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However, this inherited disease of red blood cells gives a degree of protection against malaria, which is or was common in the regions where the trait is common.
This selective survival advantage for carriers (known as heterozygous advantage) is responsible for keeping the mutation in populations way above its mutation rate.
Carriers are heterozygous for the thalassaemia allele, meaning only one of their two alleles is mutant (abnormal).
There are a number of different versions of thalassaemia.
Each one is caused by a mutation in a different position in the genome.
It is possible to cure patients with thalassaemia with bone marrow transplants from compatible donors.
However, this method requires an HLA-matched compatible donor.
"Prima Donna" is a 2010 song from Christina Aguilera.
It is about empowerment of women.
The single was released in June 2010.
Anything related to Indonesia
Cepheids are a type of very luminous variable stars.
There is a strong direct relationship between a Cepheid's luminosity and its pulsation period.
This makes Cepheids important standard candles for the galactic and extragalactic distance scales.
Classical Cepheids
Type II Cepheids
Anomalous Cepheids
Dwarf Cepheids
The first cepheid known was Delta Cephei in the constellation Cepheus, found by John Goodricke in 1784.
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A HIPPARCOS census of the nearby OB associations, AJ</ref> and the precise Hubble Space Telescope/Hipparcos parallaxes.
Classical Cepheids (also known as Population I Cepheids, Type I Cepheids, or Delta Cephei variables) pulsate with very regular periods of the order of days to months.
Classical Cepheids are population I young variable stars which are 4–20 times more massive than the Sun, and up to 100,000 times more luminous.
Cepheids are yellow supergiants of spectral class F6 – K2.
When they pulsate, their radii change by ~25%.
For the longer-period I Carinae this means millions of kilometers for a pulsation cycle.
Type II Cepheids (also termed Population II Cepheids) are population II variable stars which pulsate with periods between 1 and 50 days.
Type II Cepheids are typically metal-poor, old (~10 giga years), low mass objects (~half the mass of the Sun).
Type II Cepheids are divided into several subgroups by period.
A group of pulsating stars on the instability strip have periods of less than 2 days, similar to RR Lyrae variables but with higher luminosities.
Anomalous Cepheid variables have masses higher than type II Cepheids, RR Lyrae variables, and our Sun.
It is unclear whether they are young stars on a "turned-back" horizontal branch, blue stragglers formed through mass transfer in binary systems, or a mix of both.
Double-mode Cepheids
A small proportion of Cepheid variables have been observed to pulsate in two modes at the same time, usually the fundamental and first overtone, occasionally the second overtone.
A very small number pulsate in three modes, or an unusual combination of modes including higher overtones.
Glofish are fish which glow in the dark.
They glow because scientists changed their DNA to make them fluorescent.
The seahorse and the zebra fish are two types of fish that have been used to make GloFish.
Lazarus Saturday is the day before Palm Sunday in the Orthodox Church.
It celebrates the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Jesus (Gospel of John chapter 11).
It is the start of Holy Week.
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Josef Edwin "Joe" Weider (November 29, 1919 – March 23, 2013) was a Canadian-American bodybuilder, trainer, businessman, and television personality.
He was the founder of Mr. Olympia.
Weider was born on November 29, 1919 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a Polish-Jewish family.
His brother was Ben Weider.
Weider was married to Betty Brosmer from 1961 until his death in 2013.
Weider died on March 23, 2013 from heart failure in Los Angeles, California, aged 93.
Joe Weider: His Fitness Legacy  Article on Weider at Homegymsonline.com
"Joe Weider True Story" by bodybuilding champion Leroy Colbert
Weider biographical sketch at IFBB website
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and businessman.
At the time of his death, he bequeathed 1.2 million dollars for a free school of manual training in the town of Pullman.
Pullman invented the Pullman sleeping car.
He founded a company town, Pullman.
He did all of his business in Chicago.
He was supported by President Grover Cleveland during the Pullman Strike in Chicago.
Pullman was born on March 3, 1831 in Brocton, New York.
He was raised in Albion, New York.
Pullman was married to Hattie Amelia Sanger from 1867 until his death in 1897.
Pullman died on October 19, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois from a heart attack, aged 66.
George M. Pullman Educational Foundation
PBS: Chicago
Pullman House in Colorado
1910 Steel Pullman Business Car
Chicago Historical Society
The term compound fruit is sometimes used when it is not clear which of several fruit types a fruit belongs to.
An aggregate fruit, in which one flower contains several separate ovaries, which grow together during development.
A multiple fruit, in which several flowers, each with an ovary, develop into small fruits that grow together into a larger fruit.
A simple fruit formed from a compound ovary.
Grapes grow in clusters, but are not compound fruits.
Each grape is grown from one ovary in one flower, and they are not attached to one another.
The Boeing 80, sometimes called the Boeing Model 80 or just the Model 80, was an American airliner.
It was a biplane with three engines.
The Boeing 80 was built by the Boeing Airplane Company.
It could carry mail and passengers.
Boeing Air Transport was started on February 17, 1927 by William Boeing.
On July 1, 1927, planes from Boeing Air Transport started flying mail from San Francisco to Chicago.
At first, the Boeing Model 40A was used for this.
Boeing decided to make a plane to carry passengers.
In 1928 it designed the Model 80.
The Boeing 80 could carry 12 people.
The pilots sat in a cockpit in front of the passengers.
The first Boeing 80 took off on July 27, 1928.
Three more Boeing 80s were made before Boeing started to make the Boeing 80A. The Boeing 80A was longer and it could carry 18 people.
It also had better engines.
It first took off on July 18, 1929.
The Boeing 80 first flew for Boeing Air Transport on September 20, 1928.
It soon turned out to be successful.
The Boeing 80A started being used in September 1929.
In May 1930, Boeing Air Transport hired eight female flight attendants.
They first flew on May 15.
The Boeing 80 and 80A were used until the Boeing 247 replaced them in 1934.
Different types of Boeing 80
Model 80 - first type of Boeing 80 (four of these were made)
Model 80A - more aerodynamic and had new engines (10 of these were made)
Monterey Peninsula Airways
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Robert Campbell Reeve
Standard Oil, California
Boeing 80s which still exist
One Boeing 80A was found in a dump at Anchorage Airport in 1960.
It was fixed up and it is now in the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Details (Model 80A)
London: Putnam, 1989. .
Davies, Ed. "
Boeing's Airline: The Life and Times of Boeing Air Transport, Part One".
Air Enthusiast, No.
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Boeing's Airline: The Life and Times of Boeing Air Transport, Part Two".
128, March/April 2007.
Stamford, UK: Key Publishing.
Taylor, H.A. "When Boeing Flew the Mails".
Air Enthusiast, Twenty-two, August–November 1983, pp.
Bromley, UK: Pilot Press.
"Night Flyers At 10,000 Feet Hurdle The Rockies", Popular Science, August 1931, about the Boeing 80
"How Many Parts Has The Modern Airplane", Popular Mechanics, January 1932, article about making a Boeing 80
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The Boeing Model 200 Monomail was an American mail plane.
It was built in the 1930s by Boeing.
It flew for the first time on 6 May 1930.
The Boeing Monomail was a monoplane instead of a biplane.
The wing was strong and did not need bracing.
Its wheels could be retracted.
Only one plane was made for the US Army to look at.
The plane eventually began to fly main from San Francisco to Chicago.
Another version was made, the Model 221.
It was made longer by 8 inches.
This meant it could carry passengers, but less cargo.
This version first flew on 18 August 1930.
There were no good engines for the Boeing Monomail to use.
By the time good engines could be used, new planes had been made which were better than the Monomail.
One of these was the Boeing 247.
Types of Boeing Monomail
Model 200
mailplane (one was built)
Model 221
mailplane which could carry six passengers (one was built)
Model 221A
Model 200 and 221 changed into airliners
United Air Lines
Details (Model 221)
Boeing History - Boeing Monomail Transport Retrieved June 17, 2006.
Fiddlergreen.net: Monomail
Colorado Wreck Chasing: Glendo Crash Site
Monomail
Giora Feidman (born March 26, 1936) is an Israeli clarinetist.
He plays klezmer music.
Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated there to escape persecution.
Feidman's family are klezmer musicians.
His father, grandfather and great-grandfather made music for weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and holiday celebrations in the shtetls (villages) of Eastern Europe.
Feidman married Ora Bat-Chaim in 1975.
She was his personal manager.
Feidman started his career in Buenos Aires, where he was a member of the Teatro Colón Symphony Orchestra.
Two years later he immigrated to Israel.
He became the youngest clarinetist ever to play with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
He was a member of the orchestra for over 20 years.
In the early 1970s he started a solo career.
He has performed with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Kronos Quartet, the Polish Chamber Philarmonic, the Munich Chamber Philarmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Radio Orchestra.
Jewish Soul Music (1973)
The Singing Clarinet (1987)
Clarinetango (1990)
The Magic of the Klezmer (1990)
Viva el Klezmer (1991)
Gerschwin & The Klezmer (1991)
The Dance of Joy (1992)
Klassic Klezmer (1993)
Concert for the Klezmer (1993)
Der Rattenfanger (1993)
Feidman in Jerusalem (1994)
Klezmer Chamber Music (1995)
The Soul Chai (1995)
The Incredible Clarinet (1995)
For You (1996)
Schelomo/Barakashot (1996)
Silence and Beyond — Feidman plays Ora Bat Chaim (1997)
Feidman in Bayreuth — Lilith — Neun Gesänge der dunklen Liebe (1997)
Soul Meditation, Harmony of Soul (1997)
Der Golem — Feidman and the Arditti String Quartet (1997)
Klezmer Celebration (1997)
Feidman and Israel Camerata (1998)
Feidman and Katja Beer — Schubert (1998)
Journey (1999)
And the Angels Sing (1999)
Klezmer and More (2000)
Rhapsody (2000)
To Giora Feidman — Your Kletzmer Friends (2000)
TangoKlezmer (2001)
Dancing in the Field (2002)
Feidman plays Piazzolla (2002)
Love — Feidman plays Ora Bat Chaim (2003)
Feidman Plays Mozart and More (2003)
Safad — Feidman and The Safed Chamber Orchestra (2004)
Ewigkeit dringt in die Zeit (2004)
Wenn du singst, wie kannst du hassen? (
Feidman and Eisenberg — Live at St. Severin (2005)
Crossing Borders (2006)
Klezmundo (2006)
Klezmer in the Galilee (2007)
The Spirit of Klezmer (2008)
Klezmer & Strings (2009)
Very Klezmer (2012)
Jewish Soul Music: The Art of Giora Feidman (1980), directed by Uri Barbash.
Giora Feidman official site
Biography at Buffet Crampon's website
Interview with Giora Feidman, 2008
Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre, June 19, 1921 – February 14, 2015) was a French retired actor.
