A ship is any vessel that cannot approach the shore, such as a submarine or aircraft carrier.
A boat is a vessel that can. However, submarine’s are called boats due to the German naming of the U-Boats undervassen boaten [mind the spelling] or ‘underwater boats’
The first two commercial vessels to respond to United Airways Flight 1549 when it landed in the Hudson River were from the NY Waterway and Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises: NY Waterway ferry Thomas Jefferson, commanded by Captain Vincent Lombardi; and NY Waterway ferry Governor Thomas H. Kean, under the command of 20-year-old Captain Brittany Catanzaro.
The first nuclear-powered commercial passenger/cargo vessel was NS Savannah, which was named for SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
The fictional nuclear-powered destroyer USS Nathan James is the setting of William Brinkley’s naval postapocalyptic novel The Last Ship.
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The role of Jeus in the original 1971 off-Broadway production of Godspell was played by Stephen Nathan.
The giant Hamburg-Amerika Line steamship *Vaterland *was docked in New York when the US declared war on Germany in WW1. She was quickly seized and put into service by the United States Lines as SS Leviathan, affectionately known to her passengers as the Levi Nathan.
In Halo 3, there were massive vehicles named elephants, one of which was named the Leviathan. When flipped over, it would give the message, “hold (action button) to flip…wait, how did you do that?”
Thomas Hobbes’ political treatise*** Leviathan*** gave us the oft-repeated quote that primtiive man’s life, before the rise of government, was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
Leviathan is also the first book in a steampunk trilogy by Scott Westerfeld.
Walter Scott’s Waverley novels helped produce a Scottish revival in the early 19th century.
I loved that Jeus guy!
Ridley Scott’s younger brother Tony was also a film director; he committed suicide in August of last year.
That’s Tony Danza behind the wheel of the cab that’s driving across the bridge during the beginning credits of every episode of the TV series Taxi.
One famous category on the trivia game show “Win Ben Stein’s Money” was “Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza”.
When Ben Affleck was little, he asked his mother for a dog, and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week. He lasted for only five days and didn’t get the dog.
In one episode of the TV show NUMB3RS, Alan Eppes (played by Judd Hirsch) sits down with his son to watch a tv show. From the music heard from the TV, it is known to be Taxi, Judd’s first big role.
Foul! Still in play:
When Ben Affleck was little, he asked his mother for a dog, and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary dog for a week. He lasted for only five days and didn’t get the dog.
The original voice of the Aflac Duck in its TV commercials was comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who was fired for racist tweets about the Japan tsunami. The previous name of the insurance company, founded in the Georgia city adjacent to Fort Benning, was American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was, as a young U.S. Army officer, assigned to Ft. Benning in 1918-19.
Game 1 of the 1918 World Series, the most recent to be played in by the Chicago Cubs, was the first occasion upon which “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played before a major league baseball game. Babe Ruth and Hippo Vaughn were the starting pitchers. The 1919 Series was known to have been fixed, but there is suspicion about the 1918 and 1917 Series as well.