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Ryan
Ryan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) *Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Australia * Division of Ryan, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Ryan, New South Wales *Ryan, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa United States *Ryan, California *Ryan, former name of Lila C, California *Ryan, Iowa *Ryan, Minnesota *Ryan, Illinois *Ryan, Oklahoma *Ryan, Washington *Ryan, West Virginia *Ryan Park, Wyoming *Ryan Township, Pennsylvania Film, radio, television and web *Ryan (film), ''Ryan'' (film), an animated documentary *Ryan (TV series), ''Ryan'' (TV series), 1970s Australian TV series *''Von Ryan's Express'', a 1965 World War II adventure film Other uses *Loch Ryan, a sea loch in Scotland *Ryan M-1, an airplane *Ryan Aeronautical Company (Claude Ryan) *Ryanair (Tony Ryan) *Ryan Field (other) *Rya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryanair
Ryanair is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier founded in 1984. It is headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland and has its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. It forms the largest part of the Ryanair Holdings family of airlines and has Ryanair UK, Buzz, Lauda Europe, and Malta Air as sister airlines. It is Ireland's biggest airline and in 2016 became Europe's largest budget airline by scheduled passengers flown, carrying more international passengers than any other airline. Ryanair Group operates more than 400 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with a single 737-700 used as a charter aircraft, as a backup, and for pilot training. The airline has been characterized by its rapid expansion, a result of the Airline deregulation, deregulation of the aviation industry in Europe in 1997 and the success of its low-cost business model. Ryanair's route network serves 40 countries in Europe, North Africa (Morocco), and the Middle East (Israel, Jordan and Turkey). The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan, Iowa
Ryan is a city in Delaware County, Iowa, United States. The population was 350 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography Ryan is located at (42.350648, -91.482986). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. History Ryan was platted by Arthur I. Flint, J. A. Thomas, and Andrew E. Anderson on August 28, 1888. The city was incorporated in 1901.The History of Delaware County Retrieved Aug 4, 2018. On August 12, 1974, an F4 swept through Ryan, destroying much of the southern part of the community, and injuring 12. The tornado severely damaged homes as well as Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan (given Name)
Ryan is an English-language given name of Irish name, Irish origin. Traditionally a male name, it has been used increasingly by both males and females since the 1970s. It comes from the Irish surname Ryan (surname), Ryan, which in turn comes from the Old Irish name Rían or Rian. Popular modern sources typically suggest that the name means "little king" or "illustrious", but the original meaning is unknown. According to John Ryan, Professor of Early and Medieval History at University College Dublin, "Rian, like Niall, seems to be so ancient that its meaning was lost before records began." Popularity Ireland The popularity of "Ryan" as a name for newborn children in Republic of Ireland, Ireland was ranked at No. 10 in 2005 and No. 14 in 2006. By 2021, the traditional Irish spellings of the name, Rían and Rian, had overtaken Ryan in popularity on the Irish charts. United Kingdom In Scotland, "Ryan" was the most popular name given to newborn boys every year from 1994 to 1998. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan (TV Series)
''Ryan'' is an Australian adventure television series screened by the Seven Network from 27 May 1973. The series was produced by Crawford Productions and had a run of 39 one-hour episodes.Moran, Albert. ''Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series'', Allen & Unwin, 1993. p 398 Synopsis The title character was a dashing private investigator played by Rod Mullinar. (A few years prior Mullinar had briefly taken the lead role in the similar Crawfords series ''Hunter'' (1967) in its closing episodes after the original lead actor Tony Ward left the show.) Ryan's assistant Julie King was played by New Zealand-born actor Pamela Stephenson, soon to leave for England and a successful television career. Other regular characters were Tony Angelini ( Luigi Villani), a taxi driver and Ryan's regular informant, while Detective Cullen (Colin McEwan) was Ryan's main liaison with the police force.Storey, Don. ''TV Eye - Classic Australian Television''TV Eye - Classic Australian Television/ref> Prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation RYAN
Operation RYAN (or RYaN, and sometimes written as VRYAN, rus, РЯН, p=rʲæn) was a Cold War military intelligence program run by the Soviet Union during the early 1980s when they believed the United States was planning for an imminent first strike attack. The name is an acronym for Raketno-Yadernoe Napadenie (russian: Ракетно-ядерное нападение, "Nuclear Missile Attack"). The purpose of the operation was to collect intelligence on potential contingency plans of the Reagan administration to launch a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin (2000). ''The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West.'' Gardners Books. . The program was initiated in May 1981 by Yuri Andropov, then chairman of the KGB. Background Andropov suffered from a "Hungarian complex" from his personal experience of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 according to the historian Christopher Andrew. Andropov had, as the Soviet ambassador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryansdóttir
Ryansdóttir is a surname of Icelandic origin, meaning ''daughter of Ryan''. In Icelandic names, the name is not strictly a surname, but a patronymic (see Icelandic names Icelandic names are names used by people from Iceland. Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world by being patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child ...). Since Ryan is a rare name in Iceland, the number of girls with the last name Ryansdóttir is extremely rare. Seen slightly more frequently is the patrynomic, ''Ryansson'', which would mean the ''son of Ryan''. Surnames {{Surname-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Sea Deluge Theory
The Black Sea deluge is the best known of three hypothetical flood scenarios proposed for the Late Quaternary history of the Black Sea. It is one of the two of these flood scenarios which propose a rapid, even catastrophic, rise in sea level of the Black Sea during the Late Quaternary.Yanko-Hombach, V., Mudie, P., and Gilbert, A. S., 2011, ''Was the Black Sea catastrophically flooded during the post-glacial? Geological evidence and impacts'', in Benjamin, J. et al. (eds.), ''Underwater Archaeology and the Submerged Prehistory of Europe'': Oxbow Books, p. 245–262. History In 1997, William Ryan, Walter Pitman, Petko Dimitrov, and their colleagues first published the ''Black Sea deluge hypothesis''. They proposed that a catastrophic inflow of Mediterranean seawater into the Black Sea freshwater lake occurred around 7600 years ago, . As proposed, the Early Holocene Black Sea flood scenario describes events that would have profoundly affected prehistoric settlement in eastern Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan LLC
Ryan LLC, based in Dallas, Texas, is a tax services and software provider. Ryan LLC has more than 18,000 clients in over 60 countries. The company has over 113 locations around the globe, including locations in Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, India, the Philippines, and Australia. Ryan LLC works with companies including 7-Eleven, the Kroger Company, Walmart Stores, and Johnson & Johnson. History Ryan LLC was founded by Chairman and CEO G. Brint Ryan and Chris F. Collis as the CPA firm Collis & Ryan in 1991. Collis' stake in the company was bought out in 1993, and Ryan became the majority shareholder and managing principal of the company, which was renamed Ryan & Company, P.C. In 1997, the company began expanding into other tax areas beyond state and local taxes. During this time, the company also began to shift its focus to working with clients with annual revenues of $50 million or more. In 1998, the company surrendered its CPA license and began practicing as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan International School
Ryan International Schools'' are a group of private educational institutions in India and other countries. It was founded in 1976 by Dr. Augustine Francis Pinto. The Ryan Group started its first school in Mumbai in 1976 and currently has more than 135 schools located in India, along with other countries. The school has a presence in major locations of Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR and Karnataka.The group is in collaboration with universities in USA to facilitate learning across global boundaries. Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI) has a centralized command over all of it schools and doesn't follow a franchisee model, and is arguably India's largest private sector schools chain. According to a report by News 18 in September 2017, the group employs over 18,000 faculty members, and over 30,000 students pass from Ryan schools annually. Students of Ryan International Schools are commonly known as "Ryanites". Origins In the initial attempts to set up an English Medium schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan International Airlines
Ryan International Airlines, Inc. was an American FAR 121 airline with domestic, flag, and supplemental authority. Synopsis and history Based at Chicago Rockford International Airport in Rockford, Illinois, the US Postal Service was once the airline's main customer, utilizing Boeing 727 aircraft operated by Ryan International on scheduled mail delivery flights. Ryan also flew non-scheduled charter passenger services for excursion and tour packagers, along with the United States Department of Defense, the United States Department of Justice, and others. In 1998, the airline began operating flights from California to Hawaii and Mexico, using a pair of McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft and several Airbus A320s on behalf of SunTrips, a vacation package operator in California. The aircraft were operated with Skyservice USA titles and wore the livery of Airtours International Airways, SunTrips' parent company. In 2000, the Skyservice USA titles were replaced with SunTrips titles on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Field (other) , football stadium at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Ryan Field may refer to: * Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, also known as Ryan Field, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States * Ryan Field (airport), also known as Ryan Airfield, in Tucson, Arizona, United States * Ryan Field (sportscaster) (born 1977), American sportscaster * Ryan Field (stadium) Ryan Field is a stadium in the central United States, located in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago. Near the campus of Northwestern University, it is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of the Northwestern Wildc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Aeronautical
The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California, in 1934. It became part of Teledyne in 1969, and of Northrop Grumman when the latter company purchased Ryan in 1999. Ryan built several historically and technically significant aircraft, including four innovative V/STOL designs, but its most successful production aircraft was the Ryan Firebee line of unmanned drones used as target drones and unmanned air vehicles. Early history In 1922, T.C. Ryan founded a flying service in San Diego that would lead to several aviation ventures bearing the Ryan name, including Ryan Airline Company founded in 1925. T.C. Ryan, whose previous companies were best known for building Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic ''Spirit of St. Louis'', actually had no part in building the famous aircraft. Ryan had been owner or partner in several previous companies, one of which also bore the name Ryan Aeronautical. The ''Spirit of St. Louis'' was not built by the final Ryan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
