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He also granted their sailors special privileges, including citizenship and exemption from the Lex Papia-Poppaea, a law that regulated marriage.
The Pilier des nautes links him with sailors and with commerce, suggesting that he was also associated with material wealth as does the coin pouch from the Cernunnos of Rheims ( Marne, Champagne, France )— in antiquity, Durocortorum, the civitas capital of the Remi tribe — and the stag vomiting coins from Niedercorn-Turbelslach ( Luxembourg ) in the lands of the Treveri.
These sailors also introduced rats onto the islands.
Some coastal and river areas of China regard her as the protector of fishermen, sailors, and generally people who are out at sea, thus many also come to believe that Mazu, the Daoist goddess of the sea, is a manifestation of Guanyin.
The sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy also use the term ' kippers ' as a slang for members of the Royal Navy.
Maritime law was also a great driver of international legal rules ; providing for the enforcement of contracts, the protection of shipwrecked sailors and property, and the maintaining of harbours.
She is also associated with the practice of sailors bringing gold with them on any voyage, so that if they drowned while at sea, Ran would be pleased by their gift.
The Portuguese and Spanish soon gave up regularly calling at the island, partly because they used ports along the West African coast, but also because of attacks on their shipping, desecration to their chapel and images, destruction of their livestock and destruction of plantations by Dutch and English sailors.
Flattering for Norman sailors, this argument gives credence also to the idea of a precedence of the French presence in the region, but it is not confirmed by subsequent work.
They also may well have been deliberately sought out, perhaps on the basis of the accounts of sailors who had seen land in the distance.
All sailors entering the SEAL training pipeline with the Navy Hospital Corpsman rating or those chosen by Naval Special Warfare Command must also attend the 26 week Special Operations Combat Medic course and subsequently earn the NEC SO-5392 Naval Special Warfare Medic before joining an operational Team.
The Chelsea was also home to many sailors returning from their duties in World War I. Ruth Harkness, an adventurer / naturalist who brought the first live giant panda from China to the U. S. in the 1930s, stayed at the Chelsea Hotel after her return to the States.
The discovery of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe is also attributed to these same sailors.
This same section also contains a monument to the French sailors who died at the Battle of Navarino ; the monument to the Russian dead of the same battle is on the island of Sphacteria, while the monument to the English dead is on another very small island near the centre of the port.
The modern yachting sloop is known as the Bermuda sloop, due to its Bermuda rig ( also known as the Marconi rig, due to its resemblance to the wireless towers of Guglielmo Marconi ), which is the optimal rig for upwind sailing ; consequently sloops are popular with sport sailors and yachtsmen, and for racing.
In addition to being used by sailors for reefing and furling sails, it is also one of the key knots of macrame textiles.
The pair was regarded as the patrons of sailors, to whom they appeared as St. Elmo's fire, and were also associated with horsemanship.
* Thiaki ( before the Venetian period, also called so by the sailors and has remained the name used by the inhabitants )
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.
Renaissance tradition says the pillars bore the warning Nec plus ultra ( also Non plus ultra, " nothing further beyond "), serving as a warning to sailors and navigators to go no further.
In the early days of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Charles Hambly ( also known for saving shipwrecked sailors ) was a correspondent for the Society.
Lee Marvin was cast as one of the sailors not only for his acting ability, but also because of his knowledge of ships at sea.
Cloves were traded by Muslim sailors and merchants during the Middle Ages in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, the Clove trade is also mentioned by Ibn Battuta and even famous One Thousand and One Nights characters such Sinbad the Sailor is known to have bought and sold Cloves.
Smee and all the other sailors live in terror of their ruthless captain, who, in a cruel twist, also happens to be a Christian priest.
Cetus ( and its translations ) are also viewed as misfortune or bad omen by sailors.

sailors and take
Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen take part in an impromptu game of end-to-end Australian rules football in Central Australia in 1944.
The Memorandum demanded that the captain and crew of Baralong be tried for the murder of unarmed German sailors, threatening to " take serious decision as to retribution for the unpunished crime ".
As the governor did not want to pay the sailors for their defensive services, he told them they could take their pay from the French.
During normal times sailors weren't allowed to take any water away.
* 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 begins when 40, 000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.
The position technically involves issuing commands for Canadian troops, airmen, and sailors, but is predominantly a ceremonial role in which the viceroy will visit Canadian Forces bases across Canada and abroad to take part in military ceremonies, see troops off to and return from active duty, and encourage excellence and morale amongst the forces.
Before he could take delivery, French sailors had to fight Greek brigands for possession.
Funchal became an important transfer point for European commercial interests ; many sailors and merchants located in Funchal in order to take advantage of the transient conditions of port.
They will each take on different jobs on board the boat, and on top of these sailing roles, there will be two sailors that have had medical training, as well as a sailmaker, an engineer and a dedicated media crew member.
Command was awarded to Admiral Edward Vernon, the victor of Porto Bello, who was given a force of 31, 000 soldiers and sailors to take the city.
Cecil Sharp and his cohort among the English Folk-Song Society were among the first to take down the lyrics and tunes of shanties directly from the lips of veteran sailors and to publish them more or less faithfully.
In Eight Bells ( 1886 ), two sailors carefully take their bearings on deck, calmly appraising their position and by extension, their relationship with the sea ; they are confident in their seamanship but respectful of the forces before them.
On December 23, 1918, a group of Red sailors seemed set to storm and take over the Provisional government when the sailors cut all telephone lines from the Chancellor ′ s office to the War Ministry except for a secret one.
Remi arranges for Sal to take a job as a night watchman at a boarding camp for merchant sailors waiting for their ship.
The Tsar had selected the right man for the job, for it would take an iron-fisted commander to sail an untested fleet of brand new battleships ( for some of the new Borodinos, this voyage was their shakedown cruise ) and new untrained sailors on the longest coal-powered battleship fleet voyage in recorded history.
* So I Married an Axe Murderer ( 1993 )-Mike Myers and Nancy Travis take a scenic walk on their first date, where they encounter Russian sailors at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Again, the sailors did not take advantage of the situation.
The manager accepted that Arudou was a Japanese national but refused entry on the grounds that his foreign appearance could cause existing Japanese customers to assume that the onsen was admitting foreigners, e. g. inebriated Russian sailors said to be causing problems in that locality, and take their business elsewhere.
In the confusion sure to break out among the superstitious sailors, Peters and Augustus, helped by Tiger, will take over the ship again.
Thousands looked forward to the arrival of the magnificent ships in Elliot Bay giving civilians the opportunity to tour these vessels while giving the thousands of sailors an opportunity to take leave and join in Seattle ’ s summer celebration.
In August 1572, Menéndez led a ship with thirty soldiers and sailors to take revenge for the killing of the Jesuits of the Ajacán Mission in present-day Virginia.
So he ordered Greissac to lead some sailors and take any of the schooners that sailed near the port.

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