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Bulwark (nautical)
Bulwark primarily refers to: * Bulwark (nautical), a nautical term for the extension of a ship's side above the level of a weather deck * Bastion, a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification The Bulwark primarily refers to: * The Bulwark (novel), ''The Bulwark'' (novel), a posthumous 1946 novel by Theodore Dreiser * The Bulwark (website), ''The Bulwark'' (website), an American news website launched in 2018 Bulwark may also refer to: Places * Bulwark, Chepstow, Wales * Bulwark, Alberta, Canada * The Bulwark (Antarctica), a peak in Antarctica * Bulwark Stream, a meltwater stream in Antarctica Ships * Bulwark-class battleship (1859), ''Bulwark''-class battleship (1859), a class of Royal Navy wooden battleships * HMS Bulwark, HMS ''Bulwark'', the name of several Royal Navy ships * USS Bulwark, USS ''Bulwark'', the name of several U.S. Navy ships Other uses * Bulwark (comics), a fictional character in Marvel comics * Bulwark (horse), sire of Åby S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastion
A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defence in the age of gunpowder artillery. As military architecture, the bastion is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. Evolution By the middle of the 15th century, artillery pieces had become powerful enough to make the traditional medieval round tower and curtain wall obsolete. This was exemplified by the campaigns of Charles VII of France who reduced the towns and castles held by the English during the latter stages of the Hundred Years War, and by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulwark (novel)
''The Bulwark'' is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, published posthumously in 1946. Plot summary Hannah and Rufus Barnes, both Quakers, move out of Maine to Trenton, New Jersey, where Hannah's widowed sister lives. Their son Solon, the protagonist, meets Benecia Wallin; although she is affluent and he is not, they get married. Solon works in a bank in Philadelphia, where his Quaker values are contrary to financial ethos. He summons a bank examiner from Washington DC to stop the corrupt practices of some chief executives. Eventually, he resigns. Meanwhile, two of his offspring, Etta and Stewart, repudiate their Quaker upbringing. While Orville gets married and Isobel works in a college, Etta moves to Wisconsin and then Greenwich Village under the influence of one of her friends, Volida La Porte. She has an affair with a painter, until he decides to go West to further his career. Moreover, Stewart accidentally kills one of his dates and commits suicide shortly after. Eventually, Benec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulwark (website)
''The Bulwark'' is an American Conservatism, conservative, Never Trump movement, anti-Trump news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of William Kristol, Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes. It initially launched as a news aggregator but in 2019 was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed ''The Weekly Standard''. The Bulwark is owned by Center Enterprises, Inc., which operates under the trade name Bulwark Media. History Following the end of publication of ''The Weekly Standard'' in December 2018, editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes said that "the murder of the ''Standard'' made it urgently necessary to create a home for rational, principled, fact-based center-right voices who were not cowed by Trumpism." The site was created in December 2018 as a news aggregator as a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) conservative advocacy group led in part by ''The Weekly Standard'' co-founder Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark, Chepstow
Bulwark is a predominantly residential area of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, largely developed during the twentieth century. The area is so named because of its Iron Age fort, which is now maintained as a public open space. Substantial development in the area began during the First World War, with housing being provided for the military and civilian workforce brought to the area for the National Shipyard no.1 at Chepstow. History Bulwarks Camp Bulwarks Camp, also known in the past as Hardwick Camp and locally as the Warren, is a small defensive hill fort, on top of cliffs overlooking the River Wye, the Beachley peninsula and the Severn estuary. It was probably built around the first century BC or the first century AD. Roman Britain, The Romans called the inhabitants of the area the Silures; they would have spoken the language that became Welsh language, Welsh. The fort had cliffs to the east, a ravine to the south, and earthworks comprising a double rampart and ditch on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark, Alberta
The County of Paintearth No. 18 is a municipal district in east central Alberta, Canada, located in Census Division No. 7. Its municipal office is located southeast of the Town of Castor near the intersection of Highway 12 and Highway 36. History Originally incorporated in 1944 as the ''Municipal District of Paintearth No. 334'', it was restructured as a county in 1962. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Paintearth No. 18 had a population of 1,990 living in 648 of its 720 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,102. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the County of Paintearth No. 18 had a population of 2,102 living in 638 of its 696 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 2,029. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. Communities and localities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulwark (Antarctica)
