On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

The captain of the Quedagh Merchant was an Englishman named Wright, who had purchased passes from the French East India Company promising him the protection of the French Crown.

Allen wrote of the voyage that he " was put under the power of an English Merchant from London, whose name was Brook Watson: a man of malicious and cruel disposition ".

The Buddha-Gupta stone, dating to the 4th-5th century CE, was dedicated by an Indian Merchant, Buddha Gupta, as an expression of gratitude for his safe arrival after a voyage to the Malay peninsula.

The story of Barlaam and Josaphat was popular in the Middle Ages, appearing in such works as the Golden Legend, and a scene there involving three caskets eventually appeared, via Caxton's English translation of a Latin version, in Shakespeare's " Merchant of Venice ".

Oxfordians say this is similar to Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, who was indebted to Shylock for 3, 000 ducats against the successful return of his vessels.

" He applied for a job with the CIA, but was rejected because of his membership in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union while serving in the Merchant Marine, even though he was required to join and was not active in the union.

His elder brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact.

Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).

The second part ( concerning the caskets, known to English speakers from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ) originates from about 800 AD from Joannes Damascensus's account of Barlaam and Josaphat and was written in Greek.

A 1988 film version was produced by Ismail Merchant and starred Pierce Brosnan.

These figures do not include the Merchant Navy total dead of 14, 661 which was listed separately.

In October 1565 the young Kyd was enrolled in the newly founded Merchant Taylors ' School, whose headmaster was Richard Mulcaster.

Marshall grew up in the London suburb of Clapham and was educated at the Merchant Taylors ' School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he demonstrated an aptitude in mathematics, achieving the rank of Second Wrangler in the 1865 Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.

In that position he introduced legislation on many topics, from Merchant Shipping and Companies to Railway regulation, but his main achievement was in stopping a proposed national strike of the railway unions by brokering an agreement between the unions and the railway companies.

Another fraction led by Commander Wolfgang Wegener argued that because of superior British shipbuilding capacity that Germany could never hope to build a “ balanced fleet ” capable of winning the Entscheidungsschlacht, and that as such, the best use of German naval strength was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course (“ war of the chase ”, a strategy of seeking to destroy the British Merchant Marine instead of the Navy ).

It was also used extensively in the British Merchant Navy, where many gay men joined ocean liners and cruise ships as waiters, stewards and entertainers.

By contrast, an ordinary seamen in the Royal Navy received 19s per month to be paid in a lump sum at the end of a tour of duty which was around half the rate paid in the Merchant Navy.

At this early stage the idea of a regular navy ( the Royal Navy, as distinct from the Merchant Navy ) was not present, so there is little to distinguish the activity of English privateers from regular naval warfare.

He was an enthusiastic investor in the Muscovy Company and the Merchant Adventurers.

The first true bourgeois tragedy was an English play, George Lillo's The London Merchant ; or, the History of George Barnwell, which was first performed in 1731.

When Merchant left the band in 1993, Ramsey replaced her on lead vocals and added the viola as a main instrument of the band, starting with live shows in 1994 and continuing on until 2001.

Eventually, Garnes and Merchant had added lead singer Herman Santiago and baritone Joe Negroni to their lineup and evolved into The Coupe De Villes.

Merchant sang lead vocals, and later played the piano as well, for 10, 000 Maniacs for seven studio albums.

He has also played leading roles in English-speaking Indian films, including 6 Merchant Ivory productions-The Householder, Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust and as supporting actor in The Deceivers ( 1987 ), Side Streets ( 1998 ) and played the lead hero in other English films Pretty Polly ( 1967 ), Siddhartha ( 1972 ), Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ( 1987 ), Muhafiz ( 1994 ) and was part of Gulliver's Travels ( 1996 ), Jinnah ( 1998 ) as a supporting crew.

The lead character in the thrillers, Brevet Cable, is a Merchant Navy Mate, the present day character solving the old mysteries is again a Merchant seamen, with a personal connection to the past mystery, and the heroes of the Trapp series are Trapp himself, a Merchant Seaman and Royal Navy Reserve Officer, and the more morally bound narrator, also a Merchant Navy and Royal Navy Reserve Officer.

The Works Progress Administration helped construct a makeshift Elizabethan stage on the Chautauqua site, and confidently billed as the " First Annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival ", Bowmer presented Twelfth Night on July 2 and July 4, 1935 and The Merchant of Venice on July 3, with Bowmer directing and playing the lead roles in both plays.

Frankie Lymon filled in for Santiago, however according to Jimmy Merchant, once the precocious Lymon became an established member of the group, his vocal talent and instinctive stage presence made him the obvious choice to be the group's lead vocalist, and Santiago graciously stepped aside.

Santiago and Merchant continued on with various new members including most notably Jimmy Castor, Lewis Lymon ( Frankie's brother ), and Timothy Wilson of Tiny Tim & the Hits, their most recent lead singer.

When Natalie Merchant left 10, 000 Maniacs in 1993, Ramsey replaced her on lead vocals and added the viola as a main instrument of the band, starting with live shows in 1994 and continuing on until 2001.

Ellis played the male lead in The Europeans, the 1979 Merchant Ivory film adaptation of the novel The Europeans by Henry James.

He served as chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and took a lead role in shaping wartime shipping legislation, which drew him to the attention of President Wilson.

After Stevens ' comment which some interpreted as calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, 10, 000 Maniacs lead singer Natalie Merchant had " Peace Train " removed from all copies of the album in the U. S.

Robert Wise's 1949 film version of The Set-Up loses the poem's racial dimension by casting the white actor Robert Ryan in the lead, while the Merchant Ivory Productions 1975 version of The Wild Party changes March's plot to conflate the poem with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.

Training institutions that can lead to a third mate's license include the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy ( deck curriculum ), the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and U. S. Naval Academy with qualification as an underway officer in charge of a navigational watch, any of the state maritime colleges, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, or a three-year apprentice mate training program approved by the Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard.

Training institutions that can lead to a third mate's license include the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy ( deck curriculum ), the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, and U. S. Naval Academy with qualification as an underway officer in charge of a navigational watch, any of the state maritime colleges, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, or a three-year apprentice mate training program approved by the Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard.

Training institutions that can lead to a third mate's license include the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy ( deck curriculum ), SUNY Maritime college, or any of the other state maritime colleges.

The Death Merchant is the title and lead character of a series of men's action-adventure books written by Joseph R. Rosenberger.

It was the last studio CD that featured the original lead singer, Natalie Merchant.

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Newhouse and Cardinale left the band in July, and Merchant became the main singer.

Stipe was once very close to fellow singer Natalie Merchant and has recorded a few songs with her, including one titled " Photograph " which appeared on a pro-choice benefit album titled Born to Choose, and they appeared live with Peter Gabriel singing Gabriel's single " Red Rain " at the 1996 VH1 Honors.