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World of Warships is a naval warfare-themed free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by Wargaming. [1] Players control warships of choice and can battle other random players on the server , play cooperative battles against bots , or participate in an advanced player versus environment (PvE) battle mode.
Initially focused on turn-based strategy and real-time strategy games, Wargaming switched to developing free-to-play online action games in 2009, including the military-themed team-based game World of Tanks, and later World of Warships, World of Warships Legends, World of Warplanes, World of Tanks Blitz, and World of Warships Blitz.
Valentina is an open source pattern drafting software tool, designed to be the foundation of a new stack of open source tools to remake the garment industry. [5] The program was named after mother of the founder Roman Telezhinsky, a cutter by profession, who gave him the idea for the project.
In 2003, singer Pharrell Williams and his manager Rob Walker partnered with fashion designer and A Bathing Ape creator Nigo, and Japanese graphic designer, Sk8thing to create Billionaire Boys Club. [1]
Warship is a computer wargame that simulates Asiatic-Pacific Theater naval surface combat during World War II. [1] It is set between 1941 and 1945, and focuses on the conflict between Imperial Japan and the United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. The game contains a "construction kit" that allows the player to create custom scenarios. [2]
HMT Aquitania wearing dazzle camouflage. Patterned ship camouflage was pioneered in Britain. Early in the First World War, the zoologist John Graham Kerr advised Winston Churchill to use disruptive camouflage to break up ships' outlines, and countershading to make them appear less solid, [14] following the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer's beliefs.
Anti-flash gear was introduced in the Royal Navy following the Battle of Jutland during the First World War, [2] when a number of British warships had been destroyed or damaged by flash from burning cordite propellant passing through the shell handling room into the magazine.
The addition of synthetics can create a heightened metallic-like sheen, and/or added flexibility. Artificial sharkskin, in part for its comparably low price point, gained traction as a clothing material in the early 1960s and the disco era of the late 1970s. Its popularity waned, but enjoyed brief fashion resurgences in the mid-1980s, mid-1990s ...