He appeared in The Paradine Case (1947), Gigi (1958), The Best of Everything (1959) and Octopussy (1983).
His final movie before his retirement was The Year Of The Comet in 1992.
Jourdan was born on June 19, 1921 in Marseille, France.
He studied at the École Dramatique.
Jourdan was married to Berthe Frédérique from 1946 until her death in 2014.
They had a son, Louis Jourdan, Jr.. Jourdan, Jr. died of a drug overdose aged 29 in 1981.
Norman Nathan Lloyd (November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021) was an American actor, producer, and director.
He is known for his television role as Dr. Daniel Auschlander in St. Elsewhere.
His career lasted for more than ninety years.
He made a guest appearance on Modern Family in 2010.
Lloyd was born on November 8, 1914 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He studied to become an actor at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City.
Lloyd came to Hollywood to play a Nazi spy in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942).
Je started a long friendship and professional career with Hitchcock.
After a few more villainous movie roles, Lloyd also worked behind the camera as an assistant on Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph (1948).
A friend of John Garfield, Lloyd appeared with him in He Ran All the Way.
Garfield's last movie before the Hollywood blacklist ended his movie career.
Lloyd was married to Peggy Craven from 1936 until her death in 2011.
Lloyd died on May 11, 2021 at his home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 106.
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The Man Who Fell Off The Statue of Liberty: An Interview with Norman Lloyd (TCM's Movie Morlocks)
Gill Pinnacle (or Gill's Pinnacle) is an inselberg in the far east of Western Australia, on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.
It is  part of the Petermann Ranges.
It consists of a dome-shaped hill, surrounded by dense shrub; its top is bare rock.
The hill has been useful as a landmark, because it marks the location of one of the area's most reliable freshwater rockholes, Gordon's Springs.
This is a few hundred meters to the north of the rock.
The area is called  (also spelled  or ) in Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra.
The first Europeans to visit the area were the explorers Ernest Giles and W. H. Tietkens, in 1874.
They saw the rock from Weld Pass, which is further to the west.
Giles named the rock after his brother-in-law.
He named the waterhole, Gordon's Springs, after his nephew.
The closest town to Gill's Pinnacle is Kaltukatjara, Northern Territory, which is about  to the east.
Gill's Pinnacle on Bonzle Digital Atlas
Peter John Sallis  (1 February 1921 – 2 June 2017) was a English actor, known for his roles as Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine from its 1973 inception until its final episode in 2010, making him the only actor to appear in all 295 episodes.
He also voiced Wallace in Wallace and Gromit.
He won an Annie Award in 2005.
Sallis was born on 1 February 1921 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England.
He studied at the Minchenden Grammar School in North London.
Sallis married Elaine Usher in 1957.
They had a son, Crispian.
Sallis has had a disease called macular degeneration since 2005.
George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was a retired American actor.
He is best known for his role as Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the James Bond movies such as Live and Let Die (1973) and in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974).
James was born on May 29, 1920 in Spokane, Washington.
He married Laurie Harper in 1951.
Harper died in 2015.
Clifton James at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection
Clips from Texas episodes
William Joseph Schallert (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American actor.
He played the father on The Patty Duke Show.
He is also known for his guest-star roles in The Smurfs, Jefferson Drum, Gunsmoke, Star Trek, Get Smart, Lawman, Matlock, The Waltons, Bonanza, and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Schallert was born on July 6, 1922 in Los Angeles, California.
He married Rosemarie D. Waggner in 1949.
Schallert was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1979 through 1981.
He died at his home in Pacific Palisades, California from complications from peripheral neuropathy on May 8, 2016, aged 93.
William Schallert Interview at Elvis2001.net
Hollywood Everyman: A Conversation with William Schallert  2010 Interview with William Schallert
Deaths from peripheral neuropathy
The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2011 American crime drama movie.
The story is about a Los Angeles lawyer doing business in his luxury car.
Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Frances Fisher act.
The movie was released in March 2011.
The reviews were very positive.
The box office intake was almost $86 million.
Peter Vaughan (Peter Ewart Ohm; 4 April 1923 – 6 December 2016) was an English actor.
He was known for his role as Charles Johnson in Citizen Smith and recently as Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones.
Vaughan was born on 4 April 1923 in Wem, Shropshire, England.
He was married to Billie Whitelaw from 1952 until they divorced in 1966.
He was married to Lillias Walker until his death in 2016.
Vaughan died in Mannings Heath, Sussex from epilepsy on 6 December 2016, aged 93.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/313826/there-are-unfortunately-a-lot-of-us-old-guys-around.thtml
James Karen (born James Karnofsky; November 28, 1923 – October 23, 2018) was an American actor.
He was known for his roles as Martin Frohm in The Pursuit of Happyness and as Ben Hubbard in Superman Returns.
He also starred in Poltergeist and The Return of the Living Dead.
Karen was born on November 28, 1923 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to a Russian-Jewish family.
He studied at Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Karen was married to Susan Reed from 1958 until they divorced in 1967.
He married Alba Francesca in 1986.
Karen died on October 23, 2018 in Los Angeles at the age of 94.
The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest.
Great Character Actors / James Karen
Pathmark TV commercial with James Karen (YouTube)
Theodore Meir Bikel (May 2, 1924 – July 21, 2015) was an Austrian-American actor, singer, and musician.
He was nominated for an Academy Award as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones in 1958.
Bikel was born in Vienna, Austria on May 2, 1924.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
He moved to the United States in 1954.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1961.
Bikel was married to Ofra Ichilov from 1942 until they divorced in 1943.
