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England, a packet ship of the Black Ball Line. The Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line was founded in 1817 and began shipping operations in 1818. At some point in the line's history it became known as the Old Line and eventually became known as the Black Ball Line after the 1840s. [1] The Black Ball Line pioneered regularly scheduled ...
The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple 's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor, [ 2] but it is also known by other names. These include, but are not limited to, the spinning beach ball ...
Captain Richard Merrill, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Of the nine companies landing in the first wave, only Company A of the 116th RCT at Dog Green and the Rangers to their right landed where intended. E/116, aiming for Easy Green, ended up scattered across the two beaches of the 16th RCT area. G/116, aiming for Dog White, opened up a 1,000-yard (900 m) gap between themselves and A/116 to their right ...
James Baines & Co. of Liverpool was a British shipping company, most famous for the Liverpool Black Ball Line of Australian Packets, a fleet of packet ships running cargo and passenger services between Liverpool, England, and Australia in the second half of the 1800s. [1] [2] It also traded in India and Crimea.
The ball, held in a tent outside Tavern on the Green, was a charity event that raised $1.4 million for the Alzheimer's Association. [15] In anticipation of selling the contents of the Plaza Hotel, Christie's Auction House recreated the Black and White Ball in 2006 at Rockefeller Center.
A beach ball is an inflatable ball for beach and water games. Their large size and light weight require little effort to propel them. They became popular in the beach-themed films of the 1960s starring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon. These movies include Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party, Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.
It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only six samples have ever been documented. Now, experts in New Zealand are scrambling ...
Computing. In computing terminology, black-and-white is sometimes used to refer to a binary image consisting solely of pure black pixels and pure white ones; what would normally be called a black-and-white image, that is, an image containing shades of gray, is referred to in this context as grayscale. [ 2]