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  2. Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow - Wikipedia

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    337.8 cm × 384.8 cm (133.0 in × 151.5 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow is a 16th-century tapestry in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woven from dyed wool and silk thread, the tapestry is part of a larger series of hunting tapestries attributed to the Southern Netherlands.

  3. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    The space between the paralleled canoes allowed for storage of food, hunting materials, and nets when embarking on long voyages. Polynesian navigators used wayfinding techniques such as the navigation by the stars, and observations of birds, ocean swells, and wind patterns, and relied on a large body of knowledge from oral tradition .

  4. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    A AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  5. List of How It's Made episodes - Wikipedia

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    List of. How It's Made. episodes. How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and Science in the United States. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. and Productions MAJ 2. In the United Kingdom, it is broadcast on Discovery ...

  6. List of Adventures in Odyssey episodes - Wikipedia

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    63 - Up in the Air (2017) 64 - Under the Surface (2017) Adventures in Odyssey Club, Season 5 (2018) 65 - Expect the Unexpected (2018) 66 - Trial by Fire (2018) Adventures in Odyssey Club, Season 6 (2019) 67 - More Than Meets the Eye (2019) 68 - Out of the Blue (2019) 880: "Good Job!"

  7. Optimist (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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    Optimist dinghies waiting to a wind. The Optimist is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by young people up to the age of 15. The Optimist is one of the two most popular sailing dinghies in the world, with over 150,000 boats officially registered with the class and many more built but never registered.

  8. Fishing vessel - Wikipedia

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    Fishing boats lashed together in a tidal creek in Anjarle village, Maharashtra, India. A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps / prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river.

  9. List of sports - Wikipedia

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    Fast-pitch softball. Bat and trap. Bete-ombro. Brännboll – four bases. Corkball – four bases (no base-running) Cricket – two creases. 100-ball cricket. Backyard, Beach and Street cricket. Blind cricket.

  10. Rigid inflatable boat - Wikipedia

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    RNLI inshore rescue boat during Falmouth Lifeboat Day, August 2006. A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along ...

  11. Lexington Table - Wikipedia

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    The Lexington Table ( 83°05′S 49°45′W) is a high, flat, snow-covered plateau, about 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) long and 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) wide, standing just north of Kent Gap and Saratoga Table in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. [1]