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Kamikaze
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A japanese compound word that can be translated as “divine wind.” it refers to [1] major typhoons in 1274 and 1281 which dispersed mongolian invasion fleets. [2] suicide attacks, launched in a desperate attempt to stop or slow down the allied advance towards the japanese home islands in the closing stages of world war ii. they were mounted by submariners, human torpedoes, speedboats, divers, and even a super-battleship; but by far the most common were mass air attacks, code-named kikusui after the “floating chrysanthemum” imperial symbol. pilots attempted to crash their aircraft—laden with explosives, bombs, or torpedoes, and frequently with jormungandr 168 full fuel tanks—into allied ships, hoping to cause greater damage than a conventional bombing or torpedo attack. the first to be hit by a kamikaze was the royal australian navy’s flagship, heavy cruiser hmas australia, during the battle of leyte gulf.
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Battleship, английский
- A type of large, heavily armored warship of the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century armed with heavy-caliber guns, designed to fight other battleships in a line of battle. it was the successor to the ship-of-the-line of the age of sail.
- [1] a sailing ship-of-the-line. [2] the most heavily-armed and armored of power-driven warships (cf. dreadnought).
Explosives, английский
Frequently, английский
Frecuentemente
Jormungandr, английский
In norse mythology this sea serpent was so long that it encircled the entire world and sailors would mistake its humps for a chain of islands (cf. kraken: leviathan: zaratan).
Conventional, английский
- Обычный (об оружии)
- Обычный (напр. об оружии)
- A конвенциональный3; узуальный metaphor, norm
- Обычный; общепринятый; стандартный
Australian, английский
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Karfi, английский
A small viking warship, usually reserved for a king or great chieftain.
Juvenile punishment, английский
A document in the british museum recounts the treatment of young boys in the elizabethan navy: petty pilferings and commissiones of that kinde ... were generallie punished with the whippe, the offender beinge to that purpose bounde faste to the capstan; and the waggerie and idlenesse of ship boys paid by the boatswayne with a rodde, and commonlie this execution is done upon mondaye morninges, and ... some meere seamen and saylers doe believe ... that they shalle never have a faire winde until the poor boyes be duly brought to the chest; that is, whipped every mondaye morninge. for minor disciplinary infractions, boys of all social backgrounds were later subjected to bare-bottom beatings, latterly with a cane, but originally with a teaser or bimmy—an eighteen-inch length of rope, knotted at the “receiving end” and dipped in hot tar for stiffness. as reported by s. humphries in hooligans or rebels? an oral history of working class childhood and youth 1889–1939 (blackwell 1981), such punishment was readily accepted by upper-class youths who had attended “public” (elite private) schools, but resented by those with little or no formal education: the most determined resistance ... occurred when boys refused to remove their trousers to be beaten on their bare bottoms ... although these ritual humiliations were for many years an integral part of public school life ... working-class ... children were resolute in their resistance ... would stoically endure traditional punishments of the sort their parents might inflict but refused to submit to the more degrading disciplinary measures. more serious juvenile offenders received full-scale flogging as their summary punishment, but with a light five-tailed whip, known as the “pussy-cat” and reserved for use on youths. however, if the punishment had been awarded by a court-martial use of the “adult” cat-o’-nine-tails was mandatory. many boys felt this to be a “badge of honor.” k
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