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...Monitor lies bottom up some 220 ft. below the surface, balanced on its cylindrical "cheesebox" turret. Since divers cannot work easily at that depth, scientists knew only that the ship's metal hull was corroded, but they did not know how badly. Indeed, the new data gathered on the Monitor < represent a significant advance in undersea research. "This is a prototype for marine archaeology," says NOAA Spokesman Dane Kanop. "We are writing the book...
...Navy's letter explained how the "cheesebox on a raft" sank in a gale 25 miles off Cape Hatteras shortly after midnight, December 31, 1862. The U.S.S Rhode Island accompanied her and was able to take some crew members off the ship after the Monitor started leaking on December...
...unforeseen obstacle to" WAC recruiting was the kēpi-like, cheesebox dress uniform cap. After much private heartburning, the WACs finally junked it in favor of a jauntier, less severe overseas...
...quickest stalematings of a secret weapon by a secret weapon was the celebrated battle of the ironclads in the U.S. Civil War. Less than 24 hours after the South's armored Merrimac had attacked the North's wooden fleet at Hampton Roads, the Yankee Monitor, an armored "cheesebox" invented by John Ericcson, hove into cannon range. They slugged each other to a standoff...
...white building which may be seen from the subway "cheesebox" to the north is the Littauer Center, of the School of Public Administration. Behind it are the Law School and the new Hemenway Gymnasium. On Oxford Street, beyond the New Lecture Hall, are the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratories, and beyond it is the University Museum, home of the famed glass flowers...