|
( Ship)
A ship /??p/ Audio (US)&_160;(help·info) is a large vessel that floats on water. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size. Ships may be found on lakes, seas, and rivers and they allow for a variety of activities, such as the transport of persons or goods, fishing, entertainment, public safety, and warfare. Ships and boats have developed alongside mankind. In major wars, and in day to day life, they have become an integral part of modern commercial and military systems. Fishing boats are used by millions of fishermen throughout the world. Military forces operate highly sophisticated vessels to transport and support forces ashore. Commercial vessels, nearly 35,000 in number, carried 7.4&_160;billion tons of cargo in 2007.[1] These vessels were also key in history's great explorations and scientific and technological development. Navigators such as Zheng He spread such inventions as the compass and gunpowder. On one hand, ships have been used for colonization and the slave trade. On the other, they also have served scientific, cultural, and humanitarian needs. As Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated with his tiny boat the Kon-Tiki, it is possible to achieve great things with a simple log raft. From Mesolithic canoes to today's powerful nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, ships tell the history of man.
|
Ship Subcategories
Ship Articles
An Experience With Anger by Caleb Granger
The Anger Tightrope I found myself feeling really angry at one point today. My fiance had received a gift from one of her students and she was joyfully explaining what a pleasure it had been to see this little child so timid and bashful, and ...
TheHotSpotGuide.com is the Best Solution for Free Online Dating by April Wu
Everything is free at TheHotSpotGuide.com, there are no scams, gimmicks, or strings - free to join and free to stay period. At TheHotSpotGuide.com, you'll find so much more than free online dating. There are three templates, or themes, within the si...
Good Relationships Can Be As A Result Of Your Looks. by Noel Lillis
How to Look Great and Get Him Back Being in love is one of the most wonderful feelings in the world. To lose someone you love is also one of the strongest feelings you can experience; called heartbreak. Sometimes losing someone you love is the di...
How To Get A Great Body-Looks Do Matter by Noel Lillis
Maybe somewhere along the line someone said looks don’t matter, it’s about what’s inside that counts. To some extent this may be true once you get to know a person but, for the most part, looks do matter. In this day and age when beauty has become...
Make Love, Not Stress by Simon Evans
The role of stress reduction is important to almost any health plan. Keeping your brain fit is no different. Constant stress, which plagues many in today’s society, causes an elevation of hormones, including cortisol, that can be bad for your health....
Yoga Today by Glen Quigg
Today yoga is considered to be as one of the effective methods to keep fit and to achieve good physical shape. Such actions as stretching, posing, bending and singing seem to influence well the general state of the organism. Yoga is rather mysteriou...
Weight Loss and Sleep - Their Interconnected Relationship by Benny Robinson
It is observed that even when you are following a rigorous weight loss program or you are dieting, poor pattern of sleep or lack of sleep may defeat you. Scientific studies show that one of the reasons for weight gain can be lack of sleep. Experts ar...
Foot Health Essential for Sexy Feet by Natan Miku
Foot sex and foot health are intimately linked. Taking good care of your feet is the only way to have them soft, sexy and lovely enough to inspire foot worship.
For those of us who love sexy feet<...
The Relationship between Stroke and Dental Health by I C
It has been estimated that every 45 seconds of what America has a stroke, in one split second well over 30,000 brain cells will have died after this devastating shock to the brain, in a matter of a minute an ischemic stroke will have killed over 1.9 ...
The Relationship Between the Oral Health and Heart Attacks by I C
Which diseases would you be most afraid of? -- some people may say a stroke, others would say some sort of cancer and heart attacks are definitely within that range. According to recent studies it has been estimated that heart attack if the leading ...
|
|
