Sailing

The Red Death. We will come back with more Vikings. Let’s go bud. Dad I was out “sailing” and found the dragons nest. They have a queen which controls them. If will kill the queen the rest will leave. Okay son, my dad said. Let’s go I will take a small boat by myself and retrace my sails. Okay son I trust you, Oswald said, okay let’s move out Vikings. Dad I forgot to mention two things one I didn’t find it sailing a boat I found it flying a dragon. Hahaha, Oswald laughed I already know about the…

leave started to percolate around my 30th anniversary. I began wonder if I had become too comfortable in my situation. After 30 years you tend to develop a “doctorate” in how an organization works. To use the often overused Vanguard sailing metaphor—was I sailing close to shore because I was afraid the world might be flat? So on 04/13/2014, my 54th birthday, Vanguard…

The dolphin pin is one of the greatest pins in the United States Navy. It signifies the mental, emotional, and physical qualifications necessary for sailing on a submarine. The most challenging, though, would be the mental and emotional requirements for sailing. Being in an isolated metal bubble of air hundreds of feet under water really takes a toll on a person’s sanity. It takes a real battle-hardened person to sail on a submarine. Usually, a submarine has no windows to prevent leaks and…

Some of the earliest known evidence of sailing comes from what is today known as the Middle East. The Mesopotamians were no strangers to the movement of goods across great land distances, but they also developed great port cities. Ur was one of the Mesopotamian cities that not only grew, but thrived, at its strategic location where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers enter the Persian Gulf. Located in such a prime location, Ur became a massive epicenter for commerce in the ancient times and was…

go to the tale! “It’s time, for my journey to start!” Announced Yehonatan. “We will all miss you.” Said another villager. “Goodbye my friends! I’m off to achieve my dream of finding the truth of this world!” Promised Yehonatan. After 18 hours of sailing across the sea, he…

about his victory claiming he won the war without the help of the Gods angered Poseidon. This causes Odysseus and his crew unable to return to Ithaca for year thanks to Poseidon's monsters blocking the way. He loses some men on the way. While sailing the wash up on a seemingly deserted island, the wander in a cave to find wine and cheese. They quickly help themselves to this food to later discover that this cave was home to a cyclops. The cyclops traps the men in the cave with him and wait…

From traveling to the Yukon Territory, sailing around the Pacific Ocean, to writing many novels and short stories, Jack London has had a plethora of experiences in his life. Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California to an unmarried mother, Flora Wellman. London was an illegitimate child. Jack’s father left his mother before he was born. His father could have possibly been William Chaney, a popular journalist and figure at the time. Since Jack’s mother was ill…

In 1812 railroad technology and steam engine technology collided changing the known world which helped form the world we know today. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, United Kingdom was the first to use a steam powered locomotive to generate revenue and has been in operaton ever since. The creation of the railroad and how it has connected the world has left it never the same again (railserve.com, n.d.). The railroad soon came to America in 1820 and began to immediately impact society. The “golden…

Everina, died as well. During their residency in Livorno, in 1819, he wrote The Cenci and The Masque of Anarchy and Men of England, a response to the Peterloo Massacre in England. ● On July 8, 1822, just shy of turning 30, Shelley drowned while sailing his schooner back from Livorno to Lerici. Most papers reported Shelley’s death as an accident. However, based on the scene that was discovered on the boat’s deck, others suspected that he might have been murdered by a person who detested his…

Bermuda triangle is the Devil’s Triangle which was used in many articles in the past, when a disappearance first happened. Christopher Columbus is said to be the first to draw attention to the Bermuda Triangle (Kidsworld Magazine). His logs say while sailing they’ve come across strange things. For example, he states a fireball fell from the sky (Kidsworld Magazine). In another log he states that something strange happens to his compass (Kidsworld Magazine). His log about the compass could be…