Starfleet’s first Runabouts, small warp-capable starships assigned to Deep Space Nine in the Star Trek series of the same name, were of the Danube class. All Runabouts were named after rivers on Earth.
A runabout is any small motorboat holding between four and eight people and can be used for racing, for pleasure activities like fishing and water skiing, or as a ship’s tender for larger vessels. The first runabouts date back to the 1920s and were originally small, fast, powerful varnished wooden boats created to take advantage of the power of outboard motors such as the first Evinrude.
The Ford Pinto Runabout is a subcompact car sold in the 1970s. The Pinto was the snallest American car from Ford since 1907.
In 1907, HM King Edward VII proclaimed that New Zealand and Newfoundland were Dominions, not colonies. The terms recognised a considerable degree of autonomy from Britain.
Come from Away is a musical with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It is set in the week following the September 11 attacks and tells the true story of what transpired when 38 planes were ordered to land unexpectedly in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon. The characters in the musical are based on (and in most cases share the names of) real Gander residents as well as some of the 7,000 stranded travelers they housed and fed.
Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney fictional character created in 1948 by comic artist and writer Carl Barks. He is an anthropomorphic male goose (or gander) who possesses exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting from any harm. This is in contrast to his cousin Donald Duck who is often characterized for having bad luck.
Most of the streets in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada are named after famous aviators, including Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Marc Garneau and Chuck Yeager.
According to the American Kennel Club, the Labrador Retriever is the most popular dog breed in America. The breed originated in Newfoundland; how the dogs became associated with Labrador is unclear.
For many years there was a boundary dispute between the Dominion of Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland as to which the location of the boundary between Canada (Quebec Province) and Labrador.
Canada argued that the royal grant of " the coast of Labrador" to Newfoundland only meant the shoreline of Labrador, going 12 miles inland.
Newfoundland argued that the description meant going inland to the heights of land and the watershed of the Labrador coast.
The case eventually went to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the highest court in the Empire, on a reference case (advisory opinion). The JCPC ruled in Newfoundland’s favour.
Then Newfoundland joined Canada 25 years later, bringing Labrador with them.
Québec has never accepted the boundary as drawn by the JCPC.
L’Anse aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, is currently the only confirmed Norse site in North America. Archaeological excavations from 1961 to 1968 investigated eight complete house sites and the remains of a ninth and determined that the site was of Norse origin because of definitive similarities between the structures and artifacts found at the site compared to sites in Greenland and Iceland from around 1000 CE. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Tours led by costumed Viking interpreters at their recreated base camp are now available.
Tuolumne Meadows, in Yosemite National Park stands at 8,600’ elevation. It is just west of Tioga Pass which, at 9,945’, is the highest road pass in California. The Tioga Road, highway CA-120, is the main highway running east-west across Yosemite National Park. The Tioga Road goes over Tioga Pass. Because of heavy snow, Tioga Passis closed in the winter, and typically stays closed until Memorial Day weekend.
Confederate Memorial Day, on the last Monday in April, is still an official holiday in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama. In their book, The Genesis of the Memorial Day Holiday in America, Bellware and Gardiner determine that the national Memorial Day holiday is a direct offshoot of the observance begun by the Ladies Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia in 1866. In a few places, most notably Columbus, Mississippi and Macon, Georgia, Union graves were decorated during the first observance. The day was even referred to as Memorial Day by The Baltimore Sun on May 8, 1866 after the ladies organization that started it.
The USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the US Navy for scouting. It crashed in Feb 1935 near Big Sur CA USA in a storm.
The first artwork ever sent by wire was this depiction of the Macon crash by artist Noel Sickles, sent by the Associated Press — here, http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ddOj8_61W3E/Us3NYnaqUnI/AAAAAAABJ0E/tDiroqVeXak/s1600/Sickles+Dirigeble+accident+Feb+14+1935.jpg.
An airship is any powered, steerable aircraft that it is inflated with a gas that is lighter than air. “Airship” and “dirigible” are synonyms; a dirigible is any lighter-than-air craft that is powered and steerable, as opposed to free floating like a balloon.
A blimp is a powered, steerable, lighter-than-air vehicle whose shape is maintained by the pressure of the gases within its envelope. A blimp has no rigid internal structure: If a blimp deflates, it loses its shape. Blimps that are used for advertising, such as the Goodyear Blimp, are probably the best-known of these type of airships.
A rigid airship has a framework surrounding one or more individual gas cells, and maintains its shape by virtue of the framework. The Hindenburg was a rigid airship, although it is often referred to as a blimp.
A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by a particular company, the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin of Germany. This company manufactured the Hindenburg. And, beginning in 2014, the Goodyear Blimps are no longer blimps; rather they are rigid airships manufactured by Zeppelin.
In 2014 Goodyear began to replace its three U.S. non-rigid airships (blimps) with three new semi-rigid airships, each of which have a rigid internal frame. Although technically incorrect, Goodyear continues to use “blimp” in reference to these new semi-rigid models. Wingfoot One was christened on August 23, 2014, while Wingfoot Two, was unveiled in April 2016. The third (Wingfoot Three) is undergoing acceptance testing in Ohio.
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The Goodyear blimp Columbia, tail number N10A, was buzzed repeatedly on Sept. 30, 1990 by a radio-controlled model airplane when the blimp flew over a field used for R/C model flying; the R/C pilot then intentionally rammed his model airplane into the blimp, tearing a three-foot hole through the envelope. The blimp made a “hard landing” at a nearby airport. The R/C pilot, John William Moyer, was identified by other flyers at the field and was later arrested.
The first ever radio transmission from an aircraft, specifically the airship America in a 1910 Atlantic crossing, was “Roy, come and get this goddamn cat!” Efforts to lower the frightened cat by a rope onto a following boat were unsuccessful; fortunately the cat calmed down and came to enjoy the journey, even though the airship had to ditch after only 1000 miles.
“500 Miles” was the most famous song by folk singer Hedy West, put together from fragments of a melody she had heard her uncle sing to her back in the mountains of northern Georgia and from ballads she heard from her grandmother, banjo player Lillie West. Some recordings have also credited Curly Williams, or John Phillips as co-writers. The most commercially successful version of the song was Bobby Bare’s in 1963. His version became a Top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
1963 was the first year the Porsche 911 was manufactured. It has been continuously sold for 55 years. The 911 is one of the oldest sports coupé nameplates still in production with one million manufactured as of May 2017.
Although AT&T selected 9-1-1 as the national standard emergency telephone number for the US in 1968, the first telephone provider to implement it was the Alabama Telephone Company in Haleyville, AL. Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite placed the first-ever 9-1-1 call from Haleyville City Hall, to Congressman Tom Bevill, at the city’s police station. Bevill was accompanied by Gallagher and Alabama Public Service Commission director Eugene “Bull” Connor.