The Pyramid () is a small but distinctive peak in Antarctica just south of Pyramid Trough, at the west side of the Koettlitz Glacier. The descriptive name appears to have been first used by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13 (BrAE). Location The Pyramid is on a promontory on the west side of Koettlitz Glacier between Renegar Glacier to the southwest and Walcott Bay to the northeast. Dromedary Glacier is to the northwest. Nearby features include The Almond, Pyramid Trough and The Bulwark. The Alph River flows north through the Pyramid Trough. Features The Almond . A bare, almond-shaped ridge of granite which separates the two coalescing channels of Pyramid Trough, located just west of The Pyramid on the west side of Koettlitz Glacier. Given this descriptive name by the New Zealand VUWAE, 1960-61. Pyramid Trough . A deep trough immediately west of The Bulwark, through which a part of the Koettlitz Glacier formerly flowed north to Walcott Bay. Named by the VU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark Stream
Koettlitz Glacier () is a large Antarctic glacier lying west of Mount Morning and Mount Discovery in the Royal Society Range, flowing from the vicinity of Mount Cocks northeastward between Brown Peninsula and the mainland into the ice shelf of McMurdo Sound. Naming and exploration Koettlitz Glacier was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) which named it for Dr. Reginald Koettlitz, physician and botanist of the expedition. Glaciology The Koettlitz Glacier appears to have been smaller during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) than it is today, while the Ross Ice Shelf was larger. There is evidence that during the LGM the mouth of the Pyramid Trough was blocked by grounded Ross Sea ice until at least 11,000 years ago. In the last 3,000 years the glacier has advanced, and today the mouth of ice-free Pyramid Trough is blocked by the Koettlitz Glacier. Under this hypothesis, the glacier may have been thicker at the coast due to buttressing, but may hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark-class Battleship (1859)
The ''Bulwark'' class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads. and were kept on the stocks almost complete, in case of need, until they were scrapped in 1873 and 1872. Origins The consensus of British naval opinion after the Crimean War The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ... favoured the large steam-powered two-decker line-of-battle ship with 101 or 91 guns. The designs for two-decker evolved. "The 101-gun type were redesigned with an extra 400 tons and engines of 800 nhp, to produce the ''Duncan'' class. The 91s were given similar engines, while their smaller increase in size was largely taken up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bulwark
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Bulwark'', after the reference to the Navy as the 'bulwark' (defence) of the country: * HMS ''Bulwark'' was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was ordered in 1778 but was cancelled in 1783. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1807. She was previously planned to be called HMS ''Scipio'', but was renamed in 1806 before being launched. She took part in the blockade of Rochefort in 1813 and fought in the War of 1812. She was broken up in 1826. * HMS ''Bulwark'' was to have been an 81-gun screw propelled second rate. She was laid down in 1859, but work was suspended in 1861, and she was eventually cancelled and broken up in 1873. * HMS ''Bulwark'' was previously the planned 110-gun first rate . She was kept in reserve and was renamed ''Bulwark'' in 1885 when she became a training ship. She was renamed HMS ''Impregnable'' in 1886, and then HMS ''Bulwark'' again in 1919. She was sold for breaking up in 1921. * was a launc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bulwark
USS ''Bulwark'' is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: * , renamed ''Avenge'' on 23 May 1941 * , a coastal minesweeper, laid down on 15 April 1941 * , a minesweeper, laid down on 12 December 1951 References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bulwark United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwark (comics)
Several fictional groups of mutants have used the name the Hellions in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hellions have always been portrayed as rivals of various teams of younger mutant heroes in the X-Men franchise, initially as actual villains and later on a team that was more of a school rival than actual enemies of the X-Men. The first and most notable incarnation of the Hellions were students of Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club's Massachusetts Academy, and were rivals of the New Mutants. The original Hellions first appeared in ''New Mutants'' #16 (June 1984), created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Sal Buscema. This version of the Hellions ended after an attack by Trevor Fitzroy and a squadron of Sentinels that killed several Hellions. Two later groups known as the Hellions or New Hellions both fought against various X groups such as Generation X and X-Force. In ''New X-Men: Academy X'' (2004), a new group of Hellions were introduced. This time they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
