Word: naming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fifth ship by the name Enterprise was a 1,375-ton steam-powered sloop...
...King of England too." Her countrymen gloried in her victory, transforming the battle into an act of national consciousness that gave birth to nearly four centuries of patriotic imperialism. She spawned England's empire, chartering seven companies--including the East India--to plunder and colonize in the name of trade...
...child's first tasks are to walk and talk and understand his little universe. Newton, the 17th century's formidable prodigy, simply enlarged the project. The first of his family of Lincolnshire yeomen to be able to write his name, Newton grew into a touchy, passionately focused introvert who could go without sleep for days and live on bread and wine, and, at an astonishingly precocious age, absorbed everything important that was known to science up to that time (the works of Aristotle and, after that, the new men who superseded him: Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes and Galileo, who died...
...American rebels gave the name Enterprise to a 70-ton sloop captured from the British. It was later burned to prevent recapture...
...Navy had a fourth ship by the name Enterprise, a 194-ton schooner...