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  • New Jersey punk outfit Titus Andronicus may seem highbrow—it's named for a Shakespeare play and its 2010 album, "The Monitor," references the iron-hulled ship from the American Civil War—but the group is one of the more invigorating live acts of the moment.

    Many Ways to Make a Joyful Noise Andy Beta 2011

  • In June 1848, the 1,000-ton, iron-hulled U.S. Navy steamer Allegheny was assigned to the coast of Brazil to patrol for slavers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • Stocking up on enough beads, cotton, and agricultural seed to draw the Equatorians into legitimate trade, and an arsenal of mountain guns and rocket launchers should they resist, he ordered six iron-hulled steamers, constructed in sections so they could be hauled over the Nile cataracts and assembled on the Lakes.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • A machine pulse raced across the world, girdling the seas with coal-fired, iron-hulled steamers, crossing continents and borders with smelted rivulets of railway tracks, bounding immensities of land and water with the electric cables of the telegraph.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • A machine pulse raced across the world, girdling the seas with coal-fired, iron-hulled steamers, crossing continents and borders with smelted rivulets of railway tracks, bounding immensities of land and water with the electric cables of the telegraph.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In June 1848, the 1,000-ton, iron-hulled U.S. Navy steamer Allegheny was assigned to the coast of Brazil to patrol for slavers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • In June 1848, the 1,000-ton, iron-hulled U.S. Navy steamer Allegheny was assigned to the coast of Brazil to patrol for slavers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • A machine pulse raced across the world, girdling the seas with coal-fired, iron-hulled steamers, crossing continents and borders with smelted rivulets of railway tracks, bounding immensities of land and water with the electric cables of the telegraph.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • In June 1848, the 1,000-ton, iron-hulled U.S. Navy steamer Allegheny was assigned to the coast of Brazil to patrol for slavers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • Stocking up on enough beads, cotton, and agricultural seed to draw the Equatorians into legitimate trade, and an arsenal of mountain guns and rocket launchers should they resist, he ordered six iron-hulled steamers, constructed in sections so they could be hauled over the Nile cataracts and assembled on the Lakes.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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