Then he was married to Rita Weinberg Call from 1967 until they divorced in 2008.
He was married to Tamara Brooks from 2008 until her death in 2012.
He had two children with Call.
Theodore Bikel Official website
Theodore Bikel at the Internet Accuracy Project
Austrian singers
Edward Charles James Gardner, DFM (August 24, 1924 – May 3, 2010) was an English actor.
He played Ernie Prang in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Gardner was born on August 24, 1924 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England.
Gardner died on May 3, 2010 in London, England from pneumonia, aged 85.
George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 - 5 August 2015) was an English actor.
He is known for his roles as Arthur Daley in Minder and as Flash Harry in the early versions of the St Trinian's movies.
He also played Peter Banks in the sitcom My Good Friend.
Cole was born on April 22, 1925 in Tooting, South London, England.
He was adopted when he was a baby.
He was married to Eileen Moore from 1954 until they divorced in 1962.
He married Penny Morrell in 1964.
Cole died of an illness at Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading, Berkshire on 5 August 2015.
www.britmovie.co.uk - George Cole
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE (born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist of Japanese origin.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.
He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.
His novels include An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005).
He won the Booker Prize for his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day.
The Remains of the Day was later adapted as a movie.
The movie came out in 1993.
It starred Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
It was nominated for eight Academy Awards.
He was knighted in 2018.
A Pale View of Hills (1982)
An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
The Remains of the Day (1989)
The Unconsoled (1995)
When We Were Orphans (2000)
Never Let Me Go (2005)
Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)
The Buried Giant (2015)
"Love Story" is a 2008 song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
The story of the single is about a boy who is in love with a girl, resulting in a Romeo and Juliet type romance.
The song received positive reviews from the critics.
It sold millions of digital downloads and compact discs.
The single was released in Autumn of 2008 in the United States.
Toe rings are rings worn on toes, in particular the second toe.
They are worn on either foot, often with barefoot sandals, bare feet or anklets.
They are usually made for females, although males sometimes wear the rings.
Giant stars are up to a few hundred times the diameter of the Sun and between 10 and a few thousand times brighter than the Sun.
They don't last as long as most main sequence stars.
Stars still more luminous than giants are referred to as supergiants and hypergiants.
There are a wide range of giant class stars, and sub-divisions are often used to identify particular types.
Astronomers use such terms as: sub-giants, bright giants, red giants, yellow giants and blue giants.
Aggregate fruits may also be accessory fruits.
In accessory fruits, parts of the flower that are not the ovary become juicy and form part of the fruit.
Strawberry is an aggregate fruit and is also an accessory fruit.
The small dark-coloured dots on a strawberry are the ovaries.
The juicy part of the strawberry grows from the base of the flower.
is a series of anthropomorphic animal figures.
They are made from plastic and fake animal fur.
They were started in Japan in 1985 by Epoch, but they are now sold worldwide.
Many books, DVDs and TV series have been based on the characters.
The characters were originally woodland animals like bears, rabbits and hedgehogs, but now other animals such as penguins, meerkats and elephants have been added into the mix.
The word sylvan means "forest" in Latin.
Sylvanians were origanally set in Japan in the 1950's most of the families are rural middle-class with many luxuries and local businesses.
They have many leisure activities such as horse riding, rowing and hosting garden parties.
The simple caravan means that they can enjoy short stays on holiday.
This means that they can be away from their house whether it is a small cottage or a multi-storey town house.
In 1985 Sylvanian Families were launched in both Japan and North America.
They were such a success that in 1987 they moved over the Atlantic to Western Europe and to the UK.
By 1988 these small toys were a major success world wide, they went on to win London toy of the year award 3 times in a row this had never been achieved before or after.
They were so popular that in the late 80's an animated TV series was made, this was greatly watched and spain and the UK.
In the 90's it was aired on American TV.
Stopping and Starting
By the mid 1990's Sylvanian Families, despite their major success, had gone out of business in the UK.
The production company Tomy lost the rights to Sylvanian Families and American Calico Critters.
In the late 90's another company, Flair, took over Sylvanian Families and reintroduced them into the UK.
It was in 2007 that they celebrated their 20th birthday a special edition dalmation family (that had not been sold since they went out of production) with red party hats saying 'happy birthday'.
2012 was the 25th birthday and they sold a celebration rabbit family in honour a birthday that they never have seen if it hadn't have been for Flair.
The London Shop
The address for the Sylvanian Families Shop in London is 68 Mountgrove Road.
The shop is quite small but stuffed from floor to ceiling with figures, displays and new box sets.
People from all around the world to go to the Sylvanian shop to become one of the many people who have been inside the famous shop.
Japanese Musuem and Shop
In Japan there is a giant life size Sylvanian Families village, including a bakery with real bread based on the bread in watermill bakery.
You can meet life size Sylvanian characters and go in life size houses made from the models themselves.
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy-drama movie.
It was written and co-produced by Richard Curtis.
It was directed by Mike Newell.
It stars Hugh Grant as Charles and Andie MacDowell as Carrie, an American whom he repeatedly meets at weddings and a funeral as they become attracted to each other.
The Boeing 247, sometimes called the Boeing Model 247 was an American airliner.
It is thought to be the first airliner to fully use advanced things like retractable landing gear, an autopilot and deicing boots.
The Boeing 247 first flew on February 8, 1933.
It started being used later that year.
Later, planes became bigger and some had four engines.
However, no big changes were made until Boeing made the Boeing 307 Stratoliner.
