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Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport

Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport is a public use international airport located within three jurisdictions: Sarasota County, the city limits of Sarasota, and Manatee County, all in the U.S. state of Florida. Owned by the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority, it is 3 miles north of Downtown Sarasota and 6 miles south of Bradenton.

Origins
Before the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport was built, both Sarasota and Bradenton had their own airfields: Bradenton's Bradenton Airport and Sarasota's Lowe Field. Bradenton Airport was established somewhere between 1935 and 1937 being abandoned at an unknown point during World War 2. Lowe Field was dedicated on January 12, 1929 and ended up opening on March 12. It was Sarasota's first municipal airport, located on 160 acre of land west of what was then Oriente Avenue, which is now known as Beneva Road, and north of Fruitville Road. National Airlines began flying out of the airfield on August 4, 1937. Flights were often canceled because the landing strip got too wet to land on, which led to National Airlines leaving later that year after Sarasota could not pay for building concrete runways. During World War II, Lowe Field was used by the Civil Air Patrol. After the war, most civilian operations at Lowe Field went to the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport, with the exception of student pilots, mosquito control programs, and crop dusters. The airport continued operating until 1961 when the owner sold the land.

The airport was considered a replacement for Lowe Field's poor conditions and low capacity. Construction on the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport started in 1939 and opened the following year with CCC and WPA assistance at a cost of $1 million. In May 1941, the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority was created.

Name origins
In the 1940s, SRQ was known by its two-character designation, RS. By 1948, growth in aviation demand prompted IATA to coordinate the assignment of three-character codes. The airport initially received the designation "SSO", a short-lived code subject to misinterpretation as the international distress signal, SOS. SRQ was chosen, with "Q" serving as filler text. The airport's IATA airport code, "SRQ", is used as a general nickname for the city of Sarasota and Sarasota area, as exemplified by media outlets like SRQ Magazine, WSRQ radio, and numerous local businesses in the area that include SRQ in their names.

World War II
In 1942, with the United States entering World War 2, the airport was leased to the Army Air Corps and became known as the Sarasota Army Airfield. The Army Air Corps later added 250 acres making the airport 870 acres. The 97th Bombardment Group was the first group, being transferred from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa for training with B-17 Flying Fortresses staying from March to May. The 97th as well did construction and maintenance, including the construction of barracks and runway repair.

After the 97th left, the 92d Bombardment Group arrived for training and did construction work also. In June the base was designated as a sub base changing its focus from bombers to fighters because the runways could not withstand the bomber's weight. The 69th Fighter Squadron transferred to the airfield from Drew Army Airfield to train with P-39 Airacobras. Sarasota had sub bases in: Bartow, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, and Tampa, while Immokalee, Lake Wales, Punta Gorda and Winter Haven served as auxiliary fields for the base. Training was conducted as well on the base, with 70 pilots graduating on average every 30 days.

On July 25, 1945, a Douglas TC-47B that left out of Sarasota to Lake Charles on a navigation training session crashed after going through a thunderstorm north of Tampa. All 13 crew members died onboard. The aircraft crashed roughly 20 miles northeast of Tampa.

After three years of use, the base officially closed and was transferred to civilian usage in 1947. Despite its transfer, the airport and its facilities deteriorated until the Florida Legislature passed the 1955 Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority Act. This act gave the airport more legal power and guidelines to operate.

Post-World War II expansion

National Airlines was SRQ's first airline, moving from Lowe's Field by 1947.

Cancer research institute Jackson Memorial Laboratories considered establishing a laboratory on airport property. The extent of the plan is not known.

It was known as Sarasota-Bradenton Airport until 1956 when it got the word "international" added onto it toward the end becoming thus known as Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. By April 1957, OAG showed six NA departures a day. Construction started on a terminal building designed by Paul Rudolph and locally known architect, John Cromwell on August 18, 1958 and opening on May 2 the next year. with: a control tower, ticketing area, offices, gift shop, coffee shop, and a balcony for passengers to watch their planes arrive. In its opening year of 1959, the airport had roughly 22,000 annual passengers. Eastern arrived in January 1961, along with an air mail service as well. The airport's first jet flights were Eastern 727s in winter 1964–65 (though the longest runway was 5006 ft for a few years after that). By the 1960s the airport along with Eastern and National Airlines, welcomed two commuter airlines: Executive in 1964 and Florida Air in 1968. Executive established Sarasota as a maintenance base and later their headquarters from 1968 to 1971 and flew flights to Tampa and Fort Myers.

1970s
By 1970, the airport had five commercial airlines: Eastern, National, Executive, Florida, and for a brief period, Mackey. Despite its continued growth through the 1970s, many airlines services were intermittent. Mackey and Florida both left in early 1970. Florida returned four years later and simultaneously established Sarasota as its headquarters. When Executive Airlines went bankrupt in 1971, it was replaced by Shawnee Airlines for a year and later returned in 1977. On March 30, 1974, an armed man attempted to hijack a Boeing 727 from National Airlines. He brought two hostages with him and demanded to be flown out of the area. He was unsuccessful, as a maintenance worker onboard disarmed him. He was captured about four hours afterwards. He received two concurrent sentences, one for 15 years and another for 25. A commuter airline named Sun Airlines had flights to several destinations from mid-1974 to mid-1975. The latter part of the decade introduced North Central Airlines in 1978, and Delta the following year.

The Airport Authority changed during the 1970s as well. In 1970, voters in Manatee and Sarasota counties decided that the authority should be elected instead of appointed, and state legislation was passed affirming this in 1972.

1976 presidential election

During the 1976 presidential election, several candidates visited and/or flew into the airport. On February 23, 1976, Gerald R. Ford and his family flew into the airport on Air Force One while visiting Sarasota on a trip across Florida. He briefly took questions from the press before leaving to go to a hotel. The following day he went to a church service and a barbecue. He gave a brief press conference before flying out of the airport to Tampa. Next month, on March 2, Jimmy Carter held a press conference at the airport before speaking to the public at adjacent New College. Likely that same day, Henry "Scoop" Jackson another presidential candidate running on the Democratic ticket, hosted a campaign rally at the airport. George Wallace also visited the airport two days later on March 4.

1980s and 1990s
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a controversial proposal to move the airport by both Sarasota County and Manatee County due to airport overcrowding. An opinion poll was held in 1970, with 66% of voters voting against a new airport. The proposal suggested making the facility into a general aviation airport and constructing a replacement east of future Interstate 75 within Lakewood Ranch. Opposition to the airport also came from a local environmentalist, Gloria Rains, who was the head and founder of ManaSota-88, an environmental group. Rains would later oppose the development of Lakewood Ranch as well, but did like that natural features in the area were preserved. However, the airport authority struck down the idea in 1985. A facility for commuter flights was added onto the airport in 1983. Instead of building a new airport, the airport's facilities, in general, would be expanded. Work began in 1987 to build a new airport terminal along with areas for parking, ramp space and landscaping. The new terminal building opened on October 29, 1989. During the first day the new airport terminal was in operation, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported that passengers and airline staff liked it. On its first day of operations the airport was still under construction and several problems were encountered: the computer system on the upstairs level security checkpoint area had glitches, along with problems being reported with the terminal's air conditioning. The rest of the project was finished by 1990.

The airport was designated port of entry status in 1992.

September 11 attacks
Air Force One was at the airport on September 11, 2001. George W. Bush was at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota when Andrew Card first informed him of the September 11, 2001 attacks, at 9:05 AM. Bush left the school at 9:32 AM after making a statement about the attacks and returned to the airport at 9:44 AM. Air Force One taxied out at 9:54 AM and took off from runway 14 at 9:55 AM, employing the emergency capability of the VC-25 to perform a "rocket-like climb". It flew first to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

2003 – present

In 2003, AirTran Airways began service at SRQ to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and Baltimore–Washington International Airport, and by 2011 the airline served six U.S. cities nonstop from SRQ.

In January 2012, AirTran Airways announced that it would drop SRQ on August 12, 2012, as part of its merger with Southwest Airlines. Despite this, Southwest Airlines began service to SRQ in February 2021.

2020s and late 2010s
Construction on a new aircraft control tower started in November 2015 and was finished in 2017. Starting in the late 2010s, the airport started to rapidly grow in passenger traffic in a move mostly credited to Allegiant beginning to service the airport. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the airport was one of the fastest growing in the United States.

On December 19, 2019, a GMC pickup truck crashed into the baggage claim, causing $250,000 in damage.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in air traffic significantly declining similar to other airports in the United States, but it was among the least impacted airports nationally. Despite a decline in the number of passengers several new flights were added/announced. Elite Airways expanded operations at the airport in 2021 when they started nonstop flights to White Plains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Portland, Maine on July 2. Passenger numbers in 2021 ended up being 70% higher than before the pandemic, and a one-year passenger traffic record set in 1990 was broken in a span of eight months. Avelo Airlines announced in August 2023 that a new flight would be added to Wilmington, Delaware with service beginning in November and the first flight occurred on November 2.

To accommodate for recent growth, the airport broke ground on a second concourse on March 27, 2023. The new concourse, which will be known as Concourse A, will contain: five gates, bar, café a restaurant and a marketplace with construction being expected to be completed in December 2024. The new concourse is expected to increase passenger capacity by 2.5 million.

Facilities
The airport covers 1102 acres at an elevation of 30 ft. It has two asphalt runways: 14/32 is 9,500 by 150 feet (2,896 x 46 m) and 04/22 is 5,006 by 150 feet (1,526 x 46 m).

In the year ending October 31, 2023, the airport had 163,082 aircraft operations, an average of 446 per day: 70% general aviation, 20% airline, 9% air taxi, and 1% military. 340 aircraft were then based at this airport: 235 single-engine, 64 jet, 27 multi-engine, and 14 helicopter.

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) for 2023–2027 categorized it a "small hub" airport since it enplanes 0.05 percent to 0.25 percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements.

Terminals
The airport contains one terminal with a total of 13 gates (Gates B1-B12, B14). The terminal opened on October 29, 1989. In addition to the B Gates, the terminal also included a small commuter concourse (Gates D1-D4) when it opened. The D gates were exclusively for ground-boarded commuter flights by airlines including Comair, American Eagle, and Air Sunshine. The D Gates were located at the east end of the main ticketing area and it had its own security checkpoint and baggage claim. The D Gates were closed in the early 2000s due to a reduction in commuter flights. The holding area for the D Gates was walled off from the ticketing area upon its closure, and later the space was converted to other uses including a large conference room.

On March 27, 2023, the airport broke ground on a 75,300 square foot expansion to the terminal. The expansion will contain five additional gates on a new Concourse A behind the ticketing area. Concourse A is scheduled for completion in December of 2024.


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Ishpatina Ridge

Ishpatina Ridge is the highest point of land in the Canadian province of Ontario, at an estimated 693 m above sea level. Ishpatina Ridge rises approximately 300 m above the immediate area. It was only truly recognized as Ontario's highest point after topographical mapping by the Government of Canada revealed this fact in the 1970s. Before then, the more popular Maple Mountain was thought to be higher.

The ridge lies in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Due to its remote location, Ishpatina Ridge is a challenge to reach. The closest major highway, Highway 560, is more than 30 km north. There are a few logging roads and trails in the remote area, but they are difficult to travel in poor weather. The most popular approach route to Ishpatina is by canoe/portage via a logging road to the south out of the town of Capreol north of Sudbury. While a northern route exists (out of Gowganda, the nearest community), there are numerous portages making it particularly onerous. This route has traditionally been used for a winter-time approach by ski/snowshoe. Historically, a fire tower atop the ridge was staffed by forest workers and they would have been ferried to the site by float plane. The name "Ishpatina" comes from an Ojibwe language word ishpadinaa, meaning "high place/ridge". Spadina Avenue in Toronto and the city of Ishpeming, Michigan derive their names from the same word.

Although the Ishpatina Ridge is the highest point in Ontario, at least one other geographic feature, Maple Mountain (approximately 25 km to the east) has greater prominence, 37 m higher than Ishpatina Ridge's rise over Scarecrow Lake.

An abandoned firetower, often referred to as the Ellis Tower, is still standing on the highest section of the Ridge (left). The original tower was an 80 ft structure erected in 1930. The successor, currently standing, is 100 ft high and was abandoned in the 1960s. The towerman would have resided in a cabin on the shore of Scarecrow Lake and would have hiked a 3.5 km trail daily taking approximately two hours to the summit and a little over one hour to descend again.

Located between Tower Peak and the North Peak, the Ishpatina Canyon is one of the deepest in Ontario. The elevation of Tower Peak is 693 m, the bottom of the Canyon is at 533 m and the North Peak at 686 m above sea level. The canyon is nearly twice as deep as Ouimet Canyon, often considered Ontario's deepest. However, the more gradual descent into the canyon hides the fact.

The ridge was featured on an interactive web series called The Peakbaggers.

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Burns

Burns may refer to:

Astronomy

 * 2708 Burns, an asteroid
 * Burns (crater), on Mercury

People

 * Burns (surname), list of people and characters named Burns
 * Burns (musician), Scottish record producer

Places in the United States

 * Burns, Colorado
 * Burns, Kansas
 * Burns, Missouri
 * Burns, New York
 * Burns, Oregon
 * Burns, Tennessee
 * Burns, Wisconsin
 * Burns (community), Wisconsin
 * Burns, Wyoming
 * H.B. Burns Memorial Building, Washington, D.C.

Ships of the US Navy

 * USS Burns (DD-171), a WWI destroyer (1919–1930)
 * USS Burns (DD-588), a WWII destroyer (1943 –1946)
 * USS W. W. Burns (1861), a Civil-War schooner

Other uses

 * Burn, a skin injury
 * Burns London, an English guitar maker
 * Burns Night, a celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns

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Talk:Apologetics

Old discussion
Some things:

 * I removed the paragraph on the historian because it is not properly apologetics but probably Christian propaganda quite common in those Centuries after the Fall of the Empire.
 * Apologetics (Christian) is precisely the effort to use reason in favour of Faith. The expression used before was not clear for me.
 * I have changed another thing but I am quite tired right now and do not recall.

Feel free to revert, but take into account the above: not faith and no reason but precisely the contrary. See Chesterton's works: those are apologetics, while the one previously quoted is just propaganda (in the technical sense and probably in the despreciative one). My English is beginning to rot, sorry. Pfortuny 13:18, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Well, the Catholic Encyclopedia calls Orosius an apologist, so I think it's fair to label him as such. Certainly to a non-Christian the difference between Christian propaganda and Christian apologetics is a subtle one ;-).—Eloquence 13:24, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

 * Historian and apologist, but I do not know his works. After reading the C.E. article I've come to the conclussion that he is not relevant for this article (I mean, Augustine would be worth including, but not Oroisus: like including Shakespeare in a short article on theatre and not Marlowe), but as anywhere my opinion counts one. BTW thanks for a) turning my mind to other things, and b) pointing this article out.Pfortuny 13:33, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Yes, I admit it's somewhat selective because I recently dealt with his works when researching the Library of Alexandria. It is more intended as a stubbish start for what should ultimately become a list of apologists of the various traditions.—Eloquence 13:38, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

'Intellectual and social function of religious apologetics'
Made some small changes to increase the accuracy of the article.

It was describing apologetics as only have the purpose of strengthening the faith of believers. This is wrong since one can othen find letters or articles directed at skeptics at many internet sites of believers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.107.140.222 (talk • contribs).

Yhello, the in the first few lines we find "the title...therefore has both connotations." The word 'both' here is arbitrary, without two clear referents. This really should be clarified.

