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Fireship (v2) by Richard Corben

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الشيء الذي سيبرزُك عن غيرك من 99 بالمئة من الناس في سوق العمل [حرق: هو روح المبادرة]

صباحكم سعادة، جدول المحتويات جدول المحتويات💥 الردّ على خرافة: أنا محبط فلقد أخبرونا أن الذكاء الاصطناعي سيجعل الجميع عاطلين عن العمل؟ 💪🏽 إذًا ماذا تفعل لكي تبرز من بين الحشود. الجواب بكلمة واحدة: بادر بالفعل🛠️ كيف تحصل على الخبرة… بدون خبرة؟*ما معنى مصطلح Catch-22؟ 🔢 أرقام جاهزة يمكنك وضعها في سيرتك الذاتية بعد إنجاز أحد هذه الأمور في اللائحة 👇🏼🗝️ روح المبادرة هي السرّ في بروزك بين أقرانك…

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The Fireship of the Baie des Chaleurs

This is the tale of the phantom light That fills the mariner’s heart, at night, With dread as it gleams o’er his path on the bay, Now by the shore, then far away, Fierce as the flame in sunset skies, Cold as the winter moon that lies On the Baie des Chaleurs. (A.W.H. Eaton, “The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs”, 1891)

As we are slowly but surely moving towards October and the nights are getting longer again, it's time to unpack the ghost ship legends. This time we are in Chaleur Bay, located between New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada. Where a three-masted ship is usually seen on fire just before a storm. Sometimes it will just stand in one place for hours, other times it will sail back and forth in the bay. There are several legends that try to explain this ship.

The Burning Ship, ca. 1871, Albert Bierstadt (x)

One of them says that in 1501 a Portuguese captain came here for the second time to kidnap natives and sell them as slaves when he was captured and killed by the angry natives. When his brother sailed here a year later to look for him, his ship was set on fire and when he and his crew perished, he vowed to haunt the bay for 1000 years.

Another story tells of a ship's crew who were afraid of an impending storm. The superstitious men picked one of the crew members to blame for their misfortune and murdered him; in revenge, the ship is said to have caught fire. In revenge, the ship is said to have caught fire, and he himself, already dead and legless, is said to have stood on the beach in flames and asked for help. That is why some people think they always see a ship and a burning person. A third legend says that a band of pirates attacked and killed a woman when she cursed them with her last words: "As long as the world exists, may you burn in the bay."

Unlike most ghost ship phenomena, scientists actually have an explanation for this one. Since the ship always appears before a storm, it seems to be the so-called St. Elmo phenomenon, a light phenomenon caused by electrical charges (electrometeors) that can appear on masts, towers or treetops before a thunderstorm.

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Silently, with mute prayers to St. Nicholas and the Virgin Mary during the Greek War of Independence, Greece’s islanders — from the small islands of Hydra, Spetses, and Psara — pilot their floating bomb towards a Turkish frigate.

The bomb — an old, aging ship, stripped of its fittings, filled with gunpowder and pitch, with tangling yardarms and tinder-dry canvas — only waits for the spark.

These were the fireships of the Greek War of Independence.

In early modern naval warfare, fireships had been used in many naval encounters, as a way for smaller, more nimble, better skilled fleets to counter the large traditional warships with their rows of cannon.

The technology is simple, and indeed fire as a naval weapon is as old as warfare itself.

Certainly, by 1821, most navies had countermeasures and the fireship was obsolete.

It was a weapon of necessity, which, although technically obsolete, was still used by the skilled sailors of the Greek Navy to a devastating, asymmetric effect.

Fireships tended to be older, smaller vessels, which were refurbished with combustibles, such as gunpowder and pitch, to basically become floating bombs.

All the rigging, along with their sails, might be doused with various materials, both to stoke the flames and to entangle with the target ship.

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FRSS "Firefly" by Markus "madstopper78" Ronge https://flic.kr/p/2dpc3eU

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“I often lose myself in your music…. lose yourself in me, Aenlandrin…”

-Obviously Lavinyia

Peering down at the picture, and the note attached the Scion narrowed his eyes. Through pursed lips he drew a long breath, the sound barely audible over the beating of his heart. In the distance the fire crackled as he reclined in his study, the rich notes of mahogany dancing in the flickering light. “Datad’Ielbalah....losing myself within you was what began this...journey. When you took my rose you opened the door to what would follow, but that night...that storm...changed everything. You had given life to my music that lay dead and broken for decades, but a breath of your body ignited the chasm in my chest....You handed me your strings, soaked in the oil of your despair and your demons, and I bathed them in my fire...You danced to my melody and showed me the power of my music...half devil, half beauty you were always the demon to my hell, the savior to my resignation of life...I think now you know why you find yourself under my fingers so often...I stripped you of the masks you wore so easily and claimed the woman that laid beneath them. A hundred fields will burn to the chorus of a thousand melodies from the keys and my touch before the sun of our life sets...I cannot lose myself within you, I have been lost from the very beginning...”