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Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
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The presence of these metal ship models in the Bassett-Lowke war time model ship catalog can be explained by the following: Derek Head describes on page 11 of his book that at beginning of World War One, government censors prohibited Bassett-Lowke from selling or advertising their line of detailed 100 ft. to 1 inch or 1/1200 scale models of the ...
From 1983 to about 1990 the Fredrick C. Murphy was used as the fleet utility ship at Beaumont Reserve. [2] In this role some offices were maintained aboard the ship. The National Park Service 's Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) visited the Private Frederick C. Murphy in 2006 to document the ship.
A Page of Honour is a ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It requires attendance on state occasions, but does not now involve the daily duties which were once attached to the office of page.
The decision to deviate from the naming convention for the class, which prior to John P. Murtha had been named after cities or locations, [11] was not without controversy. . Some members of Congress questioned the appropriateness of naming a military vessel for Murtha after his call for withdrawing from the Iraq War in 2005 and his public accusation of Marines involved in the Haditha incident.
The Crommesteven or cromsteven, often as crompster, cromster or crumster (from crom = bent, concave; steven = stem) [1] was a type of small warship used by the Dutch Republic and later by the British fleets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [2]
An 1885 advertisement for the New York branch of the English tailoring house of Redfern. Gilda Darthy in a dinner dress and coat by Redfern, Les Modes, February 1908. Redfern & Sons (later Redfern Ltd) was a British tailoring firm founded by John Redfern (1820–1895) in Cowes on the Isle of Wight that developed into a leading European couture house (active: 1855–1932; 1936–1940).