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...financing the library that bears her son’s name. Eleanor, an art connoisseur and collector, furnished Miramar primarily with 18th-century French art and architecture. She used the house as her summer home and frequently held large social events at the estate, often welcoming distinguished military, naval, and official visitors. In 1915—the same year the library and estate were completed—she married then Harvard geography professor Alexander Hamilton Rice. She spent the rest of her life globe-trotting and financing philanthropic institutions including the Red Cross before she died in 1937. The Miramar...
...sophomore Margaret Wang sailed in the A-division. Considered the tenth best collegiate team in the world in August, the women’s team jumped to third in the September 19 standings. The team’s performance at the Regis Bowl, coupled with the No. 2 U.S. Naval Academy’s eighth place finish this weekend, will give the Crimson the opportunity to move up even further in the rankings. This weekend will also prove critical for both teams, as Johnson, Robb, and Kovac enter the New England Men’s Singlehanded Championship for the opportunity...
...example, Cordingly argues that Sir Francis Drake almost single-handedly jump-started the rise of British naval supremacy because he was more or less a sneaky pirate bastard who repeatedly stole everything he could from the Spanish armada with tacit British approval...
...first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy" order sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said to be ready to move by Oct. 1. But inside the Navy those messages generated more buzz than usual last week when a second request, from the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), asked for fresh eyes on long-standing U.S. plans to blockade two Iranian oil ports on the Persian Gulf. The CNO had asked for a rundown...
What's going on? The two orders offered tantalizing clues. There are only a few places in the world where minesweepers top the list of U.S. naval requirements. And every sailor, petroleum engineer and hedge-fund manager knows the name of the most important: the Strait of Hormuz, the 20-mile-wide bottleneck in the Persian Gulf through which roughly 40% of the world's oil needs to pass each day. Coupled with the CNO's request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed...