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Don't Give Up The Ship (game)
''Don't Give Up the Ship'' is a set of rules for conducting Napoleonic era naval wargames. The game was published by Guidon Games in 1972 and republished by TSR, Inc. in 1975. The game was developed as a collaboration between Dave Arneson, Gary Gygax, and Mike Carr. It was the first collaboration between Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, the co-authors of ''Dungeons & Dragons''. Mike Carr edited the rules and researched the historical single ship actions that are included as game scenarios. History The name comes from the dying words of James Lawrence to the crew of his USS ''Chesapeake'', later stitched into an ensign created by Purser Samuel Hambleton and raised by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812. In the foreword, Gygax writes about the genesis of the rules: After they met for the first time at Gen Con, they chose to work together on a new game, ''Don't Give Up the Ship!'' which focused on their mutual interest in naval battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Give Up The Ship 1st Guidon Cover
Don't, Dont, or DONT may refer to: Films * Don't (1925 film), ''Don't'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent comedy film * Don't (1974 film), ''Don't'' (1974 film), a 1974 film about the monarch butterfly * ''Don't'', a fake trailer from the film ''Grindhouse (film), Grindhouse'' (2007) Songs * Don't (Billy Currington song), "Don't" (Billy Currington song) * Don't (Bryson Tiller song), "Don't" (Bryson Tiller song) *"Don't", by Dinosaur Jr. from their album ''Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), Bug'', 1988 * Don't (Ed Sheeran song), "Don't" (Ed Sheeran song) * Don't (Elvis Presley song), "Don't" (Elvis Presley song) * "Don't!", a song by Shania Twain * "Don't", by M2M from their album ''The Big Room'' * "Honey Don't, Carl Perkins song Surname Dont or Dohnt is a German language surname *Jakob Dont (1815–1888), Austrian composer *Jay Dohnt (born 1989), Australian Paralympics athlete Other uses * Don't (game show), ''Don't'' (game show), a 2020 American game show with Adam Scott and Ryan Reynolds * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midwest Military Simulation Association
The Midwest Military Simulation Association (MMSA) is a group of wargamers and military figurine collectors active during the late 1960s and 1970s. History When wargaming was in its heyday and role-playing games were first developed, the group lived in the Minneapolis-St Paul area. Its membership included Dave Arneson, David Wesely, Ken Fletcher, Dave Megarry, John and Richard Snider and others. In 2006 Wesely described how the club began: The Midwest Military Simulation Association was founded on April 18, 1963, by Ray Allard, noted amateur historian and reenactor, now deceased. The first meeting was attended by Dr. William Musing, Loren Johnson, Ron Lauraunt and Winston Sandeen, Ray Allard Junior and David A. Wesely. Ray was about 54 at the time, the next four were all about 30 and the last two were teenagers. Besides age, the group was split by interest, with the five older guys being historians, collectors, modelers and painters of military miniatures, and the two younge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GaryCon
Gary Con is a gaming convention held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin every year to celebrate the life and works of Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and commonly considered the father of role playing games. Gygax was raised in Lake Geneva, where the company he later founded TSR, Inc. created and produced the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game for 25 years. History When ''Dungeons & Dragons'' co-creator Gary Gygax died in 2008, role playing gamers from around the world joined to honor Gygax's life with a virtual convention, held at locations around the world. Gygax's friends and family held an impromptu game event at Lake Geneva's American Legion Hall following his funeral on March 8, 2008, now known as "Gary Con 0," By 2009, son Luke Gygax had established the first official Gary Con, still at the Legion Hall. "Gary Con I," held March 7, 2009, was attended by a number of gaming industry icons: Frank Mentzer, Tom Wham, Steve Chenault, and Jim Ward. Daughter M. Elise Gygax-Cousin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Give Up The Ship Played At Gen Con 2013
Don't, Dont, or DONT may refer to: Films * ''Don't'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent comedy film * ''Don't'' (1974 film), a 1974 film about the monarch butterfly * ''Don't'', a fake trailer from the film ''Grindhouse'' (2007) Songs * "Don't" (Billy Currington song) * "Don't" (Bryson Tiller song) *"Don't", by Dinosaur Jr. from their album '' Bug'', 1988 * "Don't" (Ed Sheeran song) * "Don't" (Elvis Presley song) * "Don't!", a song by Shania Twain * "Don't", by M2M from their album ''The Big Room'' * "Honey Don't, Carl Perkins song Surname Dont or Dohnt is a German language surname *Jakob Dont (1815–1888), Austrian composer *Jay Dohnt (born 1989), Australian Paralympics athlete Other uses * ''Don't'' (game show), a 2020 American game show with Adam Scott and Ryan Reynolds * DONT, Disturb Opponents' Notrump, a bridge bidding convention * "-dont" (actually "-odont"), a suffix meaning "tooth", used in taxonomy * Doctor Don't, the teenage kid version of Doctor Eggman, from New Yok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon (magazine)
''Dragon'' was one of the two official magazines for source material for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game and associated products, along with ''Dungeon (magazine), Dungeon''. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, ''The Strategic Review''. The final printed issue was #359 in September 2007. Shortly after the last print issue shipped in mid-August 2007, Wizards of the Coast (part of Hasbro, Inc.), the publication's current copyright holder, relaunched ''Dragon'' as an online magazine, continuing on the numbering of the print edition. The last published issue was No. 430 in December 2013. A digital publication called ''Dragon+'', which replaced ''Dragon'' magazine, was launched in 2015. It was created by the advertising agency Dialect in collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, and its numbering system for issues started at No. 1. History TSR In 1975, TSR, Inc. began publishing ''The Strate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corner Of The Table
