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USATODAY.com - Antarctica shed a 208-mile-long berg in 1956  Jan 20, 2005 ... One of the largest known Antarctic icebergs broke off in 1956. ... The ship reported it was 60 miles wide and 208 miles long- or more than 12,000 square miles, as ... for Antarctica, the largest berg hitherto reported was that seen Jan. ... Both these gargantuan icebergs were of the tabular variety typical of...
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Iceberg - Wikipedia  An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice). .... Antarctic icebergs formed by breaking off from an ice shelf, such as the Ross Ice Shelf or Filchner-Ronne Ice...
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This question originally aired on May 10, 2004... | Jeopardy ...  May 10, 2004 ... ... BIG, REALLY BIG! Question: In 1956 a 12000-square-mile one of these was seen floating off Antarctica; you might call it titanic Answer: an...
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The Millennium Project: Emerging Environmental Security Issues  Further, a call for the G20 to stop promoting biofuel  policies that many believed ..... Observers say that the ratio of one in ten ships off the Somali coast already carrying ... Japan's nuclear and environmental disasters might further delay efforts to ...... low 14.64 million square kilometers (5.65 million square miles) on March 7,...
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JEOPARDY! Game - May 10, 2004  (18) In 1956 a 12,000-square-mile one of these was seen floating off Antarctica; you might call it Titanic. $1000 - Peggy. (8) This political satire starred John...
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Visit The Titanic | The Bluefish  A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its end in the ... Today, more than 100 years after the sinking, the Titanic continues to have a large ... Britannic weighed 46,000 tons and measured 882 feet (268 meters) in length. ... The wreck lies at a depth of 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) approximately 380...
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The Fourth Smoke Stack | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board  Aug 11, 2000 ... I've heard rumors that the fourth smoke stack was fake is that true?? ... The original plans called for only three funnels to be seen on the ship there would be no 4th however ... why the Olympic Class vessels were conceived) had four funnels. ... Deck chairs weren't stored in the base of Titanic's fourth funnel.
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Titanic - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  A century has sailed by since the luxury steamship RMS Titanic met its ... two miles to the ocean floor after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage. ... 1915, when a torpedo fired by a German U-boat sunk the ship, killing nearly .... slashed a 300-foot gash well below the ship's waterline, and that Titanic was doomed.
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On the Water - Ocean Crossings, 1870-1969: Comfort, Courtesy ...  Passenger capacity as built: 563 first class, 464 second, 1,138 third & steerage ... But the Mauretania was luxurious and versatile as well as fast. ... Typical of ocean-going style at the time, he treated the ship's most elaborate ... On April 14, 1912, during the Titanic's first voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in less than...
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Titanic Reading Passage - saspdenglishserviceproject  struck an iceberg in the. North Atlantic Ocean on. April 14, 1912, and sank the next day. .... Shortly before midnight, one of the men on lookout stared into .... 12:30 A.M.. People loaded into lifeboats. 2:30 A.M.. Titanic sinks. 2:40 A.M.. Corpothia...
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Now a floating hotel, this ship made her maiden voyage in May 1936 ...  Jul 7, 2016 ... video icon  Some say that Ernest Hemingway considered this 1936 tale his finest story # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views...
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Titanic sinks four hours after hitting iceberg; 866 rescued by ...  Titanic sinks four hours after hitting iceberg; 866 rescued by carpathia, ... The front page of The New York Times of April 16, 1912, after the Titanic disaster ... Alexander Graham Bell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 1892. More ..... New York Herald newspaper dated 04/16/1912: The Titantic sinks on its...
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Antarctica facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  A belt of pack ice surrounds the continent; only a few areas are ice-free at the end of ... Life that depends completely on the land is limited to microscopic life in ... as he circumnavigated the world, but he was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. ... C. A. Larsen began whaling at South Georgia island in 19045, and the seas of...
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Hearing of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee on ...  Oct 29, 1985 ... NOAA, of course, has demonstrated its expertise in managing another ... adds to the irony surrounding the Titanic sinking. The final irony ...... "Since many beautiful artifacts lie outside the ship itself, scattered over the rolling ...... the Titanic is resting in 12,500 feet of water, some 1,000 miles east of Boston.
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This was sometime in April 1912 before the ship left Southampton ...  Photograph of the Titanic docked before its maiden/final voyage. ..... Photo taken on April 10, 1912, as the Titanic left Southampton, England, bound for New...
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A Biocoenose of Papyrus Heads (Cyperus papyrus) - JStor  forced to nest on these floating rafts since no ... enormous swarms cover many square miles and migrate for hundreds of miles. "A swarm that passed over the Red Sea in 1889 was estimated to weigh 42,850,000,000 tons and covered 2,000.
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Chapter III. Darwin, Charles Robert. 1909-14. The Voyage of the ...  The whole sea was in places furrowed by them; and a most extraordinary ... One dark night we were surrounded by numerous seals and penguins, which made ... Moreover, if your view is limited to a small space, many objects possess beauty. .... the running noose, which is made very large, generally having a diameter of...
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RMS Titanic - Wikipedia  RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early ... Titanic only carried enough lifeboats for 1,178 peopleslightly more than half ... scene of the sinking, where she brought aboard an estimated 705 survivors. ..... Olympic herself did not even carry the four collapsibles AD during the...
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5 Oceans of the World | The 7 Continents of the World  It has huge stores of bodily oil, used to light the lamps of Europe and North America, ... At 5,400,025 sq miles (13,986,000 km), the Arctic is the smallest and shallowest of the five Oceans, and falls mostly within the Arctic Circle. .... Your Name.
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Frederick Fleet - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy  Employed as a lookout aboard the Titanic, it was Fleet who first sighted the iceberg, ... he had sailed for over four years as a lookout in the RMS Ocean Express yourself. ... Fleet went down to boat deck and helped to prepare Lifeboat No. .... RMS Titanic when the ship collided with an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912.
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Morning Buzz, May 6, 2002 - SportsBusiness Daily | SportsBusiness ...  May 6, 2002 ... category was "Famous Ships." "In 1999 the wreck of this ship, known for its historic 1912 rescue effort, was discovered 120 miles off England."...