St. James Infirmary Blues London's St. James Hospital, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. His references list an article by Kenneth Lodewick. That article states, giving no reference or source for the idea, that the phrase "St. James Hospital" refers to a hospital of that name in London. There is some difficulty in this because the hospital in question closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St James's Palace. Another possibility suggested by Higginbotham on the basis of his claim that the song "St. James Infirmary" dates at least from the early nineteenth century, is the Infirmary section
SMS Monarch SMS Monarch SMS "Monarch" ("His Majesty's Ship Monarch") was the lead ship of the built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the 1890s. After their commissioning, "Monarch" and the two other "Monarch"-class ships made several training cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in the early 1900s. "Monarch" and her sisters formed the 1st Capital Ship Division of the Austro-Hungarian Navy until they were replaced by the newly commissioned pre-dreadnought battleships at the turn of the century. In 1906 the three "Monarch"s were placed in reserve and only recommissioned during the annual summer training exercises. After the start of World War I, "Budapest"