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Santo Domingo (city)
Santo Domingo sän´tō dōmēng´gō , city (1993 pop. 1,609,966), S Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River. It is the country's capital, largest city, leading port, and primary commercial center. Founded Aug. 4, 1496, by Bartholomew... Read more |
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Portobelo
Portobelo, Panama Named after the bay which had been called ‘Beautiful Harbour’ in Spanish by Christopher Columbus† in 1502. The original settlement was founded in 1597.... Read more |
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Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States. Within that triangular area of the... Read more |
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot Morison 1887-1976, American historian, b. Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began teaching history there in 1915, becoming full professor in 1925 and Jonathan Trumbull professor of American history in 1941. Between 1922 and 1925 he was Harmsworth professor of... Read more |
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Tobago
Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago An island so named by Christopher Columbus† when he discovered it in 1498. Columbus was impressed by the natives' practice of stuffing the leaves of the tobacco plant in pipes and setting fire to them in the belief that this had medicinal value. The name either... Read more |
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Christopher Columbus Langdell
Christopher Columbus Langdell Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826-1906) altered the way that students of the law were educated with his development of the case law method and the treatment of law as a science. His practices were considered controversial at the time of introduction, but eventually... Read more |
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Ital. Cristoforo Colombo , Span. Cristóbal Colón , 1451-1506, European explorer, b. Genoa, Italy. Early Years Columbus spent some of his early years at his father's trade of weaving and later became a sailor on the Mediterranean. Shipwrecked near the Portuguese... Read more |
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Antilles
Antilles, West Indies Antilia, Antillas A term applied to the whole of the West Indies except for the Bahamas. The Antilles are divided into the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The name was coined before Christopher Columbus† arrived in the area, possibly by the Florentine... Read more |
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hammock
hammock suspended bed, usually of netting, canvas, or leather. The hammock and its name were introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus, who learned of them from Native Americans. While the plaited hammock seems to be native to the Western Hemisphere, blankets have served the same purpose... Read more |
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nao
nao, the Spanish word for a ship during the 13th–16th centuries. It was not any particular type of vessel, only the general word meaning ship. The three ships with which Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1492, though caravels in type, were all described as naos in... Read more |
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards salutes "Iraqi Freedom". (Tradewinds).(Brief...
...Seamen's Service (USS) 2003 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award will be presented to Charles...largest American-flag liner service ocean carrier and Jones Act trade transportation...CSX Lines, which descended from Sea-Land Service, the inventor of... |
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Admiral OF THE Ocean Sea Awards.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
...13, the United Seamen's Service 2009 40th Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards (AOTOS) were presented to Donald Kurz, President...also presented to The United States Coast Guard; Admiral Thad Allen, Commandant, accepted the award on behalf... |
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NDTA members to receive prestigious AOTOS industry honors from United...
...United Seamen's Service Admiral of the Ocean Sea (AOTOS) awards, the...Express, Inc. (TOTE) and Sea Star Line, LLC, are...their heroic efforts at sea. 2004 marks the 35th...Mediterranean and Black Seas; handling the majority... |
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James A. Capo, chairman & CEO of U.S Maritime Alliance, Ltd., and Michael D....
...past chairman of Saltchuk Resources, Inc., will be presented with the United Seamen's Service (USS) 2008 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards (AOTOS). In addition, a special AOTOS Award will be presented to General Norton A. Schwartz, Commander... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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AT SEA IN A SAILBOAT SAILING THE ATLANTIC AS THE GREAT ADMIRAL DID IN 1492
...endless days and nights at sea, the struggle with mutinous...historic crossing of the Admiral of the Ocean Seas, as Ferdinand and Isabella...provisions for three months at sea, with plenty of mirrors...affects the winds or the seas or the clouds or the stars... |
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SECOND SEA LORD VISITS HMS OCEAN.
...United Kingdom: The Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral Charles Montgomery, has visited HMS Ocean in the Mediterranean...Copyright/MOD 2011] Vice Admiral Montgomery, who holds...time on board, the Vice Admiral was given an insight into... |
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Admiral: Sea too large to stop all pirate attacks
...completely secure the vast area of ocean where Somali pirates are hijacking...policing an area of the world's oceans that amounts to an area of about...large as it is in the Indian Ocean with the short number of assets...part of the northwest Indian Ocean and southwest Arabian Sea, adding ... |
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LAW OF THE SEA TREATY:ADMIRAL JAMES D. WATKINS, USN (RETIRED)
...14-2003 Statement by Admiral James D. Watkins, USN...United Nations Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention. The U.S. Commissionon Ocean Policy has taken a strong...international implicationsof ocean policy since the inception...represent a broad spectrum of ocean interests.The Oceans Act of ... |
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COLUMBIAN EXPOSITIONS // Oceans of words portray explorer in many lights
...discoverer who changed the world forever when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492. His legacy includes at least 28 U...counterpoint to Samuel Eliot Morison's magisterial Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, originally published... |
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ADVENTURE, MISADVENTURE STALK COLUMBUS ON HIGH SEAS.(TV Magazine)
...chronicles the dramatic story of Columbus' fourth and final voyage, and examines the perceptions of Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, by different cultures almost 500 years later. It's in that perception of Columbus that the documentary is... |
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