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...together[an error occurred while processing this directive] by ESPA, the pace-setting consultancy behind award-winning wellness facilities at the Bulgari Hotel in Milan, Barbados' Sandy Lane resort and many others. The Peninsula Spa has everything you would expect, given ESPA's imprimatur: elegant treatment rooms with harbor views, private vip suites, hammam-style steam rooms, aromatherapy "experience showers" and the rest. The treatment beds, created by fêted Irish designer Clodagh, even feature personal music systems (and to ensure that your relaxation is uninterrupted, air-conditioning units have been sound insulated and all spa telephones are located...
...Maury and the Nile would be "ransomed"-released after their masters had signed written promises stating that their vessels' owners would later pay the Confederate government money equal to the vessels and their cargos. Once the signatures were secured, those two vessels would be allowed to return to safe harbor in San Francisco. The eight others would be burned to the waterline and sunk...
Theodore Roosevelt wanted to fight. By the mid-1890s, inflamed by press reports of Spanish atrocities against Cubans fighting for independence, he strongly favored forcing Spain to give up Cuba or face war. On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded under mysterious circumstances in Havana harbor, killing 266 sailors. Congress declared war against Spain in April and called for volunteers. Among the first was Roosevelt, who said a man "should pay with his body" for his beliefs.He helped raise a cavalry regiment largely from the Southwest and became its lieutenant colonel. The press dubbed them the Rough Riders...
...Secretary of the Navy, a position in which he could act out his ambitions, especially since the Secretary, John D. Long, was a rather sick man and President William McKinley had no great interest in naval matters. On Feb. 15, 1898, when news arrived of the sinking in Havana harbor of the U.S.S. Maine--the event that effectively set off the Spanish-American War--Roosevelt had his opportunity...
...seaboard was an impressive logistical feat, even if it confirmed to the U.S. Navy the limited endurance of the older battleships and produced a remarkable number of desertions in Australian ports. But the world public was not to know of that. A million people had assembled in San Francisco harbor to watch the fleet depart; half a million Australians greeted it in Sydney. Even the anxiously prepared visit to Tokyo Bay had gone well...