ship

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The Mayflower landed a year after another ship brought the first African slaves to Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

LTL shippers serve primarily industrial customers that don’t need a full truck to ship goods over relatively short distances.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Whether that happened is debatable; what is not is that “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” also influenced him, manifesting in the lyrics’ repeated invitation to “Take a ride in the sky/On our ship, fantasize.”

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev, who arrived on the ISS in February, had been sheltering on the docked ship, along with another astronaut Chris Williams.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

He swore if he ever got to land safely, he’d never set foot on a ship again.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney