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unusual facts about Fathom.com


Ann Kirschner

A veteran of five start-ups, she launched NFL.COM for the National Football League and was the former co-founder of Columbia University's interactive knowledge network, Fathom.com She is now the University Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York.


Austrian units of measurement

In 1756 the ruling Archduchess of Austria Maria Teresia ordered that, Vienna fathom as well the multiplications or fractions of it should be the state defined measures of length in Archduchy of Austria and Kingdom of Hungary.

Jervis Bay

Popular diving sites include The Labyrinths, Gorgonian Wall, Point Perpendicular, a Fairey Firefly aeroplane, scallop beds, Middle Ground, Ten Fathom Reef, and Bowen Island.

Lew Dietz

Other books included The Story of Boothbay (1937), Camden Hills. An Informal History of the Camden-Rockport Region (1947), The Allagash, (1968, 1978, 2001), originally published as part of the Rivers of America Series); Touch of Wildness A Maine Woods Journal (1970); Pines for the King's Navy, (1955), concerning the struggle among settlers, Indians, and the British king for Maine's timber, and Full Fathom Five (1958), illustrated by his wife, the artist Denny Winter.


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