really believed that he could expand and make America more powerful throughout the world, So for him to actually make America a more dominant country he thought he needed a strong navy. He wanted his navy to be sailing quick through the pacific and atlantic ocean. Roosevelt went on to think of what is called now the panama canal which connects the two oceans together. Without this water way sailors would have to go an extra 12,000 miles and sail up to and around the tip of South America. In building
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The southern stingray lives in the western Atlantic ocean from New Jersey down to Brazil. The stingray is abundant where warm water can be found like Florida and the Bahamas. As a bottom dweller you can find this stingray on sand or even in seagrass meadows. Large reef structures are not appealing to this stingray because feeding is difficult in those areas. Dasyatis americana is the scientific name of the southern stingray. It is part of the Dasyatidae family of stingrays. These stingrays are
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Nevaeh Pettiford Period 6 2nd Quarter Research Report 1/10/17 Hurricane Isaac Hurricane Isaac was a natural disaster that occurred August 25th through September 2nd, 2012. It started as a tropical storm as do all hurricanes. Hurricanes are created by the air and water pressure. Isaac was a hurricane that had passed a lot of places. Isaac was a tropical storm heading for the Gulf of Mexico. It hit Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Mississippi, Alabama, Cuba, Louisiana, Bahamas, Southeastern U.S., Florida
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Portugal is a very beautiful and amazing country. The location is also in a very wonderful spot. The absolute location is 39.30 degrees North by 8.00 degrees West. Portugal is located by only a few different places. On the East, of Portugal, is the Atlantic Ocean and on the North and West is Spain. Portugal is also part of the Iberian Peninsula. There are only two countries that make up the Iberian Peninsula: Spain and Portugal. Portugal has very many major landforms, especially mountain ranges and
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many counts. There is evidence that the first Europeans to sail across the Atlantic were Viking explorers from Scandinavia. In addition, the land was already populated by indigenous peoples, who had 'discovered' the Americas thousands of years before hand. Let’s take a look back on columbus’
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Have you ever wondered what would you do to survive with nothing? What risks would you take? Would you be even able to survive at all? Well Cabeza De Vaca was a survivor and had an amazing story to tell. Cabeza De Vaca was a part of an expedition to establish settlements along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The ships left the port of Seville in the spring of 1527 and set sail for the new world. Not all went to plan when the strong currents sent the ships off course and they made accidental landfall
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Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, attempted to fly a Lockheed Model 10 Electra 2,556 nautical miles from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island on July 2, 1937. However, the two did not arrive as planned. It is known that “Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra,” (Source: Amelia Earhart's Circumnavigation Attempt). Not to mention, those who witnessed the take off “reported that a radio antenna may have been damaged,” (Source: Amelia Earhart Biography). In addition
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The Panama Canal was a huge project built in the 19th century by many men workers. The way they accomplished this was by digging a very long hole, that would then allow ships to travel through it. Many tools were used to build this, such as train tracks to move train tracks to transport things, and lock canals to bring the ships up and over the area they needed to get through. Later during the construction of the canal, the digging was paused, because a man believed that the land should be prepared
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The Panama Canal is approximately eighty kilometers long between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This waterway was cut through one of the narrowest parts of the isthmus that joins North and South America. The Canal uses a system of locks to raise and lower ships to the desired elevation. The locks function as water lifts: they raise ships from sea level(Atlantic or Pacific Ocean) to the level of Gatun Lake, which is twenty-six meters above sea level. Ships then sail the channel through the Continental
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Today is March 15, 1918. A major search party has been dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean along the course of a giant U.S. freighter ship called the USS Cyclops. The USS Cyclops was carrying a load of cargo. It was scheduled to arrive in Baltimore, Maryland on March 4,1918, but it never arrived. People all over the world are claiming that it was the Germans, sabotaging our supplies. So far, the search party hasn’t found any wreckage or evidence that could indicate the whereabouts of this large vessel
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