Sentences with phrase «civil war ship»

Key feature: Named the Monitor Top since it resembles the top of the Civil War ship, the USS Monitor, this was the first affordable family fridge made by GE with an all - steel cabinet.

He has both feet stuck in an era that's slipping away, but he's heading for a fall when he becomes smitten with (and confused by) Christina Applegate, a hyper - competent, liberated reporter hired by boss Fred Willard for the sake of «diversity» — a word Ferrell for some reason believes refers to a wooden Civil War ship.

In Sahara, Matthew McConaughey is the literary hero Dirk Pitt, searching for a U.S. Civil War ship loaded with gold and entombed in Africa.

Not exact matches

Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.

Any Civil War buff is familiar with the technological advances of that era: the carnage caused when tactics failed to accommodate breech - loading rifled muskets and artillery pieces, the truly revolutionary introduction of armored ships and railroad networks, and the merely tantalizing deployment of submerged warships and reconnaissance balloons.

During the Civil War, an ironclad battleship with a valuable cargo went missing, and Pitt's theory is that the coin places the ship somewhere in the Sahara Desert.

In this case, it's Confederate gold, stashed aboard a Civil War - era armored ship (the Ship of Death, a.k.a. the Ironclad, imaged in introductory framing flashbaship (the Ship of Death, a.k.a. the Ironclad, imaged in introductory framing flashbaShip of Death, a.k.a. the Ironclad, imaged in introductory framing flashback).

It concerns a civil war, an armoured ship, a lost cache of gold, evil African warlords, French business men, guns, explosions, the end of the world, and a good old fashioned Yankee Doodle Dandy in the form of one Dirk Pitt.

It strikes me as difficult to swing such a big ship around quickly, so maybe Feige has always intended for «Civil War» to be the next big arc, with Thanos still waiting in the wings.

But author Richard Snow argues in Iron Dawn that Hampton Roads was among the most significant Civil War conflicts because it was the first sea battle between ironclad ships: the Merrimack and the Monitor.

From being able to build and lead a complete empire, handling explosive full - scale civil wars, to confronting rogue pirate ships and engaging in ferocious single - player or multiplayer battles, Lords of the Black Sun is poised to satisfy 4X gamers» biggest demands.

However, when a galactic civil war occurred, a lot of the ships were destroyed or assimilated into the armies fighting the war.

The exhibition include «Amerika the Stoker» (1993), «The Red Badge of Courage» (1990) and «The River (after Duke Ellington)» (2012) works, responding to Franz Kafka's Amerika, which recounts the tale of a young immigrant shipped off to America by his parents; the American Civil War novel by Stephen Crane; and American composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington, respectively.

In references, for example, to nineteenth - century American clipper ships, Civil War battles, endangered and extinct birds, Formula 1 racetracks, Italian folktales, and Herman Melville's Moby - Dick, the titles add another sensuous dimension to Stella's richly layered art.

The ship was skippered by Lieutenant James Iredell Wadell, who, along with capturing or sinking 38 ships (without a single casualty on either side), famously is said to have fired the last shot of the Civil War, two months after the war had endWar, two months after the war had endwar had ended.