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1 Men Of War
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2 war
حَرْب \ combat: a fight, or battle; the art or practice of fighting. conflict: violent disagreement; a struggle; a battle: Parents and children are sometimes in conflict about modern ways. There was a conflict between the two men for the leadership. hostilities: fighting; acts of war. war: fighting between nations: the World War of 1939-45; two countries at war (with each other). warfare: the science of making war; fighting. -
3 World War II
(1939-1945)In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
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5 válečné lodě
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6 μάχιμος
-η,-ον A 0-6-0-1-0=7 Jos 5,6; 6,3.7.9.13quarrelsome Prv 21,19; οἱ μάχιμοι fighting men, men of war Jos 5,6 -
7 Seppings, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 11 December 1767 near Fakenham, Norfolk, Englandd. 25 April 1840 Taunton, Somerset, England[br]English naval architect who as Surveyor to the Royal Navy made fundamental improvements in wooden ship construction.[br]After the death of his father, Seppings at the age of 14 moved to his uncle's home in Plymouth, where shortly after (1782) he was apprenticed to the Master Shipwright. His indentures were honoured fully by 1789 and he commenced his climb up the professional ladder of the ship construction department of the Royal Dockyards. In 1797 he became Assistant Master Shipwright at Plymouth, and in 1804 he was appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham. In 1813 Sir William Rule, Surveyor to the Navy, retired and the number of surveyors was increased to three, with Seppings being appointed the junior. Later he was to become Surveyor to the Royal Navy, a post he held until his retirement in 1832. Seppings introduced many changes to ship construction in the early part of the nineteenth century. It is likely that the introduction of these innovations required positive and confident management, and their acceptance tells us much about Seppings. The best-known changes were the round bow and stern in men-of-war and the alteration to framing systems.The Seppings form of diagonal bracing ensured that wooden ships, which are notorious for hogging (i.e. drooping at the bow and stern), were stronger and therefore able to be built with greater length. This change was complemented by modifications to the floors, frames and futtocks (analogous to the ribs of a ship). These developments were to be taken further once iron composite construction (wooden sheathing on iron frames) was adopted in the United Kingdom mid-century.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS. Knighted (by the Prince Regent aboard the warship Royal George) 1819.BibliographyThroughout his life Seppings produced a handful of pamphlets and published letters, as well as two papers that were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1814 and 1820).Further ReadingA description of the thinking in the Royal Navy at the beginning of the nineteenth century can be found in: J.Fincham, 1851, A History of Naval Architecture, London; B.Lavery, 1989, Nelson's Navy. The Ships, Men and Organisation 1793–1815, London: Conway.T.Wright, 1982, "Thomas Young and Robert Seppings: science and ship construction in the early nineteenth century", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 53:55–72.Seppings's work can be seen aboard the frigate Unicorn, launched in Chatham in 1824 and now on view to the public at Dundee. Similarly, his innovations in ship construction can be readily understood from many of the models at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.FMW -
8 manuwari
[Swahili Word] manuwari[English Word] man-of-war[English Plural] men-of-war[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Word] English[Swahili Example] Ngome ilishambulia kwa manuwari za Kiingereza [Masomo 145][English Example] The fort was attacked by British man-of-wars.------------------------------------------------------------ -
9 her-fólk
n. war-people, men of war, Bs. ii. 106, Stj. 295. -
10 Stalkartt, Marmaduke
