To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks Master Zinja.
On this date in 1958, the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, became the first naval vessel to reach the North Pole, having traveled under the icepack from the Barrow Sea across the North Pole and eventually surfacing north of Greenland.
8 posted on
08/03/2014 10:06:22 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
A dear friend’s brother was lost aboard the Nautilus in 1964. R.I.P., Seaman Cumming.
To: SunkenCiv
Old fogey that I am, I remember this accomplishment. I can remember my parents talking about it at the dinner table.
11 posted on
08/04/2014 7:56:29 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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