Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic

Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic (97 y)

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If Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic (97 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since start of building of the Parthenon (2,468 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Aristotle (2,400 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Euclid (2,384 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Alexander the Great (2,379 y)...more would be 25 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since start of building of the Colosseum (1,950 y)...more would be 20 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Omar Khayyam (976 y)...more would be 10 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the publication of Copernicus's sun-centred model of the solar system (481 y)...more would be 5 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Newton (381 y)...more would be 4 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since the birth of Gauss (247 y)...more would be 2.5 x Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic
  • Time since Concorde Supersonic Airliner entered service (48 y)...more would be 1/2 of Time since Charles Lindbergh first flew across the Atlantic

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