Origin And Continuing Evolution of Our Home Page and Notices
Alexander von Humboldt, Self portrait in Paris, 1814{PD-US) , / S/V ALEXANDER HUMBOLT (CCO)
ABOUT OUR CURRENT "HOME
PAGE" AND "NOTICE BOARD"
As our site has grown, and it is just getting started, we have found it necessary to use some visual markers to help the casual visitor through the site. Most particularly, we found the actual daily blog postings have become quite numerous and give every indication of becoming more so. We try to provide information to our very diverse audience who share a community of interest in things maritime, nautical, or ocean related. While that broadly stated interest is a unifying theme for our community of readers, the maritime world is very broad and generates a lot of information. So, as an aid in making the blog postings easier to understand visually, we have decided to start each "cyber publishing day" with what we used to call our "Station ID and Notice Board" and now call simply "Home Page and Notices. The highly recognizable though changing "HOME PAGE marks the start of a new day's postings since its instigation. It also provides us with a sort of community bulletin board where we may exhibit things we want to bring your attention to as the cyber publishing day wears on. In the interest of efficiency a few months ago we stopped redoing the HOME PAGE daily and started using two basic formats. One is the Home Page for the "WORK WEEK: which usually features an image of a large sailing vessel. For the WEEK END EDITION we shift to the image of a smaller recreational boat, often from a vendor of build it yourself boat plans.
We chose as our weekday Home Page images visually interesting vessels of significance to the search for, publication, analysis, and preservation of maritime knowledge. Over many months we have featured the green sails of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III more than any other vessel. In the case of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III this criteria is as true of the ship's name sake as the ship. The ship's name sake was Fridrich Wilhelm von Humbolt. Humbolt was born on September 14, 1769 and died May 6, 1859. A Prussian by birth he was considered a leading geographer, naturalist, and explorer of his day. Humbolt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the modern field of biogeography.
He explored South America between 1789 and 1804 and over the space of 21 years produced extensive volumes of descriptive literature on the biodiversity of South America.
This hyperlink will take you to a more complete biography:
ALEXANDER HUMBOLT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
The sailing ship ALEXANDER von HUMBOLT II was built as a training ship and educational excursion vessel. To view a four minute video of the ship, its educational mission, and life aboard click on this hyperlink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RGNd7mxaQ This next hyperlink will take you to a site describing the ship's original owners the German Sail Training Association: http://www.globalcruiseship.com/ship/German-Sail-Training-Foundation,-Bremerhaven/Alexander-von-Humboldt-II.html
WE HAVE USED THE IMAGE OF THIS SHIP MORE OFTEN THAN ANY OTHER SIMPLY BECAUSE WE LIKE THE IMAGE AND NAME BETTER THAN THE OTHER SHIPS WE PERIODICALLY USE. WE ARE AS CERTAIN AS A DUE DILIGENCE SEARCH CAN MAKE US THAT WE ARE USING IMAGES OF THE SHIP THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE SHIP IS NOT A TRADEMARK OF THIS SITE, THE AAB, AAIS OR ANY INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED WITH EITHER ORGANIZATION. WE DO NOT INTEND THROUGH USAGE TO CLAIM ANY SPECIAL RIGHT TO THE IMAGES.
If you would like to nominate a ship for our future HOME PAGE use drop us a comment. Or let us know what you think of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III as a permanent Station ID. If you have any information on the copyright status of the image of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III as other than public domain, please notify us. In fact if you have any background information on the particular image of this ship as it appears on our Home Page please leave us a comment. We may settle on the image as the semi permanent Home Page illustration, but this assumes the image is as the best of our information indicates now in the public domain. By regularizing its use on our home page we would have no intention of claiming trademark or copy right status for the image.
He explored South America between 1789 and 1804 and over the space of 21 years produced extensive volumes of descriptive literature on the biodiversity of South America.
This hyperlink will take you to a more complete biography:
ALEXANDER HUMBOLT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
The sailing ship ALEXANDER von HUMBOLT II was built as a training ship and educational excursion vessel. To view a four minute video of the ship, its educational mission, and life aboard click on this hyperlink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RGNd7mxaQ This next hyperlink will take you to a site describing the ship's original owners the German Sail Training Association: http://www.globalcruiseship.com/ship/German-Sail-Training-Foundation,-Bremerhaven/Alexander-von-Humboldt-II.html
WE HAVE USED THE IMAGE OF THIS SHIP MORE OFTEN THAN ANY OTHER SIMPLY BECAUSE WE LIKE THE IMAGE AND NAME BETTER THAN THE OTHER SHIPS WE PERIODICALLY USE. WE ARE AS CERTAIN AS A DUE DILIGENCE SEARCH CAN MAKE US THAT WE ARE USING IMAGES OF THE SHIP THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. THE SHIP IS NOT A TRADEMARK OF THIS SITE, THE AAB, AAIS OR ANY INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATED WITH EITHER ORGANIZATION. WE DO NOT INTEND THROUGH USAGE TO CLAIM ANY SPECIAL RIGHT TO THE IMAGES.
If you would like to nominate a ship for our future HOME PAGE use drop us a comment. Or let us know what you think of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III as a permanent Station ID. If you have any information on the copyright status of the image of the ALEXANDER Von HUMBOLT III as other than public domain, please notify us. In fact if you have any background information on the particular image of this ship as it appears on our Home Page please leave us a comment. We may settle on the image as the semi permanent Home Page illustration, but this assumes the image is as the best of our information indicates now in the public domain. By regularizing its use on our home page we would have no intention of claiming trademark or copy right status for the image.
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