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On and board
On April 1, 1953, after some six months of full-time `` pioneering '', petitioner discontinued devoting 100 hours a month to preaching, but failed to so notify his local board.
Onboard communications are provided by public address systems and aircraft intercoms.
On June 3, 1864 Abersychan was constituted a local government district, governed by a local board.
On September 11, 2001, Nami arrived in Newark to board United Airlines Flight 93 along with Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Haznawi and Ziad Jarrah.
On September 11, 2001, Haznawi arrived at Newark International Airport to board Flight 93.
On April 22 of that year, the HMS Seahorse arrived from the West Indies carrying smallpox on board.
On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.
On 17 April he set sail with Diogo Pereira, leaving Goa on board the Santa Cruz for China.
On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.
On 26 January 2006, HBC's board unanimously agreed to a bid of $ 15. 25 CAD / share from Jerry Zucker whose original bid was $ 14. 75 CAD / share, ending a prolonged fight between HBC and Zucker.
On board was the manager, three or four " pilgrims " and about twenty " cannibals " that were enlisted to crew the steamer.
On March 18, 2002, publicly elected At-Large Representative for North America board member Karl Auerbach sued ICANN in Superior Court in California to gain access to ICANN's accounting records without restriction.
On the Fourth of July, he delivered an anti-secessionist speech on board a ship near Boston.
On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.
On arrival in Britain the passengers and mail were unloaded in Plymouth, but the Koh-i-noor stayed on board until the ship reached Portsmouth, from where Lawrence and Mansel took the diamond to the East India House in the City of London and passed it into the care of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the EIC.
On 19 May 2011, Cannes Film Festival's board of directors declared von Trier persona non grata for comments he made during a press conference for his film Melancholia the day before, an unprecedented move for the film festival.
On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
On Ensoniq sound boards, the controller provided several advantages compared to competitors without a CPU on board.
" On 10 February 1954 in Meherastana U. P., India, Meher Baba publicly and explicitly declared his Avatarhood for the first time, spelling out on his alphabet board " Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai.
On September 11, Hazmi board American Airlines Flight 77.
On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
On the same board, the hand 5 ♣ < font color = red > 5 ♦</ font > would be the second-nut hand, four of a kind fives ; the third-nut hand would be any pair of the remaining three aces, making a full house, aces full of fives.
* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.
According to Christian Wolmar, author of On the Wrong Line, the Railtrack board panicked in the wake of Hatfield.
On 13 September 2006, he also joined the board of directors of United Technologies Corporation.

On and rocket
On launch the rocket engine's first chamber developing thrust would power the missile along a predetermined course to the target at around Mach 1. 5.
" On 31 December 1999, Chapman's ashes were rumoured to have been " blasted into the skies in a rocket ".
On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.
On the other hand LACE-like precooled airbreathing designs such as the Skylon spaceplane ( and ATREX ) which transition to rocket thrust at rather lower speeds ( Mach 5. 5 ) do seem to give, on paper at least, an improved orbital mass fraction over pure rockets ( even multistage rockets ) sufficiently to hold out the possibility of full reusability with better payload fraction.
On June 1, 2012, Romanian organization ARCA announced that they are constructing an expendable rocket, named Haas 2C that will attempt to reach orbit in one stage.
On Baikonur cosmodrome on the morning of April 11, 1961, the Vostok-K rocket, together with the attached Vostok 3KA spacecraft, were transported several miles to the launch pad, in a horizontal position.
On January 15 after 40 orbits, the braking rocket was fired at altitude, and the craft began to de-orbit.
On February 14, 2008, when NASA proposed research into nuclear thermal rockets, Technobahn, a scientific journal in Japan, referred to the usage of nuclear thermal rocket engines on mobile suits in the Gundam universe.
" On July 16, 1969, Johnson attended the Apollo 11 launch — the first former or incumbent US president to witness a rocket launch.
On 7 April 1998 the group used a stolen anti-armor rocket to attack a downtown branch of the American Citibank, which caused damage but no injuries, as the warhead did not explode.
On 4 May 2007, an Ariane 5-ECA rocket set a new commercial payload record, lifting two satellites with a combined mass of 9. 4 tonnes.
On November 8 1957 the US Secretary of Defense instructed the US Army to use a modified Jupiter-C rocket to launch a satellite.
On top of the Jupiter propulsion section was a guidance and control compartment that supported a rotating tub containing the rocket stages 2, 3 and 4.
On 2 July 1969, on a launch at Woomera of the thre-stage 108 foot rocket, the Astris third stage failed to light, after the other two had successfully fired.
On Stalin's orders, the Soviet Union sent its best rocket engineers to this region to see what they could salvage for future weapons systems.
On 15 January after 40 orbits, the braking rocket was fired at 16 km altitude, and the craft went into free fall.
On Daloshegy, there is a 165-metre tall FM -/ TV-broadcasting tower, which looks has the nickname " Rakéta " ( Hungarian for rocket ).
On June 1, 1949, the Army Chief of Ordnance designated Redstone Arsenal as the Ordnance Rocket Center, its facility for ordnance rocket research and development.
On February 7, 1984 a Terrier Malemute type sounding rocket with a maximum altitude of was launched from Fort Yukon.
On the afternoon of 4 May when the final attack on the fort was led by Baird, he was again met by " furious musket and rocket fire ", but this did not help much ; in about an hour's time the Fort was taken ; perhaps in another hour Tipu had been shot ( the precise time of his death is not known ), and the war was effectively over.
On October 28, 2009, an Ares I-X test rocket lifted off from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) for a two-minute powered flight ; then continued for four additional minutes traveling down range.
On October 4, 1957, the Vanguard team learned of the launch of Sputnik 1 by the USSR while still working on a test vehicle ( TV-2 ) designed to test the first stage of their launcher rocket.
On the evening of 20 September 2000, the building was attacked using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank rocket.
On 12 January 1948, a Northrop unmanned rocket sled became the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier.

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