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The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Frank Mundus (October 21, 1925 – September 10, 2008) was a fisherman and charter captain based in Montauk, New York who is said to be the inspiration for the character Quint in the book and movie Jaws. [1] [2] He started out as a shark hunter but later became a shark
Bin for storage of fish, 1931. [31] Refrigerating apparatus and method of refrigerating food products, 1931. [32] Fish scaling device, 1933. [33] Consumer package of meat products, 1933. [34] Food product and method of preparing the same, 1934. [35] Freezing and packaging food products, 1934. [36] Method and apparatus for freezing food products ...
Animated intro, featuring a caricature of Bill Cosby.. Picture Pages is a 1978–1984 American educational television program aimed at preschool children, presented by Bill Cosby—teaching lessons on basic arithmetic, geometry, word association and drawing through a series of interactive lessons that used a workbook that viewers would follow along with the lesson.
Due to the ill health of his father, Reverend John Jones, [2] he began working at the age of ten in 1849, beginning an apprenticeship at the Lehigh Crane Iron Works, under David Thomas who was a friend of his father's in Wales. During this time, he was learning the skills which would help him become a leading figure in the industry years later. [2]
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[4] Country captain originated in India as a simple spatchcock poultry or game recipe involving onions and curry and possibly enjoyed by British officers. [4] [5] One theory is that an early 19th-century British sea captain, possibly from the East India Company, [6] working in the spice trade introduced it to the American South via the port of ...
The captain or master is the ship's highest responsible officer, acting on behalf of the ship's owner. Whether the captain is a member of the deck department or not is a matter of some controversy, and generally depends on the opinion of an individual captain. When a ship has a third mate, the captain does not stand watch.