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  2. John F. Kennedy International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Adjacent to Terminals 5 and 7. Equipped at both ends with ILS and ALS systems. Runway 13L has two additional visual aids for landing aircraft, a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) and a Lead-In Lighting System (LDIN); the LDIN is colloquially known as the "Canarsie approach", which begins at the Canarsie VOR beacon (CRI). The ILS on 13L ...

  3. June 6, 1944, order of the day - Wikipedia

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    General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking with US Army paratroopers on June 5, 1944 shortly before they parachuted into France A printed version of the order of the day, with a different facsimile of Eisenhower's signature than the one shown above, was distributed to members of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

  4. Keflavík International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Originally, the airport was built by the United States military during World War II, as a replacement for a small British landing strip at Garður to the north. It consisted of two separate two-runway airfields, built simultaneously just 4 km apart. Patterson Field in the south-east opened in 1942 despite being partly incomplete. It was named ...

  5. Address Unknown (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Address Unknown is a 1938 short novel by Kathrine Taylor. The story, told entirely in letters between two German friends from 1932 to 1934, describes the rise of the Nazi Party and the growing acceptance of what would become the Final Solution in Germany and how the ideology had the power to profoundly change relationships.

  6. Japan Air Lines Flight 2 - Wikipedia

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    Flight Flight 2 was scheduled to depart Tokyo at 5 p.m. (08:00 UTC) on Friday, November 22 and land in San Francisco at 10:15 a.m. (17:15 UTC). Actual departure was delayed to 5:36 p.m. (08:36 UTC) due to required maintenance on the pilot's instrument panel, which was providing inconsistent altitude readings. : 3 Command of the flight fell to Captain Kohei Asoh (46), accompanied in the cockpit ...

  7. Whitepages (company) - Wikipedia

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    Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on residents of the United States. [3] Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard.

  8. Lake Hopatcong station - Wikipedia

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    Lake Hopatcong is a commuter railroad station for New Jersey Transit.The station, located in the community of Landing in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serves trains for the Montclair-Boonton Line and Morristown Line at peak hours and on holiday weekends.

  9. Alfred Lansing - Wikipedia

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    The book is named after the ship used by Shackleton, the Endurance, and it became a bestseller when it was first published in 1959. Whilst researching the book, Lansing spoke with ten of the expedition's surviving members and was granted access to the journals and personal diaries of eight others in order to get a more complete view of the ...