A humpbacked whale in Massachusetts
A humpbacked whale turning and diving in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Humpback Whale at Wellfleet, Cape Cod
Driving Falmouth Beach, Cape Cod, MA.
Driving Falmouth Beach, Cape Cod, MA.
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Falmouth ( /ˈfælməθ/ FAL-məth) is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States; Barnstable County is coextensive with Cape Cod. The population was 31,532 at the 2010 census,[2] making Falmouth the second-largest municipality on Cape Cod after Barnstable. The terminal for the Steamship Authority ferries to Martha's Vineyard is located in the village of Woods Hole in Falmouth. Woods Hole also contains several scientific organizations such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Research Center, NOAA's Woods Hole Science Aquarium, and the scientific institutions' various museums.
For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Falmouth, please see the articles on East Falmouth, Falmouth Village, North Falmouth, Teaticket, West Falmouth, and Woods Hole. Falmouth also encompasses the villages of Hatchville and Waquoit, which are not census-designated places and fall within the village of East Falmouth based on postal service.
Falmouth was first settled by English colonists in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1686. Bartholomew Gosnold named the settlement for Falmouth, Cornwall, England,[3] his home port. Early principal activities were farming, salt works, shipping, whaling, and sheep husbandry, which was very popular due to the introduction of Merino sheep and the beginnings of water-powered mills that could process the wool. In 1837, Falmouth averaged about 50 sheep per square mile.
Falmouth saw brief action in the War of 1812, when the area around Falmouth Heights, on its southern coast, was bombarded by several British frigates and ships of the line, and Massachusetts militia hastily entrenched themselves on the beaches to repulse a possible British landing which never came. By 1872, the train had come to Falmouth and Woods Hole, and some of the first summer homes were established. By the late 19th century, cranberries were being cultivated and strawberries were being raised for the Boston market. Large-scale dairying was tried in the early 20th century in interior regions. After the improvement in highways, and thanks in part to the heavy use of neighboring Otis Air National Guard Base during World War II, population growth increased significantly. Large homebuilding booms occurred in the 1970s, followed by others in the 1980s and 1990s.
In the late 1800s, after railroad service was established between Boston and Cape Cod, James Madison Beebe bought over 700 acres (280 ha) and built Highfield Hall, which is now a museum, and much of the land is preserved as Beebe Woods. In 1965, Robert Manry sailed from Falmouth aboard his 13.5-foot (4.1 m) sailboat and reached Falmouth, England, 78 days later.
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Whales off Cape Cod
Hi Friends,
This is Bonny from On Wings Of Care. Sorry these videos are such poor quality, but the humpback whales you'll see in them are so stunning that we thought you'd appreciate them all the same.
These videos were all taken between this past July 5 and 12th, near Cape Cod, MA. To be more precise, most of them were taken in or very near the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary, and all between 41 and 42.5 degrees N in latitude and 069 and 070.5 degrees W in longitude.
Although we also saw Fin and Minke whales, basking sharks and blue sharks and great white sharks, and even one fine-looking leatherback turtle, we only have recognizable video of the humpbacks. You'll see them bubble-fishing, where they (individually or often in coordinated teams of two to six) would dive very deep and blow air up to the surface in a ring, scaring the fish into the center, then come up in the center with their mouths wide open, gulping fish while straining the water through their baleen. The birds were all there for the feasts, too. We have some outstanding still photographs that you can view on our website, OnWingsOfCare.org, all courtesy of our friends and hosts from the International Fund for Animal Welfare headquarters there. The best photos you'll see are almost all from the expert eye and equipment of Jake Levenson.
It was doubly exciting to watch these humpbacks with the people we were flying, as most of them have devoted many years of their lives to studying, protecting, and rescuing these magnificent animals. They have also been involved with identifying individual whales in this area, so when we got good views of the undersides of flukes, these folks would often shout ecstatically the name of that particular whale! We saw mothers and calves, in one case what looked to be a very small calf, nursing and playing and learning to slap the water. We saw adolescents practicing their maneuvers including beautiful breaches, until they literally lay still in exhaustion for several minutes. By the way, rest assured that we did not disturb the whales in any way. We were careful to keep appreciable altitude, both for the whales' sake and because of all the fishing and recreational boats in the vicinity. We also spent several flights searching for whales that had been reported to be entangled in fishing gear, in order to help local rescuers as well as the Coast Guard find them.
