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Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their girl today (May 2, 2015).
Ottawa, Canada ~ June 30, 2011.
Photo of the Duke of Lancaster before the graffiti art took place.
On August 10th, 1979, a former Sealink passenger ferry called “The Duke of Lancaster" was beached at Llanerch-y-Mor in North Wales with the intention of turning it into a floating leisure and retail complex called The Fun Ship but the project never achieved it’s full potential due to many long running legal disputes with the local council.
Make no bones about it, until it was converted into a car ferry she was one of the finest vessels afloat at the time. The first class quarters in the late fifties and early sixties were the best around, silver service restaurants, state rooms and luxurious cabins. In fact, the facilities and the accommodation on board Lancaster were so good she was frequently taken out of her usual ferry service and used as a cruise liner with frequent annual cruises around Scotland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean.
I themed my site www.mesaran.in with a cool KTM DUKE background to celebrate the launch of KTM DUKE 200 in India
My dear old friend took his last breath under the sea in Báhia Asucsión, BCS Mexico about two weeks ago. Duke was a Former Navy Demolition Diver and all around good guy. He dedicated the majority of his life to the sea and ended up in her embrace. Peace!
On August 10th, 1979, a former Sealink passenger ferry called “The Duke of Lancaster" was beached at Llanerch-y-Mor nr Mostyn in North Wales with the intention of turning it into a floating leisure and retail complex called The Fun Ship but the project never achieved it’s full potential due to many long running legal disputes with the local council.
Make no bones about it, until it was converted into a car ferry she was one of the finest vessels afloat at the time. The first class quarters in the late fifties and early sixties were the best around, silver service restaurants, state rooms and luxurious cabins. In fact, the facilities and the accommodation on board Lancaster were so good she was frequently taken out of her usual ferry service and used as a cruise liner with frequent annual cruises around Scotland, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean.She is now just a rusting hulk that has been covered in grafitti
which apparently was comissioned by the local. county council.
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French postcard by Éditions du Désastre, Paris, no WC 13, 1989. Photo: William Claxton. Caption: Duke Ellington, Monterey Jazz Festival 1958.
American Pianist, bandleader and Songwriter Duke Ellington (1899–1974) was an originator of big-band jazz, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in Western music. He composed thousands of scores over his 50-year career and continued to play until shortly before he died in 1974.
Duke Ellington was born in 1899, in Washington, D.C., where he was raised by two talented, musical parents in a middle-class neighbourhood. At the age of 7, he began studying piano and earned the nickname 'Duke' for his gentlemanly ways. Inspired by his job as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Cafe, he wrote his first composition, Soda Fountain Rag, at the age of 15. He created it by ear because he had not yet learned to read and write music. Despite being awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime and began to play professionally at age 17. In late 1917, he formed his first group, 'The Duke's Serenaders'. He moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance. New dance crazes like the Charleston emerged in Harlem, as well as African-American musical theatre. From 1924 on, Ellington performed in Broadway nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet, a group which in time grew to a 10-piece ensemble. From 1927 on, he gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem. With a weekly radio broadcast, the Cotton Club's exclusively white and wealthy clientele poured in nightly to see them. At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol. In 1929, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
