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Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar?
Keflavík International Airport is the largest airport in Iceland?
as CEO of The Hertz Corporation, Robert L. Stone chose O. J. Simpson (pictured) for a series of car rental ads that featured O.J. running through airports?
development proposals for Washington, D.C.'s Kingman Island have included an airport, a landfill, a public aquarium, stadium parking lots, and a theme park?
the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?

after six years as Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Mary Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe, a book critical of air safety practices at the Federal Aviation Administration?

Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years?
Brazil has recently opened a commercial fishery targeting the Colares stingray, for export to Europe?
Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo?
Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
Brazilian actress Carmen Silva was diagnosed with the same illness, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, as actor Oswaldo Louzada, who played her husband on the Brazilian telenovela, Mulheres Apaixonadas?
Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
Claude d'Abbeville was a Franciscan missionary who wrote in 1614 about the dispatch of Brazilian Tupinambá Indians to the French king Louis XIII?
Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?

passengers aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing?