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9 ft (3 m) Time zone. UTC-10 ( Hawaii-Aleutian) When the south shore of Maui was first visited by Captain George Vancouver it was dotted with small fishing villages and was said to be a retreat for Hawaiian royalty. Captain Vancouver was not the first European visitor to Maui, however, a landing site was erected in the form of a large totem pole.
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $ 1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks ...
Raffles's Landing Site. Coordinates: 1°17′16″N 103°51′2″E. The office towers at Raffles Place on the south bank of the Singapore River serve as a backdrop against Sir Stamford Raffles 's statue located at Raffles' Landing Site on the river's opposite bank. Raffles's Landing Site is the location where tradition holds that Sir Stamford ...
Crash Landing on You. Crash Landing on You ( Korean : 사랑의 불시착) is a South Korean television series written by Park Ji-eun, directed by Lee Jeong-hyo, and starring Hyun Bin, Son Ye-jin, Seo Ji-hye and Kim Jung-hyun. It aired on tvN from December 14, 2019 to February 16, 2020, every Saturday and Sunday at 21:00 ( KST ).
NRHP reference No. 74001280 [1] Added to NRHP. July 18, 1974. Lower Landing Archeological District is a historic archeological site located at Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. The district comprises the area that served as the western end of the portage for goods around Niagara Falls. It is located on east bank of the Niagara River .
S. manzonii. Otodus megalodon ( / ˈmɛɡələdɒn / MEG-əl-ə-don; meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time. [1] [2] A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.
Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944. Although initially designed to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the Allied landing in Normandy, a lack of available resources led to a cancellation of the second landing.