Five-Letter Overlap Word Chains

During the past two years, Word Ways has presented several of my articles on directed word chains. These are chains of overlapping words, directed in that they are read in one direction only

Physical and Biogeochemical Studies in the Subtropical and Tropical Atlantic

Maria S. Merian Cruise Report MSM18/L2 Cruise No. 18, Leg 2 May 11 – June 19, 2011 Mindelo (Cape Verde Islands) – Mindelo (Cape Verde Islands

King Neptune, the Mermaids, and the Cruise Tourists: The line-crossing Ceremony in Modern Passenger Shipping

The line-crossing ceremony is an ancient maritime tradition that marked the transition from inexperienced sailor to experienced sailor. This ceremony has been co-opted by the cruise industry for the purposes of portrayal and commercialisation of the heritage of passenger shipping for consumption by cruise tourists. This paper discusses this process of adoption and commodification of the traditional crossing the line ceremony by the modern cruise industry. While the cruise ship version bears some similarities to the traditional ceremony, it differs in purpose, the brutality of the original version is lessened, and the gender onboard cruise ships permits a difference in the makeup of participants (including the portrayal of mermaids) and a reduction in the need for transvestite performances. It exists for two reasons: for the amusement and diversion of passengers, and in an attempt to buttress the historical portrayal of cruise ship as part of a naval tradition. Data is drawn from interviews with cruise ship workers and published accounts of the ceremony by cruise tourists

Crossing the line: violence, play, and drama in naval Equator traditions

For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically enacted upon crossing the equator, the beatings, dunks, sexual play, mock baptisms, mythological dramas, crude shavings and haircuts, and drinking and swallowing displays have attracted a number of protests and even bans as well as staunch defenses and fond reminiscences. The custom has especially drawn criticism since the late twentieth century with the integration of women into the military and the questioning of its hierarchical codes of manliness. In this study, the persistent ceremony's changing meaning into the twenty-first century is examined with considerations of development, structure, symbolism, performance, and function. A timely study revising previous assumptions about the custom's origins, diffusion, and functions

Interview with Kenneth Flynn

An interview with Kenneth Eugene Flynn (1925-1996) about his experiences in the United States Navy during World War II. Audio is on tape MS016_18-2_72-061https://scholars.fhsu.edu/koh/1231/thumbnail.jp

WVRHC Newsletter, Fall 2016

The USS West Virginia: Phoenix of Pearl Harbo

SETTLEMENTS STATE OF SHELLBACKS SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES ON INTERTIDAL ZONE OF THE KOLA BAY

This research presents the results of investigation the structure of inter­tidal communities of Semibalanus balanoides of the Kola Bay in the area near the vil­lage Abram-mys and also in Belokamennaya and Pala bays. In the process of research was confirmed the following pattern: abundance of S. balanoides settlement depends on height of the shellbacks house. For all the shellbacks was installed dominant age: 2–3 years. Also were defined abundance and biomass for investigated areas

War diary of the U.S.S. Blue, Destroyer 744

On November 30, 1943, the destroyer Blue was launched in the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Staten Island, New York. She went into commission on March 20, 1944, in the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, with nineteen officers and 3 3 5 enlisted men aboard. The Blue was one of the first 2,200 ton super-destroyers to be commissioned in the navy, and was named after the 1,500 ton U.S. S. Blue (DD387), which was sunk in the Solomon Islands Campaign in 1943. The first Blue was named in honor of the late Admiral Victor Blue and his son, Lieutenant-Commander John Stuart Blue, who was killed in action in the South Pacific.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/1143/thumbnail.jp