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...other times, I study photographs of my father from many years ago, or film clips. I don't want to forget how his eyes used to look. Alzheimer's teaches a harsh lesson--that the past is like the rudder of a ship. It keeps you moving through the present, steers you into the future. Without it, without memory, you are unmoored, a wind-tossed boat with no anchor. You learn this by watching someone you love drift away...
...family decide to emigrate to Canada, zoo animals in tow, but their ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi and the tiger?named Richard Parker due to circumstances that would take too long to describe here?bobbing in a lifeboat. With no escape for either, Pi must tame the tiger if they are both going to survive...
...Virginia was born when the sunken remains of the U.S.S. Merrimack were raised, reshaped and covered in iron. Some, especially in the North, still call the ship by its original name...
...FATE OF THE VIRGINIA In the two months after the battle, the two ships moved warily on opposite sides of Hampton Roads. But what the Union Navy couldn't do at sea, the army did by land. The Confederates were forced to evacuate the Norfolk area, and the Virginia was trapped. The ship rode too deep to go upriver, and the Union blockade sealed any sea escape. The crew blew up the Virginia...
Sources: The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Va.; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; U.S. Navy, Naval Historical Center; U.S.S. Monitor: The Ship that Launched a Modern Navy, by Lieut. Edward M. Miller, USN; Navalships Information Group; The Cambrian Foundation