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Bulwarks (ship)
Bulwark primarily refers to: * Bulwark (nautical), a nautical term for the extension of a ship's side above the level of a weather deck * Bastion, a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification The Bulwark primarily refers to: * ''The Bulwark'' (novel), a 1946 posthumous novel by Theodore Dreiser * ''The Bulwark'' (website), an American news website launched in 2018 Bulwark may also refer to: Places * Bulwark, Chepstow, Wales * Bulwark, Alberta, Canada * Bulwark Stream, a meltwater stream in Antarctica Ships * ''Bulwark''-class battleship (1859), a class of Royal Navy wooden battleships * HMS ''Bulwark'', the name of several Royal Navy ships * USS ''Bulwark'', the name of several U.S. Navy ships Other uses * Bulwark (comics), a fictional character in Marvel comics * Bulwark (horse), sire of Åby Stora Pris Åby Stora Pris (literally "Åby Grand Prize") is an annual Group One harness event for trotters that is held at Åby Racetrack in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark (nautical)
This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water (mostly though not necessarily on the sea). Some remain current, while many date from the 17th to 19th centuries. The word nautical derives from the Latin ''nauticus'', from Greek ''nautikos'', from ''nautēs'': "sailor", from ''naus'': "ship". Further information on nautical terminology may also be found at Nautical metaphors in English, and additional military terms are listed in the Multiservice tactical brevity code article. Terms used in other fields associated with bodies of water can be found at Glossary of fishery terms, Glossary of underwater diving terminology, Glossary of rowing terms, and Glossary of meteorology. This glossary is split into two articles: * terms starting with the letters A to L are at Glossary of nautical terms (A-L) * terms starting with the letters M to Z are at Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z). __NO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastion
A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defence in the age of gunpowder artillery. As military architecture, the bastion is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. Evolution By the middle of the 15th century, artillery pieces had become powerful enough to make the traditional medieval round tower and curtain wall obsolete. This was exemplified by the campaigns of Charles VII of France who reduced the towns and castles held by the English during the latter stages of the Hundred Years War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulwark (novel)
''The Bulwark'' is a 1946 (posthumous) novel by Theodore Dreiser. Plot summary Hannah and Rufus Barnes, both Quakers, move out of Maine to Trenton, New Jersey, where Hannah's widowed sister lives. Their son Solon, the protagonist, meets Benecia Wallin; although she is affluent and he is not, they get married. Solon works in a bank in Philadelphia, where his Quaker values are contrary to financial ethos. He summons a bank examiner from Washington DC to stop the corrupt practices of some chief executives. Eventually, he resigns. Meanwhile, two of his offspring, Etta and Stewart, repudiate their Quaker upbringing. While Orville gets married and Isobel works in a college, Etta moves to Wisconsin and then Greenwich Village under the influence of one of her friends, Volida La Porte. She has an affair with a painter, until he decides to go West to further his career. Moreover, Stewart accidentally kills one of his dates and commits suicide shortly after. Eventually, Benecia dies upon Ett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulwark (website)
''The Bulwark'' is an American centre-right news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes. It initially launched as a news aggregator, but it was revamped into a news and opinion site using key staffers from the recently closed ''Weekly Standard''. History Following the end of publication of ''The Weekly Standard'' in December 2018, editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said: "the murder of the ''Standard'' made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism." The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by ''Weekly Standard'' co-founder William Kristol. Several former editors and writers of ''The Weekly Standard'' soon joined the staff and within weeks of launch began publishing original news and opinion pieces. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark, Chepstow
Bulwark is a predominantly residential area of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, largely developed during the twentieth century. The area is so named because of its Iron Age fort, which is now maintained as a public open space. Substantial development in the area began during the First World War, with housing being provided for the military and civilian workforce brought to the area for the National Shipyard no.1 at Chepstow. History Bulwarks Camp Bulwarks Camp, also known in the past as Hardwick Camp and locally as the Warren, is a small defensive hill fort, on top of cliffs overlooking the River Wye, the Beachley peninsula and the Severn estuary. It was probably built around the first century BC or the first century AD. Roman Britain, The Romans called the inhabitants of the area the Silures; they would have spoken the language that became Welsh language, Welsh. The fort had cliffs to the east, a ravine to the south, and earthworks comprising a double rampart and ditch on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark, Alberta
