SS Inca

SS Inca was a steamship on Lake Titicaca.

History

The Peruvian Corporation, a UK-owned company, had controlled Peru's railways and lake shipping since 1890. Traffic had outstripped the capacity of the Corporation's hitherto largest lake steamer SS Coya (546 tons) and ageing Yavari and Yapura. Accordingly in 1904 the Corporation ordered the Inca, which at 1,809 tons was by far the lake's largest ship to date.

Earle's Shipbuilding of Kingston upon Hull on the Humber in England built Inca as a "knock down" ship; that is, they assembled her in their shipyard with bolts and nuts, marked each part with a number and then disassembled her into many hundreds of pieces and then sent her to Peru in kit form. The pieces were shipped by sea to South America and then by rail to Lake Titicaca, where Inca was finally riveted together and launched. Each part had to fit within a packing crate no more than 10 feet (3 m) wide and 11 feet (3.4 m) high to fit within the railway's loading gauge, and weigh no more than 12 tons to be within the railway's axle loading.

Șinca

Șinca (German: Alt-Schenk; Hungarian: Ósinka) is a commune in Brașov County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Bucium (Bucsum), Ohaba (Ohába), Perșani (Persány), Șercăița (Sarkaica), Șinca Veche (the commune center) and Vâlcea (Valcsatelep).

Coordinates: 45°44′04″N 25°08′59″E / 45.73444°N 25.14972°E / 45.73444; 25.14972

References

Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century, and the last Inca stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.

From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including, besides Peru, large parts of modern Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and central Chile, and a small part of southern Colombia into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia. The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages and dialects of Quechua were spoken. Many local forms of worship persisted in the empire, most of them concerning local sacred Huacas, but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti—their sun god—and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such as that of Pachamama. The Incas considered their king, the Sapa Inca, to be the "son of the sun."

Inca (video game)

Inca is a 1992 computer game developed by Coktel Vision and published by Sierra On-Line. A sequel, Inca II: Nations of Immortality, was released in 1994.

The game describes the conflict between Incas and Spaniards in a sci-fi, space opera setting.

Gameplay

Inca combines many different genres including space combat simulator and adventure game. Some levels are purely shooting, some have maze exploration, or include inventory-based puzzles or riddles.

Game progress is marked with numerical passcodes that are given after specific points of the game (12 in the disc version, 16 in the CD), allowing the player to resume playing from that chapter.

Plot

Huayna Capac, last grand Inca, after 500 years of his death, prepares a warrior called El Dorado to bring three gems of Time, Energy and Matter; and fight Aguirre, the Spanish leader. The action begins in an asteroid space station called Paititi (its surface is marked with lines similar to the Nazca lines) from which Eldorado hurls to space flying a Tumi-shaped spaceship.