For the Royalists among you.

[Tank]

Queen's Diamond Jubilee royal barge design unveiled

The first image has been released of the royal barge that will carry the Queen down the Thames during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations next year.

The vessel will lead a 1,000-strong flotilla along the river on 3 June, as the monarch marks 60 years on the throne.

She will be joined on board by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family.

The barge will be adorned with flowers from the Queen's gardens.

The monarch and her husband will be seated on ornate chairs under a gold canopy as the vessel, the Spirit of Chartwell, cruises down the Thames...

[The Magic Pudding]

That'll be a challenge.
Some of those nautical knots are tricky.

[Crow]

Very Chinese.

[Tank]

Yes it does have an oriental look/feel to it. Apparently the barge already exists and is going to be refitted and remodeled for this celebration.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Here's a video about Caligula's luxury ships on Lake Nemi in Italy.

http://www.history.com/shows/ancient-discoveries/videos/caligulas-luxury-ships#caligulas-luxury-ships

Personally, even though I'm an American, I like the English Royals.  I watched the wedding and like to keep up with them superficially.  Can't really explain it - maybe because my family is originally from there.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

[Asmodean]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

By architecture, I have to agree. Looks Roman much more than Chinese.

[history_geek]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

By architecture, I have to agree. Looks Roman much more than Chinese.

Agreed. I have never seen an ancient Chinese ship with apparent angels and eagles. They preffered dragons and whatnot....

[Asmodean]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

By architecture, I have to agree. Looks Roman much more than Chinese.

Agreed. I have never seen an ancient Chinese ship with apparent angels and eagles. They preffered dragons and whatnot....

Also, look at that structure at the bow... Stern... Whatever the nautical types call it. It's all columned with straight roof lines. Looks designed with a ruler... Romans, they designed everything with rulers, no?

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

By architecture, I have to agree. Looks Roman much more than Chinese.

Agreed. I have never seen an ancient Chinese ship with apparent angels and eagles. They preffered dragons and whatnot....

Also, look at that structure at the bow... Stern... Whatever the nautical types call it. It's all columned with straight roof lines. Looks designed with a ruler... Romans, they designed everything with rulers, no?

Plus, "Lake Nemi" is in Italy where Caligula's ships were.

[Asmodean]

Plus, "Lake Nemi" is in Italy where Caligula's ships were.

..!

Yes, now that you mention it, there is that too... 

[Crow]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

Woops my bad sir. 

I was being lazy looking for imperial Chinese warships and one of the first pictures to appear on google images.

[launion]

Isn't the "Lake Nemi" ship in the picture post above Roman (Caligula) and not Chinese??

By architecture, I have to agree. Looks Roman much more than Chinese.

Agreed. I have never seen an ancient Chinese ship with apparent angels and eagles. They preffered dragons and whatnot....

he show followed the adventures of "Paladin", a gentleman gunfighter (played by Richard Boone on television, and by John Dehner on radio), who preferred to settle problems without violence; yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, where he dressed in formal attire, ate gourmet food, and attended the opera. In fact, many who met him initially mistook him for a dandy from the East. But when working, he dressed in black, carried a derringer under his belt, used calling cards with a chess knight emblem, and wore a stereotypical western-style black gunbelt with the same chess knight symbol attached to the holster.

The knight symbol refers to his name — a nickname or working name — and his occupation as a champion-for-hire (see Paladin). The theme song of the series refers to him as "a knight without armor". In "The Road to Wickenburg", Paladin draws a parallel between his methods and the chess piece's movement: "It's an attack piece, the most versatile on the board. It can move eight different ways, over barriers, and [is] always unexpected." Paladin's routine switch from the expensive light-colored suit of his genteel urbane persona in San Francisco to his alter ego, who wears all-black attire for quests into the lawless and barren Western frontier, is also a chess reference.

Paladin was a former Army officer and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was a polyglot, capable of speaking any foreign tongue required by the plot. He also had a thorough knowledge of ancient history and classical literature, and he exhibited a strong passion for legal principles and the rule of law. Paladin was also a world traveler. His exploits had included an 1857 visit to India, where he had won the respect of the natives as a hunter of man-eating tigers.

[Happy_Is_Good]

Queen's Diamond Jubilee royal barge design unveiled

The first image has been released of the royal barge that will carry the Queen down the Thames during her Diamond Jubilee celebrations next year.

The vessel will lead a 1,000-strong flotilla along the river on 3 June, as the monarch marks 60 years on the throne.

She will be joined on board by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the Royal Family.

The barge will be adorned with flowers from the Queen's gardens.

The monarch and her husband will be seated on ornate chairs under a gold canopy as the vessel, the Spirit of Chartwell, cruises down the Thames...

I would comment on this with an open heart and mind...except - it would probably be censored by your government.

To say the least, the news that you report about the Queen does not thrill me - it fills me with loathing.

I do not like the Queen.

Happy_Is_Good

[Recusant]

I would comment on this with an open heart and mind...except - it would probably be censored by your government.

Highly unlikely, seeing as this forum isn't based in the UK. Even if it were, what reason do you have to think that the government of the UK monitors internet forums, and practices censorship on the same?

To say the least, the news that you report about the Queen does not thrill me - it fills me with loathing.

I do not like the Queen.

Happy_Is_Good

Given that your post would lead one to believe that you are not a citizen of the UK, it seems a bit over the top to invest so much emotion (loathing? really?) in a person who is a figurehead, and seems to be basically a dignified elderly woman. She didn't do anything terrible to arrive at her present station, and I find it hard to imagine that anything she's ever done in her life has lead to personal harm to yourself.