Saturday, October 20, 2012

10/20/2012 Station Identification and Test Pattern


WELCOME TO AMERICAN ADMIRALTY BOOKS!

Barque:  ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLT II, Named for the Oceanographer
Photo by Hans Georg Schroder


SATURDAY  OCTOBER 20, 2012

NEW TO OUR SITE? WONDER WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT? CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR AN ENTERTAINING VIDEO EXPLANATION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw32RRJY98:
If you want more detail after the video click on the INTRODUCTION page in the right hand margin.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DEATH NOTICE: We regret to inform our readers that Rear Admiral Donald "Mac" Showers USN (Ret,) one of the last living naval intelligence warriors from the Pacific theater of operations in WWII and an eye witness to so much history has passed away. He died at 1:15 PM on Friday October 19, 2012 at Arlington Hospital Center, Arlington, Virginia after a brief admission. Click on this link for more about the life of Admiral Showers http://ctovision.com/2012/10/rear-admiral-donald-mac-showers-from-the-battle-of-midway-to-moonlight-maze-and-beyond/ 
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SPACE AS AN OCEAN. Excerpts from the Book PROTOCOLS.


 Today we examine a potential coming age of sail in Space, let us introduce you to the particle or nano sail .

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We also want to introduce you to a special and beautiful age of sail past here in our own country with a new release available through Amazon:

 GREAT AMERICAN SCHOONER YACHTS by Rudolph Arp  




Great American Schooner Yachts
Illustrations, photos, drawings, plans histories and more on the schooner designs of William Burgess, Cox and Stevens, Samuel Crocker, the greats of  American schooner design  A reference work for yacht designers, and nautical historians ,and a work of art for the rest of us. If you have a serious sailor on your Christmas list  just click on the book cover icon link below and put one of these babies in your Amazon shopping basket
           Click  on this icon to order book       


Speaking of Book Signings Check this out:



Great American Schooner Yachts
By Björn Rudolph Arp

Book signing event open to the public


Aboard the 60’ classic schooner yacht “Tyrone”, built 1939, in the Inner Harbor of Annapolis (Ego Alley)
Tuesday, 23 October, 2012, at 6 p.m.



Visit the 60’ schooner Tyrone, one of the most beautiful classic sailing yachts of the U.S. East Coast and learn about the new book published by Björn Rudolph Arp,owner of the ketch Rendezvous, which he keeps at the Hartge Yacht Harbor.


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Look for a really big sail boat in this place. Meet the author and snatch up a classic , autographed.

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The National Anthem to day is presented with all of the words as written by Francis Scott Key. We have previously presented the mostly forgotten final stanza, but there is more. Click on the link below for the Star Spangled Banner as you have never heard it before. Everything else has been a pale shadow of the original. All words appear in print as well.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiyKiUCiKcE






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