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At random: USS TRITON, the only American made twin reactor submarine ever built, on May 10, 1960, completed the first totally submerged non-trivial circumnavigation of the world when she followed the route of Ferdinand Magellan for 36,000 miles during 84 days beneath the surface.

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Sid Harrison

Posted 2009-11-25 8:24 AM (#32620)

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Subject: Happy Evacuation Day

By Jeremiah Horrigan
November 25, 2009

The British weren't coming — the British were gone.

Source: recordonline.com
More: INFO.com Research

That was the message Gen. George Washington communicated to the
newly independent nation 226 years ago, on Nov. 25, 1783, the day
Washington officially "took back" Manhattan from the British.

Without benefit of Paul Revere or Western Union, the victorious
general relied on burning beacons set along the Hudson Highlands to
celebrate the day, now known as Evacuation Day.

On Nov. 25 of this year, the memory of those beacons and the
message they brought to the country will be invoked along the same
hilltops by a variety of historical groups and agencies.

It won't be an exact replication of the original wooden beacons, which
were 20 feet high and stuffed with dried grass. The upcoming
memorial will rely on electricity to get its message across.

Look for 12 searchlights along the 108 miles between Beacon and
Princeton, N.J., to be lit sequentially from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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