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All of Minor Threat's recordings were released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson's own label, Dischord Records.
It was built between 1807 and 1815 to commemorate Nelson's victory over the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and his own death at the same battle.
Though Nelson's lawyer James Herbert Stitt attempted to portray Nelson as mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his crimes, the jury found Nelson guilty of the Winnipeg slaying of Emily Patterson, found strangled underneath her own bed by her husband who had knelt by the bed to pray for her safe return after finding her missing on the afternoon of June 9.
From 1925 to 1927, Hermann worked as assistant for Leonard Nelson Together with Minna Specht, she posthumously published Nelson's work System der philosophischen Ethik und Pädagogik, while continuing her own research.
The many alterations included added color ( with drop shadows behind color book covers ), Nelson's own weekly editorial, illustrated bestseller lists and " Signature ," longer boxed reviews written by well-known novelists.
The stress resulting from his own firing and the unrelenting persecution of his union destroyed Nelson's health ; he died in 1959 at the age of 42.
In fact, Hu's Mechani-Kong was built using blueprints based on Nelson's own detailed diagrams of the real Kong.
Nelson's 2006 Fishes of the World recognized four genera in this family: Aptychotrema, Rhinobatos, Trygonorrhina, and Zapteryx ; other taxa that were once placed in Rhinobatidae, such as Platyrhinoidis and Rhina, have since been moved to their own families.

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Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.
Nelson's decision to wear ship was significant.
This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as " Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels.
He marched with his army against the French and entered Rome ( 29 November ), but on the defeat of some of his columns he hurried back to Naples, and on the approach of the French, fled aboard Nelson's ship the to Sicily, leaving his capital in a state of anarchy.
His gravestone incorporates a cross made from the timbers of Nelson's ship,.
The residences are named after Horatio Nelson, John Constable, Benjamin Britten, Jeremiah Colman, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.
On the renewal of hostilities with France he remained in frigates for some time before being given the ship of the line HMS Orion in the spring of 1805 which was attached to Admiral Nelson's fleet off Cadiz in the blockade of the combined fleet.
Following Nelson's overwhelming victory at Battle of the Nile, Smith was sent to the Mediterranean as captain of, a captured 80-gun French ship of the line which had been brought into the Royal Navy.
Rear Admiral Sir Edward Berry, 1st Baronet, KCB ( 1768 – 13 February 1831 ) was an officer in Britain's Royal Navy primarily known for his role as flag captain of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Vanguard at the Battle of the Nile, prior to his knighthood in 1798.
In 1795, in Aigle, he was put in command of a squadron for the protection of Levantine commerce, and in early 1797 he was given command of the 74-gun ship of the line Zealous, in which he was present at Admiral Horatio Nelson's unsuccessful attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
It was in this ship that he first came to Nelson's eye, when they both served at the Siege of Bastia, where Nelson lost an eye and Fremantle gained a reputation for daring action, taking his ship under the fortress's walls despite heavy fire from overhead, which had already sunk one frigate in the bay.
The first British ship to the scene was Nelson's HMS Agamemnon, and the respect between the two officers continued to grow.
At the Battle of Trafalgar that October, Neptune was third in Nelson's division, cutting the Combined Fleet shortly after HMS Victory did, and ploughing past the wrecked Bucentaure he engaged the massive Santissima Trinidad with which he endured a savage slogging match which left Neptune with 44 casualties and the outnumbered Spanish ship with over 300.
Retiring with his battered ship ( which had suffered 17 men killed 53 wounded, and heavy damage ), Durham arrived in England in time to take part in Calder's court-martial anyway, as well as be a banner bearer at Nelson's funeral.
Image: Bucklers Hard7. JPG | Lord Nelson's first command and favourite ship, HMS Agamemnon was launched on this slip.

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Captain Antoine René Thévenard used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including the admiral.
The village of Abbotsbury is nearby, as is the Hardy Monument, erected in honour of Captain Thomas Hardy, one of Lord Nelson's commanders at the Battle of Trafalgar, who lived at Portesham House.
For the first color season, it was expanded to include footage of Captain Nelson's space capsule splashing down on the beach, and Jeannie dancing out of her bottle and kissing Nelson.
Dudley Pope relates an aspect of Collingwood at the beginning of chapter three of his Life in Nelson's Navy: " Captain Cuthbert Collingwood, later to become an admiral and Nelson's second in command at Trafalgar, had his home at Morpeth, in Northumberland, and when he was there on half pay or on leave he loved to walk over the hills with his dog Bounce.
He also saw service in Nelson's flagship HMS Victory before being promoted Commander in 1806, and then Captain the following year.
After the battle, Hardy was promoted to Flag Captain and Berry embarked for Britain in, carrying Nelson's despatches.
Mount Nelson was originally named ' Nelson's Hill ' by Captain William Bligh ( of Mutiny on the Bounty fame ) in 1792 in honour of David Nelson, the botanist of the Bounty mission, as " he was the first white man on it " when the Bounty visited ' Van Diemens Land ' on its way to Tahiti.

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Bonaparte, aware of Nelson's pursuit, enforced absolute secrecy about his destination and was able to capture Malta and then land in Egypt without interception by the British force.
On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.
Nelson's head wound was recorded as being " three inches long ", with " the cranium exposed for one inch ".
Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.
* 1805 28 October – HMS Victory was towed into Gibraltar bringing Nelson's body aboard.
The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.
Eventually Paul Gleason intervened on Nelson's behalf because he was trying to stay in character.
In the 1970s Ted Nelson's original " Xanadu " hypertext repository was envisioned as such a service.
Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.
The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the previous century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy, which involved engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to facilitate signalling in battle and disengagement, and to maximise fields of fire and target areas.
Atlantic Records was now attempting to sign Jennings, but Nelson's rise to popularity persuaded RCA to renegotiate with Jennings before losing another potential success.
The identity of the " fat man " has never been confirmed, although who it was has been suggested to be one of Nelson's associates, or, as suggested by Fatso Negri to the BOI, Pretty Boy Floyd.
Though Nelson's Xanadu Corporation was eventually funded by Autodesk in the 1980s, it never created this proprietary public-access network.
It was the " birthplace " of many British naval vessels, including many of Admiral Nelson's fleet, using the timber of the New Forest.
Nelson's promotion to Rear-Admiral was not a reward for his services, but simply a happy coincidence: promotion to flag rank in the Navy of the time was based on seniority on the Captain's list and not on achievement.
The senior Rivers, also called William, was the master gunner aboard The Victory and it is thanks to his commonplace book ( now kept in the Royal Naval Museum library in Portsmouth ) that many of the thoughts of the sailors aboard Nelson's flagship are preserved.
It is shown in many episodes that Nelson's father abandoned him and his mother at an early age when he " went to pick up some Pop-Tarts " although, later on in the series, he was said to have gone to pick up a pack of cigarettes.
American voice actress Dana Hill was first supposed to provide Nelson's voice, and attended the read-through of the episode.

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