The Boeing 247 was an advanced plane.
The design was taken from the Boeing Monomail (Models 200, 221, 221A) and the B-9 bomber.
The Boeing 247 was faster than the Boeing P-12, which was the main American fighter at the time.
The P-12 was did not have a roof on the cockpit, and it was a biplane.
The Boeing 247 landed at just 62 mph.
This meant that flaps were not needed.
At just 10 mph, the back wheel came off the ground, which made it easier to steer.
Also, the 247 was the first airliner with two engines which could fly on just one engine.
The Boeing 247 had special propellers.
It could fly at 11,500 ft at full weight.
The Douglas DC-1 and some other airliners before World War II used parts of the Boeing 247's design.
The 247 was supposed to carry 14 passengers and have Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet engines, but the plane was made smaller and got different engines.
The pilots did not think that the plane, which weighed eight tons, could land on any runway back then.
They also did not like the Hornet engines.
This was because most pilots were used to Wasps.
It was thought that they would find Hornets too powerful.
Pratt & Whitney's chief engineer, George Mead, knew that the pilots were wrong.
P&W's head, Frederick Rentschler, decided to do what the pilots wanted.
This made an argument between Mead and Rentschler.
Even though there were some arguments about the design and engines, the 247 was still a very good design.
Boeing showed it at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
Boeing wanted to make the plane as safe as possible.
They made the plane strong and put in things to make passengers more comfortable.
For example, the cabin had air conditioning.
It was also sound-proof.
The plane had a pilot, co-pilot and a flight attendant.
The wheels did not fully go into the plane.
A part of the wheels hung down below the plane.
This was done to make it safer for the plane to land if the landing gear could not be put down.
The wheel at the back of the plane could not be moved.
In 1934, Boeing put a Boeing 247 into the MacRobertson Race.
In the race, planes raced from England to Australia.
The pilots of the Boeing plane were Col.
Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn.
The 247 was basically a normal plane, but some parts were taken out to make space for more fuel tanks.
Many different planes from all over the world took part.
Turner and Pangborn came in second place.
The Douglas DC-2 came first.
The 247 could go across the United States eight hours faster than any plane which came before it.
The Boeing 247 started being used on May 22, 1933.
One set a record of 19½ hours when it flew from San Francisco to New York City.
The first 60 247s were sold to Boeing Air Transport (part of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, UATC).
They cost $65,000 each.
TWA (Transcontinental & Western Air) also ordered the 247 but UATC said no.
TWA President Jack Frye asked for a new airliner.
He paid Don Douglas to design and build the Douglas DC-1 prototype.
Douglas eventually made the DC-3 line.
The Boeing 247 was shown to have some serious problems with its design.
Air carriers did not like the fact that it only carried 10 passengers.
The DC-2 and later DC-3 could carry many more passengers.
This meant that the Boeing 247 would not earn airlines as much money.
Seventy-five 247s were built.
Douglas got 800 orders for DC-3s from airlines before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Douglas made over 10,000 DC-3s.
Many of United's Boeing 247s were bought by Western Air Express.
It was said that they were bought at a very low price.
The 247 was used until World War II.
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) had seven 247s to move soldiers around.
Some 247s were still flying in the late 1960s.
These were either cargo planes or personal planes.
November 9, 1933 - A United Air Lines 247 crashed after it took off.
Four of the nine people on the plane died.
December 20, 1934 - United Air Lines Flight 6, a 247, crashed near Western Springs, Illinois.
The plane was fixed and started flying again.
October 7, 1935 – United Air Lines Trip 4, a 247D, crashed 10 miles to the west of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
It is not known why it crashed.
Everybody on the plane died.
October 30, 1935 - A United Air Lines Boeing 247D crashed near Cheyenne.
December 27, 1936 - United Air Lines Trip 34, a 247D, crashed in Los Angeles County, California.
All 12 people on board died.
January 12, 1937 – Western Air Express Flight 7, a 247, crashed into a mountain in Newhall, California.
Different types of Boeing 247
First type made.
247A
Special order from Deutsche Luft Hansa.
247E
The very first Boeing 247 plane was called this.
247D
At first only meant for the MacRobertson Race.
It had special propellers which made the plane 7 mph faster.
247Y
A version with guns on it.
Viação Aérea Bahiana used one plane.
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Quebec Airways
Avianca used 10 aircraft.
Lufthansa had four aircraft.
Boeing Air Transport (later United Air Lines) used 60 aircraft.
Empire Air Lines
National Parks Airways
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
United Aircraft Corporation used 10 aircraft.
Wien Air Alaska
Western Airlines
Woodley Airways
Wyoming Air Service
United States Army Air Corps
Planes which still exist
c/n 1699, CF-JRQ
This plane is in the Canada Aviation Museum, Ottawa.
It was given to the museum in 1967 by California Standard Oil.
c/n 1722, N18E
This plane is in the National Museum of Science and Industry, Wroughton, UK
c/n 1729, N13347
This plane can still fly.
It is in the Museum of Flight Restoration Center, Paine Field, Snohomish County, Washington, USA.
c/n 1953, NC13369 / NR257Y
This plane is in the Hall of Air Transportation at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, USA.
It has United Air Lines colours.
Details (Boeing 247D)
Bryan, C.D.B.  The National Air and Space Museum.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979. .
Fernandez, Ronald.
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Boston, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1983. .
Gould, William.
Boeing (Business in Action).
Bath, Avon, UK: Cherrytree Books, 1995. .
