Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

* Carin Cone ( born 1940 ), an American swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record holder, and gold medal winner from the Pan American Games

The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.

He is on the board of the TransAfrica Forum a Pan African organization that works for the right of Africa, Caribbean and Latin American issues.

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* Pan American World Airways

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

* 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Although service to Japan ceased in summer 2003, it can still be seen on Americable ( distributor for American bases ), Mediatti ( Kadena Air Base ) and Pan Global TV Japan.

Daniele Hypólito on the Balance Beam at the 2007 Pan American Games

One of the early successes of hydroponics occurred on Wake Island, a rocky atoll in the Pacific Ocean used as a refuelling stop for Pan American Airlines.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

The first annual conference ( referred to as the International Labour Conference, or ILC ) began on 29 October 1919 at the Pan American Union ( building ) in Washington, D. C. and adopted the first six International Labour Conventions, which dealt with hours of work in industry, unemployment, maternity protection, night work for women, minimum age and night work for young persons in industry.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

* 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.

The lagoon was used in 1937 and 1938 as a halfway station between Hawai ' i and American Samoa by Pan American Airways flying boats ( Sikorsky S-42B ).

The S42B Pan American Clipper II, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick, landed at Kingman on its first flight on March 23, 1937.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

Category: Basketball players at the 1983 Pan American Games

* 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.

** Pan American World Airways ends operations.

** Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

* October 18 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.

" The building also housed exhibits by France, Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ), General Motors ( GM ), the American Library Association ( ALA ), and RCA, as well as a Washington state tourist center.

Frank Pace retired under pressure in 1962 and Roger Lewis, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and Pan American Airways CEO was brought in as the new CEO.

Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991.

Trippe became operational head of Pan American Airways, the new company's principal operating subsidiary.

Flown cover autographed by pilot Cy Caldwell and carried from Key West, Florida | Key West, FL, to Havana, Cuba, on the first contract air mail flight operated by Pan American Airways, Oct 19, 1927

Pan Am also partnered with Grace Shipping Company in 1929 to form Pan American-Grace Airways, better known as Panagra, to gain a foothold to destinations in South America.

The Aviation Corporation of the Americas changed its name to Pan American Airways Corporation in 1931.

Starting in June 1937, a joint service from the US mainland to Bermuda was inaugurated, with Pan Am using Sikorsky flying boats and Imperial Airways using the C class flying boat RMA Cavalier.

* Pan American World Airways ( 1927-1991 ), the original airline

* Pan American Airways ( 1996 – 1998 ), a second airline

** Pan American Airways ( 1998 – 2004 ), the third airline with the same name

** Boston-Maine Airways, sister company to this airline, which operated service under the Pan Am Clipper Connection brand

* Pan Am ( TV series ), an American television drama series centered around the original Pan American World Airways in the 1960s

The Dakotas had been acquired from Pan American World Airways ( PAA ), which provided technical assistance to Syrian Airways during the very first years of operation.

The US Air Force Eastern Test Range ( ETR ) Range Tracking Station # 4 was sited at Eleuthera AAFB ( ELU AUXILIARY AIR FORCE BASE ), supported by contractor employees of the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) and Pan American Airways ( PAA ) in the 1960s and 1970s.

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

Herodotus mentions that Pheidippides was visited by the god Pan on his way to Sparta ( or perhaps on his return journey ).

After the battle, a sacred precinct was established for Pan in a grotto on the north slope of the Acropolis, and a sacrifice was annually offered.

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but according to 20th century author Robert Graves ( 1960 ), Pan was far older than Hermes.

See below for another Dryope, consort of Faunus, who was seen as the Roman equivalent of Pan.

The maple body prototype for the one piece cast aluminum " Frying Pan " was built by Harry Watson, factory superintendent of National Guitar Corporation.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

The popular image of the Greek god Pan was removed from its classical context in the writings of the Romantics of the 18th century and connected with their ideals of a pastoral England.

Grahame's work was a significant part of the cultural milieu which stripped the Greek god Pan of his cultural identity in favour of an unnamed, generic horned deity which led to Murray's thesis of historical origins.

As a result, United Nations Security Council Resolution 748 was approved on 31 March 1992, requiring Libya to surrender the suspects, cooperate with the Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772 investigations, pay compensation to the victims ' families, and cease all support for terrorism.

On 31 January 2001, at the end of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, Megrahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia ( from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lukos, " wolf ", Latin lupus ) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

The study was sponsored by the Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau ( now the World Health Organization's Pan American Health Organization ) and the Guatemalan government.

Their slogan was Pan, Tierra y Libertad ( Bread, Land and Liberty ).

At Lycosura, a fire was burning in front of the temple of Pan ( the goat-god ).

Besides the temple there was the hall where the Arcadians celebrated the mysteries A fire was always burning in front of the temple of Pan ( the goat-god ), the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks.