Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics) If you’ve ever enjoyed even a little bit of Joseph Conrad, Patrick O’Brian, Moby Dick, or Pirates of the Caribbean, you really should get down to Pier 30/32 in San Francisco during the next few days to check out the tall ships that are now tied up there. [...]
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics) Avast ye landubbers and shutterbugs! On Wedensday, July 23 at noon (that’s tomorrow!), a parade of 32 tall ships will pass under the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the San Francisco Festival of Sail, an event produced by the San Francisco Maritime Park Association. Special guest [...]
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics) Avast ye landubbers and shutterbugs! On Wedensday, July 23 at noon (that’s tomorrow!), a parade of 32 tall ships will pass under the Golden Gate Bridge as part of the San Francisco Festival of Sail, an event produced by the San Francisco Maritime Park Association. Special guest [...]
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Today is Monday, April 28, the 119th day of 2008. There are 247 days left in the year.
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
… mutinied on this date in 1789. The following is from the review of The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander from The New York Times. The events that took place aboard the Bounty at sunrise on April 28, 1789, boil down to the characters of two [...]
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
1789 History's most famous mutiny: Fletcher Christian and others mutinied against Captain William Bligh on HMS Bounty , and set off at sea, landing at Pitcairn Island. The tale was recounted by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall in a trilogy, the first book being Mutiny on the Bounty (1932). Captain Bligh, a consummate seaman, was set adrift in a lifeboat with 18 or 19 loyal seamen, and remarkably...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Two Kent policeman are appointed MBEs for their work in a sex abuse investigation in the South Pacific.
This Book Is For You (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved by Judith Freeman A few months ago, I went to visit the duplex on Highland Avenue where Raymond and Cissy Chandler lived in 1929 (though I called her Pearl, her given name). After reading Judith Freeman's The Long Embrace , a highly intimate biography of Ray and Cissy, I learned that, of the approximately two dozen homes they shared in Los Angeles...
the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Things spun out of control on Pitcairn Island , one of the British Empire’s most isolated remnants. Settled in 1790 by the mutineers from the storied H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn barely recognized that it was ruled by British law. Pitcairn did have its own legal code, mostly dealing with theft and property disputes. The island statutes also addressed some local peculiarities, like prohibiting a shout of...
foot talk (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
The Three Legged badge of the Isle of Man was a popular as a tattoo, amongst Manx seamen. On the HMS Bounty , Manx midshipman Peter Heywood , who was involved in the 1789 mutiny was described by Captain Bligh , as being, "Very much tatowed & on the Right leg is tatowed the Legs of Man as the impression on that Coin is". Captian Bligh was married in the Isle of Man. The symbol for the Isle of Man (in...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Around The World......in 102 days!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Around The World......in 102 days!
The Australian (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
THE Rum Rebellion 200 years ago demonstrated the need for military establishments to be closely regulated by capable civilians.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
I flew to Wellington on the weekend to attend the 2008 Bounty Day celebration . Bounty Day is a chance for Pitcairners and their descendants to get together to remember the burning of the HMS Bounty. In January 1790 the Bounty mutineers arrived at Pitcairn Island and had to decide what to do with the ship. Matthew Quintal set fire to it on the 23rd of January 1790. It burnt to the sealine and sunk...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 01/13/2008
Follow Graham and Bridgett as we tour the world, seeking nothing but simple pleasures and avoiding the tube.
