ALCANTARA

Date "ALCANTARA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

"ALCANTARA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Lacunaria, Lantana, Plantar.

Specialty Definition: ALCANTARA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Alcantara (Order of) A military and religious order instituted in 1214 by Alfonso IX., King of Castile, to commemorate the taking of Alcantara from the Moors. The sovereign of Spain is ex-officio, head of the Order. A resuscitation of the order of St. Julian of the Pear-tree, instituted by Fernando Gomez in 1176, better known by the French title St. Julien du Poirier. The badge of the order was a pear-tree. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Alcantara

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Alcântara rocket launch site is located at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the north of Brazil, in the state Maranhão. Geographical location 2°17' South, 44°23' West. It is operated by the Brazilian Space Agency (Agencia Espacial Brasileira).
The location very close to the equator gives the launch site a big advantage in launching geosynchronous satellites, similar to the European launch site at Kourou.
The construction of the base was started in 1982. The first launch took place on February 21, 1990, when the sounding rocket Sonda 2 XV-53 was launched.
So far only sounding rockets and the so far ill-fated VLS rocket were launched from Alcantara. On August 22, 2003, the explosion of the third VLS-1 (VO3) killed 21 people. There are plans to launch several international rockets from Alcantara. In 2003 contracts have been signed for launching Ukrainian Cyclone-4 and Israelian Shavit rockets; further plans are to launch the Russian Proton as well as Chinese Long March 4 as well.

External links

Encyclopedia Astronautica about Alcantara
Space Today - Brazilian Spaceports
Official site (Portuguese)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alcantara."

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Image Slideshow: ALCANTARA

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Photo Album: ALCANTARA

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Operations upon the wreck of the San Pedro Alcantara Man-of-War. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Digital Photo Gallery: ALCANTARA


"Spanish Street in Alcantara" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A street in the vilage of Alcantara - Spain --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)."	"Rocks" by Fabrizio Mencarini Commentary: "Picture taken in Alcantara, Sicily."
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Non-Fiction Usage: ALCANTARA

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Brazil	In April 2000 the United States and Brazil signed a Technical Safeguards Agreement to permit U.S. commercial firms to participate in the development of the Alcantara spaceport. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ALCANTARA

"ALCANTARA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ALCANTARA" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: ALCANTARA

The following table summarizes the usage of "ALCANTARA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Alcantara	Last name	2,000	6,456
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ALCANTARA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
alcantara	50
alcantara ruben	12
alcantara machado	9
izzy alcantara	9
alcantara brazil	6
alcantara fabric	6
alcantara de pedro san	6
alcantara de hotel pedro san	4
alcantara base de	3
alcantara jacksonville	3
alcantara stoff	3
alcantara antonio de machado	3
alcantara francisco linares venezuela	3
2003 alcantara izzy	2
simon alcantara	2
jose alcantara almanzar	2
alcantara hotel	2
alcantara peter	2
alcantara reny	2
alcantara d jules	2
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Anagrams: ALCANTARA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-l-n-r-t"
	-2 letters: cantala.
	-3 letters: antral, arcana, carnal, tarnal.
	-4 letters: alant, altar, antra, artal, canal, carat, craal, natal, ratal, ratan, talar.
	-5 letters: acta, alan, alar, anal, anta, cant, carl, carn, cart, clan, narc, rant, tala, talc, tarn.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-c-l-n-r-t"
	+4 letters: malacostracan.
	+5 letters: anagrammatical, malacostracans.
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