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 6 April 1750 London (?), Englandd. 24 September 1805 Calcutta, India[br]English naval architect and author of a noted book on shipbuilding.[br]For a man who contributed much to the history of shipbuilding in Britain, surprisingly little is known of his life and times. The family are reputedly descendants of Danish or Norwegian shipbuilders who emigrated to England around the late seventeenth century. It is known, however, that Marmaduke was the fourth child of his father, Hugh Stalkartt, but the second child of Hugh's second wife.Stalkartt is believed to have served an apprenticeship at the Naval Yard at Deptford on the Thames. He had advanced sufficiently by 1796 for the Admiralty to send him to India to establish shipyards dedicated to the construction of men-of-war in teak. The worsening supply of oak from England, and to a lesser extent Scotland, coupled with the war with France was making ship procurement one of the great concerns of the time. The ready supply of hardwoods from the subcontinent was a serious attempt to overcome this problem. For some years one of the shipyards in Calcutta was known as Stalkartt's Yard and this gives some credence to the belief that Stalkartt left the Navy while overseas and started his own shipbuilding organization.[br]Bibliography1781, Naval Architecture; or, the Rudiments and Rules of Shipbuilding; repub. 1787, 1803 (an illustrated textbook).FMW -
11 hadihajó
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12 Ш-60
ШИВОРОТ-НАВЫВОРОТ coll AdvP Invar adv or subj-compl with copula ( subj: usu. всё))1. in refer, to the physical placement of some object or objects, the way a piece of clothing is worn etc) in a direction, order, position etc opposite to the customary onebackward(s)inside (wrong side) out upside down....Во дворике, впритык к стене, огородик на полторы сотки, на который требуется возить землю, чтобы выросло что-то, потому что отмерен он на камнях и глине, - и это было тоже диковинно: отчего так шиворот-навыворот - не огород на земле, а землю на огород (Распутин 4)....In the yard, up against the wall, there was a tiny garden, for which you had to haul in soil to grow anything because it was set up in stones and clay-and that was very strange too: why was it so backwards-you didn't have a garden on the soil, you had to have soil on top of the garden (4a).2. идти, получаться, был* и т. п. \Ш-60 (often in refer, to some matter, s.o. 's life etc) (to go, come out, be etc) opposite to the way it should be, not as it is supposed to betopsy-turvybackward(s) upside downсделать что \Ш-60 - put the cart before the horse....Тут брехня на брехне, всё шиворот-навыворот. Егорша передовой... Егорша новый... С Егорши пример надо брать... (Абрамов 1)....This was one piece of garbage after another, everything turned topsy-turvy. Egorsha the progressive...Egorsha the New Man...One should take Egorsha as an example... (1a).«У нас всё шиворот-навыворот... Что за народ! На войну мужиков провожали — пели, а встречаем - как на похоронах» (Распутин 2). "Everything is backwards here....What a group! They sang when they sent off their men to war and they welcome them like it's a funeral" (2a). -
13 шиворот-навыворот
• ШИВОРОТ-НАВЫВОРОТ coll[AdvP; Invar; adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: usu. всё)]=====1. in refer, to the physical placement of some object or objects, the way a piece of clothing is worn etc) in a direction, order, position etc opposite to the customary one:- backward(s);- upside down.♦...Во дворике, впритык к стене, огородик на полторы сотки, на который требуется возить землю, чтобы выросло что-то, потому что отмерен он на камнях и глине, - и это было тоже диковинно: отчего так шиворот-навыворот - не огород на земле, а землю на огород (Распутин 4)....In the yard, up against the wall, there was a tiny garden, for which you had to haul in soil to grow anything because it was set up in stones and clay-and that was very strange too: why was it so backwards-you didn't have a garden on the soil, you had to have soil on top of the garden (4a).2. идти, получаться, быть и т.п. шиворот-навыворот (often in refer, to some matter, s.o.'s life etc) (to go, come out, be etc) opposite to the way it should be, not as it is supposed to be:- topsy-turvy;- backward(s);- upside down;♦...Тут брехня на брехне, всё шиворот-навыворот. Егорша передовой... Егорша новый... С Егорши пример надо брать... (Абрамов 1)....This was one piece of garbage after another, everything turned topsy-turvy. Egorsha the progressive...Egorsha the New Man...One should take Egorsha as an example... (1a).♦ "У нас всё шиворот-навыворот... Что за народ! На войну мужиков провожали - пели, а встречаем - как на похоронах" (Распутин 2). "Everything is backwards here....What a group! They sang when they sent off their men to war and they welcome them like it's a funeral" (2a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > шиворот-навыворот
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14 herneskja
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15 herfólk
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16 ratni brodovi
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17 визит
visit, callаннулировать / отменить визит — to call off / to cancel a visit
завершать визит — to conclude / to end / to terminate / to wind up a visit
