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Chinook had placed second at the U. S. Nationals in 1990, which usually qualifies one to compete for a national title.
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" Kerry later wrote, " The visions of Ann Margret and Miss America and all the other titillating personalities who would have made us feel so at home hung around us for a while until we saw three Chinook helicopters take off from the field and presumed that our dreams had gone with them.
Owing partly to their non-migratory living patterns, the Chinook and other coastal tribes had relatively little conflict over land with one another.
While Chinook became the world champion, it had never defeated the best checkers player of all time, Tinsley, who was significantly superior to even his closest peer.
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada report revealed that Chinook Salmon held in cages off Britannia Creek died in less than 48 hours because of the toxic metals in the water, whereas fish held off Porteau Cove had a 100 per cent survival rate.
The trade had a major effect on the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest coast, especially the Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Chinook peoples.
Male freshwater phase Chinook salmon By the 1880s, Robert Deniston Hume of Astoria, had bought land on both sides of the lower Rogue River and established such a big fishing business that he became known as the Salmon King of Oregon.
Part of the reason may have been the existing relationship between the British and the coastal Chinook tribes, resulting in a demand by the Chinook for higher prices for their goods at a time when the Corps ' supply of " Indian Gifts " had dwindled.
A Colville Tribe biologist reports that during these two years the tribe harvested 3, 163 hatchery Chinook while releasing 2, 346 wild Chinook with only 1. 4 % direct or immediate mortality using purse seines, whereas the tangle net was far less productive but had an approximate 12. 5 % mortality.
On 21 June 1978, a PVO MiG-23M flown by Pilot Captain V. Shkinder shot down two Iranian Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters that had trespassed into Soviet airspace, one helicopter being dispatched by two R-60 missiles and the other by cannon fire.
He was an interpreter in the Vancouver police court from 1904 to 1936, speaking English, Cantonese, Hakka, and also the Chinook Jargon which he had learned as a child at Port Douglas.
Prior to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and the Portage's role as a key component in the Douglas Road-the sheltered and fertile land of the Portage had been home to what are estimated to have been hundreds of quiggly holes ( kekuli, meaning " underneath " in the Chinook Jargon ), each of which had been a house with multiple residents.
The brigade had scout ( OH-58 Kiowa ), attack ( AH-1 Cobra ) and transport ( UH-1 Huey, replaced by UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook ) helicopters and operated with the same tactics as the 101st, emphasizing speed of attack and envelopment.
Chinook was moved because the aquarium had seven adult females and no adult males.
He was also governor of Kunar during the June 29, 2005 shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in the Kunar province, which at that point had been the largest to single day death-toll ( 16 ) by American troops in the region.
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In August 1994, a second match with Chinook was organized, but Tinsley withdrew after only six games ( all draws ) for health reasons.
* Chuck the Big American Helicopter ( was stated in the second TV episode as being a Boeing CH-47 Chinook )-Chuck is a twin-rotored helicopter.
While attempting to rescue four stranded Navy SEALs during the operation, 19 American Forces were killed when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down, representing the second biggest loss of American forces since their invasion of the country.
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Coho and Chinook ( also known as " king ") salmon, and steelhead, all of the genus Oncorhynchus, are ocean fish that migrate up the rivers at the end of their life cycles to spawn.
Many of the dogs were trained at Chinook Kennels in New Hampshire.
The SEAL team, Mako 30, was picked up by an MH-47 Chinook helicopter, at 23: 23 on 3 March.
Chinook salmon can be successfully trolled at higher speeds than more docile lake trout.
Don Lafferty, rated the number two player in the world at the time, replaced Tinsley and fought Chinook to a draw.
Chinook is located at ( 48. 5894 ,-109. 2321 ).
The people living near the post office did not want it moved to the railroad station, so a new office was established at the station with the name Lemati, which is a Chinook Jargon word that means " mountain ".
In 1995 the Confederated Tribes of Siletz opened Chinook Winds Casino at the northern end of the city on property overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Chinook ( helicopter ) | Chinook helicopters over Gray Army Airfield at Ft. Lewis in 1977
The largest is the breakfast hosted at the Chinook Centre shopping mall.
The CH-47 Chinook helicopter at left is more than eighteen feet tall and almost one hundred feet long.
* August 10 2007: A US CH-47 Chinook s / n 83-24123 while on the ground at Bagram Air Base, taxied into another parked CH-47D aircraft ( 84-24182 ) and was severely damaged.
A more recent theory of term has that its origins are in the Klondike Gold Rush or the Fraser Valley Gold Rush and the dynamics of the fast evolving Chinook jargon, the lingua franca of the Pacific Northwest at the time.
* November 6 – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook helicopter crashes into the North Sea while on approach to land at Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands, killing 45 of the 47 people on board and injuring both survivors.
A Sears store at Chinook Centre in Calgary, Alberta
Cathlapotle Plankhouse, a 2005 full-scale replica of a Chinook-style cedar plankhouse at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, which was once inhabited by Chinook peoples.
Now in modern times, the Chinook people gather at the plank house to remember the great heritage that they have.
The Atmospheric Test Vehicle was to be displayed at Classic Rotors Museum, a helicopter museum near San Diego, California, but an attempt to move it there on May 9, 2003 via a short-line sling-load under an Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook failed when the Roton began to oscillate at airspeeds above.
It is the third-largest salmon and steelhead hatchery in the U. S. Elsewhere in the watershed, the ODFW raises Chinook and Coho salmon and rainbow trout at the Butte Falls Hatchery on Big Butte Creek.
The state of Oregon in 2005 listed Rogue spring Chinook salmon as potentially at risk.
The first Chinook HC. 1s were delivered to the RAF in 1980 and arrived at Odiham in 1982.
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This gun was emplaced in a position that would have allowed it to engage the Chinook helicopters bringing in the first wave of U. S. troops which would have been disastrous to the operation.
* USS Chinook ( PC-9 ), a U. S. Navy coastal patrol ship
New London Harbor is home port to the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Chinook and the Coast Guard's tall ship Eagle.
A CH-47 Chinook helicopter in a training exercise with U. S. Navy Special Warfare 159th Aviation Regiment personnel and a RHIB | rigid hull inflatable boat.
Like the Grand Ronde Agency in western Oregon, the Warm Springs Reservation is one of the last holdouts in the U. S. of speakers of the Chinook Jargon because of its utility as an inter-tribal language.
As part of the All-American Road program, Route 410 through Chinook Pass has been designated by the U. S. government as the Chinook Scenic Byway.
Image: Pakistan aid. jpg | Pakistani Soldiers carry tents away from a U. S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter that was there on October 19.
This novel has several similarities with Told in the Hills: set in Northwest U. S., set in mining communities, stereotyping of Native Americans by European-Americans and occasional Chinook vocabulary.
On November 2, 2003, a surface-to-air missile was fired by insurgents in Al Fallujah and it hit the U. S. Chinook helicopter that Vega was in.
On 21 February 1967, while accompanying a company of the 1st Battalion 9th Marines on Operation Chinook II in the Street Without Joy, Thua Thien Province, Fall stepped on a Bouncing Betty land mine and was killed, along with Gunnery Sergeant Byron G. Highland, a U. S. Marine Corps combat photographer.
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