Battleship diplomacy, it's called, by Admiral William Fallon, the new commander for the Middle East.
In 1943, the last major German battleship, the Scharnhorst, was sunk by the British Royal Navy.
It was like a Battleship Galactica filled with a moderate sized city of screamers with lubricants.
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In Iraq, there will not be a signing ceremony on the deck of a battleship.
The Naval battleship Royal Oak was torpedoed in 1939, resulting in the deaths of 833 people.
Space Battleship Yamato, an enormously popular manga, points to another concern of the time -- the environment.
It is battleship gray with blue and citron crosses and looks so vibrant in the bright sunshine.
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The eight tokens are an iron, racecar, Scottie dog, a shoe, thimble, top hat, wheelbarrow and battleship.
In 1915, the British battleship Formidable was sunk by a torpedo in the English Channel, killing 547.
Around him, the peaks rose in their familiar battleship formation, proximate and daunting.
The games, ranging from poker to battleship, are accessible to users of social networks such as Facebook and Bebo.
When "Battleship" arose, Mr. Berg was planning a different Navy film, called "Lone Survivor, " about a deadly real-life SEALs mission.
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Zynga's take on "Battleship"--a classic, paper-based game that has been played by grade schoolers for decades--includes a handy "airstrike" button.
In fact, ILM has created similar FX reels about Battleship, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, for their YouTube channel.
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Universal Pictures unit, was recently working on the script for an upcoming big-budget movie based on the Hasbro board game Battleship.
It propelled its hulking frame out of the battleship-grey waters and twisted through the air, before crashing back into the white surf.
But after Italy invaded Greece in 1940 he was assigned to Valiant, a battleship that would soon see action in the Mediterranean.
Universal, which in a deal with Hasbro also is making movies based on Candy Land and Stretch Armstrong, asked for "Battleship" first.
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This leaves Pfizer Chief Executive Ian Read to turn around a battleship.
"We were able to set up the 'Freddie Roach' editing suites in the same building as 'Battleship, ' " says Mr. Berg, 49.
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Tell that to the timeworn tokens of Monopoly: the shoe, top hat, wheelbarrow, clothes iron, battleship, race car, thimble and Scottie dog.
The ceremony marked the exact time on 1 September 1939 when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire at point-blank range on the fort.
In 1898, the Spanish-American war began after the battleship U.S.S. Maine, traveling to Havana on a goodwill mission, struck a mine and blew up.
The Monitor, sailed by the northern Union side, fought the southern Confederate battleship Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862.
Pop star Rihanna was named worst supporting actress for her debut film role in Battleship, based on the board game of the same name.
That claim belongs to the 36, 000-ton USS New Mexico battleship, which was commissioned in 1918 and used electric motors to to drive its propellers.
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For them, competing with American farmers on vast fields with high-tech machines, high-quality seed and high-value subsidies is like attacking a battleship with a machete.
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He was aboard Battleship, a diminutive American owned and bred chaser sent over the Atlantic to be trained for the race by Hobbs's father, Reg.
The museum, opening to the public on July 7, 2012, highlights the contributions of this battleship and its crew at critical moments in American history.
The Pfizer battleship, so far, looks to be withstanding the onslaught.
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