Biased history of Roman persecution
The section on Roman persecution should be brought in line with modern scholarship on the topic. For example, historians disagree whether Nero persecuted Christians because of their faith. It is debatable whether there was persecutions during the reign of Domitian. That brings us to Trajan, where we see the first solid evidence in the form of letters between Pliny the Younger and Trajan. In a polytheistic empire held together by Emperor worship, the concern was that Christians were not "giving unto Caesar what is Caesars", and Pliny was seeking guidance on what to do. There was no organized campaign to seek out Christians, and force them to offer incense (prayers) to the emperor -- what was required of everyone else. But if someone was accused, than incense they must offer. Yes this counts as persecution, but hardly severe.

It wasn't until 250, that Decius started *requiring* people make offerings to the emperor, which Christians refused to do. This is the first time that Christians were really being institutionally persecuted. Similar types of persecutions continued until 306 when Constantine became Emperor.

Consider what happened next: the Christians Romans banned talk of religion and (eventually) philosophy. They made lists of banned works, and burned them across the empire, go so far as to raid people's homes. They burned and destroyed all the temples and shrines to all other gods, and defaced holy relics of other religions. Eventually they forced everyone to convert to Christianity.

It is clear to me that stories of Christian persecution are exaggerated... early propaganda. And the wide-spread systematic destruction and vandalism by Christians just swept under the rug. It's a classic case of projection.

This article should be brought in line with modern scholarship on the issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pageofswords (talk • contribs) 17:54, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, there are debates among scholars about the extent of the early empire persecution - see Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. "Severe" is a word generally used for the Diocletianic Persecution. Although the apologetic examples in the paragraph in question are earlier, it seems reasonably to say "In the Roman Empire, Christians were severely persecuted..." StAnselm (talk) 18:41, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Lying for Jesus
Modern apologetics has got a reputation of lying for Jesus. To this apologists reply "These aren't lies, these are what we sincerely believe." Comments? WP:SOURCES? E.g., many of the things professed by apologists are lies for people reasonably educated in sciences and history. Tgeorgescu (talk) 13:10, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Lying for Jesus Proxima Centauri (talk) 19:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Dead Christian apologists
I took Ravi Zacharias and C S Lewis out because they're both dead. Was that correct? Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Proxima Centauri: That section is poorly worded. "Modern" is relativist. I don't think that it matters whether or not the people listed are alive. It should be reworded to specify what is meant by "modern". DesertPipeline (talk) 11:52, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Deist Website, and I Don't Like This Word
"The World Order of Deists maintains a web site..."

Two completely unrelated points, and the 2nd one is half-serious. First, if the Article is going to mention the "Deist website", it should include a link to it, otherwise it's "bait and switch" and the statement begs the question "Well, let's see it." and also it's annoying because you see lots of links all over the place that aren't mentioned, but the one that is mentioned is NOT included. So, readability issue also. Second, I just really hate this word and yes I read the Greek origins of the "accusation" and the "apology", but I don't like people automatically put not only on defense on their religion, but worse in an "apologetic" framework also. Both of these are strategically disadvantageous from the start, even before the conversation/argument even starts. So I'd like a "substitute word" that conveys an affirmative statement of belief without first adopting a "defensive" position, and second APOLOGIZING for it. Something that says "This is what I believe, and fuck you.", letting the whole world know that you believe "X", and while you are not on "offense", you certainly aren't on defense, and if anyone gets the idea you are apologizing for your beliefs, there is the additional connotational component of "fuck you if you don't like it" as a means by which to counteract the built-in bias of this stupid word "apologetics". Does such a word exist? If not, Wikipedia should make one in the exact same way it made up the "BCE/CE" terms, as if there was something other than Jesus Christ, and the salvation of all humanity, that we now have in "common". Please note the complete absence of any apology in this statement, and the possibility that I could quite possibly be attempting to convey a light-hearted "fuck you" in your direction, instead.2603:8081:3A00:30DF:3497:64E3:37E7:6652 (talk) 19:52, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

 * I am technically a Deist, and I had never heard before of the World Order of Deists. tgeorgescu (talk) 12:35, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

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Madeleine Carroll

Marie-Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.

Carroll is remembered for starring in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935) where she originated the "ice cold blonde" role in Hitchcock films. The director stated, "how very well Madeleine fitted into the part. I had heard a lot about her as a tall, cold, blonde beauty. After meeting her, I made up my mind to present her to the public as her natural self". She is also noted for largely abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced or maimed by the war. She was awarded both the Legion d'Honneur and the Medal of Freedom for her work with the Red Cross.

Early life
Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street (now number 44) in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, daughter of John Carroll, an Irish professor of languages from County Limerick, and Helene, his French wife. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, with a B.A. degree in languages. While at university she appeared in some productions for the Birmingham University Dramatic Society. She was a French mistress at a girls' school in Hove for a year.

Early years
Carroll's father opposed her taking up acting, but with her mother’s support she quit teaching and traveled to London to look for stage work. She had won a beauty contest, and got a job in Seymour Hicks' touring company, making her stage debut in 1927 in The Lash. The following year she made her screen debut in The Guns of Loos, and then starred alongside Miles Mander in The First Born, written by Alma Reville. Thence she met Reville's husband, Alfred Hitchcock.

Film stardom
Carroll was the lead in her second film, What Money Can Buy (1928) with Humberston Wright. She followed it with The First Born (1928) with Miles Mander, which really established her in films. Carroll went to France to make Not So Stupid (1928). Back in Britain she starred in The Crooked Billet (1929) and The American Prisoner (1929), both shot in silent and sound versions. In 1930, she starred in Atlantic, then co-starred with Brian Aherne in The W Plan (1930). In France she was in Instinct (1930). On stage, Carroll appeared in The Roof (1929) for Basil Dean, The Constant Nymph, Mr Pickwick (opposite Charles Laughton) and an adaptation of Beau Geste.

The same year, Carroll starred in the controversial Young Woodley (1930), followed by a farce, French Leave (1930). She had a support role in an early adaptation of Escape (1930) and was the female lead in The School for Scandal (1930) and Kissing Cup's Race (1930). Carroll starred as a French aristocrat in Madame Guillotine (1931) with Aherne, then did another with Mander, Fascination (1931). She was in The Written Law (1931), then signed a contract with Gaumont British for whom she made Sleeping Car (1932) with Ivor Novello.

She had a big hit with I Was a Spy (1933), which won her an award as best actress of the year. It was directed by Victor Saville. Carroll played the title role in the play Little Catherine. Abruptly, she announced plans to retire from films to devote herself to a private life with her husband, the first of four. Carroll went to Hollywood to appear in The World Moves On (1934) for Fox; John Ford directed and Franchot Tone co starred. Back in England she was in The Dictator (1935) for Saville, playing Caroline Matilda of Great Britain.

Work for Hitchcock
Carroll attracted the attention of Alfred Hitchcock and in 1935 starred as the director's earliest prototypical cool, glib, intelligent blonde in The 39 Steps. Based on the espionage novel by John Buchan, the film became a sensation and with it so did Carroll. Cited by The New York Times for a performance that was "charming and skillful", Carroll became very much in demand. Of Hitchcock heroines as exemplified by Carroll, film critic Roger Ebert wrote: "The female characters in his films reflected the same qualities over and over again: They were blonde. They were icy and remote. They were imprisoned in costumes that subtly combined fashion with fetishism. They mesmerised the men, who often had physical or psychological handicaps. Sooner or later, every Hitchcock woman was humiliated."

The filmmaker and actor Orson Welles called the film a "masterpiece" and screenwriter Robert Towne remarked, "It's not much of an exaggeration to say that all contemporary escapist entertainment begins with The 39 Steps." At the end of the century it was ranked fourth in the BFI Top 100 British films. Following on from this success Hitchcock wanted to re-team Carroll with her 39 Steps co-star Robert Donat the following year in Secret Agent, a spy thriller based on a work by W. Somerset Maugham. However, Donat's recurring health problems intervened, resulting in a Carroll–John Gielgud pairing. In between the films she made a short drama The Story of Papworth (1935).

Hollywood
Achieving international stardom with The 39 Steps, Carroll was the first British beauty to be offered a major American film contract. She accepted a lucrative deal with Paramount Pictures and was cast opposite George Brent in The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936). She followed this with The General Died at Dawn (1936), and was borrowed by 20th Century Fox to play the female lead in Lloyd's of London (1936) which made a star of Tyrone Power. She stayed at the studio to make On the Avenue (1937), a musical with Dick Powell and Alice Faye.

Carroll went to Columbia for It's All Yours (1937) then was cast by David O. Selznick as Ronald Colman's love interest in the 1937 box-office success The Prisoner of Zenda. Walter Wanger put her in Blockade (1938) with Henry Fonda, about the Spanish Civil War. Back at Paramount she made some comedies with Fred MacMurray, Cafe Society (1939) and Honeymoon in Bali (1939). Edward Small gave her top billing in My Son, My Son! (1940) with Aherne.

She starred in Safari (1940) then played against Gary Cooper in North West Mounted Police (1940), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Paramount put Carroll opposite MacMurray in Virginia (1941) and One Night in Lisbon (1941). Virginia also starred Sterling Hayden who was reteamed with Carroll in Bahama Passage (1941). Carroll was Bob Hope's love interest in My Favorite Blonde (1942).

Radio and theatre
On radio, Carroll was a participant in The Circle (1939) on NBC, discussing "current events, literature and drama" each week. In 1944, she was the host of This Is the Story, an anthology series dramatising famous novels on the Mutual Broadcasting System. At the tail end of radio's golden age, Carroll starred in the NBC soap opera The Affairs of Dr. Gentry (1957–59). She also was one of a group of four stars who rotated in taking the lead in each week's episode of The NBC Radio Theater (1959).

In 1948 she made her debut on Broadway as Agatha Reed in Fay Kanin's Goodbye, My Fancy; a role later portrayed by Joan Crawford in the 1951 film adaptation.

Return to Britain
Carroll returned to Britain after the war. She was in White Cradle Inn (1947). She went back to the US and was reunited with MacMurray for An Innocent Affair (1948). Her last film was The Fan (1949).

Awards
In 1946, Carroll was awarded France's Legion of Honour for her overseas work, during World War II, liaising between the forces of the United States Army and the French Resistance, and her post-war fostering of amity between France and the United States.

For her contributions to the film industry, Carroll was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 with a motion pictures star located at 6707 Hollywood Boulevard.

A commemorative monument and plaques were unveiled in her birthplace, West Bromwich, to mark the centenary of her birth. Her story is one of rare courage and dedication when at the height of her success she gave up her acting career during World War II to work in the line of fire on troop trains for the Red Cross in Italy after her sister was killed by a German air raid – for which she was awarded the American Medal of Freedom.

Personal life

Carroll married her first husband, Colonel Philip Reginald Astley, in 1931; they divorced in 1939. He was an estate agent, big-game hunter and soldier. In 1941, she starred opposite Sterling Hayden in Virginia. The following year they married, divorcing in 1946. After her only sister, Marguerite, was killed in World War II's London Blitz, Carroll made a radical shift from acting to working in field hospitals as a Red Cross nurse. Having become a naturalised American citizen in 1943, she served at the American Army Air Force's 61st Station Hospital in Foggia, Italy, in 1944, where wounded airmen flying out of area's air bases were hospitalised. She earned the rank of captain and received the Medal of Freedom for her nursing service.

Carroll first visited Spain's Costa Brava in 1934. The following year she bought an estate in Calonge, where her seaside home, Castell Madeleine, was constructed. She was prevented from living there by the Spanish Civil War and World War II and moved to Marbella in 1949. The home was later demolished, leaving one tower intact, and a housing development named after it (Urbanización Castell Madeleine). During the war, Carroll donated another property of hers, a château she owned outside Paris, to house more than one hundred and fifty orphans, arranging for groups of young people in California to knit clothing for them. In an RKO-Pathe News bulletin she was filmed at the château with children and staff wearing the donated clothes thanking those who contributed. She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for her efforts by France. Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower remarked in private that, of all the movie stars he met in Europe during the war, he was most impressed with Carroll and Herbert Marshall (who worked with military amputees).

After the war, Carroll stayed in Europe where she conducted a radio program fostering French-American friendship and helped in the rehabilitation of concentration camp victims, during which she met her future third husband, the French producer Henri Lavorel. In late 1946, she went briefly to Switzerland to film a British film, White Cradle Inn (aka High Fury).

On her return to Paris, she and Lavorel formed a production company and made several two-reel documentaries to promote peace, one of which, Children's Republic, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Carroll told The Christian Science Monitor that "wars are started at the top but can be prevented at the bottom, if all men and women will rid themselves of distrust and suspicion of that which is foreign." Filmed in a small orphanage in the town of Sèvres, just southwest of Paris, it focused attention on the devastation of children's lives in Europe caused by war. Widely shown in Canada, it became a prime source of funds for the manufacture of artificial limbs for wounded children.

In 1947, Carroll returned to the United States together with Lavorel. Their intention was for her to resume her acting career, which would fund their production company, but they soon separated. Appearing in three more films until 1949 and debuting on Broadway in 1948, Carroll then mostly retired from acting, although she did occasionally appear on television and radio until the mid-1960s.

She married Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life, in 1950, and they had a daughter Anne Madeleine in 1951. They divorced in 1965. By then, Carroll had moved to Paris. She later moved to Spain, where she shared an estate with her mother and her daughter. Her mother died in 1975 and her daughter, having relocated to New York, died in 1983.

Death
Carroll died on 2 October 1987, aged 81, in Marbella, Spain, from pancreatic cancer and is buried in the cemetery of Sant Antoni de Calonge in Catalonia.

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Melbourne Orlando International Airport

Melbourne Orlando International Airport is a public airport 1.5 mi northwest of downtown Melbourne, in Brevard County, Florida, United States, and 70 mi southeast of Orlando, located on central Florida's Space Coast. The airport is reached by NASA Boulevard (State Road 508). It is governed by a seven-member board which is appointed by the Melbourne City Council and the private sector. The airport budget is part of the Melbourne municipal budget; the airport receives no local tax dollars. The projected expenses for 2010 were $14.1million. The executive director of the airport is Greg Donovan, A.A.E.

Previously named Melbourne International Airport, in 2015 the airport had been renamed Orlando Melbourne International Airport. However, due to a lawsuit claiming this name was misleading to passengers, the airport changed its name in May 2021.

Early years
Melbourne International Airport began in 1928 when a Pitcairn Aircraft landed on a cow pasture strip north of Kissimmee Highway. Airmail service started in late 1928 when the airport was designated a fueling stop. In 1933 the City of Melbourne acquired 160 acre west of Indian River Bluff to develop as a new airport, which was further developed and operated as Naval Air Station Melbourne during World War II.

Returned to the city as a Surplus Property Airport after the War, Melbourne Airport was deeded to the city in 1947. It was a municipal airport until 1967 when the city created the Melbourne Airport Authority to plan, operate, maintain, and develop the airport, then called Melbourne Municipal Airport. The name was Cape Kennedy Regional Airport and city officials changed the name to Melbourne Regional Airport in 1973 to better reflect its role.

In January 1951, the airport had runways 04/22, 09/27, 13/31 and 16/34, all being listed as being 4000 to 4300 ft long. Scheduled airline flights began in 1953. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide listed four Eastern Airlines departures, Martin 4-0-4s to Vero Beach, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville. National Airlines arrived in 1959 with Douglas DC-6Bs and scheduled the first jet airliner flights in 1963: Douglas DC-8s Miami–Melbourne–New Orleans–Houston–Los Angeles and Los Angeles–Houston–Melbourne–Miami.

