Word: quadrants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scholars rediscovered Ptolemy's Geography, with its maps of a semispheric earth that (more or less) accurately located such distant places as Iceland and Ceylon. Improvements in rigging enabled the construction of larger, more maneuverable ships with both square-rigged and fore-and-aft sails. The development of the quadrant (an Arabic invention) and magnetic compass (possibly from China) made navigation more accurate; the stern- fastened rudder made ship handling easier...
...Multiculturalism is under attack, without a clear sense of what might replace it. Australia is suffering from "analysis paralysis," says Hirotaka Takeuchi, professor of international business and marketing at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University -- and perhaps from a deeper doubt. Says Robert Manne, editor of Australia's conservative political magazine Quadrant: "Australians live on the periphery, of Asia and their own country. They are a long way from home...
...that "it was great madness and self-inflicted manslaughter to risk their lives to further the mad schemes of a foreigner who was ready to die in the hope of making a great lord of himself." They planned to pitch him overboard at night as he fiddled with his quadrant, trying to take a reading of the polestar...
...spent 35 years at General Electric, a dozen of them as head of management education, has cooked up a test called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, which includes such queries as "Have you ever experienced motion sickness . . . in response to vehicular motion?" Herrmann maintains that people who are right-quadrant dominant, or more "artistic," "emotional" and "spiritual," are also more motion- sensitive...