With the help of his time as a member of an MTD, Collins accumulated over 1500 hours of flying, the minimum required for the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

By the end of 1881, the first group of Chinese labourers, which was previously numbered at 5000, had less than 1500 remaining as a large number had deserted for the goldfields away from the rail line Onderdonk needed more workers, so he directly contracted Chinese businessmen in Victoria, California and China to send many more workers to Canada.

Although the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail line across the North American continent to the Pacific coast, it was preceded by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, known as the " Jackass Mail " ( for the last 180 miles between Fort Yuma and San Diego accomplished on mule back instead of stagecoach ), which ran on a bi-monthly basis, 1500 miles between San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California, from July 9, 1857 to December 1858 ; and by the Butterfield Overland Mail of George Chorpenning that predated the Pony Express by nearly three years.

Found at heights of up to 1500 metres, in the south Coast Ranges of California and the Mojave Desert.

The tsunami washed away 1451 houses, caused 1500 deaths in Japan, and was observed on tide gauges in California, Hawaii, and Peru.

Out of an estimated 1500 Achumawi people remaining in northeastern California, perhaps ten spoke the language as of 1991, with only 8 as of 2000.

* KIEV ( AM ), an active radio station at 1500 AM licensed to Culver City, California

It is located at 1500 Bancroft Road in Walnut Creek, California, USA.

In California it is uncommon below 1500 m ( 5000 ft ) in canyons in the Mojave Desert and its sky island pinyon-juniper habitats ( Pinus monophylla and Juniperus californica ).

The Nevada Department of Wildlife estimates that there are 1500 California bighorn sheep located in northwestern Nevada as of 2004.

Starting at about AD 1500, and continuing into the late nineteenth century, the Coast Miwok, Ohlone, Patwin, Pomo, and Wappo peoples of central California used the marine bivalve Saxidomus sp.

For her contribution to the motion film industry, Helene Costello was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

Many vegetation types are represented in the Los Padres, including chaparral, the common ground cover of most coastal ranges in California below about 5, 000 feet ( 1500 m ), and coniferous forests, which can be found in abundance in the Ventana Wilderness as well as the region around Mount Pinos in northern Ventura County.

At the time, KPEN was a PENinsula station licensed to Atherton, California, broadcasting at a mere 1500 watts from a transmitter on Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

This palace was constructed Place Saint Andre, around 1500 and extended in 1539.

* 3rd Place, News Story ( 1500 words or less ): " Firing Line " by Josh Harkinson

By May 1998 Acorn started to offer their ' Registered Developer ' scheme members the chance to pre-order a pre-launch prototype for testing and development, these were offered at a £ 950 ( ex VAT ) a significant discount on the public price of £ 1500 ( ex VAT ) revealed in June ..

LINE was replaced by the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program ( MCMAP ) by Marine Corps Order 1500. 54, published in 2002, although it had been actually dropped in 1998, as a " revolutionary step in the development of martial arts skills for Marines and replaces all other close-combat related systems preceding its introduction.

Michael Landon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 N. Vine Street and, in 1998, and was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

*-50 Kornet-E launchers with 1500 missiles as of 1998.

A sighting made in 1998, west of the island of Tenerife, involved three whales swimming over waters 1500 meters deep.

In 1998 in Rome, El Guerrouj broke Morceli's 1500 m world record ( 3: 27. 37 ) with a time of 3: 26. 00.

At the Sydney Olympics, El Guerrouj, finished second in the 1500 metres, behind Noah Ngeny, a Kenyan runner who ran as El Guerrouj's pacemaker when El Guerrouj ran his 1500 m world record in Rome in 1998.

Before the IAAF introduced the short course in 1998, all the world class athletes from 1500 m to the marathon were in the same race.

Ngeny first came to international prominence by setting two World Junior records in 1997-3: 32. 91 for 1500 m in Monaco and 3: 50. 41 for the Mile in Nice, and under the guidance of renowned manager and coach, the late Kim McDonald, his progression continued in 1998, improving his 1500 m time to 3: 30. 34 in Monaco.

