Deep-sea Jellyfish Atolla
The animals documented in this series, however, were collected from varying depth levels throughout the Queensland coast and photographed on the surface.
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Before he was ever a New York Yankee, George Steinbrenner III was born into an Ohio shipping family. After attending Williams college, Steinbrenner served a stint in the U.S. Air Force, picked up a master's degree in physical education from Ohio State University and went on to assistant football-coaching positions at Northwestern and Purdue universities. In 1957, Steinbrenner returned to Ohio to help run his father's Kinsman Marine Transit Company and later the American Shipbuilding Company.
Ever since the Soviet era, organized, clandestine agents from the Motherland have operated in the West with daring and ingenuity.
The Longest Game
No matter who ends up winning at Wimbledon in 2010, the grand slam will surely be best remembered for the first round match between Nicolas Mahut of France and John Isner of the United States. Their match stretched over three days and lasted a cumulative 11 hours, 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest match ever in tennis history.
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An island off the coast of Yemen is home to hundreds of plants found nowhere else on earth.
Four-Star General
General Stanley McChrystal was appointed commander of the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in the spring of 2009. In his initial assessment of the country McChrystal wrote that Afghanistan was on the brink of collapse. "Inadequate resources," he wrote, "will likely result in failure." President Obama subsequently approved the depolyment of 30,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan.
Outbreak
Violence erupted in Osh on June 11, as tension between Kyrgyz and Uzbek groups erupted in killings and the destruction of property. Most of the violence was aimed at the local Uzbek minority, which owns many of the businesses in Osh, a large city in southern Kyrgyzstan.
Setting Sail
Abby Sunderland, 16, gets a hug from a friend on January 23, the day she first set off in her 40-foot sailboat Wild Eyes in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
Toy Story, 1995
Pixar brought the world "to infiniti -- and beyond" with Toy Story, Hollywood's first fully computer-generated feature film. The company became a household name overnight and started the studio down its path of critical and box office success.
