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The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
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 ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1842 Ship State Description John and Mary United Kingdom The ship capsized at Padstow, Cornwall. [6]Juliane Hamburg The schooner was abandoned in the English Channel 5 leagues (15 nautical miles (28 km)) off the Eddystone Lighthouse, Cornwall.
In an attempt to keep the oil from contaminating the Mississippi River, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources set a controlled burn that lasted for one day and created a smoke plume about 1 mile (1.6 km) high and 5 miles (8 km) long. The pipe failed due to cracking caused by train shipping induced cracking of the pipe being delivered. [66]
iPad iPad Pro (6th generation) Developer Apple Manufacturer Foxconn (on contract) Pegatron Type Tablet computer Release date April 3, 2010 ; 14 years ago (April 3, 2010) (1st generation) Units sold 677.7 million as of 2022 Operating system iOS (2010–2019) iPadOS (2019–present) Connectivity WiFi, cellular, 30-pin dock connector, Lightning connector, USB-C, 3.5mm headphone jack, 3-pin "Smart ...
Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia. [8] Gradually developing an Americo-Liberian identity, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] the settlers carried their culture and tradition with them while colonizing the indigenous population.
The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]