The County of Paintearth No. 18 is a municipal district in east central Alberta, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 7, its municipal office is located southeast of the Town of Castor near the intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 36. History Originally incorporated in 1944 as the ''Municipal District of Paintearth No. 334'', it was established as a county in 1962. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Paintearth No. 18 had a population of 1,990 living in 648 of its 720 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,102. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Paintearth No. 18 had a population of 2,102 living in 638 of its 696 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 2,029. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. Communities and localities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark Stream
Bulwark Stream () is a meltwater stream from Koettlitz Glacier on the east side of The Bulwark, a mountain outlier south of Walcott Bay, Scott Coast in Antarctica. The stream flows north and then west, following the perimeter of The Bulwark to enter Trough Lake and the Alph River system. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) was established by the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946, which has since been replaced by the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. Althoug ... in 1994, in association with The Bulwark. References * Rivers of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark-class Battleship (1859)
The ''Bulwark'' class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads. and were kept on the stocks almost complete, in case of need, until they were scrapped in 1873 and 1872. Origins The consensus of British naval opinion after the Crimean War favoured the large steam-powered two-decker line-of-battle ship with 101 or 91 guns. The designs for two-decker evolved. "The 101-gun type were redesigned with an extra 400 tons and engines of 800 nhp, to produce the ''Duncan'' class. The 91s were given similar engines, while their smaller increase in size was largely taken up with an additional overall for a finer length-to-beam ratio and improved lines in ." In the 1859 programme the two types were merged to produce a 91-gun ship with the dimensions of the 101-gun type. Two ships built on this plan - the ''Bulwark'' and ''Robust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bulwark
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Bulwark'', after the reference to the Navy as the 'bulwark' (defence) of the country: * HMS ''Bulwark'' was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was ordered in 1778 but was cancelled in 1783. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1807. She had previously planned to be called HMS ''Scipio'', but was renamed in 1806 before being launched. She took part in the blockade of Rochefort in 1813 and fought in the War of 1812. She was broken up in 1826. * HMS ''Bulwark'' was to have been an 81-gun screw propelled second rate. She was laid down in 1859, but work was suspended in 1861, and she was eventually cancelled and broken up in 1873. * HMS ''Bulwark'' was previously the planned 110-gun first rate . She was kept in reserve and was renamed ''Bulwark'' in 1885 when she became a training ship. She was renamed HMS ''Impregnable'' in 1886, and then HMS ''Bulwark'' again in 1919. She was sold for breaking up in 1921. * was a launch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bulwark
USS ''Bulwark'' is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...: * , renamed ''Avenge'' on 23 May 1941 * , a coastal minesweeper, laid down on 15 April 1941 * , a minesweeper, laid down on 12 December 1951 References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulwark United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark (comics)
Several fictional groups of mutants have used the name Hellions in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hellions have always been portrayed as rivals of various teams of younger mutant heroes in the X-Men franchise, initially as actual villains and later on a team that was more of a school rival than actual enemies of the X-Men. The first and most notable incarnation of the Hellions were students of Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club's Massachusetts Academy, and were rivals of the New Mutants. The original Hellions first appeared in ''New Mutants'' #16 (June 1984), created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Sal Buscema. This version of the Hellions ended after an attack by Trevor Fitzroy and a squadron of Sentinels that killed several Hellions. Two later groups known as the Hellions or New Hellions both fought against various X groups such as Generation X and X-Force. In ''New X-Men: Academy X'' a new group of Hellions were introduced, this time they were a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark (horse)
Bulwark primarily refers to: * Bulwark (nautical), a nautical term for the extension of a ship's side above the level of a weather deck * Bastion, a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification The Bulwark primarily refers to: * ''The Bulwark'' (novel), a 1946 posthumous novel by Theodore Dreiser * ''The Bulwark'' (website), an American news website launched in 2018 Bulwark may also refer to: Places * Bulwark, Chepstow, Wales * Bulwark, Alberta, Canada * Bulwark Stream, a meltwater stream in Antarctica Ships * ''Bulwark''-class battleship (1859), a class of Royal Navy wooden battleships * HMS ''Bulwark'', the name of several Royal Navy ships * USS ''Bulwark'', the name of several U.S. Navy ships Other uses * Bulwark (comics), a fictional character in Marvel comics * Bulwark (horse), sire of Åby Stora Pris winners * Bulwark Protective Apparel Bulwark FR is an American company that manufactures and distributes flame-resistant protective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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