April 2013 When the first European, Rodrigo de Bastidas, reached Panama in 1501, he could hardly envision the magnitude of the Isthmus’ future. As more Spanish caravels arrived, the search for gold was intensified. A shortened route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was not found by Magellan, who conceived of going around Cape Horn or passing through the Straits that were to bear his name. When sea routes were found to be to long the Spaniards turned to overland crossings, and when
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The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 2011.[20] It was an above average season in which twenty tropical cyclones formed. Nineteen of the twenty depressions attained tropical storm status, tied with 1887, 1995, 2010, and later the 2012 season for the third highest number of named storms since record-keeping began in 1851. Seven of these tropical storms became hurricanes, while four of those hurricanes further intensified into major hurricanes.[21] The season was more active than
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Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was the first woman to attempt to fly around the world.In the book, Amelia Earhart, written by Tanya lee Stone,Amelia was born in Kansas City on July 24,1897 at 11:30pm. She weighed in at 9 pounds. Amelia was a woman that was adventurous,intelligent,and determined.Unfortunately she disappeared on July 3,1937. Amelia was much like her father. She loved to play boy games like football or baseball.When Amelia graduated high school she went to school at Ogonts in Philadelphia
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Date The Famine Ships: A Wing and a Prayer The Famine Ships is a book written by Edward Laxton about the Irish exodus from their ravished homeland. The focus on the book is describing what it was like to travel on these ships across the Atlantic Ocean while encountering storms, icebergs, disease, and starvation. The trips were often long and horrifying for the passengers, but they were forced to make the journey due to worsening conditions in Ireland at the time. As the potato crop continued
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The air masses which play the biggest role in determining the weather in the UK are the Polar and Tropical maritime air masses. These come to the UK from over the Atlantic Ocean and are thought to influence up to 80% of the weather that we receive. The first of these is the Tropical continental air mass which travels over the Atlantic Ocean from the south west of the UK. During the winter, when we are affected by this particular air mass, we can expect conditions to be relatively mild and often rainy
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nurse's aide who tended to wounded soldiers, she also wrote a poem about courage. She was a good student, but didn’t have patience when she wasn’t on the path that she wanted. She set many flying records and helped with the advancement of women in aviation. She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to ever fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. During a flight to circle the globe Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in July 1937. Her plane wreckage
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her first airplane ride with a famous record-setting pilot, Frank Hawks. On her 24th birthday, July 24, 1922, her mother and sister helped her buy Kinner Canary, a bright yellow biplane. Amelia watched from the sidelines as famous aviators took the challenge of long-distance flights. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic. Then, inspired by Charles Lindbergh Amelia became the first women to fly across the Atlantic. Then after other flights, Amelia decided
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this time that Branson had the idea to begin a mail-order record company called Virgin to help fund his magazine efforts. The company performed modestly, but made Branson enough that he was able to expand his business venture, adding a record shop in Oxford Street, London. With the success of the record shop, the high school drop-out was able to build a recording studio in 1972 in Oxfordshire, England. His first artist on the Virgin Records label, Mike Oldfield, recorded his single "Tubular Bells"
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Amelia Earhart once said “Flying may not be plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” Amelia was a courageous and fearless female aviator her time, who set many flying records. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was Edwin Stanton Earhart, her mother was Amelia Amy Otis Earhart, and her younger sister was Grace Muriel Earhart. Their family would nickname Muriel and Amelia Muriel was Pidge and Amelia was Millie. Amelia lived in her house with her
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music industry (Greenfield, 2011). When he met all the guys with independent record companies and decided they were ‘a bunch of third-rate crooks’, he like Rothchild jumped on the opportunity to get into the record business and eventually finding Atlantic records with Herb (Greenfield, 2011: 40; Goodman, 1997). But not all independent record labels were third rate crooks, Morris Levy, started from an independent record company, Roulette and was an important figure in the early stages of the music
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