Bermuda Triangle - Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle is an area of supposed mystery in a rough triangle defined by the vertices at Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida. Within this area it is said that a number of ships and planes have disappeared without cause. Shakespeare's play The Tempest is named after a magical tempest near Bermuda. It has been mentioned as an early testimonial. The area was first noted in 1950 by E.V.W. Jones as a sidebar on recent ship losses on the AP wire. It was again mentioned in 1952 in a Fate magazine article, by George Sand. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first popularised by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 Argosy feature. It achieved true fame largely through the efforts of Charles Berlitz in his 1974.
Jamestown, Virginia - Jamestown Island is a swamp, the men of the Virginia Company chose to settle here because they felt it was far enough inland to avoid contact and conflict with the Spanish fleet while the river was deep enough to permit them to anchor their ships yet have an easy and quick departure if necessary. They had only been at Jamestown for less than a fortnight when they were attacked on May 26 by Paspahegh Indians, who succeeded in killing two of the settlers and wounding ten more. By June 15, the settlers finished the initial triangle fort at Jamestown and a week later, Newport sailed back for London on the Mary Constant with a load of pyrite and dirt. Edward M. Wingfield was named the first president of the colony and.
Incidents in Aviation - the DC-3 they rented for a relief flight to Nicaragua crashed off the Atlantic coast, shortly after take-off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, then known as Isla Verde International Airport. Neither their bodies or the wreckage of the plane have been recovered so far. In 1985, an American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 ran off the runway at the same airport, ending up in a lake. No one, however, was injured in the 1985 incident. Legend has it also, that many planes (as well as ships) have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The Mythical triangle covers everything in between San Juan, Puerto Rico, Miami and Bermuda. Public speculation as to what happened to those planes is wide: Some say that the planes were taken hostage, others say they were taken.
French submarine Surcouf - Admiral was in Ottawa, confering with the Canadian government, Surcouf's captain was approached by famous New York Times reporter Ira Wolfert and questioned about the rumors that the submarine would liberate Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (an archipelago some 30 kilometers off the southeastern shore of Newfoundland). It is highly unlikely that the captain, as some sensational stories have it, kidnapped the reporter, smuggled him to the submarine in the trunk of a car, and imprisoned him aboard, but he did accompany the submarine to Halifax, Nova Scotia where, on 20 December, they joined the Free French corvettes Mimosa, Aconit, and Alysse, and on 24 December handily captured the islands. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had just concluded an agreement with the Vichy government for the neutrality of French possessions.
USS Cyclops - France, in June 1917, returning to the east coast in July. Except for a voyage to Halifax, Nova Scotia, she served along the east coast until 9 January 1918, when she was assigned to Naval Overseas Transportation Service. She then sailed to Brazilian waters to fuel British ships in the south Atlantic, receiving the thanks of the State Department and Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. She put to sea from Rio de Janeiro 16 February 1918, and after touching at Barbados on 3 March and 4 March, was never heard from again. Her loss with all 306 crew and passengers, without a trace, is one of the sea's unsolved mysteries, and is often "credited" to the Bermuda Triangle. General Characteristics Displacement: 19,360 tons Length: 542 feet Beam: 65 feet Draft: 27.8 feet Speed: 15.
Exploration of Mars - or another before completing or even beginning their missions. Part of this high failure rate can be ascribed to technical incompetence, but enough have either failed or lost communications for no apparent reason that some researchers half-jokingly speak of an Earth-Mars "Bermuda Triangle" or of a Great Galactic Ghoul which subsists on a diet of Mars probes. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Questions to explore 2 Early flyby probes and orbiters 2.1 Early Soviet missions 2.2 Mariner program 3 Landers and later missions 3.3 Mars probe program 3.4 Viking program 3.5 Phobos program 3.6 Mars Global Surveyor 3.7 Mars Pathfinder 3.8 Spate of failures 3.9 Mars Odyssey 3.10 Mars Express 3.11 Mars Exploration Rovers 4 Manned missions 5 Timeline of Mars exploration 5.12 1960s 5.13 1970s 5.14 1980s 5.15 1990s 5.16.
December 5 - ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States). 1934 - Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city). 1936 - The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution. 1941 - The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row). 1945 - Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle. 1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts. 1955 - The trade unions American Federation of Labor and.
