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Jeopary Questions page 703 - MINOR CLASSICS - TriviaBistro.com  "I" EXAM: In March 2002 it was reported that B-22, one of these the size of Delaware, broke free from Antarctica  BAY WATCHING: Mamala Bay lies at the...
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XLS - Earth Policy Institute  1, World on the Edge - Climate Data - Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise ... 5, March 2000, Ross Ice Shelf, 11,007 km2, Ross Sea, East Antarctica ... Sea, West Antarctica, Iceberg B-22 broke off from the Thwaites Glacier Tongue. ... Times the Size of Manhattan, UD Scientist Reports, University of Delaware U Daily, 6 August 2010.
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A massive crack is threatening to cause an entire Antarctic ice shelf ...  Aug 23, 2016 ... An iceberg the size of Delaware is about to break free. ... A massive crack is threatening to cause an entire Antarctic ice shelf to collapse ... Scientists have been monitoring a fracture in one of the world's biggest ice ... of its neighbour Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift-induced...
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A Sea of Ice | NASA  Mar 23, 2008 ... When it formed, C-19 was larger than the state of Delaware at 32 km (almost ... not as large as the B-15 iceberg that broke off of the same ice shelf in 2001; .... The one exception, March, recorded the second smallest extent for that month. While these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016,...
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Quahog.org: Rhode Island as a Unit of Measure  Fake Steve Jobs, "Look, I hate these friggin Ken Fisher ads as much as you do," ... An asteroid the size of Rhode Island will briefly blot out one of the brightest stars .... Pima County [Arizona] comprises an area the size of Connecticut, Delaware, and ..... "Antarctic ice shelf collapses," by Joseph B. Verrengia, March 19, 2002.
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Greenland Excursions - Boat Trip to Icefjord | Hurtigruten UK ...  Dec 15, 2015 ... These large pieces of ice have broken off from the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere, Sermeq Kujalleq. This is one of the few...
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Goodyear's Spirit of America blimp floats out of Carson and into history  Aug 24, 2015 ... The Goodyear blimp had sailed gracefully down the Pacific coast from ... But when the pilot tried to land her in front of a towering World War II-era hangar in Tustin,... ... that dangled from the blimp's nose and used all their weight to make ... Goodyear has made updates to its airship design over the years, but...
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Balloon History, and in Only 20 Days - The New York Times  Mar 21, 1999 ... Dr Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones sail into history when their Breitling ... over Libya, a nation that has sometimes barred balloonists from its airspace. ... offered to the first balloonist to circumnavigate the earth without landing. ... firing the craft's hot-air burners as needed to maintain the constant height.
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Gulf of Sidra incident (1981) - Wikipedia  In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Su-22 Fitter fired upon and were ... In 1973, Libya claimed the Gulf of Sidra as a closed bay and part of its ... may have fired a missile from 18 miles away at U.S. fighter aircraft that day. .... U.S. Department of State Country Study of Libya, reporting that both Libyan...
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Modelling the response of the Lambert GlacierAmery Ice Shelf ...  Jun 18, 2014 ... system, East Antarctica, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st ... the large polar ice sheet regions is a key process in global ... The grounded portion of the system is thought to ... The AIS has long been considered a stable ice shelf that is currently .... The melt rate is decomposed into grounding line local-.
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January 18, 1997 - Norwegian Adventurer Brge Ousland ...  Jan 18, 1997 ... January 18 1997 - Norwegian Adventurer Brge Ousland Completes The ... The explorer was the very first to make this arduous journey alone ... Ousland completed his journey by reaching Scott Base on January 17. With this, Ousland also became the first person to reach both poles alone and unaided.
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Bermuda - Wikipedia  Bermuda /brmjud/ is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the east shore of North America about 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Canada, and ... The islands became a British colony following the 1707 unification of the...
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Iceberg - Wikipedia  An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice). .... Antarctic icebergs formed by breaking off from an ice shelf, such as the Ross Ice Shelf or Filchner-Ronne Ice...
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7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster - Technology ...  Jan 25, 2011 ... A quarter-century after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the disaster is often ... With Christa McAuliffe set to be the first teacher in space, NASA had arranged a ... and hydrogen which formed a huge fireball at an altitude of 46,000 ft. .... 17, 1985. .... elevons after it washed ashore on Cocoa Beach, Fla., on Dec.
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Russia Might Bring Back the Cold War with a Cuban Spy Base ...  Jul 17, 2014 ... Closed in 2001 when Russia was in the economic doldrums, the ... Their mission was to eavesdrop on telephone calls relayed by American satellites and coordinate the Red Fleet's comings and goings in the Western Hemisphere. ... The news broke after Putin announced that Russia would forgive around...
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Captain James Cook > 225 Years Ago: January - March 1773  Cook would not allow any fire in the Gally, or anywhere else but at proper ... On 17th January, "we cross'd the Antarctic Circle for at Noon we were by ... Navigator ever penetrated, before the British nation, & where few or none will ever penetrate. ... deal of Sea Weed & some Divers (Birds which are never seen far from Land)...
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20 Things You Might Not Know About the "Miracle on Ice" | Mental ...  Feb 20, 2015 ... On February 22, 1980, the Soviet War in Afghanistan was almost two months old, ... On that same Friday, a hockey team comprised of American college players ... and its respected Olympic telecast anchor, was tasked to put into words what .... AL MICHAELS DID NOT REHEARSE HIS FAMOUS QUESTION.
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United States Antarctic Service Expedition - Revolvy  The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (19391941) , often referred to as ... had gathered for his own expedition, the largest item being the Bear of Oakland, ... The President wanted two bases to be established: East Base, in the vicinity of ..... The name was originally applied by Admiral Byrd in 1929, in honor of his...
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Washington Monthly | In the Jaws of Climate Change  He'd never seen a polar bear in the wild and was drawn to the spiritual appeal of the ... This would be his third Sierra Club trip but by far the most adventurous ... That link is now so strong that the bears have become one of the most visible ..... the ice breakup south, to Labrador, Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence,...
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jeopardy/2314_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  PATRICK'S DAY | The second U.S. satellite in orbit, Vanguard I, blasted off from this Florida site March 17, 1958 | Cape Canaveral. right: Betsy. Wrong:.
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Timeline . Space Men . American Experience . WGBH | PBS  Explore a timeline of balloon travel in the US, during which the US Air Force ... physicist became the first to rise into the Earth's stratosphere at 53,000 feet. ... Never envisioning a life of military service, Dr. John Paul Stapp is the 15th .... June 2, 1957 ... After staying aloft for 32 hours, Simons slowly releases helium out of the...