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The Britannic was the lesser known, but largest and most extravagant, of the three Olympic Class ocean liners built by White Star for trans-Atlantic voyages. However, just months after its completion, the British government enlisted the liner for use as a hospital ship during World War I. Th...
The Britannic was the lesser known, but largest and most extravagant, of the three Olympic Class ocean liners built by White Star for trans-Atlantic voyages. However, just months after its completion, the British government enlisted the liner for use as a hospital ship during World War I. Th...
Here’s an interesting fact: the original definition of the length of a meter in 1793 was: one ten-millionth (10⁻⁷) of the distance between the equator and the North Pole along a great circle. The current definition of a meter is: the distance traveled by light in 1/299,792,458...
And that was that. I kept the weathered look of the original border as is. And it’s okay that the letters aren’t perfect. It’s hand-made! This is another keeper! It’s already hanging in our kitchen! I don’t know why it took me so long to do something with it. Now instead...
JOHANNES ACUTUS EQUES BRITANNICUS DUX AETATIS SUAE CAUTISSIMUS ET REI MILITARIS PERITISSIMUS HABITUS EST (John Hawkwood the British Knight, who was regarded as the most prudent commander of his age, and the most experienced in military affairs.) Yet this fine figure was also one of the mo...
everything related to that species of government is odious to the people. The words prefixed to the President’s speech are the same that are usually placed before the speech of his Britannic Majesty. I know they will give offense. I consider them as improper. I therefore move that they ...
of her son. That included her step-son Britannicus. And it included her husband, the fourth Roman emperor, Claudius, poisoned with a dish of mushrooms. After which her own son, the 16-year-old Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, was hailed as his successor on the steps of th...