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The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually rose up to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States. While many other shipping lines focused primarily on speed ...
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 ...
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE has been broadcasting pay-per-view (PPV) events since the 1980s, when its classic "Big Four" events (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series) were first established—the company's very first PPV was WrestleMania in 1985.
To watch the finale ofThe Bachelorette live tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 3, you’l; need access to ABC. You can tune into ABC with the help of a digital antenna (in select areas), or with a live TV ...
2012–13 Liverpool F.C. season. The 2012–13 season was the 121st season in Liverpool Football Club 's existence, and their 51st consecutive year in the top flight of English football. By virtue of winning the 2011–12 Football League Cup, Liverpool automatically qualified for entry into the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, thus securing an ...
The 2012 Indianapolis Colts season was the franchise's 60th season in the National Football League (NFL) and the 29th in Indianapolis. The Colts earned the first selection in the 2012 NFL draft due to a dismal 2–14 record in 2011 and used their first pick on Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. [ 1 ] The season marked the first for both head ...
Current champion LA Knight. The WWE United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested in the American promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand.It was originally known as the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Jim Crockett Jr.'s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, a territory of the National ...
The British responded in 1807 with Orders in Council which similarly forbade any shipping to France. [43] By 1807, when Napoleon introduced his Milan Decree , declaring all ships touching at British ports to be legitimate prizes of war, it had become almost impossible for the U.S. to remain neutral. [ 44 ]