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Candace "Caddy" Compson – the second Compson child, strong-willed yet caring. Benjy's only real caregiver and Quentin's best friend. According to Faulkner, Caddy is the true hero of the novel. Caddy never develops a voice; rather, her brothers' emotions towards her provide the development of her character.
HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped in the ice searching for Franklin's lost expedition and was abandoned in 1854. Recovered by an American whaler, she was returned to Queen Victoria in 1856.
The Resolute desk in the Treaty Room in 1992 during the term of George H. W. Bush President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden discuss the desk with Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in 2015. Below is a table with the location of the desk from 1880, when it arrived in America, to the present day.
HMS Resolute was to have been a screw frigate. She was ordered in 1847 but cancelled in 1850. HMS Resolute (1850) was a discovery vessel, previously the civilian ship Ptarmigan. She was purchased in 1850 as HMS Refuge but renamed HMS Resolute later that year. She was abandoned in the Arctic in 1855, but salvaged by the Americans and returned in ...
Resolute, a commercial L class blimp; Resolute Forest Products, a Canadian pulp and paper manufacturer; Resolute Mining, an Australian mining company; G.I. Joe: Resolute, a 2009 American animated television series; Resolute, a fictional spaceship in the Exofleet of Exosquad
Resolute appears in the second chapter of the Dale Brown novel Hammerheads where, fictitiously up-armed with (1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun, as well as her normal complement of 6 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns), [3] the ship becomes involved in a gun-battle with a heavily armed freighter used by a Colombian cartel to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
The first USS Resolute was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was purchased by the Union Navy to be part of the fleet of ships stationed in coastal waterways to prevent blockade runners from entering or departing ports of the Confederacy .
Resolute leading Vanitie at start of first elimination race off New Haven 1920. In 1920 the America's Cup was reconvened and Resolute again prevailed in selection races before successfully defending the Cup in July, once more with Adams at the helm. [2] Resolute lost the first two matches before recovering to defend the cup 3–2 against ...