In 1960, Meadowlane Elementary School first opened at a Naval hospital on the airport grounds. The school moved to West Melbourne in 1961. In 1969, a National DC-8 flew Los Angeles–Tampa–Melbourne–Miami. Houston and Los Angeles figured in NASA's space program, and Melbourne was close to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. In July 1974 a National Boeing 727 flew Miami–Melbourne–Tampa–New Orleans–Los Angeles–San Diego; National Boeing 727-200s flew direct Houston and New Orleans to Melbourne. In May 1979 National had one flight a day from Melbourne, a 727-200 to Tampa.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Eastern Airlines Boeing 727s, Douglas DC-9s and Lockheed Electras flew out of the airport. In June 1967 Eastern announced "The Space Corridor" from Melbourne to three centers in the space program: Huntsville, Alabama, St. Louis and Seattle. Eastern's "Space Corridor" was a Melbourne-Orlando-Huntsville-St. Louis-Seattle Boeing 727-100. In June 1967 Eastern flew nonstop Melbourne to Atlanta, Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale and direct to New York City (JFK Airport), Washington, D.C. (Dulles Airport), Boston and Miami. In February 1976 Eastern flew a 727 direct Los Angeles to Melbourne via Atlanta; Eastern eventually dropped Melbourne upon the airlines closure in 1991.

In the early 1980s some ending scenes for the film Stranger Than Paradise were shot in the Melbourne area, including several plot scenes shot at the airport (as listed in the credits).People Express Airlines started nonstops to Newark, Baltimore, Columbus and Buffalo, New York in spring 1982 with Boeing 737 jets. They eventually scaled back to just nonstops to Newark and ended service to MLB in 1986. Delta Air Lines started nonstops to Atlanta in 1983 with DC-9s and upgraded to Boeing 737s and MD-80s. In 1999 Spirit Airlines began commercial service to the airport.

The Authority operated a recreational vehicle site, "Port O' Call". This was closed and the tenants evicted in 2003. The intent was to use the property for commercial development. The Melbourne Airport Authority operates Tropical Haven (formerly Trailer Haven), a 760-site manufactured home park.

Development since the 2010s
In 2010 the airport had nonstop flights to Atlanta on Delta Air Lines and regional partner Atlantic Southeast Airlines, as well as nonstops to Charlotte Douglas International Airport on US Airways' regional subsidiary PSA Airlines. These flights continue on Delta and American. Delta used to fly nonstop from Melbourne to its hubs in Cincinnati, New York–Kennedy and New York–La Guardia, and to Washington–Dulles and Washington–Reagan; all of this was discontinued. USA3000 Airlines briefly served Melbourne with flights to Baltimore/Washington. Presidential Airways (scheduled) had nonstop flights to Daytona Beach and Washington, DC (Dulles), with Boeing 737s and BAE-146 Jets. American Airlines served Melbourne with flights to Raleigh/Durham on MD-80 jets and Continental flew to Newark Liberty with 727 and 737 aircraft. Direct Air flew to Niagara Falls, New York, and Punta Gorda, Florida, with 737 and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets.

Elite Airways began operating at the airport in 2014 with flights to Washington Dulles International Airport.

In 2015, there were an estimated 15,000 paid attendees to the annual air show over a two-day weekend.

The airport's first scheduled international service was announced by Porter Airlines in September 2015 to Toronto's island airport. The airline discontinued service to the airport in 2019.

In 2015, the airport changed its name to "Orlando Melbourne International Airport". Airport and local tourism officials wanted to brand the airport as a less-congested alternative to Orlando's other two commercial airports, Orlando International Airport and Orlando Sanford International Airport. The airport also believed the name change would attract visitors who wanted to see Walt Disney World, Cape Canaveral, and the area's beaches. The airport is located approximately 70 miles southeast of the City of Orlando.

In 2017, a $20million upgrade was proposed for the airport, 90percent coming from the Federal Aviation Administration, almost $1million from the Florida Department of Transportation and $1million from the airport.

In November 2019, British tour operator and airline TUI Airways announced that, from 2022, they would switch their Orlando operations from their current base at Sanford to Melbourne. This announcement will see a total of 17 weekly flights to/from 8 British airports and is to bring their operations nearer to Port Canaveral where TUI's Marella Cruises will sail from in coming years. As a package tour operator, this brings passengers closer to their cruises, although it has angered many TUI passengers who fly with the company to visit Orlando with Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort due to the extended airport transfer time.

In July 2021, the airport announced a $61million renovation and expansion, in part to prepare for the arrival of TUI Airways' operations from the United Kingdom.

Facilities and aircraft
The airport covers 2,420 acres (979 ha) and has three asphalt runways: 09R/27L is 10,181 × 150 ft (3,103 × 46 m), 09L/27R is 6,000 × 150 ft (1,829 × 46 m) and 05/23 is 3,001 × 75 ft (915 × 23 m). The main terminal building is named the Edward L. Foster Air Terminal.

In the year ending December 31, 2020, the airport had 103,660 aircraft operations, average 284 per day; 93% were general aviation, 4% scheduled commercial, 2% air taxi and less than 1% military. 264 aircraft at the time were based at this airport: 186 single-engine, 42 multi-engine, 26 jet, 9 helicopter, and 1 military.

The Airport Museum was in the terminal building. However, the new expansion that occurred, demolished the museum and replaced with a news and gift shop.

The Florida Institute of Technology Research, Science and Technology Park covers about 100 acre surrounded by airport tenants such as Northrop Grumman, G.E Railway, Rockwell Collins, DRS Technologies, and L-3Harris, and leases property to two hospitals and one hotel.

A new Embraer Business Jet Assembly Facility, intended to employ 200 workers, is under construction. Production facilities are for the Phenom 100 and 300, and Legacy 450 and 500.

In 2010 two companies, AAR Corporation and MidAirUSA, announced plans for facilities at the airport. The companies intended to respectively employ 225 and 300 people. MidAirUSA went bankrupt in 2015; Aeromod International took over the MidAirUSA hangar in 2016.

Public Safety
The airport is serviced by the Melbourne Airport Authority Police Department for law enforcement services, and by the Melbourne Fire Department for fire and rescue services.

Traffic figures
Monthly passengers were at a seasonal low in September 2007 at 14,083. A high was experienced in March 2010 of 41,725. Total enplaned and deplaned passengers for 2008 numbered about 286,000. 229,000 passengers used the airport in 2009, a 24% drop from 2008. Passengers rose 70% in 2010 over 2009, as US Airways restarted service and Delta expanded.

The airport handled about 38667 ST in January 2014.

Flight schools

 * F.I.T. Aviation Flight School owned by Florida Institute of Technology for the College of Aeronautics. Offers flight training for fixed wing aircraft for the FAA Private Pilot Certification, Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot Certification, Multi-Engine and Advanced Aircraft Training. In 1999, to match a grant for a new engineering building, Florida Tech sold nearly a third of its training fleet.
 * Melbourne Flight Training

Incidents at MLB

 * On March 17, 1958, an Eastern Air Lines Martin 4-0-4 (flight # unknown) on final approach to MLB struck an unmarked pile of gravel at the approach end of the runway. During the landing roll, the landing gear leg collapsed and the aircraft caught fire and burned. All 10 occupants (3 crew, 7 passengers) evacuated safely.

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Naples Airport (Florida)

Naples Airport, formerly known as Naples Municipal Airport, is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Naples, the most populous city and county seat of Collier County, Florida. It is owned by the Naples Airport Authority. The airport is home to flight schools, air charter operators, car rental agencies, and corporate aviation and non-aviation businesses. The airport is also a central location for public services, including fire/rescue services, mosquito control, the Collier County Sheriff's Aviation Unit and other community services.

During fiscal year 2021–2022, the airport serviced 113,137 operations. The airport currently has no scheduled commercial service, and is used almost exclusively for general aviation.

History
The facility was established in 1942 as Naples Army Airfield by the United States Army Air Forces. It was initially assigned to the Southeast Training Center (later Eastern Flying Training Command), and provided basic (level 1) flight training to flight cadets by Embry-Riddle Co; Fairchild PT-19s were the primary trainers used. Along with the flight training, it was a sub-base to Buckingham Army Airfield for flexible gunnery training, which the 75th Flying Training Wing supervised. It was inactivated as a military airfield in November 1945 and turned over to the War Assets Administration for conveyance to civil control as a public airport.

The Naples Airdrome was returned to the city of Naples and Collier County in 1947, after the military deemed it no longer necessary. The airport was managed by John Zate, a pilot and Naples resident. Provincetown-Boston Airlines began scheduled service to Miami International Airport in the 1950s, and managed the airport for several years until a municipal airport authority was created in 1969. Also in 1969 the eye of Tropical Storm Jenny passed through the bottom left wing and top left wing of the airport and cause over $10,000+ in damage. The airport also historically had scheduled service to Orlando, Tampa, St. Pete–Clearwater, Miami and Key West under PBA in the late 1970s. Traffic at the airport peaked in 1980, when more than 195,000 passengers used the airport, but fell in the mid-1980s due to the opening of the much larger Southwest Florida International Airport in nearby Fort Myers. The airport code APF derives from "alternate Page Field" - which is a reference to Page Field in Fort Myers.

The airport experienced a rebound in traffic during the mid-1990s, with 173,000 passengers and seven airlines in 1995. Passenger numbers dipped when American Eagle ceased scheduled service to Miami in 2001, and dipped even further following the September 11, 2001, attacks. In 2003, US Airways Express ceased its service from Naples to Tampa. Atlantic Southeast Airlines operated Delta Connection flights between Naples and Atlanta from 2004 to 2007 with a revenue guarantee from the city, but ended the service after retiring its fleet of 30-seat aircraft, again leaving the airport without scheduled service. Yellow Air Taxi had flights to Fort Lauderdale and Key West, but the service was ended in December 2008. Elite Airways also began scheduled service to the airport in February 2016, with flights to Portland (ME), Newark, Vero Beach, and Melbourne (FL), but ended in March 2017 due to low passenger counts.

In December 2018, the airport authority changed the facility's name from Naples Municipal Airport to Naples Airport. They also changed the airport's logo to a more modern one.

Facilities and aircraft
Naples Airport covers an area of 732 acres (296 ha) at an elevation of 8 ft above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 05/23 measuring 6,600 by and 14/32 measuring 5,000 by. It also has one turf runway designated SW/NE which measures 1,850 by.

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2022, the airport had 113,137 aircraft operations, an average of 260 per day: % general aviation, % air taxi, % military and % airline. At that time, there were 304 aircraft based at this airport: % single-engine, % multi-engine, % jet and % helicopter.

The airport has two terminals: the North Road Terminal and the General Aviation Terminal. Charter airlines like ExecAir and NetJets and car rental agencies are located in the North Road Terminal. There is also a military museum with WWII artifacts and memorabilia. The car rental agencies offered are Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Thrifty and Alamo. The General Aviation Terminal is a two-story terminal used for personal flights, and also houses car rental agencies.

General aviation

 * FBOs:
 * Naples Jet Center
 * Naples Aviation
 * Aircraft charter and management:
 * Elite Jets
 * Velox Air Charter
 * Clay Lacy Aviation
 * Monarch Air Group
 * Naples Jet Center
 * Salt Island Seaplanes

Accidents and incidents

 * On September 10, 1985, a Douglas DC-3 of Collier County Mosquito Control District crashed at East Naples while on approach to Naples Municipal Airport following an engine failure. The aircraft was on agricultural duties at the time. The two people on board the aircraft survived the accident.
 * On June 20, 2005, a Cessna 182 Skylane departing Naples Municipal Airport entered an area of severe weather over the Gulf of Mexico. The aircraft was never recovered, with the crash resulting in one fatality.
 * On February 9, 2024, Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 crashed on Interstate 75 while attempting to land at the airport. The pilots of the Bombardier Challenger 604 aircraft reported a dual engine failure while on final approach. The aircraft attempted an emergency landing on the highway but struck a vehicle and caught fire. Two of the five people aboard were killed in the accident.

Other sources

 * Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas
 * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.
 * Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.

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Talk:Melbourne Orlando International Airport

MLB/PML Disambiguation
This needs extensive rewriting to avoid confusion with the real Melbourne International Airport, Tullamarine. PML. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.240.211.250 (talk • contribs)

"Real"? I wasn't aware there was a real and a fake airport.... maybe there are simply two seperate ones... hm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.245.219 (talk • contribs)

There is a specific statement at the beginning of the article that this page is for the United States airport already, as well as providing a disambiguation link for "Melbourne Airport". No further clarification shall be required since the Australian airport has a different IATA code.  - Jameson L. Tai  talk  ♦  contribs   08:22, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Real estate
Of course, all airports have property which they can develop for money. Still, Melbourne is different since it has prime property on Babcock (I think) and perhaps other places as well. This should be why the city (or county) doesn't have to "kick in" money from time to time. The airport, never robust in attracting airlines, is nevertheless, self-supporting. Student7 22:57, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Although it is nice to know someone is attempting to improve the Melbourne articles (which I do thank you for), please back up your statements with proper citations. I've added the "citations needed" after your (summarized) "MLB is a self-sustained airport" comment in the intro paragraph. Please add the proper references soon or else we'll have to comment it out of the article until you can back that statement up. Sorry...  - Jameson L. Tai  talk  ♦  contribs   08:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Infobox images
I have commented out the 260px coding from the infobox because it was exploding the image to its original resolution regardless of what you put in as a px value. However, image-width for image 1 (MLB log) does work and I have shrunken it down to 100px because it was very pixelated when it was stretched to the full width of the infobox.  - Jameson L. Tai   talk ♦  contribs  22:36, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

rv trailer park
Are we in some kind of time warp? The rv trailer park was closed years ago and the tenants evicted amid huge gnashing of teeth. I passed by the other day and there is no one there. Yet the literature all claims tenants and an active park! What is going on??? Student7 (talk) 12:13, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Well, it was "Port o Call." Have partial link. Needs improvement. Student7 (talk) 00:02, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

TUI
As was recently announced by the Airline, they will move their operations from Sanford to Melbourne in 2022. This move should be reflected in the page to ensure that an accurate record is kept. Ecolifeuk (talk) 12:56, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Naming of airport
For international destinations Melbourne (FL) is not very useful name for readers who are not familiar with US state two letter abbreviations in the destinations table. I changed it to Orlando/Melbourne similar to what is used for Orlando/Sanford for TUI Airways destinations such as Edinburgh Airport, but I've had an IP editor revert my edits stating in the edit summary that  name according to guidelines, we do not use marketing names see here:

Is there a guideline for the naming of this airport for international destinations? If it is Melbourne (FL) I'd like to propose a change for the naming of the airport for international destinations to something more appropriate like Orlando/Melbourne Angryskies (talk) 19:57, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Recent lawsuit changing name to Melbourne Orlando instead or Orlando Melbourne per local newspapers

I updated the airport name in article and added info and ref... but do not know how to update the title of this entry Rackelmackel (talk) 11:22, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Done. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 12:34, 31 May 2021 (UTC)


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Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery may refer to:
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Orlando, Florida), a historic cemetery in Orlando, Florida
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Tallahassee, Florida)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Atlanta), Georgia
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Galena, Illinois)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Rockford, Illinois)
 * Greenwood Cemetery Chapel, Muscatine, Iowa
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Council Grove, Kansas)
 * Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Michigan)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Hillsdale, Missouri)
 * Greenwood Cemetery, Boonton, New Jersey
 * Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania
 * Old Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, South Carolina
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Wheeling, West Virginia)
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas), Texas
 * Greenwood Cemetery (Waco), Texas, a racially segregated cemetery

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List of Syriac Orthodox patriarchs of Antioch

The Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch and All the East is the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church. According to tradition, the patriarchate of Antioch was established by Saint Peter in the 1st century AD, but split into two separate lines of patriarchs after the deposition of Patriarch Severus of Antioch in 518 over the issue of the Council of Chalcedon of 451. The non-Chalcedonian supporters of Severus went on to form what is now known as the Syriac Orthodox Church, whilst the Chalcedonians developed the church now known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.

The Syriac Orthodox Church underwent schism in the medieval era, first, after the death of Patriarch Philoxenus I Nemrud in 1292 with the formation of separate patriarchates of Mardin and Melitene, and again in 1364 due to the emergence of a patriarchate of Tur Abdin. Unity was restored to the church gradually as the patriarchate at Melitene came to an end in c. 1360, and the patriarchate of Mardin lapsed after its patriarch Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo was acknowledged as patriarch of Antioch in 1445. A line of patriarchs in communion with the Catholic Church split permanently in 1782, and thus formed the Syriac Catholic Church.

Syriac patriarchs from 512 to 1292
Unless otherwise stated, all information is from the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, and the list provided in The Syriac World, as noted in the bibliography below. Numeration includes incumbents deemed legitimate by the Syriac Orthodox Church prior to the schism in 518.

 * 1) Severus I (512–538)
 * vacant (538–c. 544/557)
 * 1) Sergius of Tella (c. 544–c. 547; c. 557–560)
 * vacant (c. 547–c. 551; 560–564)
 * 1) Paul II (c. 551/564–578)
 * vacant (578–581)
 * 1) Peter III (578/581–591)
 * 2) Julian II (591–594)
 * vacant (594–603)
 * 1) Athanasius I Gammolo (594/595/603–631)
 * 2) John III (631–648)
 * 3) Theodore (649–666/667)
 * 4) Severus II bar Masqeh (667/668–680/684)
 * vacant (680–684)
 * 1) Athanasius II Baldoyo (683/684–687)
 * 2) Julian III (687–707/708)
 * 3) Elias I (709–723/724)
 * 4) Athanasius III (724–739/740)
 * 5) Iwannis I (739/740–754/755)
 * Isaac I (755–756)
 * Athanasius Sandalaya (756–758)
 * 1) George I (758/759–789/790)
 * John of Raqqa (758–762)
 * David of Dara (762–774)
 * 1) Joseph (790–791/792)
 * 2) Quriaqos of Tagrit (793–817)
 * Abraham (807/808–837)
 * 1) Dionysius I Telmaharoyo (818–845)
 * Simeon (c. 837)
 * 1) John IV (846/847–873/874)
 * vacant (874–878)
 * 1) Ignatius II (878–883)
 * vacant (883–887)
 * 1) Theodosius Romanus (887–896)
 * vacant (896–897)
 * 1) Dionysius II (896/897–908/909)
 * 2) John V (910–922)
 * 3) Basil I (923–935)
 * 4) John VI (936–953)
 * 5) Iwannis II (954–957)
 * 6) Dionysius III (958–961)
 * 7) Abraham I (962–963)
 * vacant (963–965)
 * 1) John VII Sarigta (965–985)
 * 2) Athanasius IV Salhoyo (986/987–1002/1003)
 * 3) John VIII bar Abdoun (1004–1030/1031/1033)
 * 4) Dionysius IV Yahyo (1031–1042)
 * vacant (1042–1049)
 * 1) John IX bar ʿAbdun (1042/1048/1049–1057)
 * 2) Athanasius V Yahyo (1057/1058–1062/1064)
 * 3) John X bar Shushan (1063/1064–1072/1073)
 * 4) Basil II (1074–1075)
 * John bar ʿAbdun (1075–1076/1077)
 * 1) Dionysius V Lazarus (1077–1078/1079)
 * vacant (1078/1079–86)
 * 1) Iwannis III (1086–1087/1088)
 * 2) Dionysius VI (1088–1090)
 * 3) Athanasius VI bar Khamoro (1090/1091–1129)
 * 4) John XI bar Mawdyono (1129/1130–1137)
 * 5) Athanasius VII bar Qatra (1138/1139–1166)
 * 6) Michael I (1166–1199)
 * Theodore bar Wahbun (1180–1193)
 * 1) Athanasius VIII bar Salibi (1199–1207)
 * Michael II the Younger (1199/1200–1215)
 * 1) John XII (1207/1208–1219/1220)
 * vacant (1220–1222)
 * 1) Ignatius III David (1222–1252)
 * Dionysius VII ʿAngur (1252–1261)
 * 1) John XIII bar Ma'dani (1252–1263)
 * 2) Ignatius IV Yeshu (1264–1282/1283)
 * 3) Philoxenus I Nemrud (1283–1292)

Syriac patriarchs from 1292 to 1445
On the death of Patriarch Philoxenus I Nemrud in 1292, the Syriac Orthodox Church split into the patriarchates of Antioch, Mardin, and Melitene. A separate patriarchate of Tur Abdin broke off from the patriarchate of Mardin in 1364. The patriarchate of Melitene ended in c. 1360, and the patriarch of Mardin Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo was acknowledged as the patriarch of Antioch in 1445, thus ending the schism.

Patriarchate of Antioch
 * 1) Michael II (1292–1312)
 * 2) Michael III Yeshu (1313–1349)
 * 3) Basil III Gabriel (1349–1387)
 * 4) Philoxenus II (1387–c. 1421)
 * 5) Basil IV Simon (1421/1422–1444/1445)

Patriarchate of Mardin
 * Ignatius bar Wahib (1293–1333)
 * Ignatius Ismail (1333–1365/1366)
 * Ignatius Shahab (1365/1366–1381)
 * Ignatius Abraham bar Garib (1382–1412)
 * Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo (1412–1445)

Patriarchate of Melitene
 * Ignatius Constantine (1292–1293)
 * Ignatius Philoxenus (1349–c. 1360)

Patriarchate of Tur Abdin (1364–1840)

Syriac patriarchs from 1445 to 1782

 * 1) Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo (1445–1455)
 * 2) Ignatius Khalaf Maʿdnoyo (1455/1456–84)
 * 3) Ignatius John XIV (1484–1493)
 * 4) Ignatius Noah of Lebanon (1493/1494–1509)
 * 5) Ignatius Yeshu I (1509–1510/1519)
 * 6) Ignatius Jacob I (1510/1512–1517/1519)
 * Athanasius bar Subay (1511–between 1514 and 1518)
 * 1) Ignatius David I (1519–1521)
 * 2) Ignatius Abdullah I (1521–1557)
 * 3) Ignatius Ni'matallah (1557–1576)
 * 4) Ignatius David II Shah (1576–1591)
 * 5) Ignatius Pilate (1591–1597)
 * 6) Ignatius Hidayat Allah (1597/1598–1639/1640)
 * 7) Ignatius Simon (1640–1653)
 * Ignatius Shukrallah I (1640–1670)
 * 1) Ignatius Yeshu II (1653/1655–1661)
 * 2) Ignatius Abdulmasih I (1661/1662–1686)
 * 3) Ignatius George II (1687–1708)
 * 4) Ignatius Isaac II (1709–1722)
 * 5) Ignatius Shukrallah II (1722/1723–1745)
 * 6) Ignatius George III (1745/1746–1768)
 * 7) Ignatius George IV (1768–1781)

Syriac Orthodox patriarchs from 1782 to present

 * 1) Ignatius Matthew (1782–1817/1819)
 * 2) Ignatius Yunan (1817–1818)
 * 3) Ignatius George V (1819–1836/1839)
 * 4) Ignatius Elias II (1836/1839–1847)
 * 5) Ignatius Jacob II (1847–1871)
 * 6) Ignatius Peter IV (1872–1894)
 * 7) Ignatius Abdulmasih II (1894/1895–1903)
 * 8) Ignatius Abdullah II (1906–1915)
 * vacant (1915–1917)
 * 1) Ignatius Elias III (1917–1932/1933)
 * 2) Ignatius Aphrem I (1933–1957)
 * 3) Ignatius Jacob III (1957–1980)
 * 4) Ignatius Zakka I (1980–2014)
 * 5) Ignatius Aphrem II (2014–present)


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Can someone clean this up?

I did ... I looked up the Andy Williams reference, and it seems to be true, so I kept it in, but made the language a little more "conservative". :-)

Xamian 04:59, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Merge/cleanup
Monsters and bears are quite different really, so I don't think merging would appropriate. Hard to knew how to tidy as not much more content suggests itself apart from perhaps a link to, will work something... MopyNZ (talk) 14:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hello. Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text. -- Notheruser 01:44, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Please stop copy-pasting copyright text into your articles. Thanks. Vancouverguy 01:50, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Must you keep violating copyright? Please, stop. Vancouverguy 01:57, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Pensacola International Airport

Pensacola International Airport, formerly Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport and Pensacola Regional Airport (Hagler Field), and temporarily branded Pensacola Intergalactic Airport each February in recognition of the local Pensacon convention, is a public use airport 3 nmi northeast of the central business district of Pensacola, in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is owned by the City of Pensacola. Despite its name, the airport does not offer scheduled international flights, though chartered international flights are not uncommon. This airport is one of five major airports in North Florida, and among these is the second largest by passenger count, only behind Jacksonville. The other four airports in North Florida are: Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport, Tallahassee International Airport, and Jacksonville International Airport.

It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, in which it is categorized as a small-hub primary commercial service facility. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 771,917 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 694,786 enplanements in 2009, and 729,748 in 2010. In 2018, the airport served 1.9 million passengers.

In 2023, the airport set an all-time record with 2,731,604 passengers served.

History
In 1935, a passenger terminal opened, and airline service began two years later. Atlantic and Gulf Airlines went out of business a few months later after failing to get an airmail contract. In 1938 National Airlines began flights to Mobile and Jacksonville. From 1940 to 1945, the airport was a U.S. Navy training facility; the Navy built a control tower and added a fourth runway. In 1947 Eastern Air Lines began service out of Pensacola, and in 1952 a modern terminal replaced the original one. The airport was then dedicated to L.C. Hagler, the former mayor of Pensacola. In 1968 Eastern began the first scheduled jet service from Pensacola.

In 1978, after deregulation of the airline industry, several airlines began serving Pensacola, including Continental and Delta. In 1978 a National Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Escambia Bay while on approach for landing, the first fatal airline accident in the area. In 1979 US Airways, then called USAir, arrived at Pensacola. In 1990 the current terminal was built and AirTran Airways began jet service in 2001. In 2005 United Express began service out of Pensacola. After stopping service to Pensacola in the 1990s, American Airlines (operating as American Eagle) began service again in Pensacola in 2004. Southwest Airlines initiated service to Pensacola in 2013 after purchasing Airtran Airways. Frontier Airlines initiated service at Pensacola in 2018.

Pensacola mayor Ashton Hayward announced on November 9, 2011, that the airport would change its name from Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Pensacola Regional Airport, effective immediately.

Facilities and aircraft
Pensacola Regional Airport covers an area of 1,211 acres (490 ha) at an elevation of 121 feet (37 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways: 17/35 is 7,004 by 150 feet (2,135 x 46 m) with a concrete surface; 08/26 is 7,000 by 150 feet (2,134 x 46 m) with an asphalt surface.

Runway 17 has an instrument landing system and approach lights, while the Runway 26 approach has a localizer approach. A 1,000 ft. extension to the east end of Runway 08/26 was completed in 2006. The airport hopes to extend Runway 17/35 to about 8,500 ft.

The airport's two war-era diagonal runways were decommissioned in the 1960s.

For the 12-month period ending January 31, 2024, the airport had 157,103 aircraft operations, an average of 430 per day: 58% general aviation, 19% military, 16% commercial and 8% air taxi. At the end of January 2024, there were 172 aircraft based at this airport: 141 single-engine, 10 multi-engine, 18 jet, and 3 helicopter.

Terminal
Pensacola has one passenger terminal with 12 gates, built in the early 1990s. Gates 1 through 10 are located on the 2nd floor, while Gates 11 and 12 are located on the ground floor. Gate assignments:
 * American: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
 * Delta: 2, 4
 * Silver: 11
 * Southwest: 10
 * United: 1, 3
 * Frontier: 6
 * Spirit: 8
 * Breeze: 9

Terminal expansion
The terminal was expanded in 2011 at a cost of $35 million. The expansion was designed by Gresham, Smith, and Partners and Stoa Architects.

In 2022, it was announced that the city of Pensacola was looking into a $70 million concourse and parking expansion that would provide more space to handle the airport's rapid increase in passenger numbers and flights.

Management
The airport is operated as a self-funding department of the government of the City of Pensacola.

Cargo operations
UPS Airlines is the only major cargo carrier at the airport currently. UPS flies two flights into Pensacola, four days out of the week, Tuesday through Friday. On Saturday, UPS only flies one flight to Pensacola. Suburban Air Freight operates daily flights to Atlanta with a Beech 1900C. Ameriflight operated daily feeder flights for UPS to Mobile Downtown Airport and Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport with the Swearingen Fairchild SA227-AT Metro until July 16, 2016. As of July 18, 2016, Martinaire took over feeder service from Ameriflight with the Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster.

Pensacola Intergalactic Airport annual name change
Pensacola International Airport undergoes a temporary annual name change to Pensacola Intergalactic Airport in February each year to celebrate Pensacon, a multi-genre convention held in the city of Pensacola. In 2024, the airport changed its name and signage on February 9, ready for the convention scheduled for February 23–25.

Accidents and incidents

 * On May 8, 1978 National Airlines Flight 193 landed in Escambia Bay while approaching the east–west runway. Three of the 58 passengers and crew on board were killed.
 * On January 2, 1982, a United States Navy Beechcraft Super King Air crashed into a housing development on approach north of Pensacola Regional Airport. The plane struck several trees, fell on a car and collided with an oak tree. The pilot was killed, the other seven occupants survived.
 * On December 27, 1987, Eastern Air Lines Flight 573, a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9-31 suffered a hard landing, causing the aircraft to bounce and break apart aft of the wings. All four crew and 103 passengers survived, four passengers sustained minor injuries during evacuation.
 * On April 10, 1989, a Southern Company Services Beechcraft Super King Air crashed into an apartment complex 4.1 miles from PNS en route to Atlanta DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. An in-flight cabin fire and smoke disabled the flight crew. All three occupants (2 crew, 1 passenger) died.
 * On July 6, 1996, Delta Air Lines Flight 1288, an MD-88, experienced an uncontained engine failure during takeoff on runway 17. Fragments from the number one (left) Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 turbofan engine penetrated the fuselage, killing two and seriously injuring one of the 148 people on board.
 * On July 11, 1996, a United States Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcon crashed into two houses just north of Pensacola Regional Airport while attempting an emergency landing. The plane was en route from Shaw AFB in South Carolina to Eglin AFB in Okaloosa County to escape Hurricane Bertha when it experienced an engine flameout. The pilot ejected safely; however, a 4-year-old child was killed, and the mother was severely burned.

Public safety
Pensacola International is protected by several local and federal law enforcement and public safety agencies. Specifically, they are served by:

 * Pensacola Police Department
 * Transportation Security Administration
 * Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is provided by the Pensacola Fire Department, who operate out of one fire station on the premises.

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Verrazano Bridge (disambiguation)

Verrazzano Bridge or Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (formerly spelled Verrazano-Narrows) is a suspension bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City.

Verrazano Bridge or Verrazzano Bridge may also refer to:
 * Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, a box girder bridge over Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island
 * Verrazano Bridge (Maryland), a plate girder bridge connecting Assateague Island in Maryland

title: Verrazano Bridge (disambiguation)