запланировать визит — to schedule / to plan a visit
нанести визит — to make / to pay a-visit (to)
находиться с визитом (в стране) — to be / to stay on a visit (to a country)
отбыть с визитом — to leave / to depart on a visit (to)
отдать визит — to repay a visit, to return a visit / a call
отложить визит — to postpone / to put off / to delay / to adjourn a visit
прибыть с визитом — to arrive on / for a visit
приветствовать визит — to welcome / to acclaim (smb.'s) visit
продлевать визит — to extend / to prolong a visit
сократить визит — to curtail / to abbreviate a visit
взаимные визиты — reciprocal / mutual visits
деловой визит — business visit / call
дружественный / дружеский визит — friendly visit
неофициальный визит — unofficial / informal / social visit
несвоевременный визит — ill-timed / untimely visit
ответный визит — return / reciprocal visit / call
нанести ответный визит — to return one's visit, to reciprocate a visit
нанести ответный визит новому главе представительства — to return the visit of the new head of mission
официальный визит — official / formal visit,' duty call
официальный визит с соблюдением протокольных формальностей — official visit covered by protocol formality
предстоящий визит — forthcoming / on-coming visit
протокольный визит (посла к президенту и т.п.) — ceremonial visit / call
светский визит — social visit / call
визит вежливости — courtesy visit / call
визит военных кораблей — visit of men-of-war / warships
визит на высшем уровне — visit at the highest level, summit visit
визит по прибытии — arrival visit, visit after arrival
договориться о дате / согласовать дату визита — to agree on the date of a visit
наметить дату визита — to fix / to set the date of a visit
продолжительность визита — duration of the visit / the call
установить продолжительность визита — to fix the duration of the visit / the call
во время / в ходе визита — during a visit
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18 glomerarius
glŏmĕrārĭus, ii, m. [id.], one eager to collect men for war (glomerare manum bello, Verg. A. 2, 315), Sen. Contr. 1, 8, 13. -
19 სამხედრო ხომალდები
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20 Deane, Sir Anthony
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 1638 Harwich (?), Englandd. 1721 England[br]English master shipwright, one of the most influential of seventeenth-century England.[br]It is believed that Deane was born in Harwich, the son of a master mariner. When 22 years of age, having been trained by Christopher Pett, he was appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Naval Dockyard, indicating an ability as a shipbuilder and also that he had influence behind him. Despite abruptness and a tendency to annoy his seniors, he was acknowledged by no less a man than Pepys (1633–1703) for his skill as a ship designer and -builder, and he was one of the few who could accurately estimate displacements and drafts of ships under construction. While only 26 years old, he was promoted to Master Shipwright of the Naval Base at Harwich and commenced a notable career. When the yard was closed four years later (on the cessation of the threat from the Dutch), Deane was transferred to the key position of Master Shipwright at Portsmouth and given the opportunity to construct large men-of-war. In 1671 he built his first three-decker and was experimenting with underwater hull sheathing and other matters. In 1672 he became a member of the Navy Board, and from then on promotion was spectacular, with almost full responsibility given him for decisions on ship procurement for the Navy. Owing to political changes he was out of office for some years and endured a short period in prison, but on his release he continued to work as a private shipbuilder. He returned to the King's service for a few years before the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688; thereafter little is known of his life, beyond that he died in 1721.Deane's monument to posterity is his Doctrine of Naval Architecture, published in 1670. It is one of the few books on ship design of the period and gives a clear insight into the rather pedantic procedures used in those less than scientific times. Deane became Mayor of Harwich and subsequently Member of Parliament. It is believed that he was Peter the Great's tutor on shipbuilding during his visit to the Thames in 1698.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1673.Bibliography1670, Doctrine of Naval Architecture; repub. 1981, with additional commentaries by Brian Lavery, as Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture 1670, London: Conway Maritime.Further ReadingWestcott Abell, 1948, The Shipwright's Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.FMW
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