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  • ...raft carrier of the 20th century, from 1945 to 1992. Approximately 200,000 sailors served aboard the carrier, known for several naval aviation breakthroughs a * [[American Heritage Merit Badge Activity Planner|American Heritage]]
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  • ...ience. Scouts can become certified Lifeguards with Red Cross, Sailors with American Sailing Association, do overnight with our War Canoe Program or Day Trip to ...r Corner (coming March 1, 2020), American Red Cross Lifeguard and CPR, and American Sailing Association Small Boat Certification. Leaders must be registered wi
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  • Later in 1943 she transited the [[Panama Canal]] and joined the American fleet of fast battleships in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. There she served in se ...istoric Landmark WWII submarine USS DRUM (SS-228). The DRUM is the oldest American submarine on public display, and we invite you to come and learn about her
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  • ...ience. Scouts can become certified Lifeguards with Red Cross, Sailors with American Sailing Association, do overnight with our War Canoe Program or Day Trip to
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  • ...r ''starter'' was frequently used to administer the lightest discipline to sailors, while [[knittles]] or the fearsome [[cat o' nine tails]] was used for more *Smith, Bruce&Padgett, Allen, 1996. ''On Rope. North American Vertical Rope Techniques'', National Speleological Society, Huntsville, Ala
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  • ...ngled in social [[controversies]] such as the civil rights struggle in the American South and in nationalist [[resistance movements]] in India. Scouting was in ...erred only the techniques to non-military hero's: backwoodsman, explorers, sailors and airmen.<ref name="Varsity">{{cite book | last = Baden_Powell| first = R
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  • | nationality = American ...il 22, 1944 &ndash; [[circa|c.]] September 3, 2007) was an [[United States|American]] [[businessman]], and a record-setting [[aviator]], [[sailor]], and [[adve
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  • ...survival]]) to non-military heroes: backwoodsmen, explorers (and later on, sailors and airmen).<ref name="Varsity" /> He also added innovative educational pri ...but the underlying assumption that [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] are more closely connected with nature and therefore have special
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  • ...rabic. The first European mention of a magnetized needle and its use among sailors occurs in Alexander Neckam's ''De naturis rerum'' (On the Natures of Things ...ric C. Lane, “The Economic Meaning of the Invention of the Compass,” ''The American Historical Review'', Vol. 68, No. 3. (Apr., 1963), pp. 605-617.
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