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Britannic (other)
Britannic means 'of Britain' or 'British', from the Roman name for the British. Britannic may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Britannic'' (film), a 2000 film based on the story of HMHS ''Britannic'' * SS ''Britannic'', a fictional ocean liner in the 1974 movie ''Juggernaut'' Ships * , owned by the White Star Line and third sister ship of RMS ''Olympic'' and RMS ''Titanic'', sank in 1916 after hitting a naval mine * , a motor liner owned by the White Star Line and then Cunard Line, scrapped in 1960 * , holder of the Blue Riband, owned by the White Star Line Other uses * Britannic (typeface), a sans-serif typeface sold by Stephenson Blake See also * Britannia (other) * Britannica (other) * Britannicus Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (12 February AD 41 – 11 February AD 55), usually called Britannicus, was the son of Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina. For a time he was considered his father's heir, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britain (place Name)
The name Britain originates from the Common Brittonic term ''*Pritanī'' and is one of the oldest known names for Great Britain, an island off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The terms Briton and British, similarly derived, refer to its inhabitants and, to varying extents, the smaller islands in the vicinity. "British Isles" is the only ancient name for these islands to survive in general usage. Etymology "Britain" comes from la, Britannia~Brittania, via Old French ' and Middle English ', possibly influenced by Old English ', probably also from Latin ''Brittania'', ultimately an adaptation of the Common Brittonic name for the island, ''*Pritanī''. The earliest written reference to the British Isles derives from the works of the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia; later Greek writers such as Diodorus of Sicily and Strabo who quote Pytheas' use of variants such as (), "The Britannic and, island, and , "Britannic islands", with ' being a Celtic word that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannic (film)
''Britannic'' is a 2000 spy television film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. The film is a fictional account of the sinking of the ship of the same name off the Greek island of Kea in November 1916; it features a German agent sabotaging her while she is serving as a hospital ship for the British Army during World War I. It stars Edward Atterton and Amanda Ryan, with Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Daniels, John Rhys-Davies, and Bruce Payne as costars. It first premiered on cable network Fox Family and was then broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4. Trenchard-Smith says the film was the best of the three disaster movies he made around this time. It got him the job directing '' Megiddo: The Omega Code 2''. Plot In Southampton in 1916, HMHS ''Britannic'', a sister ship of the ''Titanic'', has been refitted as a hospital ship for Allied soldiers fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign. Among the nurses who are to serve aboard her is Lady Lewis (Jacqueline Bisset), mother of Sarah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juggernaut (1974 Film)
''Juggernaut'' is a 1974 British crime suspense film starring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, and Anthony Hopkins. The film, which was directed by Richard Lester, was largely shot on location aboard the TS ''Hamburg'' in the North Sea. It was inspired by real events aboard '' QE2'' in May 1972 when Royal Marines and Special Boat Service personnel parachuted onto the ship because of a bomb hoax. In the film, Richard Harris leads a team of Naval bomb disposal experts sent to disarm several large barrel bombs that have been placed aboard an ocean liner crossing the North Atlantic. Meanwhile, ashore, the police race against time to track down the mysterious bomb maker, who calls himself "Juggernaut", who will agree to a ransom in order to reveal the information that will disarm the bombs. Plot The ocean liner SS ''Britannic'' is in the middle of a voyage in the North Atlantic with 1200 passengers on board when the shipping line's owner Nicholas Porter in London receives a teleph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannic (typeface)
Britannic is a sans-serif typeface family that was sold in metal type by Stephenson Blake. It is a "modulated" or stressed sans-serif design, in which the vertical lines are clearly thicker than the horizontals. The Klingspor Museum reports that it was originally created by the Wagner & Schmidt foundry of Leipzig, Germany. In design it is intended for headings, advertisements and signs rather than continuous body text. Stephenson Blake advertised it as "just the right note for an advertising or display panel". Since Stephenson Blake did not continue operations into digital fonts, a variety of digitisations of different weights and widths of Britannic have been released by different companies. Some releases include an all-capitals condensed weight. The bold weight, digitised by URW, is included with some Microsoft software such as Office. A wry commentary on the design, presumably by Microsoft's typography manager Robert Norton, adds:This interesting face always excites he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannia (other)
Britannia is the Latin name for Britain, used as the female personification of Britain. Britannia may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities * Britannia, an alias of character Sage in the Marvel Comics universe * Britannia, a fictional location in ''Ultima'' video games *Britannia, a fictional region of the manga and anime '' The Seven Deadly Sins'' *The Holy Britannian Empire, a fictional political entity in the anime ''Code Geass'' Games * Britannia (board game), a strategy board game introduced in 1986 Literature * ''Britannia'' (novel), a 2015 novel by Simon Scarrow * ''Britannia'', a chorographical survey of Great Britain and Ireland by William Camden, 1586 * ''Britannia'', a series of novels by M. J. Trow and Richard Denham * ''Britannia'' (journal), a journal of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies * ''Britannia'', a comic miniseries by Valiant Comics Television * ''Britannia'' documentaries'', a BBC TV series * ''Britannia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannica (other)
'' Britannica'' is the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. Britannica may also refer to: Publications * '' Biographia Britannica'', a multi-volume biographical compendium * '' Insecta Britannica Diptera'', a seminal work of entomology by Francis Walker * Malayalam Britannica, a reference work in the Malayalam language * ''Monumenta Historica Britannica'', an incomplete work by Henry Petrie, the Keeper of the Records of the Tower of London * ''Musica Britannica'', an authoritative national collection of British music * ''Papyrus Larousse Britannica'', a Greek language encyclopedia Other uses * Classis Britannica, a provincial naval fleet of the navy of ancient Rome * Felis Britannica, the UK national sub-federation of the Fédération Internationale Féline * '' Inula britannica'', a plant species * ''Pax Britannica'', the period of relative peace in Europe and the world (1815–1914) * '' Undichna britannica'', a fish-fin, or fish-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
