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    After Luna 24 in 1976 there were no soft landings on the Moon until Chang'e 3 in 2013. All soft landings took place on the near side of the Moon until January...
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    Plymouth Rock (category National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
    "a great rock". The first documented claim of Plymouth Rock as the landing place of the Pilgrims was made by 94-year-old Thomas Faunce in 1741, 121 years...
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    1°17′16″N 103°51′2″E / 1.28778°N 103.85056°E / 1.28778; 103.85056 Raffles's Landing Site is the location where tradition holds that Sir Stamford Raffles landed...
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    archaeology discoveries. One of his more notable claims is the supposed landing place of Noah's Ark at the Durupınar site. Wyatt's claims have been described...
    7 KB (823 words) - 16:59, 3 June 2024
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    Cook's Landing Place is a heritage-listed site at Seventeen Seventy, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It is named after British explorer Lieutenant...
    11 KB (1,553 words) - 12:39, 12 January 2024
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    commandos were also unable to identify their correct landing place due to the darkness. Within minutes of landing, the raiding party was ambushed by a German patrol...
    17 KB (2,105 words) - 09:44, 29 February 2024
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    June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. Then a teenage amateur pilot...
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  • Tibula (category Former populated places in Sardinia)
    northern extremity of the island, which appears to have been the customary landing-place for travelers coming from Corsica; for which reason the Itineraries...
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    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation...
    94 KB (11,164 words) - 10:51, 6 June 2024
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    Hythe, Kent (category Populated coastal places in Kent)
    England. The word Hythe or Hithe is an Old English word meaning haven or landing place. The town has mediaeval and Georgian buildings, as well as a Saxon/Norman...
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    £1,899 (equivalent to £277,066 in 2023) inclusive of the building, landing places, stairs, and railway tracks. All of the materials used had to be hauled...
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  • Penney Landing (66°22′S 110°28′E / 66.367°S 110.467°E / -66.367; 110.467) is the only practical landing place toward the eastern end of the northern...
    583 bytes (87 words) - 17:48, 20 September 2021
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    marshes on the Kurnell Peninsula. The grant included Captain Cook's landing place. He called it ‘Alpha Farm’, and built himself a cottage there. In 1801...
    43 KB (5,819 words) - 12:04, 17 October 2023
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    Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It...
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    landing place" or "river-bend landing place", derived from the elements Croc (personal name) or Old Norse krókr ("river-bend") + Norse stǫð ("landing-place...
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    – Volume 2 – Page 520 "Bal, in Kashmiri, means a place and is applied to a bank, or a landing place." B. N. Mullik – My years with Nehru: Kashmir – Volume...
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    part of Inner London. Its name was recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha ("landing place for lambs") and in 1255 as Lambeth. The geographical centre of London...
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    “Angels Landing”, known previously as the Temple of Aeolus, is a 1,488-foot (454 m) tall rock formation in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, United...
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    Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly...
    146 KB (16,858 words) - 19:12, 4 June 2024
  • Jarvis Landing was a landing place on the north side of the entrance to Coos Bay in Oregon, United States. Jarvis Landing was on the east side of the north...
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