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  • Thumbnail for Citicorp Center engineering crisis
    elements (the tuned mass damper) for stabilization. Concerned about "quartering winds" directed diagonally toward the corners of the building, Princeton...
    35 KB (3,773 words) - 12:06, 29 October 2024
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    LeMessurier recalculated the wind loads on the building with quartering winds. LeMessurier found that quartering winds would significantly increase the...
    130 KB (12,073 words) - 20:16, 17 October 2024
  • than 15° it may be a quartering sea. Sailors use this term synonymously with the points of sail below a beam reach, since the wind direction is generally...
    3 KB (476 words) - 08:18, 9 December 2021
  • joints. This weakness could contribute to the building collapsing in "quartering" winds. This realization triggered a hurried, clandestine retrofit which...
    7 KB (573 words) - 10:47, 16 December 2023
  • Age of Sail, the quarterdeck was the preserve of the ship's officers. quartering sea Seas approaching a vessel from between 105° and 165° to port or starboard...
    254 KB (31,819 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2024
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    Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
    191 KB (21,206 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2024
  • circumcision Goat's tongue Half hanging Hamstringing Hanging, drawing, and quartering Helicopter position Immurement Jetliner position Keelhauling Kicking Kneecapping...
    20 KB (2,478 words) - 12:59, 12 November 2024
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    style and staunchness on point, their backing of the other dog, their quartering ability and their pace, eliminating faults include flushing the game early...
    9 KB (1,210 words) - 00:19, 2 October 2024
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    ice-obstructed river from McConkey's Ferry, with 40 men per vessel. The wind churned up the waters, and they were pelted with hail, but by 3:00 a.m. on...
    222 KB (23,812 words) - 11:06, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jack Ketch
    gallows. He spoke and prayed more than half an hour, his body was, after quartering, put into a coffin, and the same day was conveyed to London, and buried...
    14 KB (1,666 words) - 21:28, 2 September 2024
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    according to precept, by the Real Academia de la Historia in 1921. The first quartering appears at the end of the 15th century and commemorates, according to...
    90 KB (10,051 words) - 22:14, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quarter tone
    standard techniques are used, and if the instruments are not tunable Western wind instruments that use keys or valves Woodwind instruments, such as clarinets...
    33 KB (2,552 words) - 05:38, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
    Parliament Navigation Iron Molasses Royal Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Currency Quartering Stamp up i.p.o Declaratory Townshend Tea Quebec Intolerable Conciliatory...
    54 KB (5,802 words) - 00:35, 21 November 2024
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    Westminster Hall, convicted and gruesomely executed by hanging, drawing and quartering. Since then, the cellars of the palace have been searched by the Yeomen...
    122 KB (13,301 words) - 01:00, 19 November 2024
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    León from 1372, he impaled the arms of that kingdom (Gules, a castle or, quartering Argent, a lion rampant purpure) with his own. The arms of Castile and...
    61 KB (7,592 words) - 13:31, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paul Revere
    our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:..."—and the framers of the United...
    50 KB (6,305 words) - 20:37, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Panama Defense Forces
    the regime (called "the process" by its militants) democratization, its quartering and the call for elections. By 1978, General Torrijos abandoned power...
    53 KB (3,477 words) - 02:57, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gustav Vasa
    contemporary medical techniques. Some sources state that Nils was executed by quartering; others that he was reduced to the state of an outlaw after recovering...
    38 KB (4,722 words) - 16:03, 3 November 2024
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    fourth quartering: in the field of gules, a merloned golden castle of three merlons, drafted of sable and rinse of azure. The second and third quartering: in...
    116 KB (11,232 words) - 16:30, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pennsylvania Navy
    York City. Hazelwood was instrumental in preventing Hessian troops from quartering in Burlington, New Jersey, a town sympathetic to the Loyalist cause, by...
    14 KB (1,796 words) - 17:08, 11 September 2024
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