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unusual facts about ''Hermes'' class



Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degi Arcadi was so called because its principal intention was to reform the diction of Italian poetry, which the founders believed had become corrupt through over-indulgence in the ornamentation of the baroque style, under the inspiration of pastoral literature, the conventions of which imagined the life of shepherds, originally supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan.

American Ship Hull numbers

For example the Perth class guided missile destroyers that were built for the Royal Australian Navy in Bay City, Michigan were given the hull numbers DDG-25, DDG-26, and DDG-27; but these hull numbers were not assigned to any American destroyers after the Australian Navy had changed those to its own identification numbers.

Anticosti-class minesweeper

After conversion, the Anticosti class was used for minesweeping training in preparation for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project, what would later become the Kingston class of patrol vessels in the late 1990s.

Ashizuri-class combat support ship

The Ashizuri was planned to support for two large-sized carriers (Akagi, Kaga and Shōkaku class) in the battlefield.

Austral Building

The stores on the ground floor are now fronts for tenants, Frank Muller and Hermes.

Bastet

A road, paved with stone, of about three furlongs' length leads to the entrance, running eastward through the market place, towards the temple of Hermes; this road is about 400 feet wide, and bordered by trees reaching to heaven.

Boeing E-6 Mercury

The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-320.

Bombay Company

In 2011, Bombay was purchased by Hermes-Otto International, a subsidiary of Otto.

Bonnie Cashin

She designed for companies ranging including American Airlines, Samsonite, Bergdorf Goodman, White Stag, and Hermès; she was the first American designer to have a boutique in Liberty's of London.

Bounos

In Greek mythology, Bounos or Bunus, son of Hermes and Alcidamia, received the throne of Ephyra (an early name of Corinth) from Aeëtes, when the latter decided to migrate to Colchis, biding him to keep it until he or his children came back.

Burak-class corvette

Burak-class corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), aka B-class corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions.

Emergency Shipbuilding program

All the ships to be built were collectively called the Ocean class and to be of an existing British design for 5-hatch cargo ships of about 10,000 tons' load displacement and 11 knots' service speed using obsolete, but readily available, triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine and coal-fired Scotch-type fire tube boilers.

Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity

Another possibility, suggested by Netton is that the veneration for four stems instead from the Brethren's great interest in the Corpus Hermeticum of Hermes Trismegistus (identified with the god Hermes, to whom the number four was sacred); that hermetic tradition's magical lore was the main subject of the 51st rasa'il.

Feilding and District Steam Rail Society

The society has restored or is presently restoring a number of locomotives and wagons once used on New Zealand's national rail network, with its star attraction currently being a tank locomotive, WAB 794.

Francesca Eastwood

During an episode, she and photographer Tyler Shields, her boyfriend at the time, were filmed burning and destroying a $100,000 Hermès Birkin bag during a photo shoot.

Franz Steiner Verlag

Journals published by Franz Steiner include Historia, Geographische Zeitschrift, Hermes, and Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur.

Frédéric Lagrange

His photography has also been featured in international ad campaigns for Louis Vuitton and Hermès.

French ship Annibal

Annibal (1779-1794), a 74 gun ship of the line, lead ship of Annibal class

Galerie Véro-Dodat

The façade of the gallery on the Rue Bouloi is decorated with two statues in niches representing Hermes with his winged helmet and a Caduceus hand, god of merchants, and Hercules dressed in the skin of Nemean lion.

Georg Hermes

Hermes himself was very largely under the influence of the Kantian and Fichtean ideas, and though in the philosophical portion of his Einleitung he criticizes both these thinkers severely, rejects their doctrine of the moral law as the sole guarantee for the existence of God, and condemns their restricted view of the possibility and nature of revelation, enough remained of purely speculative material to render his system obnoxious to his church.

Halifax Shipyard

In 1992, Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was the successful bidder for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project which would build what is today known as the Kingston class or the MCDV.

Hermes

"That a monument of this kind could be transformed into an Olympian god is astounding," Walter Burkert remarked.

Hermès

Contemporary Hermès scarves measure 90 cm × 90 cm, weigh 65 grams and are woven from the silk of 250 mulberry moth cocoons.

Hermes 594

Hermes 594 is a work of the Italian composer Sergio Rendine for great Orchestra.

