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Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe met at the restaurant on a blind date in 1952. [2] After operating for 28 years, Villa Nova closed in 1968 and the building re-opened as the Windjammer until it closed in 1971. The restaurant was founded in early 1972 by Gary Stromberg and Bob Gibson, heads of the PR firm Gibson & Stromberg.
The five-masted Preussen was the largest ship-rigged sailing ship ever built, measuring 5,081 GRT.. Iron-hulled sailing ships were mainly built from the 1870s to 1900, when steamships began to outpace them economically, due to their ability to keep a schedule regardless of the wind.
The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.
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In a September 2005 Food & Wine story titled "Vietnam à la Cart," writer Laurie Winer noted that Charles Phan's decade-old San Francisco restaurant the Slanted Door was considered by many to be ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents as he issues executive orders and pardons for January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on Inauguration Day in Washington, U.S ...
A windjammer is a commercial sailing ship with multiple masts that may be square rigged, or fore-and-aft rigged, or a combination of the two. The informal term "windjammer" arose during the transition from the Age of Sail to the Age of Steam during the 19th century.