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unusual facts about ship-master



Aida Mohamed

Aida trained for 23 years at the MTK sports club in Budapest, with fencing master Antal Solti.

Albert, Duke in Prussia

A member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, Albert's election as Grand Master had brought about hopes of a reversal of the declining fortune of the Teutonic Knights.

Aquarama

SS Aquarama, a passenger ship that operated on the Great Lakes.

Brian Jean

Jean has a Bachelor of Science degree from Warner Pacific in Portland, Oregon, a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Bond University in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Bryan Keith-Lucas

In 1965 he was appointed professor of government at the new University of Kent at Canterbury, and from 1970 to 1974 he was Master of Darwin College, Kent.

Charles Abdy Marcon

In 1891 he took over from William Henry Charsley as Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford, with the result that it was renamed Marcon's Hall.

Cruise book

The cruise book of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier typically reaches over 600 pages in length, as it includes portraits of the more than 5000 sailors and US Marines assigned to the ship's company and embarked carrier air wing.

David Trick

Trick holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Master of Arts from Brandeis University, a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Dorothy Collins

In the late 1940s, she contributed vocals to the revived Raymond Scott Quintet, a sextet that released records on the bandleader's own Master label and served as house band on the radio program Herb Shriner Time.

Fanta Régina Nacro

She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne.

Frank Karel

He graduated from the University of Florida in 1961 and later received a master’s degree in public administration from New York University in 1983.

Georg Glockendon

As a member of the Glockendon family of artists, he was the father of miniaturist and woodcutter Albrecht, who took over the family workshop, and master illuminator Nikolaus.

Helen Waddell

She followed her BA with first class honours in English with a master’s degree, and in 1919 enrolled in Somerville College, Oxford, to study for her doctorate.

History of the Australian Army

In June, the British government sought permission from the Australian colonies to dispatch ships from the Australian Squadron to China with Naval Brigade reservists, who had been trained in both ship handling and soldiering to fulfil their coastal defence role.

HMAS Heros

In late November and early December 1941 she took part in the search for survivors from HMAS Sydney and found one of the ship's carley floats: one of only two items found from the cruiser, and currently on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Homer C. Blake

Though Blake had lost his ship, he had frustrated Semmes' plan to resupply his ship from captured merchantmen off Galveston, and then sail to the mouth of the Mississippi River to interdict Nathaniel P. Banks' Red River Campaign.

Inveraray

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

Kannitverstan

A young workman from Tuttlingen (then part of the Duchy of Württemberg) visited the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam for the first time in his life and was impressed by a particularly stately home and a large ship laden with precious commodities.

Katsura Sunshine

On September 1, 2008, Sunshine was accepted as an apprentice to the rakugo storytelling master, Katsura Bunshi VI (then named Katsura Sanshi), and subsequently received the name Katsura Sunshine.

Ladislav Kubík

He graduated from the Prague Academy of Music, receiving his Master's Degree in 1970 and the title "Aspirante", a degree considered equivalent to the Doctor of Musical Arts.

León, Nicaragua

In the 18th century the present Church of la Merced was erected with drawings attributed to Mercedario Friar Pedro de Ávila and conducted by master builder Pascual Somarriba.

Logie Awards of 1988

Daryl Somers from Hey Hey It's Saturday was the Master of Ceremonies for the first time.

Loyalty Islands

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

Marakkalage

The name Marakkalage derives from the type of craft Marakkar (Marakkalam in Tamil means Wooden Ship) used in trade and warfare by the rulers of the Kuru Mandala coast (the region of the Kurus) and Sri Lanka.

Marooning

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Master Pandemonium

Young Avengers members Wiccan and Speed (while searching for their mother the Scarlet Witch) encountered Master Pandemonium in their mother's former home in Leonia, New Jersey (incorrectly stated to be in Cresskill, New Jersey).

Mats Bergman

He's successfully shown his range in several different theatre productions, a.o in Almqvist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita (The Master and Margaret), Brecht's Tolvskillingsoperan (The Threepenny Opera), Botho Strauss' Rummet och tiden, Molière's Misantropen (Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan.

