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...I later learn that Drake may not have been talking about his bed at all (it is widely speculated that his son’s middle name is “Mahbed”). Drake did not respond to requests for comment....
...Ruben Östlund And I thought, I thought, I thought it was a hilarious idea, you know, a Marxist captain on a luxury yacht....
...Francis Drake arrived back from his 1577 circumnavigation of the world with so much loot that Elizabeth I was able to pay off the national debt with her share....
...For a more conventional take we’ve visited Drake’s, which was founded as a tiemaker in east London in 1977 but has since adapted to become a tailoring success....
...The far-right former army captain may have vowed in September that “only God can take me from the presidency” but despite his bravado, a more prosaic end beckons....
...Claiming to be “An Englishman’s Friend” was astute, for the line between pirates and privateers such as Sir Francis Drake, who boarded Spanish vessels with official sanction, was blurred....
...He and the captain cannot always deliver the bragging rights passengers have paid for, any more than they can the blue skies of the Silversea brochure....
...The strongest desire of Willa Drake, Tyler’s heroine, is that her children grow up taking her for granted....
...Those prone to seasickness braced themselves for two days of Drake-induced misery....
...An account of Francis Drake’s ambush of a Spanish silver-packed mule train in Panama is thrilling....
...When the English sea captain Sir Francis Drake attempted a surprise night-time raid on the Spanish colonial city of Maracaibo in 1595, it was the lightning that gave him away....
...He was attending an event with Eric Trump, the candidate’s son, at Drake Landing, a 2,000-acre shooting range near Fuqua-Varina, about 30 miles from Fort Bragg, that is also a popular place to hunt quail...
...Her interest in street culture began in childhood in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, where her father was a sea captain....
...A lot of her early events were closed private events,” said Olivia O’Hea, a student at Des Moines’ Drake University....
...Captain Wolter knew what was coming. Once we were out of the shelter of the Beagle Channel, the infamous Drake Passage extended its fist in welcome....
...“You’re the worst ship’s captain, Pugwash, that I’ve ever had the misfortune to — oh, my mistake: the crew already mutinied, didn’t they? You’re the worst failed ex-ship’s captain . . .”...
...Waterside living allows us to play out this national narrative and connect with a canon of maritime heroes, from Francis Drake through to Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson....
...Europe’s sky-mappers turn out to have taken a fairly business-like approach to naming their waypoints, though there is a TULIP off the Dutch coast and England has a DRAKE, for Sir Francis....
...Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook were among the many adventurers and entrepreneurs who coveted the routes as potential short-cuts to lucrative trading markets in East Asia....
...Why In addition to the stunning views of Sir Francis Drake Channel and close proximity to beaches, there is a good business opportunity: the main house is currently being run as a boutique hotel....
...The fictional protagonist is said to be a descendant of English explorer and buccaneer Sir Francis Drake....
...As things stand, the navy is the same size it was in 1588, when Drake saw off the Armada. However, that was done because gentlemen armed their own ships....
...Captains sailed their boats into the Arctic and Antarctic waters in search of prey....
...The countless examples of how the weather has shaped history show the hubris of thinking we are sole captains of our fate....
...Paul Morley recreates the sounds of Gilbert’s glory days If you’d bought an album in 1969, you might have chosen one of the greatest of all time – Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica – or Nick Drake’...
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