Word: sextants
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...endowment funds field trips and equipment such as the sextant that each student gets to keep in his or her dorm...
...imagine my expectations for this new record. When I first heard it I was pretty disappointed. The songs just didn't seem as strong as on previous records (all of their stuff prior of Slanted is now available on a Drag City CD called Westing, By Musket and Sextant), and the whole dynamic seemed changed, for the worse. The Pavement of Crooked Rain is indeed a very different animal from past records. Until now every Pavement record was the product Malkmus and his partner Spiral Stairs, plus drumming by a crazy and amazing hippie named Gary. They played...
...Sextant...
...goal of the course is for people to find where they are anywhere in the world with only a sextant and a stopwatch, within a mile," Sadler says...
...about the North Pole. First, Santa Claus lives there. Second, Admiral Robert E. Peary was the first person to get there, on April 6, 1909. Evidently these two lessons could be equally elaborate fictions. Geographers have concluded that Peary probably missed the Pole. Now Peary's handwritten notes of sextant readings, compass bearings and the sun's altitudes have surfaced. They indicate that the explorer himself knew he was no closer than 105 nautical miles away, according to Baltimore astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April 5 and 6, 1909, by Peary's wife, note...