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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Pirate Cats travel to the 18th Century to do what they do best...be pirates! So they steal an old ship sailing on the Indian Ocean to pillage the East India Company's merchant ships! It's up to Geronimo Stilton to travel through time, become a sailor, and stop the cats from changing history forever! Will Geronimo get his sea legs in time to save the day.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This program is a thrilling investigation carried out around the globe. It takes us behind the scenes of the sea shipping business, revealing the mechanics and perils of a powerful, secret and highly unregulated industry that holds the key to our global economy, our environment and the very model of our civilization. 90% of everything we consume comes from overseas, which makes sea shipping the true backbone of today's globalised economy. This documentary...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Can eight teenagers find their way home from 5,000 light-years away? It's the year 2063, and interstellar space travel has become the norm. Eight students from Caird High School and one child set out on a routine planet camp excursion. While there, the students are mysteriously transported 5,000 light-years away to the middle of nowhere! Will they ever make it back home? Conspiracies begin to unravel as the truth behind the Astracrew members' circumstances...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2000
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the 20th century, unionization and innovation totally reshaped the centuries-old maritime shipping industry. Beginning with a rich portrayal of life as a longshoreman in the early 1900s, this program chronicles organized labor's long-fought battles for respect and good wages-gains ultimately stripped of their meaning by the introduction of a whole new way of moving cargoes between land and sea: the container. The intertwined biographies...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2000
Language
English
Description
Historical preservation does not stop at the water's edge. This program goes to the shipyards where floating treasures of America's past are being restored and then talks with the activists and aficionados who are determined to preserve the nation's maritime heritage. Featured vessels include the John W. Brown, one of only two operational World War II-era Liberty Ships; the majestic Coronet, the last of the great Victorian schooner yachts; and the...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Off the coast of North Carolina, marine archaeologists have discovered the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the pirate Blackbeard's flagship. Their careful preservation and analysis of the remains are helping to solve the biggest mystery about the infamous pirate's reign: Was the ship's sinking an accident or was the grounding a carefully laid plot by Blackbeard?
Pub. Date
[2010], c1944
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Henry Kaiser witnesses the launching of a liberty ship. 2. Henry Wallace meets Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking and plays volleyball with U.S. soldiers. 3. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau opens the U.N. Monetary Conference in New Hampshire. 4. President Roosevelt and others greet de Gaulle at the White House; General de Gaulle speaks to the American people from New York City.
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