...on a 14-month round-the-world voyage at the order of President Theodore Roosevelt, who wanted to demonstrate American sea power. In 1950, President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "world conquest by Communist...

...Blaricom's "Sea Otters" (2001) estimates the sea otters in the North Pacific in 1741 at 200,000. Although the American sea otter population was reduced by commercial harvest to just a few hundred animals between 1742 and 1911, the population...

...trade publication Variety came out with its first weekly issue. In 1907, 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which came to be known as the "Great White Fleet," set sail on a 14-month round-the-world voyage to demonstrate American sea power.