Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...
During the terrible disaster at Mt. Pelee in 1902 Professor Jaggar was sent forward on the first government relief ship that left this country, and while there made an exhaustive research into the natural phenomena which caused the eruption...
...jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the court ship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever...
...This has been found by James Christopher Lovewater, a missionary on his way to Japan. Lovewater meets the lawyer Smith who takes the possession of the cigarette case as proof that the fortune which he has to bestow should go to Lovewater. The latter, now refunded, takes the same ship with the Lifters and Wigglesworth to Japan. Owing to various complications Wigglesworth is arrested by the Marquis Hari Kari, after the party has arrived in Japan, but the timely arrival of lawyer Smith, who has discovered his mistake, and the identification of Wigglesworth as an American millionaire, bring about...
...Nordenskjold will in the first place give a general sketch of the expeditions with an account of the loss of his ship, with an account of the loss of his ship, and his rescue by a vessel sent out from and his rescue by a vessel sent out from Buenos Aires. He will then summarize the geographical, geological and zoological results of the expedition, including descriptions of icebergs detached from the great south-polar ice sheet, of the fiords in island coasts of extreme southern latitudes, and of other features of the Antarctic regions. The remarkable collection of stereopticon views...