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Twenty years today since Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned: 20 facts about her life
Twenty years today since Royal Yacht Britannia was decommissioned: 20 facts about her life
DABBING away a tear, the Queen said an emotional farewell to her beloved Royal Yacht Britannia as it was decommissioned at Portsmouth Dockyard on December 11 , 1997.
Tony Blair’s new Labour government had decided to retire the glamorous ship after 44 years in service to save money – a decision that the Duke of Edinburgh has since said was wrong.
However, 20 years on, the ship has since found a new lease of life as a tourist attraction in Leith docks, Edinburgh, and now plans are afoot to build a new Britannia to help boost trade deals following Brexit.
Here we reveal some fascinating facts about the vessel…
1 Her Majesty’s Yacht Britannia was launched by the Queen from the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Glasgow on April 16, 1953.
A 30,000-strong crowd braved the rain to watch as she announced the name and smashed a bottle of Empire wine against her bows.
Champagne was considered too extravagant due to post -war rationing.
2 Designed to be a symbol of the nation’s pride and the flagship of the Royal Family, Britannia was the 83rd royal yacht.
The first was HMY Mary, built in 1660 as a gift from the Dutch for Charles II.
Britannia was the second to bear the name, after a racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893.
3 Then the largest yacht in the world, Britannia cost £2million to build, was 412ft long and weighed in at nearly 6,000 tonnes.
It was designed to be a “floating palace” which could be used as an embassy at sea and entertain heads of state.
Over the years those who dined aboard would include Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.
4 With no rivets showing, teak decks and brass fittings, Britannia was supremely elegant – unlike most ships her name wasn’t even on the side.
Aboard there was a state dining room capable of seating 52 guests, a state drawing room, a large sun lounge and private sitting room.
5 Although grand, the Queen intervened to cut the cost of the yacht’s extravagant décor in the original plans commissioned by her father King George VI, who died in 1952.
Both she and the Duke of Edinburgh personally approved fabrics, paintwork and even door handles and lampshades.
There were separate bedrooms for the Queen and Prince Phillip, each with a single bed but an interconnecting door.
6 With its comfy sofas and photos of family members, “The overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea,” said Sir Hugh Casson, Britannia’s architect.
However the Queen’s request for a real fireplace was turned down on safety grounds – an electric one was added instead.
7 The ship did boast a garage for the Queen’s Rolls-Royce, a 24-hour laundry and even a knighting stool.
But, with austerity in mind, some items were recycled such as bed linen from the previous yacht HMY Victoria and Albert.
8 Britannia was crewed by 220 Royal Yachtsmen, 21 offi cers and captained by an admiral with a 26-strong Royal Marine band sometimes on board too.
She was the last ship in the Navy where sailors slept in hammocks.
To preserve quiet they habitually gave orders via hand signals and wore special plimsolls.
To maintain royal poise the crew also had to make sure the gangplank’s angle never exceeded 12 degrees.
9 On state visits Britannia carried fi ve tonnes of luggage, 45 staff including a surgeon and hairdresser plus bottles of the Queen’s favourite Malvern water for making her tea.
During a typical three months at sea 2,200 toilet rolls and 244 tins of Brasso would be used.
A hundred chickens could be roasted at a time in the ship’s two ovens.
10 Her maiden voyage in 1954 saw Prince Charles and Princess Anne travel from Portsmouth to Malta to meet their parents at the end of their Commonwealth tour.
The Duke of Edinburgh made two round-theworld voyages to Commonwealth countries covering 72,430 miles.
11 Each August Britannia traditionally sailed to the Cowes Week regatta off the Isle of Wight and then took the Royal Family on a tour of the west coast of Scotland, stopping off for private picnics on remote islands.
12 Britannia was the venue for four royal honeymoons.
Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones dined nightly in full evening dress on theirs in the Caribbean in 1960.
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips suffered sea-sickness from storms on their 1973 honeymoon.
During Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s Mediterranean idyll in 1981 she famously joined the crew in the mess, playing the piano for a chorus of What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?
The Duke and Duchess of York cruised to the Azores in 1986.
13 Designed to double up as a hospital ship in wartime, accommodating 200 patients, Britannia did see action – rescuing 1,082 refugees from a civil war raging in Aden in 1986.
14 In 2010 declassified papers revealed plans to use Britannia as a fl oating nuclear bunker.
In the event of an impending attack the Quee
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Baptism (Catholic Church) | Wikipedia audio article
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Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian rite of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity. The synoptic gospels recount that John the Baptist baptised Jesus. Baptism is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others. Baptism is also called christening, although some reserve the word christening for the baptism of infants. It has also given its name to the Baptist churches and denominations.
The usual form of baptism among the earliest Christians involved the candidate's immersion, either totally (submerged completely under the water) or partially (standing or kneeling in water while water was poured on him or her). John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptising suggests immersion: The fact that he chose a permanent and deep river suggests that more than a token quantity of water was needed, and both the preposition 'in' (the Jordan) and the basic meaning of the verb 'baptize' probably indicate immersion. In v. 16, Matthew will speak of Jesus 'coming up out of the water'. Phillip and the Eunuch also went down and came up out of water (Acts 8:38-39). Baptism is likened unto a burial in Romans 6:3. Dip is translated from baptō (βάπτω). The traditional depiction in Christian art of John the Baptist pouring water over Jesus' head may therefore be based on later Christian practice. Pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body. Other common forms of baptism now in use include pouring water three times on the forehead, a method called affusion.
Martyrdom was identified early in Church history as baptism by blood, enabling the salvation of martyrs who had not been baptized by water. Later, the Catholic Church identified a baptism of desire, by which those preparing for baptism who die before actually receiving the sacrament are considered saved. As evidenced also in the common Christian practice of infant baptism, Christians universally regarded baptism as in some sense necessary for salvation, until Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) denied its necessity in the 16th century.Quakers and the Salvation Army practice Baptism with the Holy Spirit instead of baptism with water. Among denominations that practice baptism by water, differences occur in the manner and mode of baptizing and in the understanding of the significance of the rite. Most Christians baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (following the Great Commission), but some baptize in Jesus' name only. Much more than half of all Christians baptize infants; many others regard only believer's baptism as true baptism.
The term baptism has also been used metaphorically to refer to any ceremony, trial, or experience by which a person is initiated, purified, or given a name.
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00:01:20 1 History
00:03:01 2 Academics
00:03:30 2.1 Rankings
00:06:42 2.2 Admissions
00:07:13 2.3 Tuition
00:08:16 2.4 Honors College
00:11:15 2.5 Research
00:17:11 2.6 Libraries
00:19:57 2.7 Academic organizations and centers
00:20:18 3 Campus
00:25:22 3.1 The Student Union Memorial Center
00:26:59 3.2 BookStores
00:28:28 3.3 The Arboretum at The University of Arizona
00:29:18 4 Organization
00:32:12 5 Athletics
00:32:52 5.1 Teams
00:33:01 5.1.1 Men's basketball
00:36:49 5.1.2 Football
00:39:36 5.1.3 Baseball
00:41:29 5.1.4 Soccer
00:42:15 5.1.5 Softball
00:43:40 5.1.6 Golf
00:44:19 5.1.7 Men's lacrosse
00:44:54 5.1.8 Other
00:47:42 5.2 Individual national championships
00:49:07 5.3 Rivalries
00:50:03 5.4 Mascot
00:51:33 5.5 Fight song
00:52:23 5.6 ZonaZoo
00:53:07 5.7 Notable venues
00:55:06 6 Student life
00:55:15 6.1 Fraternities and sororities
00:56:27 6.2 Student clubs and organizations
01:00:39 6.3 Traditions
01:01:49 6.4 Marching band
01:02:32 6.5 School colors
01:03:13 6.6 Student government
01:07:59 7 In film and literature
01:09:53 8 Notable alumni and staff
01:12:33 9 See also
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The University of Arizona (also referred to as Arizona, U of A, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. As of 2017, the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson and Phoenix and the James E. Rogers College of Law, and is affiliated with two academic medical centers (Banner - University Medical Center Tucson and Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix). The University of Arizona is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents. The University of Arizona is one of the elected members of the Association of American Universities (an organization of North America's premier research institutions) and is the only representative from the state of Arizona to this group.
Known as the Arizona Wildcats (often shortened to Cats), the UA's intercollegiate athletic teams are members of the Pac-12 Conference of the NCAA. UA athletes have won national titles in several sports, most notably men's basketball, baseball, and softball. The official colors of the university and its athletic teams are cardinal red and navy blue.
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)