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...Le Gray’s “Tugboat”, the steamship’s dark plumes gorgeously echoed by the clouds, as emotively atmospheric as a painted seascape, marks not only steam power vanquishing sail but photography’s challenge to...
...The Belfast-based company which built the Titanic presumably took offence....
..., asks the author, in one of many reprises of the colonial steamship metaphor. The Dutch had no doubt they would be the ones back on Deck 1....
...The creation of Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the showrunners behind cult hit Dark, 1899 is set on a migrant steamship on its way to New York and concerns another vessel that has mysteriously gone missing...
...The canal radically cut shipping routes and speed quickly gave way to capacity, favouring larger steamships over clippers....
...A century ago, those networks included steamships, railroads and the telegraph system. Today, they include financial markets, multinational supply chains and the internet....
...A 2019 poll commissioned by ancestry.com, the genealogy company, found that over 20 per cent of Americans couldn’t name even one great-grandparent: I fall into that category....
...“Au revoir” scrawled Charles Holmes, the museum’s director, on one of the stretchers before the painting was crated to travel by steamship and rail to Huntington’s “ranch”....
...But Mainers built the steamship that took Peary to the North Pole, he says, and they also built the carbon-fibre superyacht that set a transatlantic speed record....
...When Charles Dow in 1884 created the inaugural version of the famous indices that bear his name it consisted of nine railroad stocks, a steamship company and Western Union....
...The advent of steamships transported the disease to the world’s great ports, killing more than 10m people. Aeroplanes are pathogen accelerators....
...Firms supposedly exploiting new technologies such as gas lighting, railways and steamship services offered equity; and to facilitate the exchange of cash for paper a new type of financial professional appeared...
...The writer is co-founder and principal of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a consulting firm Roman roads, Chinese gunpowder, British steamships, repeating firearms: great power competition has always been...
...Shipbuilding dwindled and companies such as the Greek Steamship Company, the first such enterprise in Greece, went under; the few that survived mostly did so by moving to London or New York....
...Yet the company’s mission might serve as an inspiration, too....
...Company founder Yuichi Ishii plays a version of himself in the movie; other parts are played by actors who work for Ishii’s agency; yet everything is scripted by Herzog....
...Chinese companies, as well as American and European, operate all over the world....
...Your faithful Passepartout, Jonathan Guthrie Head of Lex *Fogg mostly travelled by train and steamship....
...Her father and her grandfather were chairmen of the company....
...That plan stalled after the Steamship Company launched a legal challenge, prompting a local petition in objection, signed by more than 10,000 people....
...The market-movers of 1896 had solid, descriptive and quietly flag-waving names like Standard Rope & Twine, Pacific Mail Steamship and the North American Company....
...‘No longer here and not yet there’ In 1934, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “on the long-roofed steamship piers one is in a country that is no longer here and not yet there . . ....
...A foundation stone by the entrance dates the building in Pennsylvania to 1938 and its cramped spaces inside give the feel of the engine room of a steamship....
...The first wave of globalisation that created the Great Divergence expanded markets via the falling cost of transporting physical goods, thanks to the steamship and the railway....
...Withings Aura This intelligent bedside clock, designed to look a bit like an old steamship funnel, connects to a long pad placed under the mattress to measure sleep patterns....
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