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In the United States , 30 Seconds to Mars entered the Billboard 200 at number 107 on the issue dated September 14 , 2002 . It also debuted at number one on the Top Heatseekers . After nine weeks , it fell to number 40 , with sales of over 40 @,@ 000 units . As of August 2006 , Nielsen SoundScan estimates actual sales ... |
In France , 30 Seconds to Mars debuted at number 142 on the national albums chart on October 5 , 2002 . After its release to the Australian market , the album entered the ARIA Charts at number 95 on the issue dated June 11 , 2007 . It peaked at number 89 the following week . In Greece , it entered the national albums ... |
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All songs written and composed by Jared Leto , except where noted .
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Credits adapted from 30 Seconds to Mars album liner notes .
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= Action of 27 June 1798 =
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The Action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea . The engagement formed part of a wider campaign , in which a major French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria at the start of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt . The French f... |
Lookouts on Seahorse spotted Sensible at 16 : 00 on 26 June and Captain Edward Foote immediately gave chase , the French frigate fleeing southwards . For 12 hours the pursuit continued until Foote was able to catch and defeat his opponent , inflicting heavy casualties on the weaker and overladen French frigate . Among... |
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On 19 May 1798 , a French fleet departed Toulon for a top secret destination . The force consisted of 22 warships and 120 transports , to be joined by additional forces from Genoa , Corsica and Civitavecchia as it passed south through the Ligurian Sea . The fleet 's target was Egypt , a territory nominally controlled ... |
With Malta secure , Bonaparte seized the Maltese army and navy , adding them to his own forces . He garrisoned Valletta and among the wealth he appropriated from the island was the entire property of the Roman Catholic Church in the island . Much of this was auctioned off , while other treasures were to be transported... |
Although Bonaparte had not expected British interference in his operations against Egypt , the Royal Navy had responded to the reports of French mobilisation on the south coast by despatching a small squadron to the Ligurian Sea under Rear @-@ Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson . Arriving on 21 May , Nelson 's squadron was st... |
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One of the British reinforcements cruising in the Central Mediterranean in June was the frigate HMS Seahorse , commanded by Captain Edward Foote . Seahorse was officially rated as a 38 @-@ gun ship , but in reality carried 46 guns , including 14 32 @-@ pounder carronades , very heavy short @-@ range cannon . Foote had... |
For 12 hours Sensible fled southwards , but Foote 's pursuit was relentless and Bourdé found the distance between his frigate and Seahorse gradually disappearing . At 04 : 00 on 27 July , with the island of Pantelleria 36 miles ( 58 km ) to the northwest , Foote was able to pull Seahorse alongside his opponent and ope... |
Foote removed much of the treasure and prisoners from Sensible before despatching the vessel under a prize crew to Earl St. Vincent in the Tagus . Among the goods seized from the frigate were copies of the French naval code books , as well as information about the destination of Bonaparte 's invasion fleet . Sailing i... |
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Earl St Vincent was suffering from an extreme shortage of frigates , and on the arrival of Sensible at the Tagus immediately ordered the frigate to be commissioned as HMS Sensible , stripping six men from each of his ships to man her and turning the frigate into an active warship in just 12 hours . For a year Sensible... |
General d 'Hilliers and the other prisoners were taken to Britain , but the officers were soon paroled . On their return to France , d 'Hilliers and Bourdé were court martialled and initially condemned by the Minister of Marine Étienne Eustache Bruix . Bruix believed that the ship had been too easily surrendered and p... |
= Xavier Mertz =
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Xavier Mertz ( 6 October 1882 – 8 January 1913 ) was a Swiss explorer , mountaineer and skier , from Basel . He took part in the Far Eastern Party , a 1912 – 13 component of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition , which claimed his life . The Mertz Glacier is named after him .
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The son of a textile machinery manufacturer , Mertz studied patent law at the University of Bern , and science at the University of Lausanne , specialising in glacier and mountain formations . While a student , Mertz became active as a skier , competing in national competitions , and as a mountaineer , climbing many o... |
In the summer of 1912 – 13 , Mertz and Ninnis were chosen by Mawson to accompany him on the Far Eastern Party , using the dogs to push rapidly from the expedition 's base in Adélie Land towards Victoria Land . After Ninnis and a sledge carrying most of the food disappeared down a crevasse , 311 miles ( 501 km ) from t... |
= = Early life = =
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Xavier Mertz was born in Basel , the son of Emile Mertz , who owned a large engineering firm in the city . With the aim of working in the family business , which manufactured textile machinery , Mertz attended the University of Bern , where he studied patent law . While in Bern , he became active as a mountaineer and ... |
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In early 1911 , Mertz went to London to meet with the Australian geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson , who had served as physicist during Ernest Shackleton 's 1908 – 09 Nimrod Expedition , was planning his own Antarctic expedition . In his application letter , Mertz wrote that he hoped Mawson would be using... |
On the Aurora , Mertz met Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers . Like Mertz , Ninnis was responsible for the expedition 's dogs ; Aurora 's captain , John King Davis , regarded the pair as " idlers " . " I wish we had some one on board who could look after [ the dogs ] , " he wrote in hi... |
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Over the following winter , preparations were made for the summer sledging . Because the conditions — constant , strong winds and an excessive slope by the hut — prevented Mertz from conducting skiing lessons as regularly as intended , he focussed instead on helping Ninnis to care for the dogs . On days when the weath... |
The two [ Mertz and Ninnis ] had joined the Expedition together in London , and had been associated longer and in a more intimate manner than any other members of the Expedition . During the winter months we had all been drawn together , but between Mertz and Ninnis there existed a very deep bond . Mertz , in his warm... |
In August , the preparations extended to laying depots ; an early party established a depot 5 @.@ 5 miles ( 8 @.@ 9 km ) to the south of the main hut — a grotto in the ice known as Aladdin 's Cave — but returned without the dogs . Mertz and two others set off to rescue the dogs , but in heavy winds covered less than a... |
In September , Mertz , Ninnis and Herbert Murphy formed a survey party , man @-@ hauling to the south @-@ east of Aladdin 's cave . In strong winds , they travelled just 12 @.@ 5 miles ( 20 @.@ 1 km ) in three days , before the temperature dropped to − 34 ° C ( − 29 ° F ) and the wind speed increased to 90 miles per h... |
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On 27 October 1912 , Mawson outlined the summer sledging program . Mertz and Ninnis were assigned to Mawson 's own party , which would use the dogs to push quickly to the east of the expedition 's base in Commonwealth Bay , towards Victoria Land . The party departed Cape Denison on 10 November , heading first to Aladd... |
On 14 December , the party were more than 311 miles ( 501 km ) from the Cape Denison hut . As Mertz skied ahead , singing songs from his student days , Ninnis , the largest sledge and the strongest dog team were lost when they broke through the snow lid of a crevasse . Together with the death of their companion , Maws... |
He [ Mertz ] is very weak , becomes more and more delirious , rarely being able to speak coherently . He will eat or drink nothing . At 8 pm he raves & breaks a tent pole . Continues to rave & call ' Oh Veh , Oh Veh ' [ O weh ! , ' Oh dear ! ' ] for hours . I hold him down , then he becomes more peaceful & I put him q... |
Mawson buried Mertz in his sleeping bag under rough @-@ hewn blocks of snow , along with the remaining photographic plates and an explanatory note . Mawson staggered back into the Cape Denison hut a month later , missing the Aurora by a matter of hours ; she had waited for Mertz , Mawson and Ninnis for three weeks unt... |
= = Legacy = =
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In November 1913 , a month before the Aurora returned for the final time , Mawson and the six men remaining at Cape Denison erected a memorial cross for Mertz and Ninnis on Azimuth Hill to the north @-@ west of the main hut . The cross , constructed from pieces of a broken radio mast , was accompanied by a plaque cut ... |
The cause of Mertz 's death is not certain ; at the time , it was believed Mertz may have died of colitis . A 1969 study by Sir John Cleland and R. V. Southcott of the University of Adelaide concluded that the symptoms Mawson described — hair , skin and weight loss , depression , dysentery and persistent skin infectio... |
= Washington State Route 162 =
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State Route 162 ( SR 162 ) is a 17 @.@ 37 @-@ mile @-@ long ( 27 @.@ 95 km ) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington , serving rural Pierce County . The highway travels from an interchange with SR 410 in Sumner and travels south along the Puyallup River to Orting and northeast to South Prairie , ending at an int... |
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SR 162 begins at a diamond interchange with the SR 410 freeway in Sumner and travels south as a continuation of Valley Avenue , crossing the Puyallup River . The highway continues south through rural Pierce County , following a Ballard Terminal Railroad line and the Puyallup River . It serves the community of Alderton... |
Every year , the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume . This is expressed in terms of average annual daily traffic ( AADT ) , which is a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year . In 2011 , WSDOT cal... |
= = History = =
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SR 162 was codified as SSH 5E during the creation of the primary and secondary state highways in 1937 , beginning at Primary State Highway 5 ( PSH 5 ) and U.S. Route 410 in Puyallup , traveling through Orting and South Prairie to end at an intersection with a branch of PSH 5 southwest of Buckley . SSH 5E had a branch ... |
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The entire highway is in Pierce County .
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= No Mercy ( 2004 ) =
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No Mercy ( 2004 ) was a professional wrestling pay @-@ per @-@ view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on October 3 , 2004 , at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford , New Jersey . It was the seventh annual No Mercy event , and featured eight professional wrestling m... |
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