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Name:Ulysses
IMO:9214991
Flag:Cyprus
MMSI:209952000
Callsign:C4HP2
Vessel type:Ro-ro/passenger Ship
Gross tonnage:50,938 tons
Summer DWT:9,665 tons
Length:204 m
Beam:36 m
Draught:6 m
Home port:Limassol
Class society:Lloyd´s Shipping Register
Build year:2001
Builder:Stx Finland Rauma
Rauma, Finland
trying to get a good shot of a Ulysses is next to impossible, this was as good as it got today. Maybe I need more patience?
This Luxury Super Yaught sailed into our bay last week.It's owned by one of New Zealands richest men,Grahame Heart. Greg Norman (aka The Shark) had dinner on it last Friday after the days play at the golf.
The Ulysses sent for a refit in New Orleans in 2000 and then gutted by fire in 2002. The boat, reportedly now worth as much as $60 million, was then shipped to Brisbane, where Hart got it ship-shape.
Ulysses can accommodate 14 guests in 7 staterooms and 9 crew in as many cabins
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Ulysses inbound for her annual maintenance at Cammell Lairds.
Name:Ulysses
IMO:9214991
Flag:Cyprus
MMSI:209952000
Callsign:C4HP2
Vessel type:Ro-ro/passenger Ship
Gross tonnage:50,938 tons
Summer DWT:9,665 tons
Length:204 m
Beam:36 m
Draught:6 m
Home port:Limassol
Class society:Lloyd´s Shipping Register
Build year:2001
Builder:Stx Finland Rauma
Rauma, Finland
© All rights are reserved, please do not use my photos without my permission
Name:Ulysses
IMO:9214991
Flag:Cyprus
MMSI:209952000
Callsign:C4HP2
Vessel type:Ro-ro/passenger Ship
Gross tonnage:50,938 tons
Summer DWT:9,665 tons
Length:204 m
Beam:36 m
Draught:6 m
Home port:Limassol
Class society:Lloyd´s Shipping Register
Build year:2001
Builder:Stx Finland Rauma
Rauma, Finland
1880, Oil on canvas by Thomas LeClear. Grant posed for this portrait shortly after he returned from world tour following his presidency. LeClear, mostly self taught, pianted two copies. One was originally owned by Grant himself while the other was part of the White House collection. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America. Grant began his lifelong career as a soldier after graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1843. Fighting in the Mexican American War, he was a close observer of the techniques of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. He resigned from the Army in 1854, then struggled to make a living in St. Louis. After many financial setbacks, he finally moved to Galena, Illinois where he worked as a clerk in his father's tannery shop, making Galena his permanent legal home.
In 1861, after the American Civil War broke out, he joined the Union war effort, taking charge of training new regiments and then engaging the enemy near Cairo, Illinois. In 1862 he fought a series of major battles and captured a Confederate army, earning a reputation as an aggressive general and allowing the Union to seize control of most of Kentucky and Tennessee. In July 1863, after a long, complex campaign, he captured Vicksburg, captured another Confederate army, and took control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy and opening the way for more Union victories and conquests. Abraham Lincoln promoted him to the rank of lieutenant general, and gave him charge of all the Union Armies. As Commanding General of the United States Army from 1864 to 1865, Grant confronted Robert E. Lee in a series of very high casualty battles known as the Overland Campaign that ended in a stalemate siege at Petersburg. During the siege, Grant coordinated a series of devastating campaigns launched by William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, and George Thomas. Finally breaking through Lee's trenches at Petersburg, the Union Army captured Richmond, the Confederate capital in April 1865. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox; the Confederacy collapsed and the Civil War ended.
During Reconstruction, Grant remained in command of the Army and implemented the Congressional plans to reoccupy the South and hold new elections in 1867 with black voters that gave Republicans control of the Southern states. Enormously popular in the North after the Union's victory, he was elected to the presidency in 1868. Reelected in 1872, he became the first president to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson did so forty years earlier. As president, he led Reconstruction by signing and enforcing civil rights laws and fighting Ku Klux Klan violence. He helped rebuild the Republican Party in the South, an effort that resulted in the election of African Americans to Congress and state governments for the first time. Despite these civil rights accomplishments, Grant's presidency was marred by economic turmoil and multiple scandals. His response to the Panic of 1873 and the severe depression that followed was heavily criticized. His low standards in Cabinet and federal appointments and lack of accountability generated corruption and bribery in seven government departments. In 1876, his reputation was severely damaged by the graft trials of the Whiskey Ring. In addition, his image as a war hero was tarnished by corruption scandals during his presidency. He left office at the low point of his popularity.[1][2]
After leaving office, Grant embarked on a two-year world tour that was received favorably with many royal receptions. In 1880 he made an unsuccessful bid for a third presidential term. In 1884, broke and dying of cancer, he wrote his enormously successful memoirs. Historians have ranked his Administration poorly due to tolerance of corruption. His presidential reputation has improved among scholars impressed by the Administration's support for civil rights for freed slaves.
Dale Chihuly and Seaver Leslie
with glass drawings by Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick
Ulysses Cylinders, 2013
Courtesy of Chihuly Studio
Ascot, 29 July 2017. The King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (1m 4f). Runner-up Ulysses after the race
In honor and tribute to my last year of Latin, I built this small MOC to show both appreciation and fascination with the wonderful language of Latin. When we left off in class last, (before we began prepping for final exams), we were discussing the stories of Ulysses and Polyphemus, as well as the adventures of Hercules.
The former intrigued me more, and so I decided to build this. Below is a passage from the story of the famous Cyclops with a translation as well:
In Latin: "Cum autem animadvertissent monstrum unum modo oculum habere in media fronte postium, intellexerunt hunc esse unum ex Cyclopibus, de quibus iam audiverant. ... Dum haec geruntur, Graecorum animos tantus terror occupavit us ne vocem quidem edere possent, sed omni deposita praesentem mortem exspectarent. ..."
In English: "When, however, they noticed that the monster had only one eye, placed in the middle of the forehead, they knew / realized that this was one of the Cyclopes, about whom they had already heard. ... While these things were happening, such great terror seized the spirits of the Greeks so that they were not even able to speak, but having given up all hope of salvation they awaited their immediate death. ..."