Images Dated 15th March 2005

An F/A-18C Hornet launches from the flight deck aboard USS Nimitz

Pacific Ocean, August 31, 2006 - An F/A-18C Hornet launches from the flight deck aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). The Nimitz is currently underway off the coast of Southern California conducting sea trials after successfully completing a six month Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) period

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Port of Christianborg near Accra, 1873

This former Swedish outpost on the Gold Coast was sold to the British in 1873 when, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony on 24 July 1874. They then moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast Castle to Accra and their new acquisition, the Fort of Christianborg

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Accra and its coastline in 1873

Accra sketched in 1873, the year, when after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi, and officially declared Ghana a crown colony. Shortly thereafter, the British moved their administrative capital from Cape Coast to Accra. The main factors in this decision were Accra's drier climate relative to Cape Coast, and the fact that Accra was not home to the tsetse fly, allowing the use animal transport

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