Whales of Cape Cod
Whales are a part of Cape Cod's history. In the past, many Cape towns flourished due to whaling. For example, thanks to its whaling industry, Provincetown was once one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts.
Today, the Center for Coastal Studies, the Dolphin Conservation and others on Cape Cod are working to protect Cape Cod's remaining whale population.
Highland Lighthouse ~ Cape Cod, Ma.
This, to me was truly breathtaking. I’ve always wanted to know what a lighthouse looked like on the inside and I’m grateful to say I got that opportunity. Highland Light is still referred to as Cape Cod Lighthouse and this amazing structure is still in use today.
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The Highland Light (previously known as Cape Cod Light) is an active lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore in North Truro, Massachusetts. The current tower was erected in 1857, replacing two earlier towers that had been built in 1797 and 1831. It is the oldest and tallest lighthouse on Cape Cod.
In 1797, a station authorized by George Washington was established at this point on the Cape, with a wood lighthouse to warn ships about the dangerous coastline between Cape Ann and Nantucket. It was the first light on Cape Cod. In 1833, the wood structure was replaced by a brick tower and in 1840 a new lantern and lighting apparatus was installed. In 1857 the lighthouse was declared dangerous and demolished, and for a total cost of $17,000, the current 66-foot brick tower was constructed.
On June 6, 1900, the light was changed from a fixed beam to flashing, with a new. The new Barbier, Benard & Turenne first-order Fresnel lens had four panels of 0.92 meter focal distance, revolved in mercury, and gave, every five seconds, flashes of about 192,000 candlepower nearly one-half second in duration. While the new lens was being installed, the light from a third-order lens was exhibited atop a temporary tower erected near the lighthouse; it was later sold at auction. The Highland Light was then the most powerful on the east coast of the United States. Two four-horsepower oil engines with compressors operated by an engine fueled by kerosene, were added to ensure that the fog signal could be activated within ten minutes instead of the previous 45. A new fog signal was installed in 1929, an electrically operated air oscillator, to make it audible over a greater distance.
The lighthouse was converted to electric operation in 1932 with a 1000-watt beacon. In 1946, Highland Light's Fresnel lens was replaced by modern aerobeacons, first by a Crouse-Hinds DCB-36 double rotating light and then by a Carlisle & Finch DCB-224, with a second unit as backup. Unfortunately, the Fresnel lens was severely damaged when it was removed, but fragments are on display in the museum on site. The light was fully automated by 1986 with a Crouse-Hinds DCB-224 rotating beacon. In 1998, a VRB-25 optical system was installed. Most recently, the light source is a Vega Marine LED beacon model 44/2.5 installed in April 2017.
The current location of the lighthouse is not the original site. It was in danger of falling down the cliff due to beach erosion, so the structure was moved 450 feet (140 m) to the west. The government funding to do so was supplemented by money raised through fund raising by the Truro Historical Society. The move was accomplished by International Chimney Corp. of Buffalo, New York and Expert House Movers of Maryland over a period of 18 days in July, 1996. The move left the light station on Cape Cod National Seashore property, bordering the Highland Golf Course. After an errant golf ball broke a window, they were replaced with unbreakable material. In 1998, the keeper's house was modified to be a gift shop and museum.
Year first constructed
1797
Year first lit
1857 (current structure)
Automated
1987
Foundation
Natural/emplaced
Construction
Brick
Tower shape
Conical
Markings / pattern
White with black lantern
Height
66 feet (20 m)
Focal height
170 feet (52 m)
Original lens
1st order Fresnel lens
Current lens
VegaMarine LED Beacon
Range
18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic
Fl W 5s, lighted continuously
Inside the Coast Guard Heritage Museum on Cape Cod
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2011 Annual Meeting of the Martha's Vineyard Museum
Join us in honoring three individuals with the Martha's Vineyard Medal. This award recognizes individuals in the Island community who have made an outstanding contribution to preserving the history, arts, and culture of Martha's Vineyard.
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Rick Fleury: Inspired by Cape Cod
Artist Rick Fleury shares his contemporary landscape paintings of Cape Cod in an inspiring video on the ways he strives to share the peace and abundant beauty found in the natural world so that it may be preserved and valued for all time.
Fleury is known internationally for his minimalist style of capturing the purity of the landscape on canvas and copper.
The video features music by Cape Cod jazz musician and composer Dan Sullivan.
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Rick Fleury is devoting his professional life to painting coastal landscapes of New England -- leaving behind successful careers as a journalist and a New York executive officer and creative director in advertising and public relations.
His minimalist style of landscape, known and collected internationally, is widely associated with Cape Cod and New England. He is a member of the Copley Society, the oldest non-profit art association in the United States. In a rare, if not exclusive situation, rather than go through the arduous and competitive process of applying for membership in this prestigious organization, the Copley Society sought Rick out in his studio and asked him to become a member in 2006.
Rick has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and through the Copley Society.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's, Bessemer Trust Company, Cape Cod Hospital/Cape Cod Healthcare, and other distinguished corporate and private collections.
He has taught at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and through the Copley Society of Art.
Rick, a year-round artist on Cape Cod since 1997, lives and works in Eastham.
The purity of the landscape is the subject of his work, and the beauty of nature and wide open space so often found on Cape Cod is what has inspired him as an artist.
If I create pause long enough for the viewer to reflect and appreciate the beauty that is Cape Cod, then I have achieved success in my work. If I convey that beauty in a new or unexpected way, even better.
