Word: battleship
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...1800s The French and British vied to build the better ironclad battleship. In 1862 the Union's Monitor and the Confederacy's Merrimack clashed in the first battle of ironclads in history. The result was indecisive...
TRADE FEDERATION BATTLESHIP Huge space fortresses designed to look like cargo hangars actually house a battle fleet; they're the direct ancestors of the Empire's Star Destroyers...
...mail from ranting strangers isn't for everyone. So here's another way to have more fun with e-mail, one to one. Hasbro Interactive's Em@il Games are $15 programs that attach interactive game boards to most e-mail programs so people can play Scrabble, chess, Battleship and other amusements. Demo versions can be sampled at www.emailgames.com Now if only there were a way to play on the train...
...side nap with tales of sleek Pullman trains and Ford Ranch Wagons. Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways Lindbergh's new memoir is an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between covered wagon and battleship, family unity and "protective privacy," that has characterized so much of her life as a Lindbergh...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese. A few minutes later he was heard to intone: "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition; I just got one of the sons of bitches...