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1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash. On January 7, 1971, a Boeing B-52C Stratofortress (serial 54-2666) of Strategic Air Command crashed into northern Lake Michigan at the mouth of Little Traverse Bay near Charlevoix, Michigan, while on a low-level training flight. All nine crew members aboard were lost.
March 5–7 - Kenya reaches the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens semi-final in Dubai. March 27 - Kenya lost to Tunisia 1-2 at the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. March 28 - Kenya reaches the main cup semi-final at the 2009 Hong Kong Sevens. March 29 - Micah Kogo breaks the 10 Kilometres road running world record at Parelloop race in Brunssum, The ...
Spans 5,153.277 feet (1,571 m). Located near New Amsterdam in Guyana. Demerara Harbour Bridge. Completed 1978. Spans 6,074 feet (1,851 m). Located immediately south of Georgetown, Guyana, it is constructed with steel pontoon units and is the fourth longest floating bridge in the world.
Lead-up. A North American B-25 Mitchell like N3443G. Around 30 parachutists arrived at Ortner Airport in Wakeman, Ohio, on August 27, 1967, to skydive together from a privately-owned North American B-25 Mitchell bomber ( registration N3443G [8] ). [9] After a previous paid performance at an air show, the bomber's owner, Bob Karns, had offered a ...
Lake Turkana ( / tɜːrˈkɑːnə, - ˈkæn -/) is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. [2] It is the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. By volume it is the world's fourth-largest salt lake [3] after the Caspian Sea, Issyk-Kul, and ...
Location. The Sidney Lanier Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia, carrying four lanes of U.S. Route 17. The current bridge was built as a replacement to the original vertical-lift bridge, which was twice struck by ships. It is currently the longest-spanning bridge in Georgia and is 480 feet (150 m ...
Kenya has one of the "most extensive regulatory controls to market entry", and a matatu worker can be pulled from the streets simply for sporting too loud a shirt. [12] They may ply set routes, [13] display this route, [10] run from termini, [8] [14] run both inter and intra-city, [13] [15] and may stop along said route to purchase or collect ...
Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.