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30 Apr 2023, 6:08 am
 Social scientist William Baillie Hamilton notes that Captain James Cook and his assistant Michael Lane, who mapped Newfoundland in the 1760s, often displayed a sense of humour in the place names they chose, and were not above selecting names that might "offend over-sensitive" readers....The OED entry for the word "dildo" says the origin is unknown and finds its oldest use as an interjection — as syllables sung rhythmically (similar to… [read post]
12 Apr 2009, 4:24 am
  Ari Fliakos as the captain of one of the spaceships gave a William-Shatner-like "Captain Kirk" reading to his part. [read post]
30 May 2011, 8:04 am by William Carleton
William Sharp Bush, who lost his life during that engagement and was the first Marine officer to die in service to our country. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 8:46 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Third, the plurality observed that Colonel William Winthrop, in his 1896 treatise (reprinted in 1920), recognized the error in Captain Howland’s earlier scholarship, and excluded “conspiracy of any kind from his own list of offenses against the law of war. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 9:45 am by Kelly Buchanan
Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) Yesterday I published a post that provided some background information on Pitcairn Island: the mutiny on board the HMS Bounty led by Fletcher Christian on April 28, 1789; the settlement of Pitcairn (and subsequent emigration to Norfolk Island); William Bligh’s long trip home to England; and the court-martials of some of the mutineers that decided not to follow Fletcher Christian into the unknown. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 6:12 am
 Sea of Thunder presents a riveting picture of four men: Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey, Commander of the American Third Fleet; Admiral Takeo Kurita, a Japanese battleship commander and Halsey's counterpart; Admiral Matome Ugaki, the commander of the Japanese First Battleship Division, which included the world's two largest battleships, the Yamato and Musashi; and Commander Ernest Evans, captain of the destroyer, the U.S.S. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 11:29 pm
Of the use of older materials, the Bell text includes linesCarhart, however, disappoints readers by failing to note the account of Captain William E. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 9:26 am by CJLF Staff
  Helen Jung of The Oregonian reports that Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua had planed to rob the bank after setting off the bomb by remote control, but the plan went awry when the bomb exploded as State Trooper William Hakim and Police Captain Tim Tennant were trying to dismantle it. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Lawrence, Faisal’s servant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Khadri My favorite movie is “Lawrence of Arabia,” starring Peter O’Toole. [read post]
17 May 2012, 7:00 am
I received a promotional issue of the Alaska Oil Spill Reporter from an unknown publishing house within a week of the disaster. [read post]
30 May 2014, 3:11 pm by J. Gordon Hylton
In the Wednesday, May 27, Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney purported to rebut the Redskins’ claim that the team was named the Redskins in honor of its Native American coach William “Lone Star” Dietz (whom, it turns out, may not have been an Indian at all, but that was clearly unknown to team owner George Preston Marshall at the time.) [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 7:26 pm
The inspiration for a number of today’s technologies, such as flip phones, can be traced back to the original series, and many are outlined in William Shatner’s 2002 book, Star Trek: I’m Working on That.One well-documented example is the user interface developed in the 1990s for the Palm OS. [read post]
9 May 2011, 3:07 pm by Deborah Schander
Austin Williams February 18, 2011 was the 10 year anniversary of Robert Hanssen’s arrest at Foxstone Park. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 9:20 am by Monica Bay
Captain Sully threw out the first pitch to a loud standing O. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 4:12 pm by INFORRM
  The judge discharged injunctions that he had granted against Persons Unknown based on the principles derived from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Canada Goose [2020] EWCA Civ 303. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 4:01 pm
However it is apparently clear and generally agreed that a party was held, a stripper engaged and that the hosts of this event were the co-captains of the Duke lacrosse team. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by KC Johnson
Amidst a basically content-free attack on people (including me) who have reviewed his book negatively, author William D. [read post]