

In 1932 Midway was the world’s busiest airport, a title it held for thirty years. By 1927 the airport had expanded and earned the name Chicago Municipal Airport. Midway Airport (MDW) started off with just one cinder runway in 1923, and was called Chicago Air Park.
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The IATA airport code for O’Hare International in Chicago is ORD, which comes from Orchard Place Airport/Douglas Field (OR-D). 37 Alternative to Chicago’s Midway : O’HARE “Baby mama” is a term used these days as an alternative to “single mother”. “Baby Mama” is a 2008 film starring Tina Fey as successful single businesswoman who hires a surrogate mother (played by Amy Poehler). The rank of lieutenant (lt.) is superior to the rank of sergeant (sgt.). It began to mean “haughty” in the late 1800s, simply because the “haughty” sounds similar to “hoity”. 28 Hoity-toity : LAH-DI-DAH (giving the Russian “da”)īelieve it or not, the term “hoity-toity” has been in the English language since the 1660s, but back then it meant “riotous behavior”. Flagg and is based on the similar British poster showing Lord Kitchener that was first issued three years earlier. It depicts Uncle Sam pointing to the viewer, encouraging young men to report to the nearest recruiting station. The famous “I want YOU for the US Army” poster dates back to 1917. Iran has been around a really long time and Tehran is actually the country’s 31st national capital. Tehran is the capital of Iran and is the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of about 8.5 million. Today, the US Open is the last major tournament in the Grand Slam annual series, following the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, having started out as the US National Championship in 1881. 36 holes were played over one day on a 9-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island. Golf’s US Open Championship is held on the third Sunday of every June, which also happens to be Father’s Day. 22 Major event in golf or tennis : US OPEN Donald Trump purchased Mar-a-Lago in 1985, and the resort finally became an alternative to the White House after he was became US president. The federal government returned the resort to the Post Foundation ten years later due to the high cost of maintenance and difficulties in maintaining security. When Post died in 1973, she willed it to the US government for use as a Winter White House. The name “Mar-a-Lago” translates from Spanish as “Sea-to-Lake”, and is a reference to the fact that property extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Lake Worth Lagoon, which is part of the Intracoastal Waterway. Mar-a-Lago is resort in Palm Beach, Florida that was built in the 1920s by Marjorie Merriweather Post, the only child and heiress to the fortune accumulated by cereal manufacturer C. The female peafowl, the peahen, has very dull plumage compared to the extravagant display on the tail of the peacock. Sleep apnea (“apnoea” in British English) can be caused by an obstruction in the airways, possibly due to obesity or enlarged tonsils. Keds celebrated the company’s centennial with a “Ladies First Since 1916” campaign that focuses on female empowerment. The shoe was originally marketed as a rubber-soled, canvas-topped sneaker. Keds is a brand of athletic shoe first introduced in 1916 by US Rubber.

The Grenadines are a chain of 32 islands, of which Saint Vincent is the larger.
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“Saint Vincent and the Grenadines” is the full name of the Caribbean nation that’s usually referred to simply as “Saint Vincent”. Remarkably, Saint Lucia has produced two Nobel Laureates: economist Arthur Lewis and poet Derek Walcott. The Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia has a population of less than 200,000. Most of the slaves were from Africa, although Irish and Scottish slaves were also used. Most of the population today is descended from slaves brought onto Saint Kitts to farm tobacco and then sugar cane. Saint Kitts has had a troubled history, with the Spanish, British and French all vying for control of the island. Saint Kitts, along with the neighboring island of Nevis, is part of the country known as the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Kitts is the more familiar name for Saint Christopher Island, part of the West Indies. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Preceder of Kitts, Lucia and Vincent in country names : SAINT …
