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Ships can give you moments of subliminal happiness but they can also stretch you in ways you never thought possible.
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― The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
― The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
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Juet's journal frequently records how only a tiny quantity of alcohol was needed to get the Indians drunk, 'for they could not take it'; and tales of the drunkenness that greeted Hudsons' arrival persisted among the native Indians until the last century. Indeed Heckewelder claims that the name Manhattan is derived from the drunkenness that took place there, since the Indian word 'manahactanienk' means 'the island of general intoxication'.
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― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
