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First woman to circumnavigate the world by automobile Rosie Swale-Pope: Swiss, Irish, and British 1946: Has run, walked and sailed around the world Junko Tabei: Japanese 1939: 2016: First woman to reach summit of Mount Everest Annie Edson Taylor: American 1838: 1921: First person to survive a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel Gudrid ...
The Channel Islands have long been inhabited by humans, with Indigenous civilization first occurring 10,000 years ago or earlier. [2] [3] At the time of European contact, two distinct ethnic groups lived on the archipelago: the Chumash lived on the Northern Channel Islands and the Tongva on the Southern Islands.
Hilbert's tenth problem has been solved, and it has a negative answer: such a general algorithm does not exist. This is the result of combined work of Martin Davis, Yuri Matiyasevich, Hilary Putnam and Julia Robinson which spans 21 years, with Yuri Matiyasevich completing the theorem in 1970. [68]
The island was inhabited, though many of the people fled the Spanish landing. The Spaniards found some women and children hiding in the island's vegetation and gave them gifts. Before leaving the islands on January 6, 1543, Villalobos sighted islands that may have included Wotje, Erikub, Maloelap, Likiep, Kwajalein, Lae, Ujae, Wotho or Ujelang ...
Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline ...
The island has been re-separated after most of the mass of Hunga Ha'apai was destroyed during the massive 2022 eruption. On September 24, 2013 a new island named Zalzala Koh emerged off the coast of Gwadar, as a result of a strong earthquake that hit south and southwest Pakistan measuring 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. [4]
Commerson continued to have serious health problems, and he died in Mauritius in February 1773. His financial resources had dwindled during his time on the island: his patron Poivre had been recalled to Paris. Baret, meanwhile, seems to have established herself independently, being granted property in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, in 1770.
1908–09 – Frederick Cook and Peary each claim to have reached the North Pole—the former is a fraud, the latter widely doubted. [122] 1910–11 – Bernhard Hantzsch crosses Baffin Island from Cumberland Sound to the Koukdjuak River, exploring the west coast of the island north to 68°45’N. [78]