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...centuries, the precise design of the trireme has posed a baffling mystery. Underwater archaeologists have found the wracks of ancient, sail- driven merchantmen but no remains of the oar-studded warships. Vase paintings, coins, classical writings, excavations at ancient ship sheds and inscribed- stone inventories of the Piraeus dockyards have contributed some ideas. Scholars know that trireme hulls were light, long and slender, displacing some 22 tons, measuring about 123 ft. in length and 19 ft. at the beam, with a draft of slightly more than...
...most vexing question was the arrangement of the oars: Were there three men to an oar? Three oars to a single port? Or three tiers of oarsmen, each with a single oar? Five years ago, guests at a dinner party in Britain spent much of the evening arguing over the issue. Host...
...proved to be daunting. The seats do not move, as in modern shells, and the space between them is so small that oarsmen cannot move their bodies. The two bottom tiers of oarsmen must row blind. Guidance comes from the top level of rowers, who can see when the oars -- which are only 12 inches apart -- are overlapping. Those on the lowest tier suffer the most: beams lie behind their heads, and the weight of the oar can force the handle up under their chins, resulting in nasty bumps...
...Coca-Cola Co. (1985 sales: $7.9 billion) as it turns 100. A century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever before. Reflecting that fact, Coca-Cola stock closed last week at 111 1/8, nearly...
starboard: a port sweep rows with his or her right hand on the end of the oar handle...