Nantucket Camel Ride
Today is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 20th, 1809. He is know for rising from poverty, working as a rail splitter, and as a self-taught country lawyer before being elected as a congressman and ultimately as president. As commander in chief during a bloody civil war, he preserved the union and became known as the “Great Emancipator’ for his role in ending slavery.
Lincoln is less well-known as an inventor, yet he is the only president in this country’s history to have a patent issued in his name. Here is an updated repost of the tale of a patent granted to Abraham Lincoln for a device to lift boats and ships over sandbars.
In the early 1800s, the entrance to the harbor of the great whaling port of Nantucket had shoaled in. Fully loaded whaling ships could not cross the bar and return to the docks beyond Brandt Point. For years the ships anchored offshore and were lightered, the barrels of whale oil loaded into smaller boats that could make it across the bar.
In honor of Black History Month, an updated repost about the first African-American pilot in the US Navy, 
An updated repost in honor of Black History Month. 
The good news is that a pod of orcas trapped by drift ice in waters off Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido appears to have successfully escaped.
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