Word: shipwreckers
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...Peak.” It was American manifest destiny at its finest: a ray of sunlight bursting through the clouds above a towering range of imaginary mountains. Her date slouched against a pillar nearby, his hands in his pockets. In front of him was a framed shipwreck chalked on brown paper. Another couple lounged between the Ionic columns, their chitchat dramatized by theatrically yellowed lighting. They were framed against the white wall, and as the night progressed, the negative space between their profiles shrank and shrank again. Beneath them, on the dance floor, the tipsy teetered on their high heels...
...that is true is the only type that anyone should read or write,” Kushner said, referencing Melville among others. “But all telling of the truth for the historian and the artist is very, very hard...It is a voyage, not an arrival, with shipwreck virtually guaranteed...
...Prospero (Alvin Epstein), the deposed Duke of Milan who now inhabits a mysterious island, his daughter Miranda (Mara Sidmore), and his servants Ariel (Marianna Bassham) and Calaban (Benjamin Evett) is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging. The play begins with the eponymous storm that causes the shipwreck of Prospero’s old enemies, including his usurping brother Antonio (Richard Snee) and Alonso (David Gullette), the King of Naples. Over the course of the play, Prospero uses the magical powers he has acquired to torment these men and also bring about the marriage of his daughter to Ferdinand...
...theories - that a Japanese submarine was involved; that the Australian government staged a cover-up. In 2001, five Western Australian volunteers formed the Finding Sydney Foundation and began gathering evidence and government support for another search. In 2003, chairman Ted Graham met with David Mearns, the well-known American shipwreck hunter. Says Graham: "I just had the view that unless our generation found HMAS Sydney, and in particular found it while the widows were still alive, it would potentially be forgotten...
...Gibraltar. The detentions sparked intense media scrutiny, with much of the Spanish press expressing outrage over Odyssey's "pillaging" and some international publications decrying what they consider Spain's strong-arm tactics. Since then, Spain's Ministry of Culture has taken steps to better protect the dozens of shipwreck sites that lie off its coast as relics of Spain's golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries, when its galleons ruled the seas...