This beautiful flower is part of the kingdom plantae, division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Asparagales, family Iridaceae, and genus Iris. Because Iris is the messenger of love in Greeks myths the iris flower has many meanings, depending on its color. For example the blue iris symbolizes faith and hope, the purple iris wisdom and compliments and so on.
Ironclad warship. An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.[1] The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells.
Warships are built for two main purposes: to fight other ships, and to attack forces on land. The first ironclads were built by the French to attack enemy forts during the Crimean War in the 1850s. Britain and France also began to build ironclads that were designed to fight other ships. Of course, the very first time that one ironclad fought another was when the Monitor and the Virginia (formerly known as Merrimack) fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 9 March 1862.