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Chronoscope, Leslie Knox Munro (1953)
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interview by Eugene DeKuth and Hardy Burt, in Chronoscope (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1953), 14 mins
MARCH 2, 1953 Participants: Leslie Knox Munro, New Zealand Ambassador to the United States, interviewed by Hardy Burt and Eugene DeKuth. Topics: New Zealand's opposition to the spread of communism in the Pacific, Britain's recognition of People's Republic of China, New Zealand's recognition of Formosa, New Zealand...
interview by Eugene DeKuth and Hardy Burt, in Chronoscope (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 1953), 14 mins
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Images of America, Alaska's Whaling Coast
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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In 1850, commercial whaling ships entered the Bering Sea for the first time. There, they found the summer grounds of bowhead whales, as well as local Inuit people who had been whaling the Alaskan coast for 2,000 years. Within a few years, almost the entire Pacific fleet came north each June to find a path through...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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Images of America, California's Whaling Coast
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
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Yankee whaling, shore whaling, and modern whaling were sometimes occurring simultaneously. Each type of whaling went through periods of discovery, stability, and then a gradual decrease as the products lost their markets or the number of whales began to wane as some species moved toward commercial if not actual ex...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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Images of America, The Port of Los Angeles
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in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 128 page(s),
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The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world’s largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among the firs...
in Images of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 128 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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Making of America, Maritime Marion
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in Making of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 160 page(s),
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Marion's relationship with the ocean has been the defining element in the small town's development since its settlement as Sippican in America's colonial era. Since 1678, generation after generation of Marion families have relied upon the opportunities a port and sea provide in both life and industry. The waters o...
in Making of America (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), 160 page(s),
Source: www.arcadiapublishing.com
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