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Wind and land
, the East Wind, asked to carry the newly formed sun to his land so that it could begin its journey there.
Wind factors may cause numerous variations, but on most days flights will take off to the north and land from the south.
After approval, the land was sold to Minonk Wind farm LLC.
( NOTE ) The Wind Farm Companies do NOT purchase the land.
* Harvest Wind Farm: Constructed in 2007, this wind farm contains 32 turbines on 3, 200 acres of land capable of producing 52. 8 MW of power.
The theme of Expo 67 was " Man and his World ", taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's memoir Terre des hommes ( literally " land of men ", though it was published under the title Wind, Sand and Stars ).
Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation and uses little land.
* 2 June 2005-Meridian announced a proposal to develop a wind farm west of Wellington, Project West Wind with up to 70 wind turbines with a total capacity of 210 MW, built across 55. 8 square km on rural land near Makara at the south-western tip of the North Island.
In August 1998, NASA contracted EarthSat to produce Landsat GeoCover ( Geocover 2000 in NASA World Wind ) — a positionally accurate orthorectified Landsat Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner imagery covering the majority of the Earth's land mass.
On the same day, the first American airline, United Airlines, lands in Ho Chi Minh City, which makes it the first US airline to land there since Operation Frequent Wind during the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.
Wind direction changes due to the contour of the land.
* Terre des hommes ( literally: land of men, or land of people ), the 1939 philosophical memoir by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( titled in English as Wind, Sand and Stars ).
Once he has partially learned all of the land law does Morgon discover that the High One had journeyed with him as Deth and the wizard Yrth ; the High One tells Morgon at the top of Wind Plain that he ( Morgon ) is the High One's land heir.
The name " Hyborian " is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of " Hyperborea ", literally " Beyond the North Wind ".
A High Wind Warning is a similar warning issued by the National Weather Service if winds are forecast to be 39-57 mph for at least 1 hour ; or any gusts to 58-73 mph on land.
Image: CH-53 landing at Defense Attaché Office compound, Operation Frequent Wind. jpg | A Marine provides security as helicopters land at the DAO Compound
In Gone with the Wind, Tara was founded by Irish immigrant Gerald O ' Hara after he won of land from its absentee owner during an all-night poker game.

Wind and yacht
Walker and Stearns were arrested in Honolulu in 1974 after returning from Palmyra aboard the Sea Wind, a yacht stolen from the Grahams.
The msy Wind Song was a 4-masted motor sailing yacht used as a cruise ship by Windstar Cruises from 1987 until 2002, when the ship suffered an engine room fire.
Development of the yacht and the events of the Race are described in detail in Pete's subsequent book Close to the Wind.

Wind and designed
Located at 1 E. Screven St., Quitman, it was constructed in 1864 and designed by John Wind.
* The Prairie School, a small independent school in Wind Point, designed in a Frank Lloyd Wright style, with many interesting hallways and a recently built athletic center that overlooks the surrounding neighborhoods
A properly designed Wind pump begins working in a 3-4 mph ( 5 to 6. 5 km / h ) wind.
Some of the larger cruising luxury yachts Farr has designed include Mirabella, Philanderer, Sojana and the two Southern Wind built 100 footers: Farewell and Farandwide.
By 1925 Siegfried had designed first " Buzzing Wind " airplane for the Deutscher Rundflug 1925 competition, which featured the first elliptic design based on Prandtl's 1918 theory.
The Wind Song was one of an unusual class of only three vessels ( msy Wind Star, msy Wind Spirit and msy Wind Song ), designed as a modern cruise ship but carrying an elaborate system of computer-controlled sails on four masts.
Originally designed by Wind River's current CTO, Tomas Evensen, it is now available as part of Wind River's VxWorks platforms.
Wind and seismic loads are the most common loads braced wall lines are designed to counteract.
A number of pieces of public art have been installed or commissioned: " Formation " by Rick Kirby at the entrance, designed to commemorate the areas links with aviation ; " Handstanding " by Martin Heron near the school ; " Green Wind 2 " by Diane Maclean as a focal point beyond the end of Downham Boulevard on the Tump ; and " Propeller " by Harry Gray has been placed adjacent to the green.
He also designed the cover for a German edition of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and illustrated the Kenneth Grahame children's book The Wind in the Willows.
Nintendo of America told Aonuma that North American sales of The Wind Waker were sluggish because the cartoon appearance created the impression that the game was designed for a young audience.
* Wind turbines ( see Gearless wind turbines ): Various companies have developed direct drive generators for wind turbines, which are designed to improve efficiency and decrease maintenance costs.
Wingspread, also known as the Herbert F. Johnson House, is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. and built in 1938-1939 in the village of Wind Point near Racine, Wisconsin.

Wind and by
Aeolus by Alexandre Jacovleff shows Aeolus as an embodiment of Wind himself.
Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.
* " Wind Power for Home and Business " by Paul Gipe
Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").
The soundtrack does not include every song played in the film, which also included " In the Wind " by War Babies and " Inner Mind " by Eon.
The " Wind of Change " by the Scorpions mentions the instrument.
Homeward Oxherds in Wind and Rain, by Li Di, 12th century
* Wind loading is another major design criterion in Hong Kong as it is situated in an area influenced by typhoons.
Wind erosion is of two primary varieties: deflation, where the wind picks up and carries loose soil particles ; and abrasion, where surfaces are worn down as they are struck by airborne particles carried by wind.
It is originally based on his earlier game Elfenroads ( published by White Wind ), but since Elfenroads took about four hours for a game, the play was simplified to reduce the time closer to an hour, making it appeal more as a family game.
Note that this is different from the original Elfengold published by White Wind.
He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A.
The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind was made by most of the same people behind This is Spinal Tap and Best in Show and was also done as a documentary of three 1960s folk bands doing a reunion concert.
Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.
Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.
Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.
Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.
" Gone with the Wind is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is mentioned briefly in Gone with the Wind as being accepted by the Yankees as, " revelation second only to the Bible ".
One enduring legacy of Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The copyright holders of Gone with the Wind attempted to suppress publication of The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, which retold the story from the perspective of the slaves.

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