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19 godz. temu · Ben Gurion International Airport (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym Natbag (נתב״ג ), is the main international airport of Israel.Situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Lod, it is the busiest airport in the country.It is located 45 kilometres (28 mi) to the northwest of Jerusalem and 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the southeast of Tel Aviv.
19 godz. temu · Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1906 by the U.S. Steel corporation as the home for its new plant, Gary Works.The city was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.. Gary was the site of civil unrest in the 1919 General Steel Strike.On October 4, 1919, a riot broke out on Broadway, the main north–south street through downtown ...
19 godz. temu · Wi-Fi (/ ˈ w aɪ f aɪ /) is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.These are the most widely used computer networks, used globally in home and small office networks to link devices and to provide ...
19 godz. temu · Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity.This article deals only with wind power for electricity generation. Today, wind power is generated almost completely with wind turbines, generally grouped into wind farms and connected to the electrical grid.
19 godz. temu · Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director ...
19 godz. temu · Etymology See also: Nicknames of Iloilo City The name "Iloilo" is derived from the older name "Ilong-ilong" meaning "nose-like", referring to the promontory between two rivers (Iloilo and Batiano) where the Fort San Pedro and the 17th-century Spanish port were located. History Pre-colonial period See also: Hinilawod Images from the Boxer Codex (c. 1595), illustrating ancient Visayans The ...
19 godz. temu · Howard Hughes. Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then ...
