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Pay Dept (Department) 208 3 / 4 lbs of Beef The location is at the top of the left hand page: Panama, which at that time was part of the United States of Columbia . Note that there is nothing that needs to be transcribed on this events page. However, reading the events page is my favorite part of tr...

NASA Earth Observatory - 2000 https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/0/625/vortex_eob.jpg Landsat 7 Reveals Large-scale Fractal Motion of Clouds 8 (September 15, 1999) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Selkirk_Island "The highest peak, Cerro de Los Inocentes, rises to 1,268 m...

https://www.weatherforyou.com/weather_history/5-30 1948 - A railroad bed acting as a dam gave way during a flood along the Columbia River destroying the town of Vanport, OR. The nearly 19,000 residents escaped with little more than the clothes on their backs. (David Ludlum) 1948 - Twenty carloads o...

https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/

1996 — CGC Yocona was decommissioned in Kodiak, Alaska. Yocona had been in Coast Guard service since 1946.

https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by- ... cona-1946/

https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/14th-of-may-today-in-naval-history-naval-maritime-events-in-history.2104/page-201#post-64137 1814 — US Navy gunboats capture three British boats from HMS Montreal and HMS Niagara on Lake Ontario near Sandy Creek, NY 1864 — During the Civil War, the side-whe...

The transition to older, handwritten logs is a bit of a shock, but I think they are a lot more interesting once you get used to them. Feel free to do another month or so of Sacramento. Or, since March 1 is a bit confusing due to the inserts, start with March 2 : https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstor...

https://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_May_29 1982: Two significant tornadoes ripped through southern Illinois. The most severe was an F4 that touched down northeast of Carbondale, Illinois then moved to Marion. The twister had multiple vortices within the main funnel. Extensive da...

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Just remember: As you sow so shall you (-c)

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February 3 — Hampton Roads

From 8 Am to Meridian
All hands employed in getting snow off the decks.

B7 across reversed PUPPIES

https://www.weather.gov/abr/This_Day_in_Weather_History_May_28 1880: An estimated F4 tornado hit Savoy, Texas. The storm killed 14 people, and 60 others were injured. It leveled the entire business and northeast residential sections. The tornado was described as "a funnel blazing with balls of...

https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/ 1938 — CGC Icarus, patrol boats CG-176 and CG-135 as well as motor lifeboats from stations Rockaway Point and Sandy Hook responded to a distress call after the collision of two vessels, the SS Acadia and SS Mandalay, in New York Harbor. The Coast Gua...

Victory During Peacetime: Partnerships Mattered in 1909 as the Great White Fleet Returns Home