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What is OFFSHORE RADIO? What does OFFSHORE RADIO mean? OFFSHORE RADIO meaning & explanation
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What is OFFSHORE RADIO? What does OFFSHORE RADIO mean? OFFSHORE RADIO meaning - OFFSHORE RADIO definition - OFFSHORE RADIO explanation.
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Offshore radio is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures. Offshore broadcasters are usually unlicenced but transmissions are legal in international waters. This is in contrast to broadcasting without a licence on land or within a nation's territorial waters, which is usually unlawful.
The claimed first wireless broadcast of music and speech for the purpose of entertainment was transmitted from a Royal Navy craft, HMS Andromeda, in 1907. The broadcast was organized by a Lieutenant Quentin Crauford using the callsign QFP while the ship was anchored off Chatham in the Thames Estuary, England.
However, the majority of offshore broadcasters have been unlicenced stations using seaborne broadcasting as a means to circumvent national broadcasting regulations, for example the practice has been used by broadcasting organizations like the Voice of America as a means of circumventing national broadcasting regulations of other nations. Unlicenced offshore commercial stations have operated off the coasts of Belgium, Denmark, Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, The United Kingdom, Yugoslavia and the United States.
By the late 1920s the BBC was formed, and the “UK government concluded that this was such a powerful means of mass communication that it would have to be in state control.” Because of rigid governmental controls and a lack of popular music broadcasting, much of the UK population began to turn to radio stations from abroad, such as Radio Lyon, Radio Normandy, Radio Athlone, Radio Mediterranee and Radio Luxembourg. In the UK, only signed artists from major labels were broadcast, and only for short periods of time during the day.
Unauthorized offshore broadcasting stations operating from ships or fixed platforms in the coastal waters of the Northern Sea first appeared in 1958. There were as many as eleven such stations in the mid-1960s.
One of the most popular offshore radio broadcasts in Europe came from Radio Caroline, which developed out of the strict broadcasting regulations in England in the 1960s. The Radio Caroline name was used to broadcast from international waters, using five different ships of three different owners, from 1964 to 1990. Radio Caroline was the brainchild of Ronan O'Rahilly, who dreamed up a way to air music by “unestablished” rock and roll artists Other well-known stations of the period were Radio Atlanta, Radio London, Radio 270 (broadcasting of the coast of Filey, Yorkshire) Radio 390, Radio Scotland, Radio Northsea International and Radio City.
Most offshore broadcast is usually associated with European unlicenced radio stations; the trend never caught on as much in the United States as most organizations that could afford an offshore broadcasting boat would instead buy a legal station. Still, there were a few American offshore stations that made a lasting impression. The first station to broadcast in the U.S. from international waters was RXKR off of the coast of California. and broadcast from May 1933 until August 1933. It was operated from a cargo carrier named the S.S. City of Panama, a ship that was actually supposed to be advertising tourism in Panama to Americans from California. The operators of the ship actually broadcast popular music and advertisements, fooling the Panamanian government and eventually being shut down at the request of the U.S. Department of State.
Unlicenced Radio and TV Noordzee since August 1964 used REM island offshore platform for broadcasting aimed at the Netherlands. On December 12, 1964, a law, which split the North Sea into continental sections was passed in the Netherlands. The sea bed under REM Island, to which the structure was attached, was declared Dutch territory. Five days later, Royal Marines boarded the platform and ended the broadcasting.
The Council of Europe in 1965 passed the European Agreement for the Prevention of Broadcasts transmitted from Stations outside National Territories to address this loophole, although some member states were slow to implement this in national law.
In 1967, the UK Government enacted the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, outlawing advertising on or supplying an unlicensed offshore radio station from the UK. Several other European countries passed similar legislation.
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Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo marˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.Marconi was also an entrepreneur, businessman, and founder of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in the United Kingdom in 1897 (which became the Marconi Company). He succeeded in making an engineering and commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and, in 1931, he set up the Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI.