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1011970 Pacific hurricane season — Infobox hurricane season Basin=EPac Year=1970 Track=1970 Pacific hurricane season map.png First storm formed=May 30, 1970 Last storm dissipated=November 8, 1970 Strongest storm name=Lorraine Strongest storm pressure=963 Strongest storm winds=85… …
102Landing Operation on Hainan Island — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Landing Operation on Hainan Island partof=the Chinese Civil War place=Hainan, China date=March 5, 1950 May 1, 1950 result=Communist victory combatant1= combatant2= commander1= 李彌 commander2= 韓先楚 strength1=… …
103Columbus, Christopher — Italian Cristoforo Colombo Spanish Cristóbal Colón born between Aug. 26 and Oct. 31?, 1451, Genoa died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain Genoese navigator and explorer whose transatlantic voyages opened the way for European exploration,… …
1042008 Mexico City plane crash — 2008 Mexico City Interior Ministry plane crash Cordoned off crash site with burned buildings in background, with Mexican Police guarding the area Accident summary …
105knot — It is an error to mention knots an hour or knots per hour. A knot in this sense refers to a unit of speed, 1 nautical mile an hour. Consequently, the word knot should never be followed by an hour. A ship can travel at 10 knots or at 10 nautical… …
106drop — /drɒp / (say drop) noun 1. a small quantity of liquid which falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule. 2. the quantity of liquid contained in such a mass. 3. a. a very small quantity of liquid. b. a small drink,… …
107USS Liberty incident — Coordinates: 31°23′N 33°23′E / 31.39°N 33.38°E / 31.39; 33.38 …
108MGM-31 Pershing — Pershing was a family of solid fueled two stage medium range ballistic missiles designed and built by Martin Marietta to replace the Redstone missile as the United States Army s primary theater level weapon. The Pershing systems lasted over 30… …
109Haversine formula — The haversine formula is an equation important in navigation, giving great circle distances between two points on a sphere from their longitudes and latitudes. It is a special case of a more general formula in spherical trigonometry, the law of… …
110Korean Air Flight 801 — CG render of 747 3B5 HL7468 Korean Air Flight 801 Occurrence summary Date August 6, 1997 …
