Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...guard 13,000 miles of coast line in time of war. Report Sec. Navy...
...defend even the Atlantic coast...
Prince Henry of Portugal, descendant of the English John of Guant earned for himself the title of the Navigator, by his expeditions along the coast of Africa, and in 1457 the King of Portugal authorized an expedition to the West. From 1474 on, the influence of Tuscanelli, the Florentine astronomer, was very great. Belief in the western passage was in the air, and in 1479 the theory of the western extension found its greatest adherent in the Italian wanderer who was destined to work out its solution...
Beginning with the second half-year there will be a course at the Lawrence Scientific School, in Road Engineering. It will be conducted by Mr. William E. McClintock, a member of Massachusetts Highway Commission, and a former assistant in the Coast Survey. The course is something quite new in this country, but is one that is rapidly coming to be necessary. It will be a practical course under a practical man, for Mr. McClintock is himself a builder of roads, and was chosen because he was acquainted not only with the theory, but with the practice of road building...
...professorship of Pacific Coast History has been established at Leland Stanford Jr. University. A great deal of matter is said to be scattered throughout California, written and printed in several languages, bearing upon the early settlement of the country and its traditions. The object of the professorship is to collect and preserve these, and, presumably, to present a continuous picture of such history to future classes...