Mondey, David, The Concise Guide to American Aircraft of World War II.
London: Chancellor, 1996. .
Douglas Propliners: DC-1–DC-7.
Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing, 1995. .
Pedigree of Champions: Boeing Since 1916, Third Edition.
Seattle, Washington: The Boeing Company, 1969.
WorldCat.
Seely, Victor. "
Boeing's Grand Old Lady."
Air Classics, Vol.
6, August 1968.
Serling, Robert J. Legend & Legacy: The Story of Boeing and its People.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. .
van der Linden, F. Robert.
The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner.
Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1991. .
Retrieved: July 26, 2009.
Yenne, Bill.
New York:, Crescent Books, 1989. .
Gallery: Boeing 247 Images
Boeing Model 247: First modern airliner
George Edward Maxwell "Max" Wright (August 2, 1943 – June 26, 2019) was an American actor.
He was best known for his role as Willie Tanner on the television comedy series ALF.
Wright was born on August 2, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan.
He was married to Linda Wright from 1965 until her death in 2017.
They had two children, Ben and Daisy.
In January 2000, Wright was arrested for drunken driving in Los Angeles, California.
Wright had another DUI arrest in 2003.
In 1995, he was diagnosed with lymphoma.
He was remission until the cancer returned in early 2019.
Wright died on June 26, 2019 at his home in Englewood, New Jersey from the disease at the age of 75.
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis (born 8 November 1956) is a New Zealand screenwriter and movie producer and director.
He was born in Wellington.
He gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from Christ Church, Oxford.
Separation anxiety disorder is a psychological problem.
It makes a person have very intense anxiety when they are away from other people or their homes, school or friends to whom the person carries a strong emotional connection.
There is too much fear or worry which is not normal of the true mental age and level.
This condition may sometimes create physical troubles.
Those under 18 are at highest risk for the problem.
Deborah Iona Raffin (March 13, 1953 – November 21, 2012) was an American actress, director, screenwriter, and audio book publisher.
She was known for her role in Touched by Love (1981).
Raffin was born on March 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California to executive Phillip J. Raffin and to actress Trudy Marshall, both from Brooklyn, New York.
Raffin was Jewish.
In 1985 she starred as Kathryn Davis in Death Wish 3.
In 1988, she starred in James Clavell's Noble House with Pierce Brosnan.
In 1991, she appeared as Julie Vale in Scanners II: The New Order.
She later appeared as Aunt Julie on the television show 7th Heaven, and as Dr. Hightower in the ABC Family teenager series, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
Raffin was married to Michael Vinner from 1975 until they divorced in 2005.
They had a daughter, Taylor Rose Vinner.
In 2011, Raffin was diagnosed with leukemia (blood cancer).
A year later, on November 21, 2012 Raffin died at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from the disease, aged 59.
She was survived by her daughter Taylor Rose.
40 Carats (1973) as Trina Stanley
The Dove (1974) as Patti Ratteree
Once Is Not Enough (1975) as January Wayne
God Told Me To (1976) as Casey Forster
The Sentinel (1977) as Jennifer
Touched by Love (1980) as Lena Canada
Dance of the Dwarfs (1983) as Dr. Evelyn Howard
Claudia (1985) as Claudia
Lace II (1985) (miniseries) as Judy Hale
Death Wish 3 (1985) as Kathryn Davis
Grizzly II: The Concert (1987) as Samantha Owens
Morning Glory (movie) (1993) as Elly Dinsmore (also co-writer of screenplay)
William Horatio Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an American actor.
He was known for his role in Thin Man (1934).
He was nominated an Academy Award for Best Actor three times for his roles in The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947).
Powell was born on July 29, 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He was raised in Kansas City, Missouri.
Powell studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He was married to Eileen Wilson from 1915 until they divorced in 1930.
Then he was married to Carole Lombard from 1931 until they divorced in 1933.
Then he was married to Diana Lewis from 1940 until his death in 1984.
He had a son with Wilson, William David (who committed suicide in 1968).
Powell died on March 5, 1984 in his home in Palm Springs, California from heart failure, aged 91.
Photographs of William Powell
FBI file on William Powell
Mitchell Hooks (1923 – March 17, 2013) was an American artist and illustrator renowned for his artwork for paperback books and magazines.
He was known for illustrating movie posters for Dr. No, The Sand Pebbles, and for El Dorado.
Hooks was born in 1923 in Detroit, Michigan.
He died on March 17, 2013 his home Los Angeles, California from natural causes, aged 89.
MItchell Hooks paperback covers
Reprinted with permission.
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
From 1941 through 1958, Trucks played for the Detroit Tigers (1941–1943, 1945–1952, 1956), St. Louis Browns (1953), Chicago White Sox (1953–1955), Kansas City Athletics (1958) and New York Yankees (1958).
Trucks was born on April 26, 1917 in Birmingham, Alabama.
He was married to Elizabeth Ann Newman until his death in 2013.
Trucks died in his home in Calera, Alabama from natural causes, aged 95.
St. Louis Browns
Rajpath (, meaning "King's Way") is the national boulevard of India.
It is in New Delhi, the capital of India.
The boulevard starts at the home of the President of India and ends at the National Stadium.
Image of Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Secretariat buildings lit up for the Beating the Retreat at Vijay Chowk
The City of David (, Ir David), called in , Wadi Hilweh, is an archaeological site in Jerusalem.
It is next to the south-eastern corner of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
The site is attributed to the palace of king David, and includes a water tunnel that was built by the king Hezekiah.
