Re: ON TOPIC: TV TONIGHT....



On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:34:37 GMT, Wizard of Woodstock
<wizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

National Geographic Channel at 8 PM - the building of an Artic ice
breaker and cargo ship.

Should be very interesting.

They built a fair sized tanker with an icebreaker bow. The SS
Manhattan was the only commercial ship to traverse the Northwest
Passage, in 1969.
..
Casady
.



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