USS Grampus (1820) - Haven harbor, so that if the court ruled in favor of the slaves' Spanish "owners," they could deport the Africans to Cuba before they could file an appeal. However, the district judge ruled that the Africans had been illegally enslaved and must be returned to Africa. It was the government that appealed on behalf of the slaveholders, and Grampus was not needed. Grampus continued her duties in the protection of shipping in the Caribbean Sea and in the South Atlantic Ocean until August 1841, when she was detached from the African Squadron while lying at Boston Navy Yard and attached to the Home Squadron at Norfolk, Virginia on 23 January 1843. Grampus was last spoken by USS Madison off St. Augustine, Florida, on 15 March 1843. She is presumed to have.
The Tempest - itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. [. . .] In this speech, reference appears to be made to the Globe Theatre. The character of Prospero is believed by some to be based on Shakespeare's contemporary, Dr John Dee. Because The Tempest was one of Shakespeare's very last plays, it has been popular to excerpt this speech and interpret it as Shakespeare's own farewell to the theatre. In the context of the play, however, this speech does not stand out as an author's personal confession, and this reading may be more than a little fanciful. Shakespeare did not end his career.
Buckethead - left unknown. Buckethead has been a member of Guns 'n Roses since 2000. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Discography 1.1 Solo Albums 1.2 As "Death Cube K" 1.3 With "Praxis" Discography Solo Albums Bucketheadland - 1992 (Import 1993) Giant Robot - 2000 Day of the Robot - 1996 Colma - 1998 Monsters and Robots - 1999 Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse - 2001 Funnel Weaver - 2002 Bermuda Triangle - 2002 Electric Tears - 2002 As "Death Cube K" Dreamatorium - 1994 Disembodied - 1997 Tunnel - 1999 With "Praxis" Transmutation - 1992 Sacrifist - 1994 Metatron - 1994 Transmutation Live - 1997 Collection - 1998 Warzsawa - 1999.
Carmen Sandiego - a pole. Ella was apparently made a member if V.I.L.E. because nothing is out of her reach. She even tried to steal the North Star (morning arrived before she could swipe it.) The Chief joked that she might be the daughter of Ella Fitzgarled and Darth Vader. "Ella Vator" is a play on "elevator." Ella was featured in Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition. Manny Mistakes - Manny stops at green lights and crosses the street when the lights turn red, puts salt in his coffee and sugar on his French fries. Nobody can confuse V.I.L.E. pursuers like the unpredictable Manny. "Manny Mistakes" is a play on "many mistakes." Manny was featured in Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition. Stu Pidname - There's no end to Stu Pidname’s energy, he’ll do anything to.
Charles Berlitz - He studied in Yale University, and is a brilliant linguist (he speaks 25 different languages). Books by Charles Berlitz The Bermuda Triangle (1974) Without a Trace (1977) The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility (1979) The Roswell Incident The Dragon's Triangle (1989) Related topics Bermuda Triangle Philadelphia Experiment Roswell, New Mexico This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Sail-plan - its mast in the water, a capsize and possible sinking. Sailing frigate and its rigging. Terminology In English, courtesy of the British Admiralty, all sail-plans call a sail by the same name, no matter what their sail-plan. Once a sail is named, its ropes have standard names according to their use. So once a sailor learns the standard names for the sails, he knows the terms for all the parts on any sail-plan. A sail plan is made by combining just a few basic types of sails: A fore and aft sail is one that, when flat, runs fore and aft. These types of sails are the easiest to manage, because they often do not need to be relaid when the ship changes course. A gaff rigged sail easier to manage.
Philadelphia Experiment - of his fantastic story. The reply came months later; however, this time the correspondant identified himself as "Carl M. Allen". Allen said that he could not provide the details for which Jessup was asking, but implied that he may be able to recall by means of hypnosis. Jessup decided to discontinue the correspondence. The ONR and the Varo Annotation In the spring of 1957, Jessup was contacted by the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C and requested to study the contents of a parcel that they had received. Upon arrival, a curious Jessup was astonished to find that a paperback copy of his book had been mailed to ONR in a manila envelope marked "HAPPY EASTER". Further, the book had been extensively annotated by hand in its margins, and an.
