A Very Woman
A Very Woman, or The Prince of Tarent is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger and John Fletcher. It was first published in 1655, fifteen and thirty years after the deaths of its authors.
Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility
The Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA) was an experimental electrically powered road vehicle created by Segway and adopted by General Motors as a concept vehicle representing the future of urban transportation. It operates on two wheels placed side by side, a layout that differs in placement from motorcycles which instead have their two wheels placed at the front and rear.
Brownlee, Oregon
John Brownlee started a ferry service that crossed the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon that became known as Brownlee's Ferry. When a railroad was built on the Oregon side of the river, the station at the ferry crossing was named Brownlee. Brownlee post office ran intermittently from 1910 to 1965. The portion of the tracks that ran between Homestead and Robinette and passed through Brownlee were torn up by the railway's final owners Oregon Short Line in 1934.
HSC Condor Liberation
HSC "Condor Liberation" is a fast ferry that was built by Austal Shipbuilders in Henderson, Western Australia. Previously named "Austal Hull 270" and "Condor 102", she entered service as HSC "Condor Liberation" with Channel Island ferry operator Condor Ferries on 27 March 2015.
Ferry de Clugny
Ferry de Clugny, Cardinal and Bishop of Tournai (Autun ca. 1430 — Rome 7 October 1483) was a highly placed statesman and ecclesiastic in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Great Berlin Wheel
The Great Berlin Wheel was a giant Ferris wheel to be built near the Berlin Zoological Garden (Zoologischer Garten Berlin) in Berlin, Germany, by the Great Wheel Corporation.
World's Columbian Exposition
It included carnival rides, among them the original Ferris Wheel, built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr... This wheel was 264 feet (80 m) high and had 36 cars, each of which could accommodate 40 people. The importance of the Columbian Exposition is highlighted by the use of rueda de Chicago (``Chicago wheel '') in many Latin American countries such as Costa Rica and Chile in reference to the Ferris wheel. One attendee, George C. Tilyou, later credited the sights he saw on the Chicago midway for inspiring him to create America's first major amusement park, Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York.
Gramercy Bridge
The Gramercy Bridge (officially the Veterans Memorial Bridge), is a cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Gramercy, Louisiana in St. James Parish with St. John the Baptist Parish. It is the second newest Mississippi River bridge in Louisiana (due to the completion of the John James Audubon Bridge), one of many built to replace the ferry system following a 1976 accident that killed 78 when a ferry sank after being struck by a ship.
MV Sveti Krševan
MF "Sveti Krševan" is a ro-ro vehicle and passenger ferry owned and operated by Jadrolinija, the Croatian state-owned ferry company. She was built in 2004 at the Kraljevica Shipyard Ltd. in Kraljevica, Croatia. As of June 2010 she serves on the local route Orebić—Dominče, connecting the Pelješac peninsula and the island of Korčula in southern Dalmatia.
Front-wheel drive
Experiments with front - wheel - drive cars date to the early days of the automobile. According to various sources, sometime between 1895 and 1898 Gräf & Stift built a voiturette with a one - cylinder De Dion - Bouton engine fitted in the front of the vehicle, powering the front axle. It was thus arguably the world's first front - wheel - drive automobile, but it never saw mass production, with only one copy ever made. In 1898, Latil, in France, devised a front - wheel - drive system for motorising horse - drawn carts.
Woodland, Delaware
Woodland is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Woodland is located on the Nanticoke River southwest of Seaford. Cannon's Ferry, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Woodland and is also known as the Woodland Ferry.
Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)
A Ferris wheel is a non-building structure, consisting of an upright wheel with passenger gondolas attached to the rim. Opened on June 21, 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, the original Ferris Wheel was invented two years earlier by the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridge - builder George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. in 1891.
John Waterson
John Waterson (died 10 February 1656) was a London publisher and bookseller of the Jacobean and Caroline eras; he published significant works in English Renaissance drama, including plays by William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, John Webster, and Philip Massinger.
Olympic-class ferry
The Olympic Class ferries are the newest vessels to the Washington State Ferries (WSF) fleet. The ferries are intended to allow the agency to retire the aging Evergreen State-class ferries currently in service. The ferry design is based on the Issaquah-class ferries which have proven to be the most reliable and versatile in the fleet. The Olympic Class ferries are designed to serve all routes and terminals in the WSF system. All vessels were built in Washington as required by state law.
Volkswagen Golf
The original Golf Mk1 was a front-wheel drive, front-engined replacement for the air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive Volkswagen Beetle. Historically, the Golf is Volkswagen's best-selling model and is among the world's top three best-selling models, with more than 30 million built by June 2013.
London Eye
London Eye London Eye Alternative names Millennium Wheel General information Status Complete Type Ferris wheel Location Lambeth, London Address Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road Country United Kingdom Coordinates 51 ° 30 ′ 12 ''N 0 ° 07 ′ 10'' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.5033 ° N 0.1194 ° W ﻿ / 51.5033; - 0.1194 Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 12 ''N 0 ° 07 ′ 10'' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.5033 ° N 0.1194 ° W ﻿ / 51.5033; - 0.1194 Completed March 2000 Opened 31 December 1999 (ceremonial, without passengers) 1 February 2000 (first passengers carried) 9 March 2000 (opened to general public) Cost £70 million Owner Merlin Entertainments Height 135 metres (443 ft) Diameter 120 metres (394 ft) Design and construction Architect Frank Anatole Nic Bailey Julia Barfield Steve Chilton Malcolm Cook David Marks Mark Sparrowhawk Architecture firm Marks Barfield Structural engineer Arup Other designers Babtie Allott & Lomax (checking engineer) Tony Gee (foundations) Awards and prizes Institution of Structural Engineers Special Award 2001 Website www.londoneye.com
Bellaire Bridge
The Bellaire Bridge or Interstate Bridge is a privately owned, closed cantilever truss toll bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood, West Virginia (near Wheeling) and Bellaire, Ohio (near Martins Ferry). It provided a link for commuters between southern Ohio border towns and West Virginia steel mills from 1926 to 1991.
Wiener Riesenrad
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the eleventh book in his series "The Wheel of Time". It was the last book which Jordan wrote completely before his death in 2007, with Brandon Sanderson finishing the series afterwards based on Jordan's notes. It was published by Tor Books in the U.S. and Orbit in the UK and released on October 11, 2005. Upon its release, it immediately rose to the #1 position on the "New York Times" hardcover fiction bestseller list, making it the fourth consecutive "Wheel of Time" book to reach the #1 position on that list. "Knife of Dreams" is 784 pages long, including a glossary. It has a prologue, 37 chapters, and an epilogue.
Diamond and Flower Ferris Wheel
When completed in 2001, it was the world's second tallest Ferris wheel. It was also the tallest Ferris wheel ever built in Japan, but was surpassed the following year by the Sky Dream Fukuoka. However, the Fukuoka wheel closed in September 2009, and the Kasai Rinkai Park wheel once again became Japan's tallest operational Ferris wheel.
When was the ferris wheel built in the city where the author of A Very Woman died?
A Very Woman >> author
Philip Massinger
#1 >> place of death
London
when was the ferris wheel in #2 built
March 2000