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1 day ago · The four main actions in the Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1, Battle of the Sibuyan Sea; 2, Battle of Surigao Strait; 3, Battle off Cape Engaño; 4, Battle off Samar. Leyte Gulf is north of 2 and west of 4. The island of Leyte is west of the gulf.
- Largest Naval Battle in History
Salamis, September 480 BC. A fleet of 371 Greek ships...
- Marianas Turkey Shoot
The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a major naval battle of...
- Shōji Nishimura
Nishimura was from Akita prefecture in the northern Tōhoku...
- The World Wonders
Nimitz (left) and Halsey in 1943 "The world wonders" is a...
- Clifton Sprague
Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended...
- Hmas Warramunga
HMAS Warramunga (I44/D123) was a Tribal-class destroyer of...
- Largest Naval Battle in History
4 days ago · Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is known for its allusive and experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works in literature. In 1924, it began to appear in installments under the title "fragments from Work in Progress ". The final title was only revealed when the book was published on 4 May 1939.
- James Joyce
- 1939
3 days ago · Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966, but is set around the 1830s-1840s, opening just after slavery is abolished in the UK. It was written by Jean Rhys as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) to “give life to,” in Rhys’ own words, to “the madwoman in the attic.”
3 days ago · One of the most well-known surface ecoregions is the Sargasso Sea, an ecologically distinct region packed with thick, neustonic brown seaweed in the North Atlantic. Multiple ecologically and commercially important species depend on the Sargasso Sea, but neustonic life exists in every ocean basin and may serve a similar, if unrecognised, role in ...
4 days ago · For fans who relish the powerful imagery of gargantuan vessels clashing on the open sea, battleship movies offer a front-row seat to the action. Movie buffs, with a particular zeal for the epic scale of nautical combat, have assembled this list as an homage to the genre.
3 days ago · The Sargasso is a sea within a sea, ie, not bounded by land masses and it roughly aligns with the infamous Bermuda Triangle area, an expanse of two million square miles of ocean. A calm, high-pressure zone, it’s notable as a living ecozone of Sargassum seaweed which, in turn, supports an ecology of green and loggerhead turtles, spawning ...
4 days ago · After the crew of a cargo ship is left adrift in the Sargasso Sea, they encounter a bizarre world populated by monstrous creatures and the remnants of lost civilizations. As they struggle to escape this realm of perpetual twilight, they must battle both supernatural forces and their own fears to survive.
