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1973, Dean F. Bumpus, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Floating objects may ride gyres (large circulating current systems) that are present in each ocean, and may be transferred from one ocean's gyre to another's. Further, objects may be sidetracked by wind, storms, countercurrents, and ocean current variation. Accordingly, drift bottles have traveled large distances, with ...
September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) ... 2009 – The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, ...
The unemployment rate in the U.S. grew to 8.5% in March 2009, [189] and there were 5.1 million job losses by March 2009 since the recession began in December 2007. [190] That was about five million more people unemployed compared to just a year prior, [191] which was the largest annual jump in the number of unemployed persons since the 1940s. [192]
In November 1885, it ran into a blinding snowstorm, veered off course, and ran aground near Isle Royale. As the storm continued to rage, the ship came apart, eventually killing 46 people. The wreck of the Algoma was the worst loss of life in the history of Lake Superior shipping. [5] 2: Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Sites
1998: Iraq: Operation Desert Fox, U.S. and British forces conduct a major four-day bombing campaign from December 16–19, 1998 on Iraqi targets. [RL30172] 1998–1999 : Kenya and Tanzania: U.S. military personnel were deployed to Nairobi , Kenya, to coordinate the medical and disaster assistance related to the bombing of the U.S. Embassies in ...
Steam machine of Verbiest, in 1678 (Ferdinand Verbiest) Cugnot's 1771 fardier à vapeur, as preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris Carl Benz, the inventor of the modern car The original Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first modern car, built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the concept Bertha Benz, the first long distance driver The ...
The islands are self-governing in "free association" with ... 2009 22,600 284 72 212 12.6 3.2 ... Other Protestant Christian groups include Seventh-day Adventist 7.9% ...