Catamarans are the Marmite of powerboating – you either love them or you hate them.

[…]the Grand Khan seemed to grasp the truth of the religion and might become a convert, thereby gaining for Christianity the souls of all his subjects.

On the neck is the gorget of plates, and on the cuirass is seen one of the mamelières or ornamental circular plates to which the chain was attached for holding the helmet.

The Tallowwood family numbers about 27 genera and nearly 150 species of trees, shrubs and lianas scattered throughout the tropical forests of the world. […] The tallowwoods Ximenia L. These are a small genus comprising five species of widely distributed tropical trees and shrubs. One of them, X. americana L., extends northward into southern Florida. Tallowwood hog-plum Ximenia americana L.