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In 1919, Albert Caquot proposed the setting up of an aeronautical museum, and items were collected at Issy-les-Moulineaux and at Chalais-Meudon, with many items preserved from the balloon, engine and aviation activities that had taken place at those locations.
The items were soon gathered into the balloon basket hangar at Chalais-Meudon, which opened to the public in 1921.
The "Museé de l’Air" was the world's first aviation museum, and the collection constantly grew.
After WWII the decision was made to move the crowded museum to larger premises.
With the building of the Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, Le Bourget Airport had an increasing amount of space available, and the collection was gradually moved there.
The process started in the early 1970s, and the new museum opened to the public in 1975.
The Chalais-Meudon museum was finally closed in 1981.
Now renamed the "Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace", it continues to thrive at Le Bourget.
In 1946, the STAé was replaced by the "Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales" (ONERA), and it took over most of the Chalais-Meudon site, where it remains to this day.
Hangar Y was designated a historic monument in 1982, but has fallen into disrepair.
Some maintenance has taken place, and there are plans for it to be restored to become the European Centre for Balloons and Airships and a cultural and education centre.
2020 Montreal Earthquake
The 2020 Montreal Earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 3.4 along the Canada-US Border.
The strongest earthquake to have hit Montreal was in 1732 with a Richter scale of 5.8.
In 2013, the Insurance Bureau of Canada estimated that an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 along the St-Lawrence fault line will cause $CAD 60 billion in damage.
Takabe
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Notable people with the surname include:
1908–09 Scottish Districts season
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Edinburgh District beat Glasgow District in the Inter-City match
No other District matches played.
No touring matches this season.
Kyle Dargan
Kyle Dargan is an American poet.
He is the author of five poetry collections.
Dargan is currently an Associate Professor of literature and the Assistant Director of creative writing at American University.
Dargan was born in Newark, New Jersey.
He received a BA from the University of Virginia and MFA from Indiana University.
Dargan's first four poetry collections were published by University of Georgia Press.
His first collection, "The Listening" (2004), was the recipient of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2004.
His second collection, "Bouquet of Hungers" (2007), was awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry in 2016.
"Logorrhea Dementia" was published in 2010 and "Honest Engine" was published in 2015.
Dargan's fifth book, "Anagnorisis", (Triquarterly, 2018), won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 2018.
Dargan is currently an Associate Professor of literature and the Assistant Director of creative writing at American University.
He is the founder and editor of "POST NO ILLS" magazine.
Dargan lives in Washington D.C.
Benjamin F. Register
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His assignments included Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics.
Register was commissioned as a distinguished military graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1951, and served until his retirement in 1987.
2014 British Athletics Championships
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It was organised by UK Athletics.
It served as a selection meeting for the 2014 European Athletics Championships.
Bogdan Milovanov
Bogdan Milovanov (born 19 April 1998) is an Ukrainian footballer who plays for Spanish club Sporting de Gijón B as a right back.
Born in Lugansk, Milovanov moved to the Community of Madrid at early age and made his senior debut with Alcobendas CF during the 2014–15 season, in Tercera División.
In July 2015, he moved to Getafe CF and returned to youth football.
On 10 August 2017, after being sparingly used by Getafe's reserves, Milovanov signed for Segunda División B side UD San Sebastián de los Reyes.
On 9 July of the following year, he joined another reserve team, Sporting de Gijón B also in the third division.
Milovanov made his debut for the Asturians' first team on 14 January 2020, starting in a 1–0 home win against Elche CF for the Segunda División championship.
Erik Liberman
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Liberman has originated stage roles in Broadway productions including "War Paint", and "LoveMusik".
He also originated roles in the productions "The Band's Visit", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" musical, "Reefer Madness!
", and "Somewhere in Time".
He has also held roles in revivals including "Into the Woods", "Minnie's Boys", "Fiddler on the Roof", and "Merrily We Roll Along".
He also provided the choreography for "Mabou Mines Dollhouse".
Liberman began working in the television industry as a child.
He later appeared on the season finale episode of "Transparent", in addition to episodes of "Vinyl", "Modern Family", and "Unforgettable".
Liberman is the co-author of books including "Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living" and has written for publications including the "Hollywood Reporter".
He has also written a book on the subject of Jayne Mansfield.
Copmanhurst Shire
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Copmanhurst Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the "Local Government (Shires) Act 1905".
The shire offices were in Grafton.
Other towns and villages in the shire included Copmanhurst and Myrtle.
Copmanhurst Shire was abolished and split on 25 February 2004 with part merged with Maclean Shire, City of Grafton and Pristine Waters Shire to create Clarence Valley Council and the balance merged with Richmond River Council.
Ronald L. Watts
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His assignments included Commanding General of 1st Infantry Division, 2nd Armored Division, VII Corps and Deputy Commanding General of First United States Army.
Derya Akkaynak
Derya Akkaynak is a mechanical engineer and oceanographer at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute.
She was a 2019 finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
Akkaynak is from the Aegean coast of Turkey.
She studied aerospace engineering at the Middle East Technical University, where she graduated top of her class.
She moved to the United States after graduating, where she earned a Master's degree in Aeronautics in 2005.
Her Master's dissertation involved investigations into fuel cells for the improvement of on-site emergency power availability in nuclear power plants.
After graduating Akkaynak worked as a consultant in risk analysis.
She decided to return to school, and started a doctoral degree in oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
For her doctoral work, Akkaynak worked on computational methods to model the camouflage of cephalopods under the supervision of Ruth Rosenholtz and Roger Hanlon.
She developed a means to calibrate and correct underwater colour, introduced an equation that could quantify the spectral contamination, used "in situ" spectrometry to colour match cuttlefish to their background and created a new computational approach to quantify patterns.
In 2011 Akkaynak founded Divers4Oceanography, a citizen science project that collects ocean temperature data from divers all around the world.
She worked at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute throughout 2015.
After completing a short term fellowship in Panama, Akkaynak moved to the University of Haifa.
She was appointed a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in 2018, before joining Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute as an engineer in 2019.
Underwater photography is often compromised by dull and incorrect colours.
Akkaynak developed "Sea-thru", an algorithm that can remove the artefacts and distortions that occur in underwater imagery.
"Sea-thru" accounts for differences in underwater and atmospheric light scattering and absorption, reversing water-based image distortion, as well as accommodating for the spectral sensitivity of underwater cameras.
To perform the corrections, "Sea-thru" requires multiple RAW images of the same scene from a variety of angles, which it uses to estimate the distance between the camera and the object being imaged.
In 2019 Akkaynak was named a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists for "significant breakthroughs and advancements in computer vision and underwater imaging technologies".
She is the first Turkish scientist to receive this award.
Akkaynak is a Professional Association of Diving Instructors certified divemaster and ice diver.
She dives for the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.
She has led underwater fieldwork in the Bering Sea, Caribbean, Red Sea and her home ocean, the Aegean Sea.
John W. Woodmansee
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His assignments included Commanding General of V Corps.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1956.