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Only two years earlier, a passage of 180 days from New York to California via Cape Horn was considered respectable. By 1851, 100 days

US Exploratory Expedition, known by insiders as the “Ex Ex.” During Ex Ex’s circumnavigation of the globe, from 1838 to 1842, the small fleet

U.S productivity grew 2.5% per year from 1948-2010, but only 0.7% per year since then

38% decline in red meat consumption by Americans since 1971. Obesity has tripled in same time period.

Earlier clippers such as Sea Witch had achieved speeds of 15 knots in very short bursts. Now, only four years later, Flying Cloud was

One of the programming chiefs of the networks used to say to me: Look, the American public wants is a cheeseburger, and what you’re

So much of all this moved in fits and starts: some successes, many failures; opportunities and possibilities embraced, others ignored. It was a great

The tea and opium trade had caused Hong Kong’s population to explode from a mere 8,000 in 1841 to almost 95,000 by 1860.46 Ujifusa,

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On August 16, 1858, after months of laying and splicing across more than two thousand miles of sea floor, engineers telegraphed the following message