: the number of lives lost aboard the coast guard cutter blackthorn after it collided with a passing -foot oil tanker in the waters of tampa bay. and, perhaps most poignantly, the number . that's how old seaman apprentice william flores was when he heroically went down with his ship. as the blackthorn...
west, and an indispensable stopping station of the ancient silk road. / / silk road crosses the great wall smokestacks are visible behind the great wall of china near jiuquan. jiayu pass, lying to the west of jiuquan, is the western starting point of the existing great wall. the pass was a significant...