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"Whose figurehead was the Twin Brothers": translated from the Greek phrase παρασήμῳ Διοσκούροις. The word " parasemo ", that was attested in an ancient Greek dedicatory inscription, [ 17 ] can be translated as "whose sign was" or "marked with the image or figure of". [ 5 ]
An exception was HMS Rodney which was the last British battleship to carry a figurehead. [6] Smaller ships of the Royal Navy continued to carry them. The last example may well have been the sloop HMS Cadmus launched in 1903. [7] Her sister ship Espiegle was the last to sport a figurehead until her breaking up in 1923. Early steamships sometimes ...
And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. [ 6 ] " Aristarchus ": One of Paul's travel companions, a Macedonian from Thessalonica , who is known from some references in the Acts of the Apostles ( 19:29 ; 20:4 ; 27:2 ) and Colossians 4 ...
It was the beginning of the preamble of the heathen laws that men should not take ships to sea with carved figure heads upon their sterns, but if they did, they should take them off before they came in sight of land and not sail to land with gaping heads or yawning snouts lest the guardian feys of the land should be scared thereat."
In politics, a figurehead is a practice of who de jure (in name or by law) appears to hold an important and often supremely powerful title or office, yet de facto (in reality) exercises little to no actual power. This usually means that they are head of state, but not head of government.
The Vikings portrayed fierce heads with open jaws and bulging eyes at bow and stern of their longships to ward off evil spirits, [9] and the figureheads on the prows of sailing ships were regarded with affection by mariners and represented the belief that the vessel needed to find its way. The Egyptians placed figures of holy birds on the prow ...
More arrests are expected in the alleged sex trafficking of Long Island teen Emmarae Gervasi, The Post has learned. “There’s a few more people” Suffolk County police are looking into, said a ...
When they reply in the negative (the question in Greek uses a particle which expects the answer "No"), [11] [12] Jesus responds: "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find". [6] After doing so, "now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes". [6]