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Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J Payne. During the transition from galleons to more frigate-like warships (1600 – 1650) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was "cut down" and made a safe and fast ship.
Raze may refer to: Demolition. Slighting; Raze, Haute-Saône, a town in France; Raze (Underworld), a fictional character in the Underworld films; Raze (magazine), a videogame magazine published by Newsfield Publications from 1990-1991; Raze, a 2013 exploitation film; Raze (comics), a Marvel Comics character and Brotherhood of Mutants member
FUBAR (Fucked/Fouled Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition/Reason), like SNAFU and SUSFU, dates from World War II.The Oxford English Dictionary lists Yank, the Army Weekly magazine (1944, 7 Jan. p. 8) as its earliest citation: "The FUBAR squadron.
raise, rays, rase, raze, rehs, res, reais, [race] Other than the common words raise, rays, and race this octet includes raze – a verb meaning "to demolish, level to the ground" or "to scrape as if with a razor" rase – an archaic verb meaning "to erase" rehs – the plural of reh, a mixture of sodium salts found as an efflorescence in India
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]
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Demolition of a house in Greenville, North Carolina, USA A partially demolished house in Qormi, Malta Demolition of the cooling towers of the Athlone Power Station in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa A house under demolition in Argos, Greece.