Book Summary:ASunday Timesbest sellerThe 12th hair-raising Dirk Pitt thriller, which sees the adventurer hunt for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold before the richest prize known to man is lost forever.A call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well hig...
Under his command, the submarines SM U-5 and SM U-14 sank 13 Allied ships totaling about 45,669 gross register tons (GRT). Following Austria-Hungary's collapse after the war, von Trapp returned to his family but lost his wife to scarlet fever in 1922. Five years later, he married ...
Mediterranean. But her distinguished career was finally brought to an end in 1941 by a torpedo from a German U-boat. News of her sinking was suppressed to protect the British public's morale. But that embargo was broken by a "psychic medium" who became the last woman in Britain tried ...
To eradicate accused "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the "Great Purge", in which over a million were imprisoned and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939. By 1937, he had complete personal control over the party and state. Stalin's government promoted Marxism–...
100 feet below the surface lies The Sea Tiger, which is a former Chinese trading vessel originally named Yun Fong Seong No. 303. The ship was confiscated in the 1990s for carrying more than 90 illegal immigrants to Hawaii. It was purchased by Voyager Submarines, cleaned up, and sunk in 19...
This is a year where we wish the nominating committee would’ve taken some chances on the new class of rockers. Fall Out Boy’sFrom Under the Cork Treeand Panic! At the Disco’sA Fever You Can’t Sweat Outcertainly seemed to be pushing the needle for scene bands. Nine Inch Nails’With...
The lake has been explored by submarines, and it has a fleet of eight paddleboat steamers that regularly cruise its waters (and have for over a century). Lake Geneva is also used for shipping between the various villages and settlements along its shores. ...
It has any number of potential real-world uses, Adib says. It could be used to find downed planes underwater by reading signals from sonar devices in a plane' s black box and it could allow submarines to communicate with the surface. Right now the technology is low-resolution. The ...
So much fun looking at the submarines and it was a blast exploring the exhibits. Going inside the tractor was a joy ride. The human me exhibit was fun because... Read More > Lincolnwood Town Center (5 years, 1 month ago) They changed a lot of the stores so far. It's great! The...
They can tell the distance of various objects by how quickly the sound waves bounce back off them. If no sound bounces back, they can then fly forward.This special ability has been simulated in the human world for a long time, such as in submarines and planes, whose sonar (声呐) ...