What has Rhode Island contributed to the world?

[KrazyHorse]

I'll kick it off:

1) Emeril

[reds4ever]

2) Vinny Pazienza

[Kontiki]

3) Brown University. Surely someone of note must have graduated from there.

[KrazyHorse]

4) HP Lovecraft (he wanted to go to Brown, but was rejected IIRC)

I don't know any actual famous alumni

[KrazyHorse]

Though that does bring up this point:

5) The Brown Card

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Student_Financial_Services/Browncard/index.shtml

[Japher]

Gilbert Stuart

the dude that painted that pic of George Washington

[KrazyHorse]

C'mon, dude. Number your choice!

[Japher]

6. Gilbert Stuart - painter of presidents

[lord of the mark]

Freedom of religion?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Kontiki
3) Brown University. Surely someone of note must have graduated from there.

Amy Carter.

John Kennedy,Jr.

[KrazyHorse]

There have been times prior to the existence of Rhode Island where there existed freedom of religion.

[Bereta_Eder]

wtf is rhode island?
unless you missed an "s"

[lord of the mark]

The US navy


"1775, the situation was becoming desperate enough that the Rhode Island Assembly decided to take matters into their own hands, so to speak. On 12 June, the general assembly of the Crown Colony of Rhode Island met at the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich and created the very first Navy in the Western Hemisphere.

Now many recognize that Narragansett Bay is often referred to as the "Cradle of the American Navy." Well, if the Bay was the cradle, then Newport has to be considered the womb. For it was here, in Newport Harbor, that the seed for the concept of America as a maritime power was planted.

This Rhode Island Navy consisted of two armed vessels - the sloop KATY, with 12 guns, and the galley WASHINGTON, with six guns. It was created for the express purpose of stopping one particular ship, the 24 gun frigate ROSE. The ROSE wreaked havoc in the bay, seizing stores and goods along the coast, and implementing a blockade against all shipping.

This led to the first purely naval engagement of the Revolution, in June of 1775, when the Rhode Island sloop KATY, under Captain Abraham Whipple, engaged the Royal Navy Schooner DIANA. The DIANA was subsequently driven onto Conanicut Island, off the Jamestown beach. The Rhode Island Navy never did accomplish its initial objective of driving off the ROSE, which finally met her end in Savannah, Georgia when she was scuttled in 1779.

The Rhode Island delegates to the Continental Congress next moved to create a Federal navy. The Colony's General Assembly instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to introduce a resolution in favor of a continental navy. The Congress adopted this resolution, and authorized the fitting out of two vessels to interdict British trade.

The so-called "Rhode Island Plan" to construct thirteen frigates for the new Continental Navy was enacted in December of 1775. One of these ships was the aforementioned KATY, which was then renamed PROVIDENCE.

This is the ship that became the first command of a young John Paul Jones, acknowledged as the "Father of the American Navy." The PROVIDENCE was also noted for being the first ship to land U.S. Marines for combat, in March, 1776. Unfortunately, the original ship was scuttled in Penobscot Bay in August, 1779. Those who frequent Narragansett Bay today often see a replica of this vessel, the pride of the Yankee navy, making its way up and down the Bay in the summer months. "

[KrazyHorse]

Ignorant Eurocom.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
The US navy


"1775, the situation was becoming desperate enough that the Rhode Island Assembly decided to take matters into their own hands, so to speak. On 12 June, the general assembly of the Crown Colony of Rhode Island met at the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich and created the very first Navy in the Western Hemisphere.

Now many recognize that Narragansett Bay is often referred to as the "Cradle of the American Navy." Well, if the Bay was the cradle, then Newport has to be considered the womb. For it was here, in Newport Harbor, that the seed for the concept of America as a maritime power was planted.

This Rhode Island Navy consisted of two armed vessels - the sloop KATY, with 12 guns, and the galley WASHINGTON, with six guns. It was created for the express purpose of stopping one particular ship, the 24 gun frigate ROSE. The ROSE wreaked havoc in the bay, seizing stores and goods along the coast, and implementing a blockade against all shipping.

This led to the first purely naval engagement of the Revolution, in June of 1775, when the Rhode Island sloop KATY, under Captain Abraham Whipple, engaged the Royal Navy Schooner DIANA. The DIANA was subsequently driven onto Conanicut Island, off the Jamestown beach. The Rhode Island Navy never did accomplish its initial objective of driving off the ROSE, which finally met her end in Savannah, Georgia when she was scuttled in 1779.

The Rhode Island delegates to the Continental Congress next moved to create a Federal navy. The Colony's General Assembly instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress to introduce a resolution in favor of a continental navy. The Congress adopted this resolution, and authorized the fitting out of two vessels to interdict British trade.

The so-called "Rhode Island Plan" to construct thirteen frigates for the new Continental Navy was enacted in December of 1775. One of these ships was the aforementioned KATY, which was then renamed PROVIDENCE.

This is the ship that became the first command of a young John Paul Jones, acknowledged as the "Father of the American Navy." The PROVIDENCE was also noted for being the first ship to land U.S. Marines for combat, in March, 1776. Unfortunately, the original ship was scuttled in Penobscot Bay in August, 1779. Those who frequent Narragansett Bay today often see a replica of this vessel, the pride of the Yankee navy, making its way up and down the Bay in the summer months. "

-The complete history of Rhode Island's influence in the affairs of state