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Mercator sailing. Both spellings ("plane" and "plain") have been in use for several centuries, Plane sailing is based on the assumption that the meridian through...2 KB (252 words) - 22:38, 6 June 2024- particularly Blood Meridian, and compared it to William Faulkner's A Fable. When comparing the lack of "moral argument" in Blood Meridian to the heightened...12 KB (1,437 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2024
Mercator projection (section On a meridian)(rhumb lines), other than the meridians or the equator, do not correspond to great circles. The distinction between rhumb (sailing) distance and great circle...49 KB (6,754 words) - 19:43, 12 November 2024
International Date Line (redirect from Date meridian)on the meridian of 180° longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and halfway around the world from the IERS Reference Meridian, the successor...47 KB (5,486 words) - 13:47, 1 November 2024- the 40th parallel north latitude and the 35th meridian west longitude, thence south along the meridian to the 10th parallel north latitude, thence southeast...12 KB (1,104 words) - 22:33, 27 October 2024
definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (1/60 of a degree) of latitude...20 KB (2,006 words) - 17:46, 14 November 2024
American Southwest, where he researched and wrote his fifth novel, Blood Meridian (1985). Although it initially garnered a lukewarm critical and commercial...87 KB (7,683 words) - 05:48, 22 November 2024
original calculation of 23,000 nmi (43,000 km) sailing route. On 15 February 2010, she crossed the Prime Meridian, crossing from the Western Hemisphere to the...58 KB (5,178 words) - 22:43, 5 November 2024- and unlimited access to sail to the islands in exchange for the ships sailing to Bermuda between April and October each year. Although these contracts...39 KB (2,782 words) - 00:05, 19 November 2024
Vishnya-class intelligence ship (redirect from Meridian-class intelligence ship)The Vishnya class (NATO reporting name) (also known as the Meridian class), Soviet designation Project 864, are a group of intelligence collection ships...15 KB (1,076 words) - 08:12, 28 October 2024
The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world can be attributed to the surviving crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition...47 KB (1,683 words) - 00:04, 11 October 2024
Navigation (redirect from Sailing navigation)the prime meridian or Greenwich meridian. Longitude is usually expressed in degrees (marked with °) ranging from 0° at the Greenwich meridian to 180° east...62 KB (7,344 words) - 15:20, 22 November 2024
at the same angle. A ship sailing towards the same point of the compass describes such a line which cuts all the meridians at the same angle. In Mercator's...21 KB (2,851 words) - 14:30, 10 November 2024- television and radio presenter, newsreader and journalist. Hawkins joined ITV's Meridian Tonight in 2003, hosting its main news programme, leaving in 2006 to become...22 KB (1,599 words) - 09:29, 28 August 2024
same month, oil refineries were attacked at Palembang in Operation Meridian. Sailing to Australia, 1844 Naval Air Squadron disembarked to RNAS Nowra (HMS...17 KB (1,781 words) - 15:51, 19 November 2024- celestial body or meridian Transit telescope, a special-purpose telescope mounted so as to point only at objects transiting the local meridian A specialized...3 KB (389 words) - 20:30, 16 November 2024
- icebox's efficiency is badly compromised." List of sailing boat types McArthur, Bruce (2021). "Meridian 25 (Seafarer) sailboat". sailboatdata.com. Archived...8 KB (617 words) - 19:04, 1 June 2024
known as the Prime Meridian and is now accepted by most nations as the starting point for all longitude measurements. The Prime Meridian of zero degrees...9 KB (1,388 words) - 06:02, 17 November 2023
Sittingbourne (redirect from Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum)Local television news programmes are BBC South East Today and ITV News Meridian. Local radio stations for Sittingbourne are BBC Radio Kent, Heart South...37 KB (3,789 words) - 14:23, 17 October 2024
Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. Because of this, the...24 KB (2,643 words) - 16:43, 12 November 2024
- traverse, parallel, mid latitude, and Mercator sailings. In plane sailing the figure formed by the meridian through the point of departure, the parallel
- in Anarchist Morality (1890) The length of the pendulum and that of the meridian are the two principal means offered by Nature for fixing the unity of linear
- earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or