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61Slava Polunin — articleissues expand = August 2008 citations missing = August 2008Infobox performer bgcolour = name = Slava Polunin imagesize = caption = Slava Polunin in Snowshow birthname = Vyacheslav Ivanovich Polunin birthdate = Birth date and age|1950|6|12… …
62Jack Lynch Tunnel — The Jack Lynch Tunnel (named after the former Taoiseach Jack Lynch), or Tollán Seán Ó Loinsigh in Irish, is an immersed tube tunnel and an integral part of the N25 southern ring road of Cork in Ireland. It takes the road under the River Lee.… …
63Eliza Anderson (sidewheeler) — The steamship Eliza Anderson operated from 1858 to 1898 mainly on Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Fraser River but also for short periods in Alaska.Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest , at 14,… …
64Homestead Strike — The Homestead Strike was a labor lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in U.S. history. The dispute… …
65Alaskan (sidewheeler) — The steamship Alaskan operated from 1884 to 1889 on the Columbia River and Puget Sound. Alaskan and her near sistership Olympian were known as “Henry Villard’s White Elephants.”Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific… …
66Seabees in World War II — The history of the United States Navy Seabees in World War II begins with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack and the United States entry into the war, the use of civilian labor in war zones became impractical. The Navy… …
67Washington Irving (sidewheeler) — The Washington Irving was a 4,000 ton sidewheeler dayliner and flagship of the Hudson River Day Line which was struck in the fog a bit after 9:00am on June 1 1926 on the North River by an oil barge. Helped by tug boats, it reached shore at the… …
68R.P. Resor (ship) — The R.P. Resor was a tanker ship built in 1936 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey for the Standard Oil Company. She was torpedoed by U boat U 578 on 28 February 1942, and later sank.DisasterLeaving Houston,… …
69Deluge (mythology) — The story of a Great Flood (also known as the Deluge) sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme among many cultural myths. Though it is best known in modern times through the Biblical …
70SS Kronprinz Wilhelm — The German passenger liner Kronprinz Wilhelm was built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company of the Hapag Lloyd by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany, in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the… …