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Jazz musician Dan Sullivan is a gifted and versatile musician and composer. He writes and produces music, and performs on both sax and flute. This collaboration features a medley of songs from Sullivan's latest CD Cape Cod Magic. The medley is titled For all Time.
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The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
It consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts. Roosevelt sought to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability. Hoping to enforce treaties and protect overseas holdings, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds to build American sea power. Beginning with just 90 small ships, over one-third of them wooden, the navy quickly grew to include new modern steel fighting vessels. The hulls of these ships were painted a stark white, giving the armada the nickname Great White Fleet.
In the twilight of United States President Theodore Roosevelt's administration, Roosevelt dispatched sixteen U.S. Navy battleships of the Atlantic Fleet on a worldwide voyage of circumnavigation from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909. The hulls were painted white, the Navy's peacetime color scheme, decorated with gilded scrollwork with a red, white, and blue banner on their bows. These ships would later come to be known as the Great White Fleet.
The purpose of the fleet deployment was multifaceted. Ostensibly, it served as a showpiece of American goodwill as the fleet visited numerous countries and harbors. In this, the voyage was not unprecedented. Naval courtesy calls, many times in conjunction with the birthdays of various monarchs and other foreign celebrations, had become common in the 19th century. They became increasingly important with the rise of nationalism. In 1891, a large French fleet visited Kronstadt, Russia in conjunction with negotiations between the two nations. Although France and Russia had been hostile to each other for at least three decades prior, the significance of the call was not lost on Russia, and Tsar Nicholas II signed a treaty of alliance with France in 1894. As navies grew larger, naval pageants grew longer, more elaborate and more frequent. The United States began participating in these events in 1902 when Roosevelt invited Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to send a squadron for a courtesy call to New York City. Invitations for U.S. Navy ships to participate in fleet celebrations in the United Kingdom, France and Germany followed.
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Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Woods Hole is a census-designated place in the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It lies at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands. The population was 781 at the 2010 census.
It is the site of several famous marine science institutions, including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research Center, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, a USGS coastal and marine geology center, and the home campus of the Sea Education Association. It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.
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Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (Italian: [ɡuʎˈʎɛlmo maɾˈkoːni]; 25 April 1874 -- 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often 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. An entrepreneur, businessman, and founder in Britain in 1897 of The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company (which became the Marconi Company), Marconi succeeded in making a commercial success of radio by innovating and building on the work of previous experimenters and physicists. In 1924 the King of Italy ennobled Marconi as a Marchese (marquis).
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Harold John von Hasseln, US Army, World War Two
Harold John von Hasseln
DOB: 1922
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, NY
Inducted: 3/17/44 (?)
United States. Army
United States Army Reserve
World War, 1939-1945
Coast Artillery Harbor Def.
313th Cav. Regt, US Army Reserve
von Hasseln, Harold John
Georgia Technical Institute
Fort Monroe
Ft. Moultrie, Charleston, SC
Ft.. Dix
Stuyvesant Town, NY
Farmingdale, NY
Hilton Head Island
Ft. Tilden
Camp Edwards
ROTC at Georgia Tech
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Timeline of United States discoveries | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of United States discoveries encompasses the breakthroughs of human thought and knowledge of new scientific findings, phenomena, places, things, and what was previously unknown to exist. From a historical stand point, the timeline below of United States discoveries dates from the 18th century to the 21st century, which have been achieved by discoverers who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.
With an emphasis of discoveries in the fields of astronomy, physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, geology, paleontology, and archaeology, United States citizens acclaimed in their professions have contributed much. For example, the Bone Wars, beginning in 1877 and ending in 1892, was an intense period of rivalry between two American paleontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, who initiated several expeditions throughout North America in the pursuit of discovering, identifying, and finding new species of dinosaur fossils. In total, their large efforts resulted in when 142 species of dinosaurs being discovered. With the founding of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, a vision and continued commitment by the United States of finding extraterrestrial and astronomical discoveries has helped the world to better understand our solar system and universe. As one example, in 2008, the Phoenix lander discovered the presence of frozen water on the planet Mars of which scientists such as Peter H. Smith of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) had suspected before the mission confirmed its existence.
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CBA Law Day 2014
The Connecticut Bar Association hosted its annual Law Day ceremony on May 5, 2014 at the Connecticut Appellate Court in Hartford.
This year's theme, declared by the American Bar Association, was Reflections on American Democracy: the Historic (and Continuing) Struggle for the Right to Vote. The program was a mock press conference featuring four important figures from U.S. history in the struggle for the right to vote. Attorney Lewis Button played Gouverneur Morris, Attorney Daniel Krisch played Thomas Door, civics teacher Barbara Nidzgorski played Alice Paul, and Justice Richard Robinson played John Lewis. The actors were in full character, dressed in era appropriate clothing provided by the Old State House Museum. Twelve students from Litchfield Montessori Middle School in Litchfield, Assumption School in Manchester, and Westfield Academy in West Hartford were the reporters who questioned each of the figures.
The Honorable Alexandra DiPentima, Chief Appellate Court Judge, welcomed attendees to the Connecticut Bar Association's 2014 Law Day Ceremony, followed by remarks from CBA President Kimberly A. Knox. Attorney Matthew Dallas Gordon moderated the event and, after the program, Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill presented citations to each of the students. This event was organized by members of the Connecticut Bar Association's Civics Education Committee.
Guglielmo Marconi | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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.