UNITED STATES— In February 1894, the first American steel-rigged ship, Dirigo, was built in Bath, Maine. The four-masted ship was built and owned by Arthur Sewall & Co., constructed of imported
UNITED STATES— Those lights at the bow of the boat aren’t just Christmas decorations, they play a very important role on a boat. In 1838, The United States passed
CATALINA ISLAND— In 1542, a Spanish explorer named Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo became the first European to land on Catalina Island. Over the next several centuries, other Spaniards would stop at
NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada —On Dec. 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist, and radio pioneer, succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean. The transmission was a simple ‘s’
BAJA — The first spotted whales of the annual gray whale migration has begun to arrive in Baja, after accomplishing one of the longest migrations of any mammal. Gray whales
KEY WEST, FL—Eighty-four years ago, Ernest Hemingway, sportfishing enthusiast and class author, published his story, “To Have and Have Not” on Oct. 15, 1937. This fictional story followed Harry Morgan,
NATIONWIDE一 On Oct. 18, 1972, the Clean Water Act, which protects the nation’s waters from pollutants, was signed into law. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act was signed into law
In October of 1936, the United States Bureau of Reclamation arranged plans for a massive dam on the Arizona-Nevada border to calm the Colorado River, provide water, and harness hydroelectric
