acres near Chester, PA. He married Catherine Boyer of New Castle County, Delaware. His son, Tobias Hendricks was born c. 1680 near the Delaware River in Chester County. Before 1718, Tobias and his brothers James and JohÃ³were the first English Quakers who became Indian traders [others were French]. The Hendricks were neither English nor Quaker but they seem to have married women who were. Tobias Hendricks, Jr. was born in 1714 on the Delaware in Chester County, PA. He became
World's Tallest Tsunami A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet occurred in Lituya Bay, Alaska On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake along the Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle loosened about 40 million cubic yards (30.6 million cubic meters) of rock high above the northeastern shore of Lituya Bay.
1. Mark Parsons, Cortes Bank. In reality, the official record for the highest wave ever surfed goes to Mike Parsons for the 70-plus-footer he surfed off California's Cortes Bank on January 5, 2008. (Ken Bradshaw reportedly surfed an 80- to 85-foot wave off Oahu in 1998, but the photos taken from the beach were too far away to determine the exact size.) Parsons's ride netted him a Guinness World Record, $15,000, and a Honda jet ski from the Billabong XXL Biggest Wave Award, which has been handing out prizes to surfers who have conquered the world's largest waves since 2001.