Mitchell Feigenbaum

In the Angel (TV series) episode, "A Hole in the World", doctoral candidate Winifred "Fred" Burkle (portrayed by Amy Acker) is shown to have a stuffed bunny named Feigenbaum (whom she refers to as the "master of chaos").

Morgan Clark

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform (targeting North America's eastern seaboard) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo (previously fighting against Sheridan) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life ("Endgame").

MS Oosterdam

The ship has been alternating fall/winter cruises along the Mexican Riviera and summer in Alaska.

MS Princess Seaways

In 2002 the ship was sold to Fjord Line, renamed MS Fjord Norway for service from Denmark.

Nicola Francesco Haym

His career began as a cellist in Italy, and he arrived in London in 1701: he swiftly became master of the 2nd Duke of Bedford's chamber music.

Pachliopta kotzebuea

The species was named for Otto von Kotzebue, commander of the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik.

Paul Oslington

Paul Oslington studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School and Macquarie University before completing a Master of Economics/Econometrics with Honours and PhD in Economics from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Divinity from Melbourne College of Divinity.

Paul Steenhuisen

He attended master classes and individual lessons with Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Jean-Claude Risset, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Frederic Rzewski, Magnus Lindberg, and others.

Princes Channel Wreck

However the more popular name of Gresham Ship was introduced when the guns on board the vessel revealed a grasshopper insignia, which was the motif made by Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange.

Pumuckls Abenteuer

It is a sequel series to 1980s TV series Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl (Master carpenter Eder and his Pumuckl) and the cinematric movie Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter (Pumuckl and the blue Klabauter).

RawFaith

Two people had been rescued from the ship by a helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod the previous day.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham

Maugham bought the merchant ship MV Joyita as a hulk in the early 1960s, writing about the mystery of the incident in his book The Joyita Mystery (1962).

S. Narasinga Rao

He then moved to McMaster University in Canada where he received a second Master of Science degree in 1969 followed by a PhD in biophysics in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, through Center for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute.

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Degree programme in International Business (BBA), Master's Degree programme in International Business Management (MBA) and Degree programme in Nursing (RN).

Shanghai Institute of Visual Art

Guest lecturers and professors include Asia's most renowned actor Jackie Chan, “Michelangelo of Modern Times” fresco artist Rainer Maria Latzke, Beowulf and Spider-Man movie animator Sing-Chong Foo, Japanese manga master Makoto Ogino, the creator of the “Peacock King”, and renowned painters Carlos Morell Orlandis and Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman.

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

For anti-ship duties some models were outfitted to carry one or two missiles, typically Sea Eagles or Exocets.

The Phantom Carriage

The film was a powerful influence on the later Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman who also utilised the figure of Death in The Seventh Seal, where the referring to him as a "strict master" is a reference to The Phantom Carriage.

The Sugarhill Gang

Bob Sinclar collaborated with Wonder Mike and Master Gee on his 2009 release "Lala Song".

Thomas Earnshaw

In June 1801, Matthew Flinders' ship, HMS Investigator, carried two boxed Timekeepers by Earnshaw E520 and E543, at a cost of 100 Guineas each.

Thomas Glazier

Thomas Glazier of Oxford (fl. 1386-1427) was a master glazier active in England during the late 14th and early 15th century; he is one of the earliest identifiable stained glass artists, and is considered a leading proponent of the International Gothic style.

Thomas Wardlaw Taylor

From 1872 to 1883 he was Master of Chancery, and from 1883 to 1887 puisne judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.

Wehhui Tom Liu

He obtained his bachelor degree from Nanjing Medical University and his master's degree from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University, then worked as a surgeon at the Cancer Institute & Hospital and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.


see also

Southgate River

Its namesake was Captain James Johnson Southgate, a retired ship-master, who came to Victoria in 1859 via San Francisco and launched a commission and general mercantile business, largely in connection with the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy at Esquimalt, operating as J.J. Southgate & Co.