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HMHS Britannic (originally to be the RMS Britannic) (/ b r ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ k /) was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic ...
Britannic is a 2000 spy television film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the sinking of HMHS Britannic in 1916. The film portrays a German agent sabotaging her while she is serving as a hospital ship for the British Army during World War I . [ 2 ]
Archie Jewell (4 December 1888 – 17 April 1917) was an English sailor who was on the crew of the Titanic.He survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship HMHS Britannic, but died during the sinking of the SS Donegal when it was torpedoed without warning by German forces during the course of World War I.
The song was not performed as part of the suite. In 1940, songs composed for the troops on the front were supposed to be about revenge and victory. By 1942, fashions had changed, and songs with more romantic or lyrical themes were accepted by the military, so Novikov decided to re-release a revised version of the song.
Pushkin – a Russian ballistic missile submarine that also survived the nuclear attack; Leif Ericson – The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, 1975; HMS Leviathan – aircraft carrier, HMS Leviathan by John Winton, 1967 (There was a real carrier named HMS Leviathan but she was scrapped incomplete in 1968)
Cranes in the sky. The poem was originally written in Gamzatov's native Avar language, with many versions surrounding the initial wording.Its famous 1968 Russian translation was soon made by the prominent Russian poet and translator Naum Grebnev, and was turned into a song in 1969, becoming one of the best known Russian-language World War II ballads all over the world.
Reginald Robinson Lee (19 May 1870 – 6 August 1913) was a British sailor who served as a lookout aboard the Titanic in April 1912. He was on duty with Frederick Fleet in the crow's nest when the ship collided with an iceberg at 23:40 on 14 April 1912; both Lee and Fleet survived the sinking.
Heavily influence by the 1977 hit "Love's Unkind" by Donna Summer, "Mr Haze" is described as "a soul-soaked Motown belter driven by a Donna Summer sample". [3] Lead singer Sharleen Spiteri says that the songs composition is "deliberately cinematic", claiming that all previous Texas albums have "at least one cinematic song" in the track listing.