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  • three masts to enable her to work to windward in strong winds. Her hull was pierced for 16 small guns, but she usually carried only four to six 18-pounder...
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    Windward School is an independent school in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and...
    14 KB (1,416 words) - 05:31, 1 May 2024
  • (starting with a beat or work to windward from the starting line to the top, weather or windward mark, a first reaching leg to the wing mark (also known...
    9 KB (1,633 words) - 07:51, 22 November 2021
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    expected to engage in fighting in line-of-battle, but rather often found themselves engaged in long chases or attempts to work to windward. It was often...
    27 KB (3,636 words) - 20:13, 29 April 2024
  • themselves willing to intervene, sometimes forcefully, in other civilizations to make them more Culture-like. Much of Look to Windward is a commentary on...
    40 KB (4,049 words) - 23:48, 5 April 2024
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    Line) as Windward. In 1998 she was lengthened at Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, Germany and renamed Norwegian Wind. In 2007 she was transferred to the fleet...
    12 KB (808 words) - 20:06, 25 September 2023
  • "Sasha", the girlfriend of Jess Mariano's estranged father as part of the Windward Circle backdoor pilot which did not go forward. Fenn did not return as...
    134 KB (13,510 words) - 15:10, 17 May 2024
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    initially also covered Trinidad, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. It was later divided on the retirement in 1841/2 of the first...
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  • Windward Heights (French: La migration des cœurs, lit. The Migration of Hearts) is a novel by Maryse Condé, written in French and first published in 1995...
    10 KB (1,301 words) - 15:27, 14 April 2024
  • in 1739 and the Windward Maroons in 1740, which required them to support the institution of slavery. The importance of the Maroons to the colonial authorities...
    45 KB (5,580 words) - 22:52, 22 May 2024
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    teams called Windward Reports. Windward Reports is comparable to other reporting software such as Crystal Reports and Pentaho. Windward Reports’ customers...
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    Hawaii—the 50th state of the United States. The eight major islands of Hawaii (Windward Islands) are listed above. All except Kaho'olawe are inhabited. The state...
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    The Windward Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea that include Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...
    38 KB (4,832 words) - 17:10, 3 December 2023
  • Windward Fund, and the North Fund. These groups have been active in various efforts to oppose the Trump administration and to organize opposition to numerous...
    32 KB (3,339 words) - 16:14, 4 March 2024
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    not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc. However, based on proximity, these islands are sometimes grouped with the Windward Islands culturally and...
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    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (category Windward Islands)
    island country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern...
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    five groups of islands: the Society Islands archipelago, comprising the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands the Tuamotu Archipelago the Gambier Islands...
    92 KB (8,355 words) - 15:17, 23 May 2024
  • upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the employment of women on underground work in mines of all kinds,.. As of 2023, the treaty has...
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    Italia Coppola (née Pennino) and composer Carmine Coppola. He attended Windward School in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Schwartzman began...
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    historical regional groupings were the British Leeward Islands, the British Windward Islands, and Jamaica with other nearby English/British colonies such as...
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