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urban street sport involving climbing and leaping, using buildings, walls, curbs to ricochet off much as if one were on a skateboard, often in follow-the-leader style. Originally a phonetic form of the French word parcours, which means "a run, a route" Also known as, or the predecessor to, "free running", developed by Sébastien Foucan. parole
Sinking may refer to: Sinking of a ship; see shipwrecking; Being submerged; Sinking, a 1996 studio album by The Aloof; Sinking (behavior), the act of pouring out champagne in the sink; Sinking (metalworking), a metalworking technique; Sinking, a 1921 novella by Yu Dafu "Sinking", a song by No Doubt from the album No Doubt (No Doubt album)
The sinking of the battleship sparked great controversy in the American public sphere; Mitchell's supporters exaggerated the significance of the tests by falsely claiming Ostfriesland to be an unsinkable "super-battleship" and that "old sea dogs ... wept aloud." [65] Senator William Borah argued that the tests had rendered battleships obsolete ...
Most of the survivors were dragged down with the sinking ship only to swim free of the sinking vessel during the final plunge. The San Juan sinking helped end of the use of coastal passenger steamships. [48] 77 1978 Singapore: Spyros – On 12 October, while undergoing repairs dockside, the Greek tanker exploded at the Jurong Shipyard killing ...
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1965 Ship State Description Port Manech France The coastal tanker, loaded with gasoline, collided with the American C2 cargo ship Lucile Bloomfield off Le Havre and immediately caught fire, the burning wreck drifted and came ashore near Octeville where it was later scuttled.
Sinking (simplified Chinese: 沉沦; traditional Chinese: 沉淪; pinyin: Chénlún) is a novella written by Yu Dafu. The story was completed in Tokyo in 1921 and later published in a collection named Sinking in Shanghai the same year. [1] It is among the first generation of modern Chinese fictions telling psychological stories.
If the watertight car-deck doors fail through damage or mismanagement (as in the partial sinking of MS Herald of Free Enterprise where the doors were accidentally left open, and as in one of the largest peacetime maritime disasters when MS Estonia sank off of the Archipelago Sea in Finland), water entering the car-deck is subject to the free ...
The sinking brought tremendous grief and was a blow to Belfast's pride. Its shipyard was also a place many Catholics regarded as hostile. [310] In the latter half of the century, during a 30-year sectarian conflict, Titanic was a reminder of the lack of civil rights that in part contributed towards the Troubles.