The GMT800 Silverado / Sierra 1500 ( light pickup trucks ) were released in 1998 as 1999 models.

* JSFR, Japan, project for a 1500 MWe reactor begin in 1998 –> 2010

* Margarete-Maximilian I. Musik um 1500, Capilla Flamenca with La Caccia, Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst, Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis, 1998, ORF Shop CD 265 ( 2 CDs ).

Until 1998, the freezing works employed between 1000 and 1500 workers, by far the largest employer in a town with a population of between 3000 and 5000.

* 1998 – Life in the So-Called Space Age – 1500 / A & M

WRDZ was born in 1998, when ABC Radio bought WTAQ 1300 and sister station WTAU 1500 in Zion, Illinois, to air their Radio Disney network.

In 2009 the Event was moved again, this time to The Hop Farm Family Park, since it was considered that the festival had outgrown campsite venues ( since the festival has grown from around 50 families in 1998 to around 1500 families in 2006 ).

In 1998, the school had roughly 1000 students, and by 2002, had 1500 ( population limits of district high schools and academies are required to grow relative to the district ).

* 1998 1500 m European Championships SILVER MEDAL

* 1500 m 3: 57. 71 ( 1998 )

In 1998 he won the World Junior Championships over 1500 metres.

Until Grand Valley State University took control of the station ( and 95. 3 FM in Whitehall, Michigan ) in late 1998, AM 850 was the home of Muskegon's heritage radio station, WKBZ, which dates back to 1926 when it began at 1500 AM in Ludington, Michigan.

She went on to win the bronze medals in 800 m and 1500 m events in the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships and gold medals in both the events in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998.

These scripts are thought to derive from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet ( dated to about 1500 BC ), which is thought to derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Essays in European Economic History, 1500 – 1800, ( 1974 ), translated articles from Annales

* Albert, Duke of Saxony ( 1443 – 1500 ), sometimes called " Albert III "

1000 and 1500 are regularly encountered as jury sizes and on at least one occasion, the first time a new kind of case was brought to court ( see graphē paranómōn ), all 6, 000 members of the jury pool were put onto the one case.

Additionally, the claimants to this ancestry also claim descendancy from Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out over 1500 years before the Assyrian dynasty fell ), and from Nabopolassar, who was a Chaldean, politically and militarily opposed to Assyria, and not in fact an Assyrian.

One of the first great autobiographies of the Renaissance is that of the sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini ( 1500 – 1571 ), written between 1556 and 1558, and entitled by him simply Vita ( Italian: Life ).

Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

In the case of persons that common usage has called saints from " time immemorial " ( in practice, since before 1500 or so ), the Church may carry out a " confirmation of cultus ", which is much simpler.

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1500 – 1558 ), also Charles I of Spain

They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ( 1500 – 1553 ) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Burgundy, and secondly Philippe de Bourbon ( 1499 – 1557 ), Seigneur de Busset.

Smoothed historical measurements of ΔT using total solar eclipses are about + 16800 s at the year − 500 ( 501 BC ), + 10600 s at 0 ( 1 BC ), + 5700 s at 500 ( AD ), + 1600 s at 1000, and + 180 s at 1500.

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

Guatemala's Pre-Columbian era can be divided into the Preclassic period ( from 2000 BC to 250 AD ), the Classic period ( 250 to 900 AD ) and the Postclassic period ( 900 to 1500 AD ).

Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games, including Cavaliers and Roundheads ( English Civil War, with Jeff Perren ), Classic Warfare ( Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD ), and Warriors of Mars.

Lequien ( I, 1123 ) mentions only six Greek bishops, the first as being present at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, when the see was united to that of Coela ( Coelia or Coele ), the last about 1500.

George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony ( Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539 ), was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.

1750 – 1500 BC ), the Middle Hittite Kingdom ( ca.

The Ionian Islands were only briefly ruled by the Ottomans ( Kefalonia from 1479 to 1481 and from 1485 to 1500 ), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

* Federico II, Duke of Mantua ( 17 May 1500 – 28 August 1540 ), married Margaret Paleologa, by whom he had issue.