From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

Arizona State University ( commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State ) is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the U. S. state of Arizona.

Between 1940 and 1990, Phoenix jumped from the 99th largest city in the nation to the 9th largest ( it is currently the 6th largest ).

"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

* 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile ( AAM ), carried in clusters of up to six missiles on F-14 Tomcats, its only launch platform.

Phoenix uses its high altitude to gain gravitational potential energy, which is later converted into kinetic energy as the missile dives at high velocity towards its target.

Minimum engagement range for the Phoenix is around ; active homing would initiate upon launch at this distance.

The Gate House emblem is the Phoenix, visible in the bottom-right corner of the Victoria College insignia.

She is the targeted vessel for the Phoenix Force, a destructive cosmic entity.

Captain America believes that this Phoenix Force is too dangerous to entrust in one person and seeks to prevent Hope from having it.

The Phoenix Park is 2 – 4 km west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey.

One of these is the Phoenix lander, which analyzed Martian polar soil for water and chemical and mineralogical constituents related to biological processes.

After the Phoenix Force is stopped, many of Magneto's followers have lost faith in his methods.

Geographically, it is part of the Phoenix Islands.

* 1968 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix and is best known as one of the founding members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her central role and transformation in the classic X-Men storyline " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

She is a caring, nurturing figure, but she also has to deal with being an Omega-level mutant and the physical manifestation of the cosmic Phoenix Force.

The Phoenix arrest culminates more than a year's investigation by Detective William Taylor and other officers.

She was arrested by Phoenix Police after they received the indictment papers from Portland detectives.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

Both the missile and the aircraft were used by the United States Navy and are now retired, the AIM-54 Phoenix in 2004 and the F-14 in 2006.

The Phoenix has several guidance modes and achieves its longest range by using mid-course updates from the F-14A / B AWG-9 radar ( APG-71 radar in the F-14D ) as it climbs to cruise between and at close to Mach 5.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

The Tomcat did not have the requisite IFF capability mandated by the JFACC to satisfy the Rules of Engagement ( ROE ) to utilize the Phoenix capability at Beyond Visual Range ( BVR ).

* Buffalo ( The Phoenix Foundation album ), a studio album by The Phoenix Foundation

The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), Elsie Tanner ( Patricia Phoenix ) and Annie Walker ( Doris Speed ) as central figures.

During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, Professor X and his son Legion are sensing the Phoenix Force was emergencing by transforming Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik into the Phoenix Five.

Captain America arranged another meeting of the Illuminati in an attempt to talk with Namor after he was possessed by the Phoenix Force.

Professor X returned to help the Avengers who are being held prisoner in a volcano in Siberia by the Phoenix Five, who were under the dark influence.

A 1995 news article includes an early usage of the term by Jim Garvin, a Vietnam veteran who became a Trappist monk in the Holy Cross Abbey of Berryville, Virginia, and went on to lead the economic development of Phoenix, Arizona.

The parade was led by " Northumbrian " driven by George Stephenson, and included " Phoenix " driven by his son Robert, " North Star " driven by his brother Robert and " Rocket " driven by assistant engineer Joseph Locke.

Florence Jean Castleberry (" Flo ") on the television series Alice became a waitress at Mel's Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, a roadside diner run by one Mel Sharples.

On his 7th solo album Finding Forever, Hip-Hop artist Common features harpist Brandee Younger on the introductory track, followed by a Dorothy Ashby sample from her 1969 recording of By the Time I Get to Phoenix.

Australian player Brian Cain otherwise known as Indiana Phoenix mixes a range of playing techniques with modern equipment developed by playing with traditional acoustic guitar players to heavy rock and metal bands.

She briefly develops a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke, Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full at a far stronger level than before.

The move from Yuma to Peoria was very controversial, but was defended by the team as a reflection on the low quality of facilities in Yuma and the long travel necessary to play against other Arizona-based Spring Training teams ( whose sites were all in the Phoenix and Tucson areas, both rather far from Yuma ).

They struggled down the stretch in many of those defeats, and the Spurs quickly found themselves far behind the Dallas Mavericks and the Phoenix Suns.

The main shock was felt over most of California and as far away as Phoenix, Arizona and Reno, Nevada.

In the southern end of the Corridor, Wal-Mart is expected to draw business from as far south as the Hunt Highway, bringing with it a " large consumer population " which will improve " the image and perception of the area " in the mindset of many Greater Phoenix residents and state commercial retailers.

The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station near Phoenix, Arizona was designed for 100 % MOX core compatibility but so far have always operated on fresh low enriched uranium.

So far, only six characters have appeared in all eight Tekken installments: Heihachi Mishima, Paul Phoenix, Nina Williams, Yoshimitsu, King and Kuma ( the latter two albeit technically being two different characters with the same name ).

Diethrich had lost millions of dollars in 1983, was not confident in the team's ability to draw fans, and did not feel the losses justified making an investment for a team far from his home in Phoenix ( he was the founder of the Arizona Heart Institute ).

The first electricity was generated on September 4, 1964, with the power sent into the regional electric grid through a pair of long-distance transmission lines as far as Phoenix, Arizona and Farmington, New Mexico.

In 2008, she was featured in play magazine's " Girls of Gaming " as one of the staff's top girls of PC gaming, placing tenth on their list, The Boston Phoenix ranked the number one greatest boss in video game history, while GamePro ranked her as the 12th " most diabolical " video game villain of all time, calling her " far more crafty than Skynet or the machines of the Matrix, simply because she's omnipresent and constantly taunting " and adding, " Simply put: you'll want to kill SHODAN more than you've ever wanted to kill any videogame enemy.

The Cherokee Phoenix office regularly received correspondence from about 100 other newspapers, published far and wide, because it was so respected throughout the United States and Europe.

As the housing boom progressed in Phoenix, new development encroached dangerously close to the castle and its grounds, making it far less " isolated ".

The core part of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area is the Phoenix-Mesa, Arizona Urban Area, which is far smaller than the Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Rook manages to survive and returns later at the nuclear power plant not far from Tokyo in the mission " Chain Reaction " and also at Drake's Phoenix Base, bearing a scarred left eye and armed with a state of the art Samurai laser gun.

The Line Islands and Phoenix Islands are too far for direct flights.

Coolock is also the name of the barony which accounts for most of north Dublin city, from the coast in to the Phoenix Park, and stretching north as far as to Swords.

In the novel's final chapter, the Phoenix announces that he has reached the end of his current lifespan and must begin the cycle again ( apparently on the grounds that life with the children has left him far more exhausted than he would have been in the wilderness.

* Canary Island Date Palm ( Phoenix canariensis )-This species is hardy to about − 10 ° C, and is grown as far north as the south of England ( 50 ° N ), producing viable seed ( In Southsea, Hampshire ).

The club was active in Oxford in 2008 / 9, although not currently registered with the University, and the retiring proctors ' oration recited an incident which, not being on University premises, was outside their jurisdiction: " some students had taken habitually to the drunken braying of ‘ We are the Bullingdon ’ at 3 a. m. from a house not far from the Phoenix Cinema.