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Miles O'Brien (other)
Miles O'Brien may refer to: * Miles O'Brien (journalist) (born 1959), news journalist * Miles M. O'Brien (1852–1910), banker and former president of the New York City Board of Education * Miles O'Brien (''Star Trek''), a fictional character from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', played by Colm Meaney {{Hndis, Obrien, Miles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles O'Brien (journalist)
Miles O'Brien (born June 9, 1959) is an independent American broadcast news journalist specializing in science, technology, and aerospace who has been serving as national science correspondent for ''PBS NewsHour'' since 2010. Early life Born in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, O’Brien attended Georgetown University. In 1982, he was offered and accepted his first broadcasting position with WRC-TV in Washington, DC. He was later a reporter and anchor at TV stations in Boston, Massachusetts; Tampa, Florida; Albany, New York; and St. Joseph, Missouri. O’Brien joined CNN in 1992. He is a third-generation general aviation pilot. His father, a private pilot, shared his love of flying with him at an early age. His first flights were in small Cessnas and Pipers rented by his father. O'Brien's paternal and maternal grandfathers were also both pilots. CNN correspondent and anchor While with CNN in Atlanta and New York, O’Brien served as CNN's science, space, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
