There are few Dutch names that survive around here - Spuyten Duyvil, Staten Island, Dyckman Street - and the Tappan Zee - a wide zee or bay 15 miles north of Manhattan. They are painting the bridge - which requires sandblasting it first. On a barge beneath the east tower is a set of generators and compressors that blast sand up and suck the residue down. We took a ride there yesterday on the Alice a 1963 Dyercraft 29. (click on pix to enlarge)
Chinese Nationals Missing From Ghana Waters After Suspected Piracy
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By Christian Akorlie ACCRA, March 29 (Reuters) – Three Chinese nationals
are missing from Ghanaian waters and believed to have been kidnapped after
a “susp...
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