Word: ruyter
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...fact that half of the band members are women. However, these ladies have a decidedly different idea of "girl power" than say, the Spice Girls--replace the cute baby tees and trendy platform shoes with tattoos and leopard-print bras, and you have bassist Corey Parks and lead guitarist Ruyter Suys...
...John de Ruyter...
Promptly at 9 a.m., a 21-gun salute sounded from the Dutch cruiser, De Ruyter, in the harbor. Carillons throughout the city began to peal, and a company of Dutch marines marched up to the palace to the tune of Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high...
Bookstores bulged with patriotic literature, from Admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter's 17th Century naval exploits to descriptions of Juliana's cookery. Tall heralds tried to fit into costumes which had been tailored for shorter, rounder men of an earlier day; the thrifty Dutch had saved the costumes for generations...
...Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston, 125 on the Pope...