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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Chester Arthur
Line drawing of Chester Arthur.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Vanderdecken's Message Home"
Read the full text of "Vanderdecken's Message Home" by an anonymous author about a doomed captain who inadvertently curses his ship to sail forever.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Education: Christopher Columbus: First Voyage
This resource provides information about Christopher Columbus and his voyages.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Star of India
A seaworthy iron hulled museum ship in the San Diego Maritime Museum, she is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abraham Whipple
Abraham Whipple (26 September 1733 - 27 May 1819) was an American revolutionary naval commander. Whipple was born near Providence, Rhode Island and chose to be a seafarer early in his life. He embarked upon a career in the lucrative West...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Bay Verte, 1775
A map of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia near Bay Verte (Green Bay) and the eastern shore of Chignecto showing the campaign of Colonel Monckton in 1775 against the French. "About the last of May, Colonel Monckton sailed from Boston, with...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General James Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe (1/2/22/1696 - 6/30/1785) was a British general, a philanthropist and was the founder of the colony of Georgia. A social reformer in England, he hoped to resettle England's poor, especially those in debtors prison, in...