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LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]
The Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk on May 2, 1982, by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War.The sinking of the General Belgrano led to the death of 323 Argentine sailors, [1] [2] almost half of all Argentine casualties during the conflict, [3] [4] and sparked controversy, as the attack occurred outside the exclusion zone established by the ...
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 ...
Sinking [ edit ] At about 11:58 pm on 12 January 1920, Afrique was passing between Pierre Levée and the Plateau de Rochebonne [ fr ] , 23 miles (42 km) from Olonne-sur-Mer , when she lost engine power in a gale.
Reporting from 27.00°N 34.40°E, approximately 150 km (93 mi) north-north-west of the sinking, the container ship shows winds of 24.1 kt (13 ms −1) from 320 degrees, with a surface pressure of 1005 hPa. Sea temperature was 25 °C (77 °F) and a significant wave height of only 45 cm (18 in).
When residents moved into Presidium Regal in Jacksonville, Florida, they were promised "impressive finishes and resort-quality amenities." Instead, many residents are being forced to move out or ...
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.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) stock is losing ground in Tuesday's trading. The semiconductor company's share price was down 5.8% as of 2 p.m. ET. Intel stock is losing ground today following skeptical ...