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Titanic founder remains in heat of the battle from CT command center
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Undersea explorer Robert D. Ballard sits in a control room at an undisclosed land-bound location in Connecticut that is used to connect with his exploration ship, E/V Nautilus and control his submersibles when not on board the ship. Ballard, an American oceanographer and marine geologist whose pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles laid the foundations for deep-sea archaeology, is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut Media
From a command center in an undisclosed location in Connecticut, Robert Ballard can reach out and touch the deepest depths of the ocean.
Captain Lewis shooting an Indian.The expedition slowly ascended the Missouri River in a series of vessels ranging from small canoes to a larger keelboat. The written record has some ambiguity, but a total of fifty-one men (including Lewis and Clark) served in the expedition during this early stage. Several of these men had already made clear that they only planned to accompany the contingent part of the way. One member of the expedition, Sergeant Patrick Gass, eventually coined its most popular nickname: the Corps of Discovery.
During the ascent of the Missouri, most of the expedition’s members were engaged in the challenging task of rowing and occasionally towing their vessels against the river’s powerful current. Clark, an experienced river navigator, usually remained aboard one of the vessels. (He was also the expedition’s main cartographer.) Meanwhile, Lewis often went ashore to observe the landscape, gather plant and wildlife samples, and supervise a few men who hunted fo
Robert Heacock
ASTORIA â Lewis and Clark National Historical Parkâs monthly âIn Their Footstepsâ lecture will be held virtually at 1 p.m. Sunday at youtube.com/user/Lewisandclarknhp
Robert Heacock will present âEarly Explorers of the Pacific Northwest â A Long Time Coming.â Heacock will discuss Spanish, British, French, Russian and American efforts to claim the last âunexploredâ coastline on the planet, and how their competitive struggles shaped the U.S.
Heacock is an historian on Snake and Columbia River cruise boats. He is a member of the Washington Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. He is a frequent contributor to this chapterâs newsletter âWorthy of Notice.â Heacock is also the author of âWind hard from the west â The Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Snake and Columbia Rivers.â
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From natural wonders like Guairá Falls to literary works from Hemingway and Byron to paintings by Picasso and Renoir, here s a list of just a few priceless things that are gone forever, adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube.
1. A Nude Watercolor by August Renoir
Walter Chrysler, Jr., the son of the Chrysler corporation founder, was active in the arts for his entire life. As an adult, he helped develop the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. But it was a piece he purchased as a teen that got him into some hot water at boarding school. At 14, Chrysler purchased a small painting that featured a nude woman and proudly displayed it in his dorm room. Chrysler’s dorm master apparently found the work obscene, and took the liberty of destroying it. Unlike the vast majority of naked pictures you might find in a teenager’s room, though, Chrysler’s nude was actually painted by Auguste Ren