Flight
... retreat in 1987. UN sanctions in 1992 isolated QADHAFI politically following the downing of Pan AM Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. During the 1990s, QADHAFI began to rebuild his relationships with Europe ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
flight
4,521 note: lowered by flight of people from volcanic activity (2000 est.)
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/e_ec.html
flight
... disappeared while seeking out Howland Island as a refueling stop during her 1937 round-the-world flight; Earhart Light, a day beacon near the middle of the west coast, was named in ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
flight
... unusable Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/g_tr.html
flight
... end of vast colonial empires; (d) rapid advances in science and technology, from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (US) to the landing on the moon; (e) the Cold ...
www.exxun.com/World/a_fg.html
flightless
while not an official symbol, the Kiwi, a small native flightless bird, represents New Zealand
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/d_gv.html
flights
... embargo in place since 1961. Illicit migration to the US - using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, air flights, or via the southwest border - is a continuing problem. The US Coast Guard intercepted 2,864 ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
flights
... using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and over-land via the southwest border
www.exxun.com/Cuba/c_pp.html
flights
... is limited due to a short season and high costs. Air Greenland began summer-season direct flights to the US east coast in May 2007, potentially opening a major new tourism market
www.exxun.com/Greenland/e_ec.html
flights
nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles)
www.exxun.com/SaintBarthelemy/g_tr.html
flights
... the UK permitted the US to construct an airfield on Ascension in support of trans-Atlantic flights to Africa and anti-submarine operations in the South Atlantic. In the 1960s the island ...
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
flights
nearest airport for international flights is Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) located in Sint Maarten
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/g_tr.html
flights
... Its sheltered lagoon served as a way station for flying boats on Hawaii-to-American Samoa flights during the late 1930s. There are no terrestrial plants on the reef, which is frequently ...
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flights
strategic location in the North Pacific Ocean; emergency landing location for transpacific flights
www.exxun.com/WakeIsland/b_mp.html
flights
there are no commercial or civilian flights to and from Wake Island, except in direct support of island missions; emergency landing is available
www.exxun.com/WakeIsland/g_tr.html
FLING
... Union of Guinean Patriots or UPG [Francisca VAZ]; United Platform or UP (coalition formed by PCD, FDS, FLING, and RGB-MB); United Popular Alliance or APU; United Social Democratic Party or PUSD
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/d_gv.html
Flintshire
... Lothian Wales: 22 unitary authorities unitary authorities: Blaenau Gwent; Bridgend; Caerphilly; Cardiff; Carmarthenshire; Ceredigion; Conwy; Denbighshire; Flintshire; Gwynedd; Isle of Anglesey; Merthyr Tydfil; Monmouthshire; Neath Port Talbot; Newport; Pembrokeshire; Powys; Rhondda, Cynon ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/d_gv.html
FLN
... the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962. Algeria's primary political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has dominated politics ever since. Many Algerians in the subsequent generation were not satisfied, however ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
FLN
... Democratique) or RND [Ahmed OUYAHIA]; National Entente Movement or MEN [Ali BOUKHAZNA]; National Liberation Front or FLN [Abdelaziz BELKHADEM, secretary general]; National Reform Movement or Islah (formerly MRN) [Mohamed BOULAHIA]; National Renewal ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/d_gv.html
FLN
... dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the FLN's assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco
www.exxun.com/Algeria/i_ti.html
FLNKS
... Front Uni de Liberation Kanak or FULK [Ernest UNE]; Kanak Socialist Front for National Liberation or FLNKS (includes PALIKA, UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti de Liberation Kanak or PALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE and ...
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/d_gv.html
float
... to date, Sudan has been working with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999 ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
floating
... Peninsula area, and parts of Ross Island on McMurdo Sound; glaciers form ice shelves along about half of the coastline, and floating ice shelves constitute 11% of the area of the continent
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
