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[2] [3] [4] In 1885 Archibald H. Bull founded the British-flagged New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company, which operated the Porto Rico Line. He ran the firm as a British-flagged ship, as he found the operating cost much lower than US-flagged shipping. [5] In 1895 Bull entered into a partnership with Juan Ceballos.
As of January 2009, approximately 2,900 acres (12 km 2) of the former Naval Station was being marketed to the public by the Los Angeles group of Colliers International, [18] on behalf of the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure Program Management Office, [19] as a public auction to commence in the near future. The remaining portion is in the ...
As the surface reflectance or optical thickness increase, the degree of polarization decreases. The Rayleigh sky near the ocean can therefore be highly depolarized. Lastly, there is a clear wavelength dependence in Rayleigh scattering. It is greatest at short wavelengths, whereas skylight polarization is greatest at middle to long wavelengths.
One of the most capable post-war amphibious off-roaders was the German Amphi-Ranger, that featured a hull made of seawater-resistant AlMg2 aluminium alloy. Extensively engineered, this costly vehicle was proven seaworthy at a Gale force 10 storm off the North Sea coast (Pohl, 1998).
For over six decades, El Porto was a county island that was part of the El Segundo Unified School District. In November 1980, the unincorporated town of El Porto, consisting of approximately 34 acres (140,000 m 2) and a population of about 1,185 people, was annexed from the County of Los Angeles by Manhattan Beach.
American Airlines [8] is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights.
Wyatt and Billy are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money.With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.
This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.