Near the site live Jewish and Arabs.
From Shiloah to Silwan project
City of David, Biblical Archaeology Review
{|{{Infobox aircraft type
|type=Airliner
|manufacturer= Boeing
|first flight= 31 December 1938
|introduced= 8 July 1940
|retired= 1975
|number built= 10
|status=Retired
|primary user= TWA
|more users= Pan Am  United States Army Air Forces
|unit cost=$315,000 (in 1937)<ref name="aviation-history.com">[http://www.aviation-history.com/boeing/307.html "Boeing 307 Stratoliner entry at."]
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Retrieved: January 28, 2012.</ref>
|developed from= Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
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The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner was an airliner which was made by Boeing.
It was the first airliner to have a pressurized cabin.
This meant that the Boeing 307 could fly at 20,000 ft (6,000 m), which is above most weather.
If the plane was at 14,700 ft (4,480 m), it would be like 8,000 ft (2,440 m) inside the cabin.
The Model 307 carried five crew and 33 passengers.
The cabin was nearly 12 ft (3.6 m) across.
It was the first plane which took off from land to have a flight engineer.
In 1935 Boeing designed an airliner with four engines.
It was based on the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
This airliner was called the Model 307.
It had the same wings, tail, rudder, landing gear and engines as the B-17C. However, the middle of the plane was a circle.
Its diameter was .
It was designed so that the plane could be pressurized.
The first order was made in 1937 by Pan American Airways.
Pan Am then ordered more.
Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) ordered five.
Boeing then started making the plane.
Bowers 1989, p. 231.
C-75
When the U.S. joined World War II in December 1941, it was thought to be a luxury to fly.
The war meant that government and military officers needed to fly long distances.
Planes like Pan Am's 14 flying boats and TWA's five Boeing 307s were used for this.
More fuel tanks were added to allow it to fly further.
Military Boeing 307s were called C-75s.
Before World War II stopped them being made, 10 307s had been made for airlines.
TWA flew between New York and Los Angeles for 18 months until the Army bought their planes.
TWA changed their 307s to C-75s in January 1942.
These were the only American planes which could cross the Atlantic with cargo until the Douglas C-54 Skymaster was made in November 1942.
C-75s had the pressurization equipment removed to make the plane lighter.
Some seats were taken off, and some other changes were made.
Five  fuel tanks were put onto the plane.
The landing gear was made stronger and the maximum take-off weight was made bigger (from ).
The outside was painted olive drab.
The first Boeing 307 Stratoliner flew from Boeing Field, Seattle on December 31, 1938.
However, it crashed on March 18, 1939, while KLM was looking at it.
The first delivery was made to Howard Hughes.
He bought one Boeing 307 to fly around the world.
He wanted to do it faster than he did before.
Hughes' Boeing Stratoliner had more fuel tanks.
It was ready to go, but then Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, so Howard Hughes did not make his flight.
This 307 had its extra fuel tanks taken off.
It also had more powerful engines added.
It was supposed to be a "flying penthouse" for Hughes, but it was not used a lot.
It was eventually sold.
"Houston's Aviation History Timeline."
The 1940 Air Terminal Museum.
Retrieved: January 28, 2012.
Pam Am started getting its Boeing 307s in March 1940.
TWA got its first 307 in April.
TWA used its 307s to fly from Los Angeles to New York City.
Pan Am's flew from Miami to Latin America.
Ten 307s were made.
Three were given to Pan Am (named Clipper Flying Cloud, Clipper Comet, and Clipper Rainbow) and five to TWA (named Comanche, Cherokee, Zuni, Navajo, and Apache).
One went to Howard Hughes.
The first 307 crashed.
After the United States joined World War II, Pan Am kept flying its planes to Central and South America, but the Army Air Force was in charge of them.
TWA's Boeing 307s were sold to the U.S. government.
They were called Boeing C-75 and used by the United States Army Air Forces.
The U. S. Army gave the five C-75s back to TWA in 1944.
TWA sent them back to Boeing to be rebuilt.
Boeing replaced the wings and put in more powerful engines.
The electrics were replaced with electrics from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
After these changes, the 307 could carry 38 passengers.
TWA switched to the Lockheed Constellation, but the 307s were used until April, 1951.
The C-75 flew two main routes: Washington, D.C. to Cairo and New York to Scotland.
They sometimes flew from Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick, Scotland and between Natal, Brazil and Accra, Ghana.
After July 1942, they could stop to refuel at Ascension Island.
Different types of Boeing 307
had Wright Cyclone GR-1820-G102 engines and five crew
307B
had Wright Cyclone GR-1820-G105A engines and seven crew
Boeing 307s used by the U.S. military
Royal Air Laos
Howard Hughes bought one aircraft.
Pan Am got three aircraft.
TWA got five aircraft.
Haitan Air Force
Boeing 307s which still exist
The only Boeing 307 Stratoliner which still exists is at the Smithsonian Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
On March 28, 2002, this plane was damaged a lot when it ditched in Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington.
That was its last flight before it went to the Smithsonian.
Details (Boeing 307)
London: Putnam, Third edition, 1989. .
Bridgman, L. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1942.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1942.
Ford, Daniel. "
First and Last 'Strat': Boeing's Model 307 and its Survivors".
110, March/April 2004, pp.
ISSN 0143-5450.
Hardy, Mike. "
The Stratoliner Story (Part 1)."
Air International, Vol.
46, No 1, January 2004, pp.
The Stratoliner Story (Part 2)."
46, No 2, February 2004, pp.
