Eastern was also the first US carrier to fly the Airbus A300 and the launch customer for the Boeing 757.

Eastern bought the Lockheed L-1011 and Airbus A300 widebody jets ; the former would become known in the Caribbean as El Grandote ( the huge one ).

* On May 13, 2006, A China Eastern Airbus A340-600 ( Tail number B6055 ), flight 5042 from Seoul to Shanghai suffered tire bursts on all of its main landing gears.

This was replaced several years later with two Airbus A310s as the carrier expanded to offer flights principally between Australian Eastern capital cities and destinations in Asia such as Singapore and Manila via their hub Port Moresby.

In 1989, she got to work for Eastern Airlines and became a first officer in Eastern's biggest plane, the Airbus A300.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

Of course, most toilets are Eastern style -- at floor level -- but even when they are raised to chair height, they are actually outside toilets -- inside.

Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

In 381, at the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, a group of mainly Eastern bishops assembled and accepted the Nicene Creed of 381, which was supplemented in regard to the Holy Spirit, as well as some other changes: see Comparison between Creed of 325 and Creed of 381.

In 394 Alaric led a Gothic force of 20, 000 that helped the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius defeat the Frankish usurper Arbogast at the Battle of Frigidus.

He likewise supported the pope at Ferrara and Florence, and worked hard in the attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches.

* Saint Anastasius Sinaita ( of Sinai ) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

* 1985 – U. S. S. R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan / Semipalatinsk.

The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book it is included here.

Disraeli and Queen Victoria, during the latter's visit to Hughenden Manor at the height of the Eastern crisis.

:* Philadelphia's Bastille Day, held at Eastern State Penitentiary, involves Marie Antoinette throwing locally manufactured pastries at the Parisian militia, as well as a re-enactment of the storming of the Bastille.

WBAL's 50, 000-watt clear-channel signal covers much of the Eastern United States at night.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Eastern bongo at Edinburgh Zoo An international studbook is maintained to help manage animals held in captivity.

In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road.

Bombardier Inc. () is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier as L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

The Reichswehr was influenced by its analysis of pre-war German military thought, in particular the infiltration tactics which at the end of the war had seen some breakthroughs in the Western Front's trench war, and the maneuver warfare which dominated the Eastern Front.

Bulgaria attacked towards Eastern Thrace, being stopped only at the outskirts of Constantinople at the Çatalca line and the isthmus of the Gallipoli peninsula, while secondary forces captured Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia.

Most Christians ( Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Rite and Protestants alike ) accept the use of creeds, and subscribe to at least one of the creeds mentioned above.

A north-south rail link, completed in 1986, provides a connection between the Eastern Transvaal ( now Mpumalanga ) rail network and the South African ports of Richards Bay and Durban.

In 1986, Ono set out on a goodwill world tour for Starpeace, mostly visiting Eastern European countries.

From the 1960s up to 1986, political abuse of psychiatry was reported to be systematic in the Soviet Union, and to surface on occasion in other Eastern European countries such as Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

Despite finishing just one point shy of a third straight Atlantic Division title, the Flyers blitzed their way through the first three rounds of the playoffs, dominating Pittsburgh, Buffalo and the Rangers all in five games apiece to win the Eastern Conference championship, and clinch a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1986 – 87.

at: 1986 mark :( line, grey ) text: 1986 Eastern Scheldt Barrier

Following the severing of relations after the Six-Day War, Poland was the first Eastern bloc country to again recognize Israel in 1986.

After leaving NASA, he was the chief executive officer ( CEO ) of Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986.

On November 6, 1986 Eastern Air Lines Captain George Baines was flying in his private aircraft, a Piper PA-23 ( N2185P ), from his home to Tampa International to catch a flight.

Godenzi appeared in several of his films including The Haunted Island, Eastern Condors ( both 1986 ), and Paper Marriage ( 1988 ) prior to the pair becoming a couple.

New England National Park ( NENP ) was World Heritage listed in 1986 and forms part of the New England Group of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia ( previously the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia ) ( CERRA ).

Russell M. Tanner, the father ( 1918 – 1986 ), and Hazel L. Tanner, the mother ( 1937 – 1990 ) were the parents of over twenty children and touched the lives of many in the Eastern Arkansas area.

Eastern remained one of the largest employers in the Miami metropolitan area until ongoing labor union unrest, coupled with the airline's acquisition by union antagonist Frank Lorenzo in 1986, ultimately forced the airline into bankruptcy in 1989.

* Gardiner-Garden, J. R., Chang-Ch ' ien and Central Asian Ethnography in: Papers of Far Eastern History 33 ( March 1986 ) p. 23-79.

The reactor's flaws contributed to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in which an RBMK exploded during an unsafe test and spread radioactivity over a large portion of Eastern Europe.

** Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus canariensis exsul ( extinct: 1986?

Data shows that between 1959 and 1986 an average of 5, 563 rattlesnakes were killed per year in Sweetwater, Texas, due to rattlesnake roundups, and these roundups have led to documented declines and local extirpations of rattlesnake populations, especially Eastern Diamondbacks in Georgia.

Under Jim Fregosi's leadership from 1983 to 1986, the Redbirds won the American Association title in 1984 and 1985, and were the league runner up in 1983, when they won the Eastern Division.

: Eastern regular season championships: 20 — 1911, 1912, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1936, 1937, 1945, 1960, 1971, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2007.

He was Secretary to the Military government and Head of Service, South Eastern State, Nigeria ( 1973 – 75 ); member and chairman, National Universities Commission, Nigeria ( 1986 – 92 ).

In 1939 the mortality rate for children under one year had been 138. 9 per 1, 000 ; by 1986 it was 18. 2 per 1, 000, and in 1990 it was 14 per 1, 000, the lowest rate in Eastern Europe.

In one game against Eastern Kentucky, Bradley blocked 14 shots, tying the NCAA single-game record set by Navy's David Robinson in 1986.

Beginning in 1986, remaining C16, C116 and Plus / 4 inventories were dumped at a much reduced price on the Eastern Bloc market, chiefly Hungary.

During her early years as a correspondent, Amanpour was given her first major assignment covering the Iran-Iraq War, which led to her being transferred in 1986 to Eastern Europe to report on the fall of European communism.