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The San Francisco harbor was clogged with 600 ships at the peak because the ships would get there and the crews would abandon to go search for gold.
But you can see, even just intuit, from this map, that the harbor has dredged and flattened, and went from a rich, three-dimensional mosaic to flat muck in really a matter of years.
And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.
One is to develop a new artificial ecology, a reef out in the harbor, that would then protect new settlement patterns inland and the Gowanus.
Oyster reefs also covered about a quarter of our harbor and were capable of filtering water in the harbor in a matter of days.
And they become the bedrock of any harbor ecosystem.
And they're not like the harbor seals that you have here.
They're not these little harbor seals.
Just before going to lunch with the mayor, we went to the harbor commissioner.
It was a table as long as this carpet and the harbor commissioner was here, and I was here, and my guys.
It's not parents' fault that they harbor feelings of favoritism.
It is as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain to a little fishing village where there are no phones.
That if we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly, that we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare: that it keep us healthy.
And finally, we wanted to see where we could look at what the impact of this structure would be in the marine environment, and we set up a field site at a place called Moss Landing Marine Lab in Monterey Bay, where we worked in a harbor to see what impact this would have on marine organisms.
They would bring prosperity, security, overcome sectarian violence, ensure that states would never again harbor terrorists.
Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.
In 1963, a storm ripped up the harbor in a small South African town called East London, and while he was watching his kids playing with toys made from oxen bones called dolosse, he had the idea for this.
It's a bit like a huge jumping jack, and they have used this in every harbor in the world as a breakwater.
I think we still harbor instincts that can erupt in violence, like greed, tribalism, revenge, dominance, sadism.
I want us, in the next decade, to build a space telescope that'll be able to image an Earth about another star and figure out whether it can harbor life.
Astronomers now believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, and they speculate that up to one fifth of them have an Earth-like planet that might be able to harbor life, but we haven't seen any of them.
We want to see that, see if there's water, oxygen, ozone, the things that might tell us that it could harbor life.
She had heard of an “underground railroad," a secret network of safe houses, boat captains, and wagon drivers willing to harbor fugitive enslaved people on their way north.
But then, in 48 BCE, Julius Caesar laid siege to Alexandria and set the ships in the harbor on fire.
Well, each of us consists of about 10 trillion human cells, but we harbor as many as 100 trillion microbial cells.
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on."
On the day the Syracusia arrived in Egypt on its first and only voyage, we can only imagine how residents of Alexandria thronged the harbor to marvel at the arrival of this majestic, floating castle.
To honor this heroic feat, for 1000 years Athenians painstakingly maintained his ship in the harbor, and annually reenacted his voyage.
We harbor bias.
In 1983, "Days of Our Lives"' Stefano DiMera died of a stroke, but not really, because in 1984 he died when his car plunged into the harbor, and yet he was back in 1985 with a brain tumor.
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