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  2. TWA Flight 159 - Wikipedia

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    TWA Flight 159. /  39.050°N 84.667°W  / 39.050; -84.667. Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 159 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from New York City to Los Angeles, California, with a stopover in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Kentucky, that crashed after an aborted takeoff from Cincinnati on November 6, 1967.

  3. Star Destroyer - Wikipedia

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    The largest and most powerful of these is the Executor, which first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) as the personal flagship of Darth Vader. The first in a line of Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts, the ship is over 19,000 m (62,000 ft) in length, propelled by thirteen colossal engines and a Class 1 hyperdrive.

  4. Delta robot - Wikipedia

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    Delta robot. A delta robot is a type of parallel robot [2] that consists of three arms connected to universal joints at the base. The key design feature is the use of parallelograms in the arms, which maintains the orientation of the end effector. [3] In contrast, a Stewart platform can change the orientation of its end effector.

  5. Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia

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    Kurt Vonnegut ( / ˈvɒnəɡət / VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. [1] He published 14 novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further collections have been published since his death.

  6. Delta IV - Wikipedia

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    Delta IV was a group of five expendable launch systems in the Delta rocket family. It flew 45 missions from 2002 to 2024. Originally designed by Boeing 's Defense, Space and Security division for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, the Delta IV became a United Launch Alliance (ULA) product in 2006.

  7. Ruth Thompson Dickins - Wikipedia

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    Her mother, Idella Elizabeth Long Thompson, was a prominent Mississippi Delta socialite and the daughter of Dr. John A. Long and Virginia Stovall Long. She and her family attended the First Baptist Church of Leland. Dickins grew up in her family's mansion, a large Queen Anne style house located at 111 North Deer Creek Drive West in Leland. She ...

  8. Literary estate - Wikipedia

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    A literary executor is a person acting on behalf of beneficiaries (e.g. family members, a designated charity, a research library or archive) under a deceased author's will. The executor is responsible for entering into contracts with publishers, collecting royalties, maintaining copyrights, and (where appropriate) arranging for the deposit of ...

  9. J. Michael Luttig - Wikipedia

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    John Michael Luttig (/ ˈ l uː t ɪ ɡ / LOO-tig; born June 13, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006.