BY TYMBER ALDAINE
Archive for September, 2022
PLANET DISCOVERED ON THIS DAY IN 1846
New images released this week from NASA’s James Webb
Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet’s
hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light.
German astronomer Johann Gottfried (below) Galle discovered
the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory.
(“The New Observatory in Berlin,” 1838)
Johann Gottfried Galle
(9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910)
EXPLORES RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS IN 1806
Amid much public excitement, American explorers Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis, Missouri, from
the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
had set off more than two years before to explore the territory
of the Louisiana Purchase.
Lewis and Clark statue on Mississippi River.
WHAT AND WHERE IS CAMP LEJEUNE?
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a 246-square-mile
United States military training facility in Jacksonville,
North Carolina.
Its 14 miles of beaches make the base a major area for
amphibious assault training, and its location between
two deep-water ports (Wilmington and Morehead City)
allows for fast deployments.
The main base is supplemented by six satellite facilities:
Marine Corps Air Station New River, Camp Geiger, Stone
Bay, Courthouse Bay, Camp Johnson, and the Greater
Sandy Run Training Area.
The Marine Corps port facility is in Beaufort, at the southern
tip of Radio Island (between the NC State Port in Morehead
City, and the marine science laboratories on Pivers Island
in Beaufort). It is occupied only during military port operations.
In November 2022, it will be hosting a basketball event called
the Armed Forces Classic. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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