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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] When my web domain is finally ready to take public, y'all will have a chance to comment on my listing (thus far). I haven't bothered to count, though, so I don't know how many I've actually got. As for the Anglo ship names thing... As Gene's inspiration was Royal Navy/Horatio Hornblower, the majority of ship names are Royal Navy -- moreso even than the American Navy. I've compiled a run-down for ya: First, the Royal Navy, as most non-American ship names hail from there: Hood Excalibur Exeter Valiant Reliant Excelsior Fearless Sentinel Thunderchild Sutherland Repulse Ajax Agamemnon Melbourne Sydney Victory Miranda Ulysses Leeds Odyssey Prometheus Drake Majestic Endeavour Wellington Venture [also an American ship] Pegasus [also an American ship] Nautilus [also an American ship] Essex [also an American ship] Phoenix [also an American ship] Apollo [also an American ship] Bellerophon [also an American ship] Jupiter [semi-canon, also an American ship] Japanese: Yamaguchi [I'm assuming the Trek ship is NOT named after the skater] Akagi Yamato Kongo Akira Hiroshima Musashi Okinawa Honshu Kyushu Hokkaido Indian: Gandhi Raman Ganges Greek: Andromeda Adelphi [maybe] Hermes Hera Constantinople [anglicization] Antares Daedalus Aries Ptolemy [anglicization] Zodiac Icarus Native American: Cheyenne Ahwahnee Crazy Horse Lakota Sequoia Yosemite [anglicization] Huron Russian: Zhukov Prokofiev Soyuz Tolstoy Buran Chekov Potemkin Volga Korolev Tsiolkovsky African: Biko Wambundu Malinche German: Oberth Danube [anglicization] Arabic: Rigel Cairo Al-Batani Saladin [anglicization] Eastern European/Near-East: Copernicus [Latinization] Istanbul Budapest [anglicization] Sarajevo Eastern and Southeastern Asia: Yangtzee Kiang Mekong Tien An Men "Romantic" (That being, Latin and Latin-derived languages): Arcos La Salle Orinoco Rubicon Magellan Havana Cortez Pasteur Mediterranean Trieste Nobel Concorde Zapata Renaissance Vulcan: T'Kumbra Sitak ShirKahr [sic -- the "proper" spelling is ShiKahr] Surak Klingon: Gorkon "Other" (sorry all you Aussies and Hawaiians out there -- this category is truly just my unsorted bin): Jenolan Deneva Tripoli Hokule'a Banting Fleming Destiny [lab module of ISS] Have at... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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