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  • Thumbnail for Prize (law)
    of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and its cargo as a prize of war. In the past, the capturing force would commonly be allotted a...
    36 KB (4,975 words) - 06:44, 19 March 2024
  • Ghost Ship is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies...
    29 KB (3,316 words) - 17:44, 24 July 2024
  • "Prize Ship" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1954 in Thrilling Wonder Stories and later in The Collected...
    2 KB (313 words) - 22:00, 21 February 2024
  • accordance with the prize law of a belligerent state to the crew of a ship belonging to the state, either a warship of its navy or a privateer vessel commissioned...
    72 KB (10,472 words) - 06:35, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceShipOne flight 17P
    winning the X PRIZE. To win the X PRIZE, a spacecraft needed to make two successful competitive flights within 14 days. SpaceShipOne made a successful competitive...
    12 KB (1,163 words) - 05:03, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for The captain goes down with the ship
    captain goes down with the ship" is a maritime tradition that a sea captain holds the ultimate responsibility for both the ship and everyone embarked on...
    42 KB (5,476 words) - 11:26, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceShipOne flight 16P
    Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on September 29, 2004. It was the first competitive flight in the...
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  • focused on most is that which won the X Prize in 2004, the one headed by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan, of SpaceShipOne. The book ends with an epilogue about...
    10 KB (776 words) - 01:55, 20 May 2024
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    Sting (musician) (category A&M Records artists)
    Last Ship, inspired by Sting's own childhood experiences and the shipbuilding industry in Wallsend. The Last Ship tells a story about the demise of the...
    116 KB (11,934 words) - 14:03, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceShipOne flight 15P
    encountered during the flight but later corrected, paving the way for SpaceShipOne to make competitive flights later in 2004. All times are in PDT, which is seven...
    12 KB (1,242 words) - 01:57, 13 June 2024
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    of Sciences. October 12, 2020. "The Nobel Prize in Literature". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved October 8, 2020. "The Nobel Peace Prize 2020". NobelPrize.org...
    234 KB (19,181 words) - 18:58, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Constitution
    Hamberg ship Amelia from a French prize crew on 15 September, and Talbot sent the ship back to New York City with an American prize crew. The ship was sold...
    132 KB (14,561 words) - 13:25, 30 July 2024
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    face is Blackbeard bragging about his plans to raid the prize ship. The version of "Sing a Song of Sixpence" on Snopes does not have any verse where the...
    14 KB (1,684 words) - 21:06, 1 August 2024
  • A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of...
    4 KB (483 words) - 17:35, 1 November 2023
  • higher level; better ships, better crews, higher economies, more intense forms of war power"—in a word, "mastery itself was the prize of the venture." [Emphasis...
    7 KB (842 words) - 18:23, 13 May 2024
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    Following the loss of its American colonies in 1783, the British Government sent a fleet of ships, the First Fleet, under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip...
    269 KB (22,373 words) - 22:51, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ansari X Prize
    spaceplane SpaceShipOne. $10 million was awarded to the winner, and more than $100 million was invested in new technologies in pursuit of the prize. Several...
    19 KB (2,040 words) - 16:36, 3 August 2024
  • Fitzcarraldo (category Cultural depictions of Sarah Bernhardt)
    they make contact, agree to help Fitzcarraldo without asking many questions. After months of work and great struggles, they successfully pull the ship over...
    24 KB (2,758 words) - 07:45, 21 July 2024
  • specials and a TV movie aired after the series ended. The series was set on the cruise ship MS Pacific Princess, and revolved around the ship's captain Merrill...
    41 KB (3,525 words) - 05:05, 18 June 2024
  • Krabs who talks like a sailor and runs his restaurant as if it were a pirate ship. He is a single parent with a teenage daughter, a grey sperm whale named...
    296 KB (25,158 words) - 20:45, 3 August 2024
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