Archive for August, 2010
During her major refit and lengthening procedure, Braemar added over eighty passenger cabins and suites with balconies, bringing the standard occupancy up to 929. She has also become the second of our ships to feature a pub, which, on occasion, offers entertainment in the form of a late night comedian or jazz.
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Duration : 4 min 40 sec
WatchMojo . com presents… A look at an exciting new sport called River Surfing where surfers take advantage of a continuous wave in the middle of white water rapids.
Duration : 2 min 18 sec
The American Civil War (1861–1865), amongst other names also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as “the Confederacy”. Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all the free states (where slavery was abolished) and by half the border slave states.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory and the long-term threat it posed to slavery, seven states declaring their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln’s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The border states remained neutral at this point.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states and the war had begun. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening.
Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and material by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee, while Union general William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia, and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars in human history. Railroads, steamships, mass-produced weapons, and various other military devices were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died, as did 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40. Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.
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on this date in 1923 the hollywood sign was installed in california’s hollywood hills, philip the good was born duke of burgundy in 1396, the comedian red buttons died in 2006, in 1568 bottling beer was perfected at st. paul’s cathedral, the source of the Mississippi River was discovered in 1832, on this date in history july 13, – www.myinboxnews.com
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Amtrak Southwest Chief Eastbound crossing the Mississippi River on the elegant bridge at Fort Madison Iowa
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Duration : 2 min 21 sec
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Duration : 27 sec
Net fishing in Chezh Republic 
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Duration : 40 sec
Ducks feeding on a slow flowing river. Camera angle from the shoreline perspective. HD version: http://stockfilm.com/video/ducks-feeding-on-a-river.html
Duration : 30 sec