 | In the early 19th century sailing ships took about six weeks to cross the Atlantic. With adverse winds or bad weather the journey could take as long as fourteen weeks Atlantic. With adverse winds or bad weather the journey could take as long as fourteen weeks. When this happened passengers would often run short of provisions. Sometime captains made extra profits by charging immigrants high prices for food needed to survive 13.33 Kb.  1 | read |
| The registration andrew j. Peters I have indicated various periods of day and night through colloquial expressions. The Atlanteans measured days from sunrise to sunrise 0.93 Mb. 14 | read |
 | Around the world in seventy-two days It is sometimes difficult to tell exactly what gives birth to an idea. Ideas are the chief stock in trade of newspaper writers and generally they are the scarcest stock in market, but they do come occasionally 0.53 Mb. 10 | read |
| Newsletter 1/2003 january December. Since Margaret and I were going to be spending Christmas and the New Year a bit further south and, hopefully, a bit warmer in Spain 1.44 Mb. 2 | read |
| Welcome to Anderson Kill & Olick's Titanic mock trial. The Story Carla's relatives survived the sinking of the Titantic. The sinking of the Titanic deeply affected Carla and when she died in 1980 she was buried in the nightgown that she wore the night she was lowered in Lifeboat 16 into the dark 194.63 Kb. 2 | read |
| The Fish Market The Fish Market. Copyright 2016 by Lee van der Voo. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N 0.82 Mb. 20 | read |
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