OJI was delivered to Qantas in December 1990, and operated its last revenue flight for the airline, QF22 from Tokyo-Narita to Sydney, on June 22.Its departure reduces the Qantas 747-400/-400ER fleet to eleven aircraft (six GE-powered 747-438ERs, four RR-powered 747-438s and one GE powered 747-48E).JI was delivered to Qantas in December 1990, and operated its last revenue flight for the airline, QF22 from Tokyo-Narita to Sydney, on June 22. Its departure reduces the Qantas 747-400/-400ER fleet to eleven aircraft (six GE-powered 747-438ERs, four RR-powered 747-438s and one GE powered 747-48E).
The Phoenician Achievement. The Phoenicians were a people who lived in what is now Lebanon. They were a great trading people and they were at their peak between about 1200 BC and 800 BC.The Phoenicians lived on a strip of fertile land between the sea and the Lebanon mountains.he Phoenicians were a people who lived in what is now Lebanon. They were a great trading people and they were at their peak between about 1200 BC and 800 BC.
Those ideas helped spark a cultural revival in Greece, one which led to the Greeks' Golden Age and hence the birth of Western civilization. The Phoenicians imported so much papyrus from Egypt that the Greeks used their name for the first great Phoenician port, Byblos, to refer to the ancient paper. The name Bible, or the book, also derives from Byblos. Today, Spencer Wells says, Phoenicians have become ghosts, a vanished civilization. Now he and Zalloua hope to use a different alphabet, the molecular letters of DNA, to exhume these ghosts.