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  • Thumbnail for Citicorp Center engineering crisis
    elements (the tuned mass damper) for stabilization. Concerned about "quartering winds" (wind directed diagonally toward the corners of the building rather than...
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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) - 15:28, 26 August 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...
    252 KB (31,692 words) - 07:32, 9 September 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...
    190 KB (21,033 words) - 09:21, 12 September 2024
  • Force-feeding Forced circumcision Half hanging Hamstringing Hanging, drawing, and quartering Helicopter position Immurement Jetliner position Keelhauling Kicking Kneecapping...
    20 KB (2,478 words) - 21:56, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Field trial
    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) - 18:47, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Washington
    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...
    225 KB (24,231 words) - 00:28, 10 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) - 06:54, 1 September 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
  • Thumbnail for Seakeeping
    yaw stability, which affects course-keeping, particularly in bow and quartering seas, and in overtaking seas, when flow velocity past the rudder may drop...
    9 KB (1,195 words) - 13:38, 10 June 2023
  • 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 Palace of Westminster
    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 (13,287 words) - 13:12, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John of Gaunt
    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...
    62 KB (7,585 words) - 08:15, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Porter (died 1798)
    ’ The sentence, however, was mitigated by remission of the order for quartering. ‘Then,’ said Porter to his wife, ‘I shall lie at home to-night.’ He was...
    10 KB (1,567 words) - 08:52, 19 August 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...
    37 KB (4,722 words) - 02:14, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Suvorov's Swiss campaign
    the first days of August, Archduke Charles had already received at his quartering in Kloten, north of Zurich, a letter from Francis II informing him of...
    65 KB (8,204 words) - 08:12, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for George III
    Acts of Union 1800, the royal arms were amended, dropping the French quartering. They became: Quarterly, I and IV England; II Scotland; III Ireland; overall...
    92 KB (10,314 words) - 19:44, 28 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 (5,811 words) - 17:10, 10 September 2024
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