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3 unusual facts about Curtiss V-1570


Curtiss XP-22 Hawk

A number of changes were made for installing the 700 hp (520 kW) Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine.

Curtiss XP-31 Swift

Powered by a 700 hp (520 kW) R-1750 Cyclone radial, its performance was dismal, despite retractable leading edge slots and large trailing-edge flaps, so a 600 hp (450 kW) Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror was substituted.

Curtiss YP-20

Testing with the R1820 was prolonged, so the Army's intention to promptly switch to a Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror engine and redesignate the aircraft XP-22 was dropped; another P-11 was chosen for that instead.


Ajacan

Some early 20th-century historians promoted the idea that the early Spanish explorers who made voyages into the Chesapeake Bay between 1565 and 1570 sailed up the Potomac River as far as Occoquan, Virginia, based on the similarity between "Axacan" of the Spanish missionary chronicles and the name of the Indian town and creek on the Potomac.

Anton Gosswin

He is documented as a singer at Munich Court in 1568, he was then appointed court Kapellmeister at Landshut in 1569 to return to Munich in 1570, as organist at the Peterskirche in 1577.

Arthur ap Huw

He was a grandson of Hywel ap Siencyn ab Iorwerth (d. 1494) of Ynysymaengwyn and was vicar of St Cadfan's Church in Tywyn between 1555 and his death in 1570.

Asakura Yoshikage

Due to Yoshikage’s lack of military skill, Oda's forces were successful at the Siege of Kanegasaki in Ōmi Province, leaving the entire Asakura Domain open to invasion.

Bernardino Poccetti

Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine painters guild for such work, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, (Academy of the Arts of Drawing).

Bhaktamal

Nabhadas (1570–1662) was born in a poor family in Gwalior and was blind since birth.

Bible translations into Romanian

Before the publication of the Bucharest Bible (1688), other partial translations were published, like the Slavic-Romanian Gospel (1551), Coresi's Gospel (1561), The Braşov Psalm Book (1570), Palia from Orăştie (1582), The New Testament of Alba Iulia (1648) and others.

Conington, Huntingdonshire

The Cotton Baronetcy of Conington was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton (1570-1631), who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons.

Conyers Darcy, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth

Conyers Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Meinhill, 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 4th Baron Conyers (August 1570 - 3 March 1653) was an English peer and father of the 1st Earl of Holderness.

Cunhambebe

The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village.

Diet of Speyer

Diet of Speyer or Diet of Spires refers to any of the sessions of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, of which 50 took place between 838 and 1570 in the city of Speyer (Spires), now in Germany.

Edward Montagu of Boughton

In 1570 he became Deputy Lieutenant and was Sheriff of Northamptonshire again from 1570 to 1571.

Evagrius Scholasticus

John Christopherson, bishop of Chichester, made a Latin translation of the Ecclesiastical History, which was published after his death in 1570.

Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell

He was, before 1568, Commendator of Kelso Abbey in Roxburghshire, which position he had exchanged with John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane in place of the offer of Coldingham Priory which Maitland then held until his forfeiture in 1570.

Genki

1570 (Genki 1, 6th month): The combined forces of the Azai clan, led by Azai Nagamasa, and the Asakura clan, led by Asakura Yoshikage, met the forces of Oda Nobunaga in a shallow riverbed which has come to be known as the Battle of Anegawa.

Gerolama Orsini

Gerolama Orsini (1504–1570) sometimes Girolama Orsini was a member of the House of Orsini and the wife of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma.

Giovanni Battista Conforti

Giovanni Battista Conforti (fl. 1550–1570) was an Italian composer, born either in Bologna or Parma.

Giovanni Padovani

He published a number of esteemed treatises on various astronomical and mathematical subjects, the most well-known of which was a treatise on the sundial called Opus de compositione et usu multiformium horologiorum solarium, pro diversis mundi regionibus, idq(ue) ubique locorum tam in superficie plana horizontali quam murali quoruscumqu(ue) exposita sit, pertractans (Venice, 1570).

Gray's Inn Road

On the Agas map of c.1570 "Greys ynne la." is shown leading from Holborn Bars to Gray's Inn, from where it becomes an unnamed track leading into the country.

Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens

The first edition of Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens was published in 1570 in the city of Strasbourg.

Henry Billingsley

In 1570, Billingsley published his translation of Euclid's Elements The elements of geometrie of the most ancient philosopher Euclide of Megara.

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

His portrait, and that of his father William, are on display at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff, adjacent to Cardiff Castle which the family owned and occupied for much of the sixteenth century.

Hollingstedt

North Sea tides reached as far as Hollingstedt, so larger vessels were able to navigate the river, until a dam at Koldenbüttel closed off the Treene in 1570.

Jacques de Sores

In 15 July 1570 he murdered 40 Jesuit missionaries and threw their bodies into the sea off Tazacorte in the Canary Islands of La Palma- crosses on the sea floor still mark the site at Malpique today.

James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond

James FitzGerald (c. 1570 – November 1601), an Irish nobleman, was the successor of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.

Johann Walther

Johann Walter (1495-1570), first cantor of the Evangelical Church

Juan Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda

Juan Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda, (circa 1522 – Elda, province of Alicante, Spain, 19 October 1586), 3rd Sieur of Elda, Governor of Alicante Castle, Count of Elda, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1570-1577.

KMUR

KZLI, a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Catoosa, Oklahoma, United States, which held the call sign KMUR from 2001 to 2007

KSXT

KPIO, a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Loveland, Colorado, United States, which held the call sign KSXT from 2002 to 2008

Lignum nephriticum

In 1570, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, the court physician of King Philip II of Spain, led what is considered the first scientific expedition to the Americas.

Mapuche military

By 1570 they had learned the use of infantry formations, similar to the Spainsh Tercio, that allowed them to defeat Spanish cavalry in the open field.

Mataram

1570-1755, an Islamic kingdom which was a protectorate of Dutch East Indies

Pierre Clereau

Pierre Clereau (died before 11 January 1570) was a French composer, choirmaster, and possibly organist of the Renaissance, active in several towns in Lorraine, including Toul and Nancy.

Przytyk

In 1570 a wedding of one of the most famous Polish poets, Jan Kochanowski, took place at Przytyk’s church.

Rádio Universitária 1570 kHz

Rádio Universitária AM 1570 kHz ("University Radio 1570 kHz") is the official AM radio station owned and operated by the Brazilian famed southwestern university Universidade Federal de Itajubá.

Richard Sergeant

He took his degree at the University of Oxford (20 February 1570-1), and arrived at the English College, Reims, on 25 July 1581.

Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach

The duchy was created by the Division of Erfurt in 1572 which implemented a decision of the Diet of Speyer in 1570 to separate Coburg and Eisenach from the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar and give them to John Casimir and John Ernest, the two sons of John Frederick II.

Shah Khan

It is unclear whether he was successful in subduing his brother, but when he died in 1570, Muhammad Khan ibn Mansur Khan was Khan at Turpan.

Sheffield Manor

On 28 November 1570 she was taken to the Earl of Shrewsbury's castle at Tutbury, where, apart from a few breaks at Chatsworth and Buxton, and more regular visits to Sheffield and the Manor House, she remained for 14 years.

Shō Gen

Shō Gen received his official investiture from the Ming Court in 1562, and received emissaries from the Shimazu clan of the Japanese province of Satsuma in 1570 and 1572.

Sir John Northcote, 1st Baronet

Northcote was the eldest surviving son of John Northcote (1570-1632) of Hayne, Newton St Cyres, near Crediton, Devon, (whose splendid monument he erected in Newton St Cyres Church) by his second wife Susanna Pollard, daughter of Sir Hugh II Pollard of King's Nympton.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Historians in the US and in the Netherlands agreed the book was erudite and offered many fresh insights due to its 360-degree approach to the whole period of the Dutch Golden Age, which Schama defines as being from 1570-1670.

Thomas North

His next work was The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570), a translation of an Italian collection of eastern fables, popularly known as The Fables of Bidpai.

Thorpe Salvin

Thorpe Salvin contains the ruins of Thorpe Hall, a manor house designed and built by Robert Smythson in 1570.

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1570) - terminated the third phase of the French Wars of Religion

Vincenzo Gamba

Vincenzo or Vincenzio Gamba (1606–1649), later Vincenzo Galilei (1619), was the illegitimate son of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and his mistress Marina Gamba (1570–1612).

WIFF

WGLL, a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Auburn, which held the call sign WIFF from 1967 until 1997

WNKX

WMAK, a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to Centerville, Tennessee, which held the call sign WNKX from 1991 to 2013


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