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• February 16
  ...gas emissions, but not by the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]], which produces more emissions than any other country and claimed that th ...as the "most bold and daring act of the age," and Decatur was promoted to captain.
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• Wet floor sign spoof
  ...opular culture has vastly increased the rate of bilingualism in the United States and in all other locations to which wet-floor signs have diffused.]] ...un to the poop deck and retrieve the never-used-before wet-floor sign. The captain forced the cook to disembark upon arrival in Virginia and hired an American
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• Directory:Hawaii
  ...tate of the [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] in the central Pacific Ocean comprising the Hawaiian Islands. The islands ...he islands were first visited by Europeans in 1778 by the English explorer Captain James Cook, who named them the Sandwich Islands for the English Earl of San
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• Directory:Gerber Tools
  ...y:Louisiana|Louisiana]]]] [[Country_Name:=United States|[[Directory:United States|US]]]] | ...actical Knives Magazine |page=30 }}</ref> It was designed by retired Army Captain Bud Holzman, who based the pattern off a Roman Mainz ''Gladius''.<ref name=
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• Delta Air Lines Flight 191
  ...n [[Delta Air Lines|Delta]]'s fleet at the time. The flight was piloted by Captain Edward Conners, First Officer Rudolph Price and Second Officer Nick Nassick ...descent procedures over Louisiana, heading over the planned descent route. Captain Conners then recognized the forming thunderstorm and took action to change
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  | order=12th [[President of the United States]] ...sworn in on that day. Most scholars believe that according to the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], Taylor's term began on March 4, regardles
  19 KB (2,787 words) - 20:30, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Mississippi
  ...itish (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States in 1783. The Mississippi Territory, organized in 1798 and enlarged in 1804 ...t parallel as the northern boundary between Spanish Florida and the United States. Despite this, Spain continued to occupy Natchez. The two countries settled
  18 KB (2,752 words) - 19:17, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Long Neck, Delaware
  |subdivision_name = [[Directory:United States|United States]] {{flagicon|US}} ...ry:United States|United States]]. The population was 1,629 at the [[United States Census, 2000|2000 census]]. Long Neck is the only census-designated place i
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...e northeast [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] between [[Directory:Vermont|Vermont]] and [[Directory:Maine|Maine]]. It w Captain Mason died in 1635, just before his proposed trip to the new country which
  21 KB (3,274 words) - 19:18, 17 January 2013
• Directory:John Tyler
  | order=10th [[President of the United States]] | party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...]]. Under Spanish control from 1762 to 1800, the area passed to the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Organized as a territory in 1812, M ...rance reclaimed the Louisiana Territory and in 1803, sold it to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. French influence remained dominant, even
  17 KB (2,661 words) - 19:18, 17 January 2013
• Air Canada Flight 797
  Donald Cameron was the captain and Claude Ouimet, first officer. While flying over [[Louisville, Kentucky] [[Category:Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners in the United States]]
  7 KB (1,078 words) - 03:07, 15 December 2008
• Aloha Airlines Flight 243
  ...the decompression, and she saw cabin insulation flying around the cockpit. Captain Robert Schornsteimer looked back and saw blue sky where the first class cab ...tigation was launched by the [[National Transportation Safety Board|United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)]]. It concluded that the accide
  15 KB (2,224 words) - 03:29, 15 December 2008
• Directory:Derek Jeter
  ...shortstop]], and he is currently the [[Major League Baseball Team Captains|captain]] of the [[New York Yankees]]. ...f>{{cite web | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/states/michigan/essay/ |publisher= [[Sports Illustrated]] | title=Kalamazoo Kid |
  31 KB (4,731 words) - 18:39, 28 April 2008
• Directory:Delaware
  ...the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirt ...tch East India Company, sailed into Delaware Bay. A year later the British captain Sir Samuel Argall, bound for the colony of Virginia, also sailed into the b
  17 KB (2,646 words) - 19:13, 17 January 2013
• Air Florida Flight 90
  ...eptionally cold weather in history had struck the east coast of the United States. Atlanta, Georgia recorded freezing temperatures, and the citrus crop in Fl ...he cockpit voice recorder picked up the following conversation between the captain and first officer, in which they discussed the icing situation.
  27 KB (4,222 words) - 03:08, 15 December 2008
• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...uth-central [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 46th state in [[Year Admitted:=1907]]. First expl ...eau family of St. Louis before the territory was transferred to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but the land remained in control of the
  18 KB (2,965 words) - 19:20, 17 January 2013
• Directory:New Mexico
  ...on was governed as a province of Mexico after 1821 and ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (establi ..., Vásquez de Coronado and his men explored much of the southwestern United States, ventured deep into the plains of Kansas, descended the walls of the Grand
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• Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks: plane passengers
  ** John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusetts, captain ===United Airlines flight 175===
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• American Airlines Flight 191
  ...s killed, Flight 191 was the deadliest airplane crash incident on [[United States|U.S.]] soil until the four deliberate crashes of the [[September 11, 2001 a ...cer was James Dillard, 49, and the flight engineer was Alfred Udovich, 56. Captain Lux was a 22,000 hour pilot who had been flying the DC-10 models since thei
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