You heard about Tall Ships, but have you met their cats?
11 majestic photos of the Tall Ships descending upon Boston
BOSTON — Crew members and cadets from each of the visiting Sail Boston ships paraded through Boston Monday. Many wore their uniforms and some played music or carried the flags from their home nations as they marched into downtown on Seaport Boulevard and High and Summer Streets. More than 50 sailing vessels from 14 nations are docked in Boston Harbor this week for the Sail Boston festival. Boston is the only stop for the 7,000-mile, trans-Atlantic Rendez-vous 2017 Regatta… keep reading
Tall ships are illuminating Boston at night
Epic drone footage captures Boston’s tall ships
Photos: Tall Ships leave Boston Harbor
Inside Ernest Hemingway’s Private Photo Album & Scrapbook
Arguably the most famous image in all of Japanese art, this iconic woodblock print depicts a huge, frothing wave as it crests over a distant Mount Fuji. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) in 1760, the influential artist and printmaker led a life that was both intensely productive and undeniably eccentric.
7 Things You Didn’t Know about Hokusai, Creator of The Great Wave
Scientists Are Putting Tens of Thousands of Sea Fossils Online
The Western Interior Seaway is gone, but not forgotten
Some 100 million years ago, much of what is now North America was underwater. The body of water scientists call the Western Interior Seaway covered a swath of land that stretched over the entire Midwest. But its secrets have been preserved in countless fossils—and now, over 100,000 of these fossils are being digitized. keep reading on Smithsonian
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Jacques Cousteau; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.
Remembering Jacques Cousteau
Pictured above is the Sukhbaatar III, a tugboat (here’s another angle.) It is the flagship of the Mongolian Navy — a title it has earned in no small part because it is the full complement of the nation’s armada. The tug is operated by a seven-person crew which constitutes the entire navy. That’s right, the Mongolian Navy has seven sailors and a tugboat. That’s it. Did I forget to mention that Mongolia is landlocked?
Mongolia’s Strange and Really Small Navy
Landlocked Navies of the World
Destination Gobi is a 1953 Technicolor war film starring Richard Widmark and the first color feature film directed by Robert Wise. Set during World War II, US Navy chief Sam McHale (Widmark) takes command of a unit of weather observers stranded behind Japanese lines in Inner Mongolia. McHale must lead his men across the treacherous Gobi Desert to the freedom of the seacoast. Rescued from the Japanese by a Mongolian chief (Murvyn Vye), the men are compelled to repay their rescuer by securing enough saddles for his sixty horses. A flummoxed Pentagon okays the requisition, and the chieftain leads Widmark’s band to Okinawa. more
Vintage Adult Cartoon from Post-WW2 Era – US Navy; SAILOR AND THE SEAGULL
In an effort to meet the nation’s demand for trained seamen, the United States Congress passed an Act on June 20, 1874 giving the Secretary of the Navy the authority to provide a naval vessel and instructors for a nautical school to be established at each or any of the ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and San Francisco. The Pennsylvania Nautical School (PNS) was established in 1889 by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for 58 years trained young men for careers in the maritime trades and professions. Approximately 2000 cadets graduated from the school before it closed in 1947. More on wikipedia
Steering a Course: A Short History of The Pennsylvania Nautical School and Pennsylvania Maritime Academy
USS Annapolis (PG-10) (School ship, 1920–1940) was a gunboat in the United States Navy; laid down 18 April 1896 at Elizabethport, New Jersey; launched on 23 December 1896, and commissioned at New York on 20 July 1897. more on wikipedia
Ark Encounter is operated by Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Young Earth creationism group that operates the Creation Museum 45 miles (70 km) away in Petersburg, Kentucky.
A dispute over AiG’s hiring practices was adjudicated in U.S. federal court, which found in 2016 that the organization could require Ark Encounter employees to sign a statement of faith as a condition of their employment, prompting criticism of the park’s discriminatory hiring practices. more
Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park
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