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Matthew Fontaine Maury
Matthew Fontaine Maury was an American oceanographer and naval officer, serving the United States and then joining the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
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science · American oceanographer and naval officer (1806–1873) · astronomer · naval officer · geographer · oceanographer · meteorologist · cartographer · educator · historian · writer · geologist · also Matthew Fontaine Maury, M. F. Maury, MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, LL.D, Mattyu Mauri, Maury
Born 14 January 1807 · Died 1 February 1873 · Q114385
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2023· 1 entry
The Academy announced that it had renamed this building in honor of Jimmy Carter, the only Naval Academy graduate to become President of the United States
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2022· 1 entry
As the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington)
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2021· 1 entry
Based on Maury's association with the Confederacy [1], with the school's student moniker changed from "Mariners" to "Bees"
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2020· 1 entry
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the removal of a statue of Maury, erected in 1929 on Richmond's Monument Avenue
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1935· 1 entry
And still used for local high school sports events
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1873· 2 entries
Died 1873-02-01.
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After completing an exhausting state-to-state lecture tour on national and international weather forecasting
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1872· 2 entries
Instead of the comets there was a spectacular meteor shower, indicating that the comet had disintegrated
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Later renamed Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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1865· 1 entry
As "to have cost the Union more vessels than all other causes combined
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1860· 1 entry
Wrote letters to the governors of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland urging them to stop the momentum toward war
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1852· 1 entry
Was between the Wild Pigeon, the John Gilpin, the Flying Fish, and the Trade Wind
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1851· 1 entry
Maury was able to report that the use of his charts had shortened the passage from New York to San Francisco by 40–44 days
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1849· 1 entry
As the gold rush to California was increasing, Maury advocated construction of a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama
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1848· 2 entries
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was formed by the amalgamation of the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists, and the National Institute, of which Maury was a member
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By Benjamin Blake Minor in his publication the Southern Literary Messenger
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1841· 1 entry
Included a letter from him arguing for exploration of the bottom of the ocean, suggesting that this could be done by equipping revenue cutters with trolls to drag the bottom in the areas they were working, and instructin
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1834· 1 entry
And to whom Maury had dedicated his book, wrote "The estimation in which the work is held among those best qualified to appreciate is worth, may be inferred from the fact that a copy has been ordered to be placed on boar
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1825· 2 entries
At 19, Maury obtained, through U
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At the age of 19, with the rank of acting midshipman
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1807· 1 entry
Born 1807-01-14.
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1806· 1 entry
In Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg; his parents were Richard Maury and Diane Minor Maury
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