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I'm looking to steal a big battle ship, that is powered by wind, like a Ship of the Line or a Man-o-War, that is in good enough condition to be used today?
The best example that I found so far is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy named by President George Washington after the United States Constitution. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. She was built...
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Feasibility of a Crystal Ecosystem
In my Fantasy world there exists a crevice of living crystals. Plants and animals made of glittering, iridescent crystalline structures in abundance.
The 'plants' look just like crystals in our world, but they grow and mature over time, eventually producing t...The Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, Protocol IV of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, was issued by the United Nations on 13 October 1995. It came into force on 30 July 1998. As of the end of April 2018, the protocol had been agreed to by 108 states.
== History ==
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and three annexed protocols were adopted on 10 October 1980 and opened for signature on 10 April 1981. In 1986, Sweden and Switzerland pushed for the Blinding Laser Protocol. During 1989–91, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held four international...
They fail and suffer whatever evil fate awaits them.
...or this
I say this mainly due to this pre-condition:
The refugees are traders, not craftsmen or metal smiths. Iron is known
to them but they don't have anything other than introductory knowledge
of how to smelt iron or form tool...
Why would a secretly evil company choose an "official" evil-sounding name?
corporations names
Upon reviewing a post at SFF.SE, I learned that The Maze Runner featured an organization called WICKED. Having never read the books nor seen the movies, I reckoned that it was one of those tropey well-...Transcript for
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