250 years military maritime sea clocks
2023 marks the 330th anniversary of John Harrison's birth but also the 250th anniversary since the last bit of Longitude Prize money was awarded by British parliament.
In 1773, 80 years old English clock maker John Harrsion was awarded the final amount of Prize money for his " seawatch n° 1 " H4 clock which solved the Longitude problem.
Harrison had been working half a century to perfect his watches . Note the great details in these paintings, with Harrison holding John Jefferys watch and his own H4 clock on the table besides him.
As Great Britain asserted its position with France and had to avoid these precious time keepers could be caught by Spanish or Dutch navy ships, copies of Harrison H4 were sent on sea trials.
A time of sextants and clocks, while today's rise of technology has isolated us from the natural World, unfortunately much to our detriment.
(National Maritime Museum - Greenwich GB)
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In the beginning of SoM, where Percy was a hero for a year he already fears his full name because it means that monsters are nearby.
Now imagine an older Percy, maybe after losing Jason getting in an argument with his mum and Sally using Perseus. And his hand is already in his pocket, eyes wide open looking out for danger. And she just breaks.
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USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) during sea trials in the Pacific Ocean, prior to her recommissioning in January 1983.
Photographed by PH1 Harold Gerwien in September 1982.
NARA: 6369774
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reading the second book of trials of apollo, the first of magnus chase, the first of chronicles of kane and rereading the sea of monsters at the same time as studying for the quarterly exams, everything under control here
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One question for the PJO fandom. Where did calling Nico “neeks” come from? I read the entire series and kept going “oh, his nickname will pop up in this book!” By the time I got to The Sun and The Star I felt delulu. Where???
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PJO + HOO + TOA Characters Mood Boards:
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Grover Underwood
Thalia Grace and Luke Castellan
Clarisse La Rue, Silena Beauregard and Charles Beckendorf
Nico di Angelo, Bianca di Angelo and Zoë Nightshade
Rachel Elizabeth Dare and Calypso
Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Katie Gardner and Miranda Gardiner
Castor and Pollux
Lee Fletcher and Michael Yew
Will Solace and Malcolm Pace
Ethan Nakamura and Chris Rodriguez
Heroes of Olympus
Jason Grace, Piper McLean and Leo Valdez
Gleeson Hedge, Butch Walker and Clovis
Drew Tanaka, Lacy and Mitchell
Nyssa Barrera, Jake Mason and Harley
Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang and Reyna Avila Ramirez-Arellano
Dakota, Michael Kahale and Leila
Lou Ellen Blackstone and Cecil Markowitz
Trials of Apollo
Lester Papadopoulos and Meg McCaffrey
Kayla Knowles and Austin Lake
Paolo Montes, Chiara Benvenuti and Damien White
Billie Ng and Valentina Diaz
Alice Miyazawa and Julia Feingold
Ellis Wakefield and Sherman Yang
Holly Victor and Laurel Victor
Hemithea, Josephine, Georgina and Lavinia Asimov
Currently Undergoing Editing...
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Canadian police attack pro-Palestine demonstrators at Toronto protest
"TPS, KKK, IOF, you're all the same!"
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Hello PJO Fandom!
I am @hallsoffandom, and I am attempting to host a seasonal gift exchange for the fandom with deadlines around the equinoxes and solstices.
I wanted to do a quick interest check to see how many people would be interested in participating, as well as putting out an open call for 1-2 moderators to help me run this event. If you are interested in moderating, there will be a section below the poll explaining what to do in order to apply for a moderator position.
For anyone interested in moderating, these would be the things expected from you if chosen for the moderation team:
help answer asks of questions that come into the blog
help match gifters with requests from gift recipients
help send out the gift assignments after all matches have been made
help track down or assign pinch hitters to any gifts not completed by the deadline
make sure that all the rules of the exchange (which will be posted later this week) are followed by participants
If these expectations seem reasonable to you, here is how you should apply for the moderation team. Dm me @hallsoffandom with these things:
Name (what you prefer to go by online)
How long you have been a part of the PJO fandom
Your experience level with event/exchange running (saying none is NOT an automatic denial of you application, I will still consider you)
Your experience level with Google Sheets
If you pass through the first round of moderator applications, I will ask you a few more questions to determine if you are a good fit for the moderation team.
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