**Titus **Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele.
It is thought to be Shakespeare’s first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the sixteenth century.
Titus was a Roman male praenomen, or personal name. By the time of the first century BC there were only about a dozen praenomina in common use.
The*** first ***Plymouth automobiles, up to 1934, the representation of the Mayflower on the hood ornament had two sails. In 1936 there were three sails, expanded by 1940 to four sails. The actual Mayflower had two tall masts.
That’s how I’ve always understood it, too.
Wiki says she was a fully-rigged ship with three masts: List of ships named Mayflower - Wikipedia
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One of the ships which served the President of the United States as a yacht was the USS Mayflower, upon which sailed leaders ranging from Theodore Roosevelt to Calvin Coolidge.
From 1928 until 2005, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio named all of its advertising blimps after winners of yachting’s America’s Cup. Those airships were Puritan, Reliance, Defender, Volunteer, Resolute, Vigilant, Mayflower, Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise, Columbia, America, and Stars & Stripes. Mayflower starred in the film Black Sunday, about a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl using a hijacked blimp to carry a bomb into the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami.
I only counted the main and fore masts, which carried full broad sails. There was also a mizzen abaft and a spritsail on the bow, both much smaller than the main and fore (barely half the height) , and not likely represented on a sylized representation. And on the first Plymouth hood ornaments, they were not.
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From 1928 until 2005, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio named all of its advertising blimps after winners of yachting’s America’s Cup. Those airships were Puritan, Reliance, Defender, Volunteer, Resolute, Vigilant, Mayflower, Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise, Columbia, America, and Stars & Stripes. Mayflower starred in the film Black Sunday, about a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl using a hijacked blimp to carry a bomb into the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami.
Enterprise and Columbia were also the names of NASA space shuttles; the fictional shuttle which appeared in the Sandra Bullock/George Clooney sf adventure Gravity was named Explorer.
The USS Enterprise fired the first shots in the First Barbary War in 1801. It was the third vessel to be named Enterprise.
On 6 March 1987 the MS Herald of Free Enterprise ferry sank just off Zeebrugge harbour, resulting in the deaths of 193 passengers and crew.
That sinking killed 193 passengers and crew, and the immediate cause was placed on the assistant boatswain who was asleep in his cabin when he should have been closing the bow-door. The open bow-door let the sea quickly flood the ship.
This 1987 sinking caused the highest death-count of any peacetime maritime disaster involving a British ship since the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914.
Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) was the last British royal to hold the title Empress of India, as India finally gained its independence during the reign of her husband, George VI.
Queen Astrid of the Belgians was killed in a car accident in Switzerland in 1935. The car was being driven by her husband King Leopold III.
The car was a 1935 Packard 120 convertible powered by Packard’s aluminum-head L-head inline eight that produced 110 bhp (82 kW) at 3850 rpm.
The well-known Hewlett-Packard 12C financial calculator (beloved by actuaries) uses Reverse Polish notation.
Black Kiwi Parade Gloss boot polish is the preferred product of the British Army for getting the final high gloss shine required for dress parades.
The kiwifruit used to be known as the ‘Chinese gooseberry’.
The country with the greatest production of kiwifruit is Italy.
Penguins,*** Kiwis*** and Ratites (Ostriches) are the world’s best known flightless birds, but a number of other flightless species are known, including a dozen ducks and the extinct flightless Stephens Island Wren of New Zealand. Flightless birds evolved in isolated habitats where there are no land predators, but quickly became extinct when man introduced invasive species of predators.
Johnny Hart’s comic strip “B.C.” sometimes featured the sole surviving Apteryx, who always introduced himself to the cavemen and even inanimate objects with “Hi, I’m an apteryx, a flightless bird with hairy feathers”.
I still have, use and love my HP 15C, the engineering cousin to the 12C. RPN is a great way to go.
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NFL QB Jim Hart played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 1983 and the Washington Redskins in 1984. From 1974-1976, he guided the Cardinals to three straight 10+ win seasons along with back to back division crowns in 1974 and 1975. He was also selected to the Pro Bowl four times in 1974 through 1977. In the 1977 Pro Bowl game, Hart threw five interceptions, the most in the game’s history.
Infielder Jim Ray Hart played for the National League’s San Francisco Giants from 1963 to 1973 and the American League’s New York Yankees in 1973 and 1974. Hart batted and threw right-handed. In a 12-season career, Hart posted a .278 batting average, with 170 home runs and 578 runs batted in (RBIs) in 1,125 Major League games played.