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  • Thumbnail for Abdication of Edward VIII
    pressure from the King, and "startled" at the suggested abdication, Baldwin agreed to take further soundings on three options: Edward and Simpson marry...
    48 KB (6,382 words) - 11:31, 12 May 2024
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    SS Atlantic (1870) (category Steamships of the United Kingdom)
    Because almost none of the crew had ever been to Halifax before, they were unaware of the dangers of the approach; no one took soundings, posted a masthead...
    26 KB (2,893 words) - 16:17, 22 April 2024
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    were available at the time of her sinking. Instead, a hand line was the only method Edmund Fitzgerald had to take depth soundings. The hand line consisted...
    110 KB (13,758 words) - 16:03, 26 May 2024
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    further soundings. The prospect of the marriage was rejected by the British Cabinet. The other Dominion governments were consulted pursuant to the Statute...
    63 KB (8,104 words) - 14:01, 19 May 2024
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    United States Naval Special Warfare Command (category Special operations units and formations of the United States Navy)
    markers for the incoming craft, handle casualties, take offshore soundings, blow up beach obstacles, and maintain voice communications linking the troops ashore...
    44 KB (4,823 words) - 12:57, 19 May 2024
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    Fathom (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    near the title, as are the units used for soundings (these are normally metres or fathoms, though occasionally they may be in feet). Make sure you take notice...
    18 KB (1,955 words) - 06:49, 4 May 2024
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    than the sounding lines, thus enabling the German Meteor expedition aboard the German research vessel Meteor (1925–27) to take frequent soundings on east-west...
    80 KB (9,035 words) - 05:30, 29 April 2024
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    United States Navy SEALs (category Special Operations Forces of the United States)
    take offshore soundings, clear beach obstacles, and maintain voice communications linking the troops ashore, incoming boats and nearby ships. The 7th...
    147 KB (16,801 words) - 23:29, 25 May 2024
  • List of Greater London Council committee chairs (category Members of the Greater London Council)
    unofficial Cabinet which advised the Leader on policy and through which the Leader could take political soundings. Formally the committees were divided into...
    14 KB (113 words) - 22:18, 25 October 2022
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    King's Counsel (redirect from Take the silk)
    diverse society. The government's focus switched from abolition to reform and, in particular, reform of the much-criticised "secret soundings" of judges and...
    80 KB (9,124 words) - 10:26, 14 May 2024
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    to 200 km or deeper with long-period soundings. Proposed in Japan in the 1940s, and France and the USSR during the early 1950s, MT is now an international...
    35 KB (3,703 words) - 16:41, 6 April 2024
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    ISBN 978-0-8254-7802-4, Internet Archive Fiensy, David A., Jesus the Galilean: soundings in a first century life, Gorgias Press LLC, 2007, ISBN 1-59333-313-7...
    65 KB (7,015 words) - 19:08, 28 May 2024
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    Despite the change in property arrangements in Prince Edward Island with the introduction of those taxes, tenants were still unable to take possession...
    13 KB (1,851 words) - 00:06, 25 March 2024
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    Hood replied that he would take careful soundings as he advanced to test the depth of the water, and that, "If you will allow the honour of leading you into...
    108 KB (13,385 words) - 07:11, 20 May 2024
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    Anthony Low, ed. (1968), Soundings in Modern South Asian History, University of California Press A. G. Noorani (2000). The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour...
    14 KB (1,014 words) - 21:56, 25 May 2024
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    that The Queen would invite a slightly less senior non-contender. In these circumstances, her private secretary would probably take soundings, via the Cabinet...
    53 KB (5,905 words) - 21:48, 27 May 2024
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    January the Cabinet Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts and the Cabinet Secretary Maurice Hankey were sent to France to take discreet soundings among the Army...
    159 KB (20,280 words) - 03:36, 27 May 2024
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    Scilly naval disaster of 1707 (category History of the Isles of Scilly)
    days it was impossible to take the observations needed to determine their latitude. On 21 October they came into the soundings, with depths of 93–130 fathoms...
    37 KB (4,319 words) - 23:00, 22 February 2024
  • HMS Dexterous (1805) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Royal Naval Biography (1823))
    privateers. On 23 June the boat that he had sent to take the soundings came under fire from a privateer hidden among the rocks of the island. Tomlinson positioned...
    7 KB (806 words) - 11:27, 4 December 2022
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    beamforming to extract directional information from the returning soundwaves, producing a swathe of depth soundings from a single ping. As well as an aid to navigation...
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