Duke Ellington made hundreds of recordings with his bands, appeared in films and on the radio, and toured Europe on two occasions in the 1930s. Ellington's film work began with Black and Tan (1929), a nineteen-minute all-African-American RKO short in which he played the hero Duke. He also appeared in the Amos 'n' Andy film Check and Double Check (1930). Ivie Anderson was hired as their featured vocalist in 1931. She is the vocalist on It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (1932) among other recordings. Ellington and his Orchestra also appeared in the films Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen, 1934) and Belle of the Nineties (Leo McCarey, 1934), featuring Mae West. The short film Symphony in Black (Fred Waller, 1935) featured his extended piece A Rhapsody of Negro Life. It introduced Billie Holiday and won an Academy Award as the best musical short subject. While the band's United States audience remained mainly African-American in this period, the Ellington orchestra had a huge following overseas, exemplified by the success of their trip to England in 1933 and their 1934 visit to the European mainland. Ellington's fame rose to the rafters in the 1940s when he composed several masterworks, including Concerto for Cootie, Cotton Tail and Ko-Ko. His blend of melodies, rhythms and subtle sonic movements gave audiences a new experience—complex yet accessible jazz that made the heart swing. He preferred to call it 'American Music'. During the early 1950s, Ellington's career was at a low point, with his style being generally seen as outmoded. Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 returned him to wider prominence and introduced him to a new generation of fans. Ellington began to work directly on scoring for film soundtracks, in particular Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959), with James Stewart, in which Ellington appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues (Martin Ritt, 1961), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians. Ellington earned 12 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000, nine while he was alive. At the age of 19, Ellington married Edna Thompson, who had been his girlfriend since high school, and soon after their marriage, she gave birth to their only child, Mercer Kennedy Ellington. In 1928, Ellington became the companion of Mildred Dixon, who travelled with him, managed Tempo Music, inspired songs at the peak of his career and raised his son Mercer. In 1938, he left his family and moved in with Cotton Club employee Beatrice 'Evie' Ellis. The relationship with Ellis, though stormy, continued after Ellington met Fernanda de Castro Monte in the early 1960s. Ellington supported both women for the rest of his life. In 1974, at the age of 75, Duke Ellington died of lung cancer and pneumonia. His last words were, "Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered." Following Duke's death, his son Mercer took over leadership of the orchestra, continuing until his own death in 1996.
Source: Bio. and Wikipedia.
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Official Basketball Box Score
Georgia Tech vs Duke
03/14/10 1:00 pm at Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
VISITORS: Georgia Tech 22-12
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
01 Shumpert, Iman...... * 4-9 2-6 2-3 1 4 5 2 12 5 4 0 0 33
13 Bell, D'Andre....... * 2-3 0-1 0-0 0 3 3 3 4 0 0 0 1 18
14 Favors, Derrick..... * 8-14 0-0 6-7 4 7 11 3 22 2 3 2 0 36
31 Lawal, Gani......... * 3-8 0-0 0-1 3 2 5 0 6 0 4 1 0 22
41 Rice, Glen.......... * 2-2 1-1 0-0 1 1 2 2 5 3 2 0 1 26
00 Udofia, Mfon........ 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
03 Miller, Maurice..... 3-7 2-4 2-2 0 3 3 1 10 2 2 0 0 27
11 Oliver, Brian....... 0-1 0-1 2-2 0 0 0 5 2 1 0 0 0 15
35 Peacock, Zachery.... 0-6 0-0 0-1 2 2 4 3 0 0 2 1 1 22
TEAM................ 1 1
Totals.............. 22-50 5-13 12-16 13 22 35 20 61 13 17 4 3 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 8-23 34.8% 2nd Half: 14-27 51.9% Game: 44.0% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 2-6 33.3% 2nd Half: 3-7 42.9% Game: 38.5% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-8 50.0% 2nd Half: 8-8 100 % Game: 75.0% 1
HOME TEAM: Duke 29-5
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
02 Smith,Nolan......... * 7-13 2-4 0-0 0 3 3 2 16 2 2 0 0 30
12 Singler,Kyle........ * 3-15 0-2 14-16 3 3 6 3 20 2 2 0 1 39
30 Scheyer,Jon......... * 4-13 2-9 6-8 1 2 3 1 16 1 1 0 2 38
42 Thomas,Lance........ * 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 4 0 0 3 0 1 23
55 Zoubek,Brian........ * 0-0 0-0 2-2 4 5 9 4 2 2 1 1 2 28
05 Plumlee,Mason....... 1-2 0-0 0-0 3 1 4 1 2 1 0 1 0 17
20 Dawkins,Andre....... 3-5 1-2 0-0 0 2 2 1 7 0 1 0 0 13
21 Plumlee,Miles....... 0-2 0-0 2-2 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 12
TEAM................ 2 2
Totals.............. 18-51 5-17 24-28 13 18 31 17 65 8 10 2 6 200
TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 12-29 41.4% 2nd Half: 6-22 27.3% Game: 35.3% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 2-8 25.0% 2nd Half: 3-9 33.3% Game: 29.4% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 3-5 60.0% 2nd Half: 21-23 91.3% Game: 85.7% 2
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Officials: Mike Wood, Karl Hess, Ray Natili
Technical fouls: Georgia Tech-None. Duke-None.
