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The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
3 "San Agapito" 3 "San Agapito" First Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the HURDAT. 1852: 5 5 1 73.28 100+ 3 "Great Mobile" 3 "Great Mobile" One of three seasons in which all known cyclones became hurricanes. 1853: 8 4 2 76.49 40 4 Three: Earliest known Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. 1854: 5 3 1 31.00 30+
In the mid-1960s, to defeat the advantage of the recently introduced computers for the then popular rally racing in the Midwest, competition lag times in a few events were given in centids (1 ⁄ 100 day, 864 seconds, 14.4 minutes), millids (1 ⁄ 1,000 day, 86.4 seconds), and centims (1 ⁄ 100 minute, 0.6 seconds) the latter two looking and ...
The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
Over time, the design of the Interstate shield has changed. In 1957 the Interstate shield designed by Texas Highway Department employee Richard Oliver was introduced, the winner of a contest that included 100 entries; [ 87 ] [ 88 ] at the time, the shield color was a dark navy blue and only 17 inches (43 cm) wide. [ 89 ]
La Guardia and Wagner Archives/The Council of the City of New York Collection Archived August 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine; David W. Chen, Council Gets a Charge From Vote on Term Limits, New York Times, New York edition, October 25, 2008, page A18, retrieved the same day. (Discusses changes in the council's degree of independence and ...
Under Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Khan, Afghanistan stayed neutral. The kingdom had c trade. [3] Despite British pressure, Afghanistan maintained friendly relations with the Axis during the war, in the hopes that the Axis would help stop British influence in the region, which came from the British Raj and Mesopotamia. [4]