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The music video for "Party at Ground Zero" was directed by Henry Selick, [1] future director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The video is a homage to The Masque of the Red Death, with Death bringing about a nuclear explosion when he removes his mask. Still frames from the video are featured on the cover of the song's 12-inch single.
The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States. It was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in the world. [3]
The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s ə p iː k / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, connecting the eastern and western shores of Maryland was completed in 1952. Length of the suspension span is 2,922 feet and the roadway is about 200 feet above water at ...
The Chesapeake Bay is a major North American bay, estuary, and geographic region and is located in the central Intracoastal Waterway area of the East Coast of the United States, in Maryland and Virginia.
Scientists view the greater Chesapeake Bay area as a hotspot for local sea level rise. The southern part of the bay has been sinking for centuries. Ice Age glaciers once laid across land to the ...
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899 Ship State Description Forest Hall United Kingdom The barque got in trouble off Porlock, Somerset, England.The Lynmouth Lifeboat Station answered her distress call by taking the lifeboat Louisa (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), pulled by horses and people, overland for 15 miles (24 km) to go to her rescue, climbing 1,423 feet (434 m) during the journey.
The Chesapeake Bay Flotilla was a motley collection of barges and gunboats that the United States assembled under the command of Joshua Barney, an 1812 privateer captain, to stall British attacks in the Chesapeake Bay which came to be known as the "Chesapeake campaign" during the War of 1812.