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In pre-colonial Burma, during the Konbaung dynasty, figureheads were used to distinguish several types of royal barges allocated to different members of the royal court; each barge had a specific mythical figurehead at the front. A general practice of figureheads was introduced in Europe with the galleons of the sixteenth century, as the ...
Eagle figurehead on the bow of the Lancaster. The piece took over a week to install underneath the bowsprit of the ship, which was still on the slipway at the time. The eagle was dismantled and brought to the ship, where it was then bolted together and mounted underneath the bowsprit using special scaffolding under the direction of Bellamy.
After the loss of the ship, "the figurehead of the Blue Jacket was found washed up on the shore of the Rottnest Island, off Fremantle, Western Australia". [1] The figurehead washed ashore 21 months later, roughly 6,000 miles (9,700 km) from the location where Blue Jacket burned – . The average speed of drift for the figurehead was calculated ...
Time for Timer is a series of seven short public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in 1975. The animated spots feature Timer, a tiny cartoon character who is an anthropomorphic circadian rhythm , the self-proclaimed "keeper of body time."
A ship figurehead of Benjamin Franklin is at Yale University Art Gallery. [17] An 1817 portrait bust of George Washington is in the collection of the Museum of the American Revolution . [ 18 ] The statues "Exhortation" and "Praise" (1812), originally located at St. Paul's Church , were given to St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in ...
HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction.
CES, formerly the Consumer Electronics Show, runs Jan. 7-10. Nvidia's stock closed at a record high of $149.43 on Monday, bringing its valuation to $3.66 trillion and making it the world's second ...
The figurehead first appeared in the late 16th century as a hangout sign used outside the storefronts of drug stores in the Netherlands. The meaning of gaper is the same in English; the figurehead is always displayed with an open mouth, sometimes with a pill resting on his tongue.