Corner may refer to: People *Corner (surname) * House of Cornaro, a noble Venetian family (''Corner'' in Venetian dialect) Places * Corner, Alabama, a community in the United States *Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia * Corner River, a tributary of Harricana River, in Ontario, Canada * Corner Township, Custer County, Nebraska, a township in the United States Arts, entertainment, and media Music * ''The Corner'' (album), an album by the Hieroglyphics * "The Corner" (song), a 2005 song by Common * "Corner", a song by Allie Moss from her 2009 EP ''Passerby'' * "Corner", a song by Blue Stahli from their 2010 album ''Blue Stahli'' * "The Corner", a song by Dermot Kennedy from his 2019 album '' Without Fear'' * "The Corner", a song by Rodney Atkins from his 2011 album ''Take a Back Road'' * "The Corner", a song by Staind from their 2008 album '' The Illusion of Progress'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Corner painters, a Danish artists association * ''The Corner'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the Royal Navy and a combined fleet of the French Navy, French and Spanish Navy, Spanish navies during the War of the Third Coalition. As part of Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, the French and Spanish fleets combined to take control of the English Channel and provide the Grande Armée safe passage. The allied fleet, under the command of French admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, sailed from the port of Cádiz in the south of Spain on 18 October 1805. They encountered a British fleet under Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Lord Nelson, recently assembled to meet this threat, in the Atlantic Ocean along the southwest coast of Spain, off Cape Trafalgar. Nelson was outnumbered, with 27 British ships of the line to 33 Franco-Spanish ships, including the largest warship in either fleet, the Spanish ''Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Guerriere (1806)
''Guerrière'' was a 38-gun frigate of the French Navy, designed by Forfait. The British captured her and recommissioned her as HMS ''Guerriere''. She is most famous for her fight against . Her career with the French included a sortie with ''Duguay-Trouin'' in 1803, in which the two vessels were forced to make an escape from a British ship. They were harried by British forces of varying strengths during their journey back to port and only just reached the safety of Corunna, with ''Guerrière'' being engaged by the 74-gun until she reached the entrance to the port. She sailed in 1806 with several other French ships to attack British and Russian whalers, but was chased and brought to action by HMS ''Blanche''. After a hard-fought battle, ''Blanche'' forced ''Guerrière'' to surrender, and brought her back to Britain. Now commissioned as HMS ''Guerriere'', she went out to the West Indies and served off the American coast for a number of years. She captured a number of privat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Constitution
USS ''Constitution'', also known as ''Old Ironsides'', is a Full-rigged ship, three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's List of oldest surviving ships, oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of Original six frigates of the United States Navy, six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. The name "Constitution" was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March or May the frigates that were to be constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so ''Constitution'' and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. She was built at Edmund Hartt's shipyard in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Her first duties were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protractor
A goniometer is an instrument that either measures an angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. The term goniometry derives from two Greek words, γωνία (''gōnía'') 'angle' and μέτρον (''métron'') ' measure'. The protractor is a commonly used type in the fields of mechanics, engineering, and geometry. The first known description of a goniometer, based on the astrolabe, was by Gemma Frisius in 1538. Protractor A protractor is a measuring instrument, typically made of transparent plastic, for measuring angles. Some protractors are simple half-discs or full circles. More advanced protractors, such as the bevel protractor, have one or two swinging arms, which can be used to help measure the angle. Most protractors measure angles in degrees (°). Radian-scale protractors measure angles in radians. Most protractors are divided into 180 equal parts. Some precision protractors further divide degrees into arcminutes. A protractor divided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacking (sailing)
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft ( sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind, turns its bow toward and through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side of the boat to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. Sailing vessels are unable to sail higher than a certain angle towards the wind, so "beating to windward" in a zig-zag fashion with a series of tacking maneuvers, allows a vessel to sail towards a destination that is closer to the wind than the vessel can sail directly. A sailing craft whose course is downwind jibes (or "wears" if square-rigged) by having the apparent wind cross the stern from one tack to the other. High-performance sailing craft may tack, rather than jibe, downwind, when the apparent wind is well forward. Beating to windward Sails are limited in how close to the direction of the wind they can power a sailing craft. The ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the Flagship#Colleges and universities in the United States, flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units. The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the List of United States university campuses by enrollment, ninth-largest (as of the 2022–2023 academic year) main campus student body in the United States, with 54,890 students at the start of the 2023–24 academic year. The campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately apart. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted a charter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
