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…through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the head and neck by a sniper. He was rushed to nearest hospital, but all efforts to revive him failed. The police found the murderer some hours later. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald and he was a former marine…

…feels that whales are a unique resource of great scientific interest to mankind and are a vital part of the marine ecosystem. They think that whales are a particular interest to citizens of the United States. Japan started whaling way back in the 2nd…

…to control the substance. He wanted something that could absorb the nitroglycerin and not still have the same power. He Found that a substance called Kieselguhr. This substance consisted of (diatomeus earth) marine organisms diatoms. This way the explosive…

…, brought together G. H. Curtiss, F. W. Baldwin, and others, who invented the aileron principle and developed the hydroplane. Applying the principles of aeronautics to marine propulsion, his group started work on hydrofoil boats, which travel above the water…

…interment camp. It was originally for Italian Merchant Marines who had been arrested in port, but it would eventually hold every one from mayors to movie stars. The interned aliens were given trials before boards of military officers and citizens. Aliens were…

…at Brussels as the United States representative. Maury's system of recording the oceanographic data of naval vessels and merchant marine ships was thereafter adopted worldwide. In 1855, he published The Physical Geography of the Sea, which is now credited…

…Barrier Reef Marine Park and various parts of it are protected in certain ways - for example, fishing is restricted in some areas, particular animals - like whales, dolphins, green turtles and dugong - are protected.…

…was twenty-five years old when he flew from Long Island, New York to Orly Airport in Paris. He navigated with a magnetic compass and a mariner’s sextant. He had no radio because the radios were as big as cows back then and also because there was nothing good…

…to be determined by the United Fruit Company's monoculture, the U.S marines and the handpicked dictators (Enloe 133). Behind every all-male banana plantation are scores of women performing unpaid domestic and productive labor (Enloe 137). Weeding and cleaning…

…Nevelson, Matisse let the energy force his feelings to become what they artistically were inclined to be. The unimaginable could always be imagined with him. He just had to simply "marinate" his ideas. Henri Matisse became known as a "wild beast" when…