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Brigantine (or simply The Island) is a city in Atlantic County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 7,716, [12] a decrease of 1,734 (−18.3%) from the 2010 census count of 9,450, [22] [23] which in turn reflected a decline of 3,144 (−25.0%) from the 12,594 counted in the 2000 census. [24]
The San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) was a San Diego–based, light rail mass transit system founded by Spreckels in 1892. Spreckels' strategy involved buying up several failed downtown horse- and cable-drawn trolley routes, consolidating and standardizing the trackage, and electrifying the resulting unified street railway system.
Upon completion it was hauled to The Knight & Carver Boatyard on San Diego's Mission Bay and launched on October 25, 1989. The nine spars were shaped from old growth Douglas fir shipped from a mill in Washington State. The ship was originally rigged as a brigantine carrying three yards on the foremast.
After the sloop the brigantine was the next-most popular rig for ships built in the British colonies in North America before 1775 [6] The brigantine was swifter and more easily maneuvered than a sloop or schooner, hence was employed for piracy, espionage, and reconnoitering, and as an outlying attendant upon large ships for protecting a ship ...
Galilee was a brigantine, built in 1891, designed by Matthew Turner.She started on the packet line between San Francisco and Tahiti and was reckoned a very fast ship. In 1905 she was chartered by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and converted into a magnetic observatory.
The San Diego Daily Transcript is a business-oriented online newspaper. San Diego is also the headquarters of the national far-right cable TV channel One America News Network (OANN), which was founded in 2013 and is owned by Herring Networks.
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, usually referred to as Cardiff, is a beach community in the incorporated city of Encinitas in San Diego County, California.The Pacific Ocean is to the west of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the rest of incorporated Encinitas is to the east and north, and a beach and lagoon to the south.
SDHL # [1] Landmark name [2] Image Address [2] Designation Date [2] Description [3]; 1: El Prado Area: Balboa Park: 9/7/1967 Long, wide promenade running through the center of Balboa Park, lined with Spanish Revival buildings including the Museum of Us, The San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Natural History Museum, the Fleet Science Center, and the Timken Museum of Art