Hermes Martínez Misal

Hermes Martínez Misal (born September 23, 1979 in Valledupar, Colombia) is a Colombian professional soccer player.

Hurts Like Heaven

Will Hermes of Rolling Stone published a favourable review of "Hurts Like Heaven"; giving the track 3 and a half stars out of 5, he praised the song's "outstanding guitar asides", noting that the song's word rush "occasionally recalled LCD Soundsystem's 'All My Friends'".

Jim Barkhouse

Barkhouse served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1958 to 1963 and worked at Sperry Gyroscope and Hermes Electronics.

Lethal Inspection

In order to get to Hermes cubical, the group rotates right and left and up and down in the same fashion as a Rubik's Cube.

Malaclypse the Younger

According to Malaclypse the Elder himself, he is a 4th century B.C. Erisian priest (who was also prepared to perform services to Hermes, Dionysus, Heracles, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera) who achieved "transcendental illumination" in the course of the massacre at Melos in 415 BC.

Miki Yamada

She attended business school at Columbia University and subsequently worked in the Cabinet Secretariat under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, as a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, and as a marketing executive for Hermès Japan.

Palisene

Westcor proposed to over 100 luxury designers in New York over the 2005/2006 Winter with unconfirmed interest from Hermès, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Barneys Co-Op, and BVLGARI.

Party Going

Frank Kermode maintained in his essay "The Genesis of Secrecy" that behind the realistic plot of this novel there is a complex web of mythical images, the most important being the figure of the classical Greek god Hermes, which is strongly tied to one of the characters.

Pierre-Alexis Dumas

Pierre-Alexis Dumas (4 June 1966) is the artistic director of Hermès International.

Polanco, Mexico City

Shops include Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo, Tiffany & Co., DKNY, Ermenegildo Zegna, Brioni, Burberry, Bulgari, Chopard, Gucci, Hermès, Etro, Roberto Cavalli, Escada, Frette, Marc Jacobs, Max Mara, Corneliani, Hugo Boss, Jaeger Le Coultre, Galerias Tehran, and Berger Joyeros.

Robert Hermes

Hermes was a member of the Indianapolis Zoo team, that accomplished the world’s first successful artificial insemination of an African elephant.

Robert Mazlo

He is also the author of a book on the Tarot, "The Tablets of Hermes", which is one of his main sources of inspiration to create his jewels.

Rodeo Drive

The street is home to some of the region's most sought-after stores including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermès, Burberry, and Coach.

Russian 12 inch 40 caliber naval gun

They were installed on seventeen battleships starting with Sissoi Veliky and Tri Sviatitelia and ending with the Andrei Pervozvanny class.

São João da Madeira

The quality of São João da Madeira's head apparel has, at one time, been recognized internationally, and incorporated in fashion houes (such as Hermès).

Serapeum

Auxiliary shrines dedicated to other, less universal, Egyptian deities could be found here as well, including those dedicated to Anubis (Hermanubis), Hermes Trismegistus, the syncretism of Thoth and Hermes, Harpocrates, and others.

Sophie Delaporte

Sophie Delaporte has produced photographs for brands such as Dior, Hermès, Lancôme, Astier de Villatte, le Bon Marché, John Galliano and others.

Stella Matutina

During the next few years, Felkin established Hermes Lodge in Bristol, the Secret College in London, and Merlin Lodge, also in London.

The Six Million Dollar Mon

Ship of Theseus, a philosophical problem on which Hermes' transformation is based

The Vanilla Ice Project

In addition to winning the Telly Award, the Factual Entertainment Award and Hermes Platinum Press Award, Season One of "The Vanilla Ice Project" was selected as a finalist for the Cable Fax Awards.

Tokujin Yoshioka

In the line of space designs, Yoshioka has been producing the boutique designs for Issey Miyake for more than 20 years, and have provided space designs for Toyota, Hermes, Lexus, Peugeot, NTT, BMW, and for cosmetic brands as RMK and SUQQU, which also involved works for their product package designs.

Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel

The eight to ten vessels of this class, specially designed to operate in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, will replace the João Coutinho and Baptista de Andrade class corvettes — currently being decommissioned —, and the small patrol boats of the Cacine class in their primary fisheries protection role (SIFICAP) and in their search and rescue (SAR) roles.

Yakovlev Yak-44

The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, resembling the United States Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, and intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers.


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