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    Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent...
    109 KB (13,054 words) - 12:20, 10 May 2024
  • Nando Parrado (category Uruguayan people of Spanish descent)
    Renault along the beach roads at Punta del Este, I went to parties and I lay in the sun, I lived for the moment, drifting with the tide, waiting for my...
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    Drift diving is a type of scuba diving where the diver is transported by the water movement caused by the tide, an ocean current or in a river. The choice...
    6 KB (841 words) - 06:13, 21 March 2022
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    categorized by their means of propulsion. These divide into: Unpowered. This involves drifting with the tide or a river current. Powered by the crew-members on board...
    17 KB (2,150 words) - 02:00, 25 April 2024
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    tidal stream while drifting with the tide in or out of a river. In a modern yacht, motor-sailing – travelling under the power of both sails and engine –...
    6 KB (602 words) - 16:03, 26 October 2023
  • drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time. The hypothesis...
    45 KB (4,749 words) - 01:09, 10 April 2024
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    Amoco Cadiz (redirect from The Amoco Cadiz)
    and the Amoco Cadiz had drifted 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) closer to the shore. For two hours, the tugboat struggled to slow the vessel's drift, but...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 14:32, 6 October 2023
  • William Ashbless (category Fictional characters introduced in the 1970s)
    implying that the novel's name is in reference to the poem: ...And unmoor'd souls may drift on stranger tides Than those men know of, and be overthrown...
    5 KB (709 words) - 05:54, 3 August 2023
  • Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) is the first compilation album by the Rolling Stones. With different cover art and track listings, it was released...
    16 KB (1,164 words) - 14:33, 14 May 2024
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    from the ancestral subspecies of Homo erectus. Many modern beachcombers follow the "drift lines" or "tide lines" on the beach and are interested in the (mostly...
    16 KB (1,860 words) - 01:31, 1 March 2024
  • tide or slack water is the short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal...
    7 KB (956 words) - 17:50, 2 December 2023
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    Jetty (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    shoaled by the littoral drift along the shore. Another application of parallel jetties is in lowering the bar in front of one of the mouths of a deltaic...
    10 KB (1,428 words) - 15:53, 8 March 2024
  • Pokémon: Advanced is the sixth season of Pokémon and the first season of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Advanced...
    37 KB (581 words) - 14:25, 12 May 2024
  • Flower Duet (redirect from The Flower Duet)
    Under the dense canopy, Under the white jasmine, Call us together! Ah! Let's drift down together! But, an eerie feeling of distress overcomes me. When my...
    12 KB (1,584 words) - 01:45, 22 April 2024
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    toothache of Mrs Fielding, Wapping's expert surgeon; as the boat drifts with the tide, the lady refuses to follow it from the shore, while the valet sent...
    84 KB (11,938 words) - 15:33, 7 May 2024
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    waves, tides and atmospheric waves. In the Lagrangian description, fluid parcels may drift far from their initial positions. As a result, the unambiguous...
    17 KB (2,212 words) - 21:52, 7 May 2024
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    Oyster farming on Georges River (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of March 2024)
    line to allow the boat to drift with the tide, out to the length to be dredged. The dredge would then be thrown over the stern, and the windlass first...
    88 KB (9,769 words) - 23:41, 9 May 2024
  • of keeping a square-rigged vessel under control while drifting with the tide along a narrow channel. The ship lies broadside to the current, with the...
    306 KB (38,471 words) - 11:10, 13 May 2024
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    that the ocean's tide shifted causing many of the rebel ships to run aground. The Holland-Zeeland ships drifted with the tide out to sea leaving the Antwerpians...
    23 KB (3,223 words) - 10:05, 18 April 2024
  • and drift, one needs to first understand currents. Ocean currents are the horizontal movements of water from one location to another. The movement of water...
    6 KB (923 words) - 20:56, 25 October 2022
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