Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaniards spent hundreds of millions to fortify Cartagena. Miles of tunnels, ventilated by shafts driven 100 feet through solid rock, served Fort San Felipe's twelve gun emplacements (one named after each apostle). A stone barrier, thrust across one of the two harbor entrances, forced men-of-war into a narrow passage raked by Spanish guns. Cartagena knew what it was to be sacked (e.g., by Drake in 1585, and the French in 1544 and 1697), but in 1741, the fortifications paid off: the Spanish routed a 28,000-man, 186-vessel British fleet thrown at them by Admiral...
Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...
Whipple's theory changed all that. Contracting globules may have filled the galaxy with millions of circling planets. Many of these may harbor "human races...
Died. Hugh Robert Wilson, 61, last U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany, whose recall in 1938 "for report and consultation" ended full diplomatic relations between the two countries three years before Pearl Harbor; after long illness; in Bennington...
...morning of Pearl Harbor itself, Zacharias was at sea in command of the heavy cruiser Salt Lake City. Ten months earlier, however, he had gone to call on Admiral Kimmel, "to lay before him my analysis and perhaps to place my knowledge of Japanese psychology at his disposal. . . . I told the Admiral . . . that if Japan decided on war with us she would open hostility with an air attack . . . probably on a Sunday morning...