SAILORS, MARINERS & WARRIORS LEAGUE (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hundreds of curious onlookers have been gathering on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario to watch tugboats try to free a large ship that ran aground this week. "This don't go all the time so everyone is wondering how they're going to get it out of here and I'm wondering the same thing," said Leonard McLaren, who has come every day for the past three days to see the Canada...
Yesterday, Sam Sifton awarded the expected two stars to Oceana , finding that in the move to larger digs, it had lost a star along the way: More recent meals in the new Oceana, which opened around the corner from Del Frisco’s in the McGraw-Hill building in August, reveal a different scene: a retort to all those who thought the old Oceana was cramped and outdated, a little too much actually like...
By Alan Caruba To those who have mostly known the Internet as their source of news, the notion that there is an “information deficit” may seem an odd judgment, but it is one that an old friend and longtime observer of the public relations profession recently made. What Jack O’Dwyer, publisher and editor of Jack O’Dwyer’s Newsletter and PR Report, doesn’t know about...
Nov 18, 2009, post by Adam Wątróbski Stratos Global Corporation, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, informed it has successfully...
Three explorers set out. One wanted to rescue comrades. One wanted to talk to new people. One wanted to meet people and bring back knowledge. They never met, but that’s to be expected – they set out at different times, using different ships, to different destinations. One was Robert Wilson Andrews of the Kilauea, a steamship bound [...]
- Stratos has activated more than 2,000 FleetBroadband systems - BETHESDA, MD, 11 /PRNewswire/ - Stratos Global Corporation, the leading global provider of advanced mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions, today announced it has successfully deployed the Inmarsat FleetBroadband mobile broadband satellite service for MPC Steamship, a fast-growing commercial shipping company managing 17...
Amid the pioneering spirit of 1859, England's finest returned unbeaten from Canada and the US to mark the start of modern international sport Not long before midnight 150 years ago today, 11 November 1859, the very first overseas tour by a group of sportsmen came to an end when the dozen professionals representing the cream of English cricket disembarked from the passenger wharf at Liverpool after...
As well as “Yellow Peril”, Kaiser Wilhelm II coined the phrase “place in the sun”, Platz an der Sonne, which Toynbee quoted. It came into a speech on June 18 1901 to the Bürgermeister of Hamburg and others on board the passenger steamship Prinzessin Victoria Luise of the Hamburg-Amerika line during the Lower Elbe Regatta. “In spite [...]
Simon Maierhofer of ETFguide.com writes Whats Next - Minor Correction or Major Collapse? : Over the past few months, every attempt by the bears to depress prices has been met with renewed buying pressure, resulting in even higher prices. What goes up, however, has to come down and some subtle signs are indicating that this decline might be more than a simple correction, much more. It was after midnight...
Italian prosecutors searching for the wreck of a ship allegedly scuttled by the mafia with toxic waste on board in 1992 say the vessel they surveyed this week in deep waters off the coast of Calabria turned out instead to be a passenger steamship sunk by a German submarine in 1917
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seventy years ago the steamship St. Louis idled at anchor within sight of the Miami Beach coastline in June 1939 with more than 900 Jewish refugees onboard who were fleeing Nazi persecution and seeking a safe haven in the United States. When refuge was denied, the impact of that fateful decision had dire consequences that changed the world forever. To mark the 70th...
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