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Elmer A. Sperry
A. Sperry Elmer Sperry: Gyroscopic Compass, 1914 Introduction Introduction Scientist Finding True North Humble Beginnings City Life Street Smarts A Beautiful Mind The Softer Side Company History Science ... right to open the booklet and turn back the pages of time. << Case Files Home | Finding True North >> "Theory and Operation of the Gyroscope" booklet. Also available: Sperry's Case File 2710 for ...
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Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Cost Of Development
Norberg-Hodge has been working in Ladakh, a mountainous province in the north of India, for over a dozen years to help the Ladakhis ... other option presented. Helena: Yes, in a limited way, that's true. In Ladakh, it was very extreme: for generations people had been ... It's not a question of absolutes - it's a question of finding a dynamic balance between the local and the global in economic terms. ...
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Duane Elgin - Let's Put The Vision In Television!
Duane Elgin One of the articles in Rediscovering The North American Vision (IC#3) Summer 1983, Page 34 Copyright (c) ... cynical about the potentials of television. Yet, it is also true that television offers the potential of bringing distant wars, people, ... former president of Oberlin College and a social activist concerned with finding positive alternatives to the nuclear arms race, said this of the ...
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EcoIQ Magazine Summer 2001 Features
In any event - and this is especially true in our North American culture - once basic material needs are met and appear not to be threatened ... also developed and maintains The Simplicity Resource Guide. Purchase her book Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World. For information about booking Linda Breen Pierce as ...
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Finding Your Direction When Lost
Using a Watch If you have a watch with hands, it can help you find your way. The direction will be accurate if you are using a true ... finding the North Star, imagine a line drawn from the North Star perpendicular to the earth. The point at which the line reaches the horizon is north ...
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Mount Diablo Interpretive Association - The Mt Diablo Initial Point, its history and use
For the surveys of a large portion of California and all of Nevada, the Mt Diablo Baseline and Meridian is the initial point. Standard parallels are then established north ... mapping the surrounding waterways and topography. After finding Ransom’s point, Cutts set his point ...
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Backcountry Navigation - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Fred is in the shed." Your map is now oriented to true north. 2. Take a Bearing: Keeping your map in place, ... incorporates extensive navigation instruction, including off-trail travel and route-finding. * Orienteering turns map-and-compass navigation into a sport whereby ...
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Borge Ousland and Mike Horn's Trek to the North Pole - National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Børge Ousland, Ltd. While Horn's off finding sponsorship—the two are hoping to raise 350,000 euros (about ... short for peeling back the layers of civilization to confront their true, naked selves. More so than most, these two cannot abide ...  MD, VA, WV Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Northeast:   CT, MA, ME, NJ   NH ...
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Box turtle habitat – finding box turtles
Move to content Who We Are Staff Sections Staff Directory Move ... observed. Only by gathering empirical data will we be able to understand the true status and trends of these endearing species. It is initially hard to ... taken steps to assess the health of their box turtle populations. Florida and North Carolina have been monitoring box turtle populations for over seven years. The ...
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Box turtle habitat – finding box turtles
Move to content Who We Are Staff Sections Staff Directory Move ... observed. Only by gathering empirical data will we be able to understand the true status and trends of these endearing species. It is initially hard to ... taken steps to assess the health of their box turtle populations. Florida and North Carolina have been monitoring box turtle populations for over seven years. The ...
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