The Bay of Fundy is a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is known for having the highest tidal range in the world. In the Burntcoat Head in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, the greatest mean spring range is 47.5 feet with an extreme range of 53.5 feet.
On October 11, 1634, a tidal wave surged in the Wadden Sea, a part of the North Sea, off the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The assault struck the North Frisian Islands, resulting in over 8,000 deaths.
In William Brinkley’s post-apocalyptic novel The Last Ship, the U.S. Navy nuclear-powered destroyer USS Nathan James is on patrol in the Barents Sea in November 1988 when World War III breaks out. On orders from Washington, she launches her Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets in the Soviet Union.
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The Barents Sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz. He went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast passage. During his third expedition, in 1596, the crew was stranded on the archipeligo of Novaya Zemlya for almost a year. Barentsz died on the return voyage in 1597.
Suede frontman Brett Anderson named “Vincent,” Don McLean’s song about Vincent Willem Van Gogh, as the song he wished he had written, describing its lyrics as “perfect” and saying that the track “manages to find that bittersweet holy grail the songwriter is always looking for”.
I love that song, too!: Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics - YouTube
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Don Carlos Buell, a Civil War general of the U.S. Army of less-than-stellar reputation, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1841 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry regiment. In the Mexican-American War, he served under both Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He was brevetted three times for bravery and was wounded at Churubusco.
Lake Van, in eastern Turkey (pronounced like the English numeral “One”), also has a claim to a mysterious monster living in its waters, first reported in 1889 and videoed more recently.
too late to edit, defeating the ninja: The Lake Van monster is reminiscent of the Loch Ness Monster, a Scott.
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My paternal grandfather was born in Norway, and my follow-up on this thread is reminiscent of the fact that he was a “Murman.”
Murmansk, Russia, is the mosts northerly ice-free port in the world. It is located on the Arctic Sea, not far from what is now the Norwegian border, hence its name derived from the Murmans, or Norwegians.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought May 4-8, 1942 between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, was the first naval battle in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side’s ships sighted or fired directly upon the other.
The Japanese lost 90 naval aviators in the battle compared with 35 for the Americans—the Battle of the Coral Sea thereby started a trend of attrition in the availability of experienced carrier aircrews. Both sides publicly claimed victory after the battle. In terms of ships lost, the Japanese won a tactical victory by sinking an American fleet carrier, an oiler, and a destroyer, while on the other hand losing a light carrier, a destroyer, and several smaller warships. Strategically, however, the Japanese were forced to abandon the operation that had initiated the Battle of Coral Sea in the first place—a plan to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands (Operation MO).
The claim to the title of “largest naval battle in history” is in dispute, depending on criteria including numbers of personnel and/or vessels involved in the battle, and the total tonnage of the vessels involved. While battles fought in modern times are comparatively well-documented, the figures from those in pre-Renaissance times are generally believed to be exaggerated by contemporary chroniclers. One World War I battle (the Battle of Jutland, 1916) and two World War II battles (Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944, and Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944) are among claimants to the title.
Two Royal Navy destroyers were named HMS Jutland, after the great World War I naval battle which is generally considered a tactical draw but a strategic victory for the United Kingdom over Imperial Germany. The latter of the two British warships was scrapped in 1965.
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) formed in 1872, as a follower of the principles of the Mormons (Latter Day Saints), and claim to be the original, rooted in restorationism of the teachings of Joseph Smith.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchue is a church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church contains, according to traditions dating back at least to the fourth century, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus of Nazareth was crucified and Jesus’s empty tomb, where he is said to have been buried and resurrected.
Edited to add side not: I visited there 3 years ago. Huge, Dark and a bit gloomy.
It’s often believed that the song “The Weight” by the band has religious imagery in it’s first phrase: “I pulled into Nazareth.” Robby Robertson, who wrote the song, however, has said that the town is really Nazareth, Pennsylvania, home of Martin Guitars. Robertson intended no religious meaning, just that when you think things are easy, people will ask favors to make things hard for you.
Adama, also known locally by its old name of Nazareth, is one of the fastest growing cities in Ethiopia, the country in the world that can lay claim to the longest tenure of predominant Chrstianity.
Ethiopia is widely considered the site of the emergence of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, in the Middle Paleolithic about 200,000 years ago. The earliest known modern human bones were found in Southwestern Ethiopia and are called the Omo remains.[35] Additionally, skeletal remains of Homo sapiens idaltu were found at a site in the Middle Awash in Ethiopia. Dated to approximately 160,000 years ago, they may represent an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens, or the immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans.