She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-...
20 Jul 1942 USS R-1 arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 26 Feb 1945 USS R-1 completed an extensive modernization. 28 Feb 1945 USS R-1 departed for New York City, New York, United States. 29 Jun 1945 USS R-1 arrived at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 7 Jul 1945...
At 8:50 am,Carpathiasounded her whistle and began heading to New York with the 705 survivors aboard. Due to garbled and mixed-up messages, the American press believed at first disaster had been averted and she was in tow. People were gathering outside of the White Star Liner offices in N...
LASER-wikipedia2 The size of the Gaussian filter: the smoothing filter used in the first stage directly affects the results of the Canny algorithm. 高斯滤波器的大小:第一步所用的平滑滤波器将会直接影响Canny算法的结果。 LASER-wikipedia2 He is a canny businessman – that much is clear. ...
New York Public Library Dedicated (1911)When former New York governor Samuel J. Tilden died in 1886, he left $2.4 million in his will for the creation of a grand public library. At that time, there were two other important libraries in New York City—the Astor and the Lenox—but they ...
The city authorities are now giving priority to new roads, hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on bridges across the Dubai Creek, five lanes in each direction, but still a taxi ride that might take 10 minutes at midday lasts an hour at either end of it. If you ask a ...
Frank Calvert worked the farm and learned to speak Turkish, he came to learn there were many local legends that the Trojan War had taken place over at Mount Hissarlik. Calvert began to wonder if this peaceful area with its rolling hills could possibly be the site of the ancient city Troy...
narrator talks of the boxes that are placed at strategic points all over the city to serve not only as containers for waste matter, but as symbols of cleanliness: In the end not many of the boxes were put out, though there was a lot said about the large amount of money paid for them...
city-by-city… http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/10214-a-new-nuclear-weapon-used-in-iraq.html If any corroborating websites are down, look for the information at the archives; http://archive.is/aPVnU I quote: “What’s more, the military’s use of nuclear weapons is primarily ...
Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook BKS (redirected fromBraskassés) Category filter: AcronymDefinition BKSBarnes & Noble, Inc.(stock symbol; New York, NY) BKSBarracks BKSBest Kept Secret(gaming) BKSBrookside(city) BKSBest Kill Streak(gaming) ...