Attendance: 23381
Score by Periods 1st 2nd Total
Georgia Tech.................. 22 39 - 61
Duke.......................... 29 36 - 65
ACC Tournament Championship Game
Points in the paint-GT 32,DU 14. Points off turnovers-GT 9,DU 14.
2nd chance points-GT 7,DU 10. Fast break points-GT 10,DU 9.
Bench points-GT 12,DU 11. Score tied-0 times. Lead changed-0 times.
Last FG-GT 2nd-00:12, DU 2nd-00:20.
Largest lead-GT None, DU by 12 1st-12:14.
Duke University Chapel is a chapel located at the center of the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It is an ecumenical Christian chapel and the center of religion at Duke, and has connections to the United Methodist Church. Constructed from 1930 to 1932, the Chapel seats about 1,800 people and stands 210 feet (64 m) tall, making it one of the tallest buildings in Durham County. It is built in the Collegiate Gothic style, characterized by its large stones, pointed arches, and ribbed vaults. It also has a 50-bell carillon and three pipe organs, one with 5,033 pipes and another with 6,900 pipes.
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This man was a famous swimmer, actor and surfer. Duke (his given name) was a five-time Olympic swimming medalist. He is also credited with popularizing the sport of surfing.
Another new name for this old Truman's pub, which is now a restaurant called La Costa Smeralda. Since reopened as a bar called Babette, then closed again to become a restaurant. (Older photo of it as The Village Inn from early-2008.)
Address: 57 Nunhead Lane (formerly at James Lane).
Former Name(s): The Village Inn; Page 2; The Edinburgh Castle.
Owner: Truman Hanbury Buxton (former).
Links:
London Pubology (Babette)
In the early 1970's 71000 Duke of Gloucester was at the end of one of the long lines in the Barry Docks area of the scrapyard. With the official removal of its cylinders before being sold, this would represent one of the more challenging restoration projects. It was, of course, completed and up to the last few years 71000 was a regular mainline express engine.
Shepherd Neame Pub in Whitstable, Kent. A shabby chic Music Pub with rooms and a restaurant. Had superb fish and chips there last year
IRON DUKE 11-(1)
Australian
4,818 gross tons, 2,637 net. 8,030 dwt.
Lbd: 404'5" x 56'2" x 26'2". Sixth and last of the 'Chieftain" class vessels and being
the second built by BHP at their Whyalla Shipyard, Yard No 2, being launched officially
as the Iron Duke 11.
As there was HMS Iron Duke, a British warship already in service the 11 suffix was added
to avoid confusion. Only after the warship was decommissioned in 1946 was this vessel
renamed to 'Iron Duke'. Her dimensions since completion read quadruple expansion engine
(4 cylinders) as manufactured by BHP, Newcastle.
2,560 shaft horsepower and being a steamship consumed 36 tons of coal per day. Top speed
of 12.7 knots. Serviced BHP's coastal trades for 27 uneventful years with a tempoary
grounding at Dyke End, Newcastle being her only known mishap. 8 December 1953 converted
to oil firing with accomodation aalso being upgraded.
July 1970 sold to Pac Trade Navigation Co., Manila and on the 25th July that year sailed
from Newcastle as the Exmouth with a Panamanian registry. 11th September 1971 sold to
Taiwanese shipbreakers and later that year arrived at Kaohsiung for demolition
Information supplied by John E. Hoskin www.flotilla-australia.com/
PS The above may not be wholly correct, if you have further details please add it
below...Thank you!
Photo Credits: Unknown Source
Cheers and GB
Gordy