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Charles Lindbergh, accompanied by his wife Anne, flew a Lockheed Model 8 Sirius from Los Angeles to New York in 14 hours, 45 minutes and 32 seconds, a new transcontinental record. [ 61 ] Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford , and her personal pilot C. D. Barnard completed a record-breaking flight of 9,000 miles in a Fokker F.VII , made from Lympne ...
The dead position rule supersedes an older rule which referred to "insufficient material", extending it to include other positions where checkmate is impossible, such as blocked pawn endings where the pawns cannot be attacked. Draw by agreement: In tournament chess, draws are most commonly reached by mutual agreement between the players. The ...
Chris Acland (1996), English drummer for the band Lush, hanging [1] Art Acord (1931), American actor and rodeo champion, ingestion of poison [2] [3] Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide [4] [5] George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in Long Island ...
The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [6] [7] [8] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [9] the pattern of the position detection markers was determined by finding the least-used sequence of ...
Acropolis of Athens illuminated at night Illuminated cherry blossoms, light from the shop windows, and Japanese lantern at night in Ise, Mie, Japan. Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects.
Since April 2024, 85% of devices have Vulkan graphics support (77.6% support Vulkan 1.1 or higher, thereof 6.6% supporting Vulkan 1.3), [447] the successor to OpenGL. At the same time 100.0% of the devices have support for OpenGL ES 2.0 or higher, 96% are on OpenGL ES 3.0 or higher, and 88.6% are using the latest version OpenGL ES 3.2 .
The UH-1 was an important part of the 1968 film The Green Berets. The production company paid $18,623.64 for the material, the 85 hours of flying time by UH-1 helicopters, and 3,800 man-days for military personnel taken away from their regular duties. [169]