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- Ship (18843 bytes)
2: ...iling)|mast]]s) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note that one refers to [[submarine]]s as "boat...
4: ...ding example but the big [[German Empire|German]] ships and [[barque]]s were built partly for [[prestige...
6: ...sea]]. '''Naval''' is the adjective pertaining to ships though in common usage, it has come to be more p...
8: == Measuring ships ==
10: ...han weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, taxation, etc. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
4: ... aircraft. Piracy can also be committed against a ship, aircraft, persons, or property in a place outsid...
39: ...Victual Brothers]] of [[Gotland]] were a companionship of [[privateer]]s who later turned to piracy. Unt...
45: ...n Empire|Ottomans]] but the Maniots also targeted ships of European countries.
52: ...[[British East India Company|East India Company]] ships pay taxes if sailing through their waters.<ref>{...
56: ...e Coast'' as raiders based there harassed foreign shipping. Early British expeditions to protect the [[T... - Cargo ship (2532 bytes)
3: ...handle the bulk of [[international trade]]. Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, bei...
5: ...alized types of cargo vessels include [[container ship]]s and [[bulk carrier]]s.
6: ...ically [[tanker]]s and [[supertanker]]s are cargo ships, although they are habitually thought of as a se...
9: ...ore seasons of the year motivated improvements in ship design during the [[Middle Ages]].
11: ...he incidence of [[piracy]] resulted in most cargo ships being armed, sometimes quite heavily, as in the ...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: ...to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
247: *[[Eric Shipton]], (1907-1977), explored [[Himalayas]] & [[Pat...
264: ...s]] & [[Patagonia|Patagonian]] icecap with [[Eric Shipton]] - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
6: ... if the land had an attractive name." His salesmanship proved successful as many people (especially "tho...
8: ...hy. The settlement venture involved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fourteen of which made the journey successful...
12: ... legend Erik fell off his horse on his way to the ship and took this as a bad sign, leaving his son to c... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward cours...
15: ...oor administrator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]].
27: ...noese patrons of his father. He spent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegea...
29: ...the [[Cape of St. Vincent]], Portugal. Columbus's ship was burned and he swam six miles to shore.
31: ...]] had become a center for maritime activity with ships sailing for [[England]], [[Ireland]], [[Iceland]... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
5: ...rying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family. His good name in Saint-Malo is re...
9: ...rous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscov...
17: ... harbour close to Stadacona and used his smallest ship to continue upriver to visit [[Hochelaga (village...
29: ... dishonorable, he did his best to establish friendship with the Huron up and down the Great River, an in...
33: ...rted [[Saint-Malo]] on his third voyage with five ships. This time, any thoughts of finding a passage to... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
27: ...thers. With the change of the monsoon, he and the ship he was aboard then returned to south Arabia. Havi...
30: ...[India]]. A sea voyage from Damascus on a Genoese ship landed him in [[Alanya]] on the southern coast of...
43: ...on shore, however, a storm blew up and two of the ships of his expedition were sunk. The third then sail...
49: ...Ceylon, his ship nearly sank in a storm, then the ship that rescued him was attacked by pirates. Strande... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
3: ... momentum with the development of steam-powered [[ship]]s, and [[railway]]s, and later in the nineteenth...
59: ...unt was engaged to build the machinery for making ships' pulley blocks for the [[Royal Navy]] in the [[P...
101: ...ere used for conveying coal to rivers for further shipment, and canals were beginning to be cut for movi...
158: ...was marked by a transition of technological leadership from Great Britain to the United States and [[Ger... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
1: ...hip named after Vespucci, see [[Amerigo Vespucci (ship)]]''. - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
24: ...ia-Mahaut was drowned in the wreck of the [[White Ship]] alongside her husband. She lived long enough to... - Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
4: ...had already given proofs of her superior statesmanship by recovering possession of [[Schleswig]] from th...
24: Margaret died suddenly on board her ship in [[Flensburg]] harbour on [[October 28]], [[141... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
18: ...o as "Kat". Chapernowne developed a close relationship with Elizabeth and remained her confidante and go...
41: ...gically scarred by her rumoured childhood relationship with Lord Seymour. Contemporary gossip was that s...
59: ...izabeth ordered the seizure of a Spanish treasure ship in 1569. Philip was already involved in putting d...
72: ...8]], the [[Spanish Armada]], a grand fleet of 130 ships bearing over 30,000 men, set sail in the hopes o...
76: ...privateers]] continued attacking Spanish treasure ships from the Americas; the most famous privateers in... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
79: The cruise ship, [[RMS Queen Mary|RMS ''Queen Mary'']], was named... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
47: ...she kept her political opinions out of her scholarship. She also was an avid reader of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tol...
119: ...?file=/c/a/2001/05/05/MN223743.DTL Chevron redubs ship named for Bush aide]". ''San Francisco Chronicle'... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
29: ...tions, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close...
31: ...tate in business, dramatically expanded home ownership, and in so doing created a more entrepreneurial c...
33: ...pean]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to ...
45: ... Thatcher voted for [[Edward Heath]] in the leadership election over [[Reginald Maudling]], and was rewa...
52: ...[[right-wing]]ers declined to challenge his leadership but Thatcher decided that she would. Unexpectedly... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
10: ...]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
18: ...vast experience in both marine (he was a licensed ship's captain) and flight navigation. He had recently...
20: ...e plane. Severely damaged, the aircraft had to be shipped to [[California]] for repairs, and the flight ... - Mary Read (2833 bytes)
3: ...excessive amounts of abuse. She was able to jump ship and join the British military. Read proved herse...
5: ...Indies. While sailing to the West Indies, Read?s ship was attacked and captured by the notorious Calico...
7: ...ed herself to Rackham who was thrilled to be on a ship with two females. - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400 [[ship]]s and over 70,000 sailors.
8: ...t the government could concentrate on her men and ships, and received it. Chang Poa spent the rest of hi... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
7: ...nal of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Championship. She would later be recognized for her athletic ...
38: ...akeup. She also had a famously difficult relationship with the press, turning down most interviews. Wh...
58: Before Tracy, Hepburn had relationships with several Hollywood directors, including [[Le...
64: ...n, to use his boat to attack a [[Germany|German]] ship.
82: ...t 13 days after her death; it documents the friendship between the actress and Berg, whom she had chosen... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
37: *''[[Ship of Fools]]'' ([[1965]]) - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
8: ...ed, leading to the rise of illiteracy among leadership.
12: ...Roman territory, retaining their own tribal leadership, and acculturating to or displacing the Gallo-Rom...
42: ...trolabe]], [[spectacles]], and greatly improved [[ship]]s. They also improved upon the [[clock]]. The la...
82: ...h Middle Ages]]) of developed institutions of lordship and [[vassal]]age, [[castle]]-building and mounte... - Relic (11473 bytes)
11: ...were enough pieces of the True Cross to build a [[ship]] from. The [[Shroud of Turin]] is another relic...
66: * [[Ancestor worship]]
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