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Yankee (ferry)
''Yankee'' (also known as ''Machigonne'') is an early-20th-century steel hulled ferry that is the last surviving Ellis Island ferry boat, making it one of the most historically significant ships in the United States. In 2006 it was moored in Hoboken, New Jersey, in mid-2013 it was moved to the Henry Street pier in the Gowanus Bay Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and as of 2024 is in Staten Island. It is registered as a historic vessel with the National Register of Historic Places, and is currently owned and inhabited by ceramic artist Victoria MacKenzie-Childs. Operational history Described as unusually luxurious for a day-voyaging vessel, ''Yankee'' was built in 1907 by the Philadelphian shipbuilding company Neafie & Levy for the Casco Bay and Harpswell Line. There is some confusion about her original name, with some sources listing it as ''Dida''. It is unclear however, if the ship ever operated under that name, since she is commonly referred to as ''Machigonne'' from an ear ...
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The ''Schutzstaffel'' (; ; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ''ᛋᛋ'') was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the ''Saal-Schutz'' ("Hall Security") made up of party volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–1945) it grew from a small paramilitary formation during the Weimar Republic to one of the most powerful organisations in Nazi Germany. From the time of the Nazi Party's rise to power until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, mass surveillance, and state terrorism within Germany and German-occupied Europe. The two main constituent groups were the ''Allgemeine SS'' (General SS) and ''Waffen-SS'' (Armed SS). The ''Allgemeine SS' ...
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