Naomi Watts - Academy Award nomination. Filmography For Love Alone (1986) Home and Away (1988) (television series) Flirting (1991) Brides of Christ (1991) (television mini-series) Matinee (1993) Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) Gross Misconduct (1993) The Custodian (1993) Tank Girl (1995) Bermuda Triangle (1996) Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) Timepiece (1996) Persons Unknown (1996) Under the Lighthouse Dancing (1997) Sleepwalkers (1997) (television series) Dangerous Beauty (1998 Babe: Pig in the City (1998) The Christmas Wish (1998) A House Divided (1998) The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer (1999) Strange Planet (1999) The Wyvern Mystery (2000) Ellie Parker (2001) Down (2001) Mulholland Dr. (2001) The Ring (2002) Plots with a View (2002) The Outsider (2002) Rabbits (2002) Ned Kelly (2003) Le Divorce (2003) 21 Grams (2003).
New Age - to be sure their doctors are aware of what they're doing. Herbal remedies can interact in a variety of ways with prescription drugs or mask symptoms of the underlying disease. Critics of New Age medicine continue to point out that without some kind of testing procedure, there is no way of separating those techniques, medicinal herbs, and lifestyle changes which actually contribute to increased health from those which have no effect, or which are actually deleterious to one's health. Even seemingly "innocent" techniques such as Therapeutic Touch may potentially cause physical, spiritual, and religious harm (see Therapeutic Touch: What Could Be the Harm?, The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine). Yet some hospitals, such as St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam, New York, offer patients Healing Touch or Therapeutic Touch therapies which complement.
Mary Celeste - for Gibralter on the fifteenth. Discovery On December 4th, 1872, the Mary Celeste was found abandoned, half way between Portugal and the Azores. The ship seemed to be in good condition, but there was not a single soul on board. No, it had nothing to do with the Bermuda Triangle It is often falsely said that the ship disappeared in the fictional Bermuda Triangle, but the Mary Celeste was nowhere near the so-called "Bermuda Triangle" when the crew apparently deserted her; her last log entry was for November 24 and placed her 100 miles west of the Azores. She was discovered by the Dei Gratia under one Captain Moorehouse. Condition of the ship Significantly, the sextant and chronometer were missing, suggesting the ship had been deliberately abandoned. The only lifeboat appeared.
Legend - "history" bardic schools, oral history. Examples: King Arthur and the Holy Grail El Dorado The Fountain of Youth Robin Hood Atlantis A legend is different from a conspiracy and conspiracy theories in that the lynchpin of the latter two is usually a plausible, but unprovable secret agenda which exclusively drives the story. Cosmology is usually myth. See also: Bermuda Triangle Loch Ness monster mythology vampire urban legend Legend is also the name of a 1984 fantasy novel by David Gemmell, his first novel featuring his character Druss the Legend. Legend, a 1985 fantasy movie directed by Ridley Scott, tells of a young man (Tom Cruise) who must defeat the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry). It is unrelated to the aforementioned novel..
List of legends and myths - Irish Leprechauns The Poltergeist curse The Rebel Without a Cause curse The Curse of the Bambino Monsters The Abominable Snowman Godzilla The Loch Ness Monster Count Dracula The Big Foot sightings Religious The reported sightings of Virgin Mary Others El Cuco The Bermuda Triangle dissapearances The Billy Goat curse, supposedly by a Chicago Cubs fan towards the Cubs after he and his goat were thrown out of a World Series game The Cayey, Puerto Rico Charca del Pato area ghosts The Chupacabras The Devil's Triangle The Grim Reaper The reported sightings of many celebrities who are supposed to be dead. The Mount Taranaki legend.
List of postage stamps - 1c magenta Treskilling Yellow Inverted Jenny By country: Australia Inverted Swan Austria Red Mercury Bermuda Perot provisional Brazil Bull's Eye British Guiana British Guiana 1c magenta - unique Canada Canada 12d black Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper - rarest Canadian stamp St. Lawrence Seaway invert Cape of Good Hope Cape 4d black Triangle Cape 4d red error of color Falkland Islands Falkland Islands HMS Glasgow error - wrong ship on a modern stamp Finland Finland 20k black stamped envelope - most valuable postal stationery German East Africa German East Africa 1 rupee used at Tabora Germany Baden 9kr blue-green error of color Saxony 3pf red sheet Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error Vineta provisional Gibraltar Gibraltar 10c missing-value error Hawaii Hawaiian Missionaries - first stamps of Hawaii Honduras.