Munson, Kenneth.
Bombers in Service, Patrol and Transport Aircraft Since 1960.
London: The Macmillan Co., 1972. .
Taylor, H.A. "Ten Big Boeings ... The Stratoliner Story".
Air Enthusiast'', Ten, July–September 1979, pp.
Bromley, UK: Fine Scroll.
Video Courtesy of *Bomberguy Aviation Historian
Coast to Coast on Four Motors September 1940 Popular Mechanics
History of the Boeing 307 by Boeing Historical Division
Vladimír Čech (6 July 1951 – 22 March 2013) was an Czech actor, presenter and former politician.
He was known for being the voice of Garfield in the Czech versions.
Čech was born on 6 July 1951 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He studied at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts.
Čech died of Lynch syndrome (a type of colon cancer) and pneumonia on 22 March 2013 in his home in Prague, Czech Republic, aged 61.
Biography of Vladimír Čech on ČT website
Biography of Vladimír Čech on worldonline.cz website
Robert Slerling "Ducky" Detweiler (February 15, 1919 – March 13, 2013) was an American professional baseball infielder and manager.
Listed at 5' 11", 178 lb.,
he batted and threw right handed.
He played for the Boston Braves (1942, 1946).
Detweiler was born on February 15, 1919 in Trumbauersville, Pennsylvania.
He studied at Quakertown High School.
Detweiler was married to Jean Cahall from 1944 until his death in 2013.
They had one daughter, Gina.
Detweiler died on March 13, 2013 in his home in Easton, Maryland from natural causes, aged 94.
Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles (1993).
Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball.
Baseball America.
Islam is the state religion of the Afghanistan.
About 99.7% of the Afghan population is Muslim.
About 80-89% practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school.
10-19% are Shi'a, most of whom follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis.
Pier 39 is a place in San Francisco.
It is a popular place for tourists and has many things to do.
There are many restaurants, shops, street performances, and a video arcade.
Pier 39 is home to many sea lions and a two-level carousel at the end of the pier.
Keio University is one of the oldest universities in Japan.
It started in Tokyo in 1858 as a school for Western studies.
Faculty & Graduate Schools
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Science & Technology (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, etc.)
Junichiro Koizumi (87th/88th/89th Prime Minister of Japan)
Ryutaro Hashimoto (82nd/83rd Prime Minister of Japan)
Akihiko Hoshide (astronaut)
Yukari Yoshihara (Go player at Nihon Ki-in)
Campus Gallery
Keio University website
Keio University, Institute for Advanced Biosciences/TTCK
Shonan Fujisawa Campus
Keio Academy of New York
Keio Organization for Global Initiatives (OGI)
Jessica Lucas (September 24 1985) is a Canadian television and movie actress.
She played Lily in the movie Cloverfield.
She also acted in several notable television programs.
The Kennedy's was about the political career and the personal life of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.. The show was about how Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
made John F. Kennedy win his election for President.
As the show continued, they show the difficulties of Kennedy's presidency, Joseph's stroke and rough relationship with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and the assassination of both John and Robert Kennedy.
The show also featured John's relationship with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy.
Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy
Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Kennedy
Barry Pepper as Robert F. Kennedy
Tom Wilkinson as Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Diana Hardcastle as Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Chris Diamantopoulos as Frank Sinatra
Charlotte Sullivan as Marilyn Monroe
Kristin Booth as Ethel Kennedy
Serge Houde as Sam Giancana
Enrico Colantoni as J. Edgar Hoover
Don Allison as Lyndon B. Johnson
Rothaford Gray as Abraham Bolden
Gabriel Hogan as Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
at History Television
at History UK
at ReelzChannel
Ascot is a large village in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire.
It is most famous as the location of Ascot Racecourse, which hosts the Royal Ascot meeting.
Ascot Racecourse was founded in 1711 by Queen Anne, with the first race, ‘Her Majesty’s Plate’ running in August of that year.
The name Ascot is Anglo-Saxon and derives from East-Cote meaning the Eastern Cottage, probably a reference to being east of the royal estate at Easthampstead.
Ascot has always been the western portion of Sunninghill parish (now called Sunninghill and Ascot) and, for most of its history, largely consisted of dangerous heathland frequented by highwaymen.
Ascot has 20% more Higher and Intermediate managerial, administrative or professional households than the national average.
Ascot has a higher rate of home ownership, either outright or via a mortgage than the national average, which suggests that Ascot is a relatively affluent area.
The population of Ascot as a whole, is older than the national average.
The population of Ascot is also older than the average, making Ascot a older persons location.
Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American actor.
He was known for his role as Judge James Hardy in fifteen movies of the Andy Hardy movie series.
The first movie was You're Only Young Once (1937).
Stone was born on November 15, 1879 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He was married to Florence Oakley until they divorced.
Then he was married to Margaret Langham from 1907 until her death.
Then he was married to Hazel Elizabeth Wolf from 1930 until his death in 1953.
Stone died in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California on September 12, 1953.
He was chasing away some neighborhood children after they attacked his house.
His wife Hazel tried to stop Stone from running.
Stone managed to run until he suffered a fatal heart attack.
Lewis Stone at The New York Times Movies
Lewis Stone at The International Silent Movie
Photographs of Lewis Stone
The Wrigley Building (400-410 North Michigan Avenue, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois) is a skyscraper in Chicago.
It is directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile.
It was built to hold the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
Construction began for the building in 1920.
The building was Chicago's first air-conditioned office building.
History of the Wrigley Building from company website