analysis of U.S. intelligence agencies to, and perhaps beyond, the limit." [1] Other dignitaries Although some of them have changed their opinion in the last two years, in 1998, many key Democrats including President Bill Clinton, Tom Daschle and Richard Gephardt were supporting the idea of destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, using force if necessary. In February of 1998, former President Clinton remarked "(Hussein's) regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us. Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal. Let.
Barium - Barium Caesium - Barium - Lanthanum Sr Ba Ra Full table General Name, Symbol, Number Barium, Ba, 56 Series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2(IIA), 6, s Density, Hardness 3510 kg/m3, 1.25 Appearance silvery white Atomic Properties Atomic weight 137.327 amu Atomic radius (Calc.) 215 pm (253 pm) Covalent radius 198 pm van der Waals radius no information Electron configuration [Xe]6s6s2 e- 's per energy level 2, 8, 18, 18, 8, 2 Oxidation states (Oxide) 2 (strong base) Crystal structure Cubic body centered Physical Properties State of matter solid (paramagnetic) Melting point 1000 K (1341 °F) Boiling point 2143 K (3398 °F) Molar volume 38.16 ×1010-3 m3/mol Heat of vaporization 142 kJ/mol Heat of fusion 7.75 kJ/mol Vapor pressure 98 Pa at 371 K Speed of sound.
The Tennessean - Star-News, the Fairview Observer, and the Ashland City Times. Its circulation area also overlaps with that of the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle, another Gannett paper. The company also publishes several specialty publications including the Nashville Record and the Nashville Rage, a weekly entertainment guide. It publishes Davidson AM, Williamson AM, and Rutherford, local supplements covering these counties. The paper's primary print competitors are the Nashville City Paper, the Nashville Scene, the Nashville Business Journal, the Franklin Review-Appeal, and the Murfreesboro Daily News-Journal. The newspaper participated in a joint operating agreement with the Nashville Banner from 1937 until the Banner folded in 1998. The two papers operated out of the same building at 1100 Broadway and shared advertising and production staff, but maintained separate (and very distinct) ownership and editorial voices. The paper maintains.
Surveillance aircraft - day, yielding 50,000 images per day to interpret. Similar efforts were taken by other countries. In the 1950s, the first purpose-built jet covert surveillance aircraft, the Lockheed U-2 was constructed secretly for the United States. Designed for flights over Soviet territory, the plane remained an obscurity until one piloted by Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960(?). Modified versions of the U-2 remain in service in 2002, though its capabilities and operations remain secret. In the 1960s, the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest jet-propelled aircraft ever built, was constructed. However, as both the United States and Soviet Union possessed surveillance satellites, interest in new types of photo-reconnaissance aircraft declined. Another 1950s design, the English Electric Canberra continues to serve the RAF in the same role. Other famous reconnaissance.
P-38 Lightning - interceptor, capable of 360 mi/h at an altitude of 20,000 feet (580 km/h at 6,100 meters. The Bell P-39 Airacobra and the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk were designed to meet the same request. At that time, really powerful piston engines that could push fighter performance to the limit were not available in the United States, and so the Lockheed design team, under the direction of Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, who would eventually design a string of famous aircraft up to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, decided to use two supercharged 12-cylinder Allison V-1710 engines. At the time, the Allison had not been rated at even 1,000 HP. Johnson's initial concepts for the new fighter covered a range of configurations, but the Lockheed team finally decided on a scheme with twin booms to accommodate.
Ordnance Survey - in between were then filled in with less precise methods. Modern Ordnance Survey maps are based on aerial photographss, but large numbers of the pillars, or trig points remain. The OS still maintains a set of master geodetic reference points to tie the OS geographic datums to modern measurement systems including GPS. Eastings and Northings The Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain do not use latitude and longitude to indicate position but a special grid. There is a difference between the grid used in the mapping of Ireland compared to mainland Britain and the Scottish islands. This sectional concentrates on the traditional mainland reference system, called OSGB36 â„¢ (Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936) used after the retriangulation of 1936-1953. The maps are based on the projection called the Airy 1830 ellipsoid,.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 - rivet heads in areas that were unimportant for good drag performance. The airspeed indicator was redlined at Mach 2.8, and pilots were required not to exceed Mach 2.5. The Americans had witnessed a MiG 25 flying at Mach 3.2 over Israel in 1973, a flight that had resulted in the total destruction of its engines. The Americans were unaware of the inevitability of the destruction, which helped to fuel the myths about the aircraft's capabilities. Combat radius was 186 miles, and without afterburner, straight line range was only 744 miles. In fact Belenko had only just made it to Japan without running out of fuel - without sufficient fuel for a carefully planned landing, he narrowly missed a commercial airliner taking off, and overran the available runway on landing. There was.
Minolta - fields of rice". They came out with their first camera, the Nifcalette, a 120 film twin lens reflex (TLR), in 1929. The SR-2 was the first single lens reflex (SLR) camera with a bayonet lens mount. In 1950, Minolta developed a planetarium projector, the first ever made in Japan, beginning the company's connection to astronomical optics. An American astronaut took a Minolta Hi-Matic rangefinder 35mm camera aboard the spaceship Friendship 7 in 1962, and in 1968, Apollo 8 orbited the moon with a Minolta Space Meter aboard. In 1972, Minolta introduced the XD-11, the first multi-mode 35mm compact SLR system camera, considered by many, among them author Robert E. Mayer, to be the classic Minolta camera. In 1985 Minolta introduced the Maxxum line, the first line of automatic focus SLR cameras..
