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This prairie wildflower may be Ohio's tallest. It can attain heights of 10 feet. It is state-listed as "threatened" in Ohio because of its scarcity. This one was found in a restored prairie area in Miller Ecological Park in Lebanon, Ohio.
When I got back from my Colorado and New Mexico vacation, the compass plants here were in full bloom. With our warm and dry year, they seem to be more numerous and showier than in previous years.... The name "compass plant" alludes to the tendency for basal leaves of plants to align their edges north and south. I used a small bit of fill flash here to light up the shadow part of the flowers.
Compass Bus MX58VGP in Worthing on service 7A to Lancing via Broadwater - Lyons Farm - Sompting. 17th May 2013.
Compass Bus Alexander Dart MPD Pointer SN 56 AXC on my local route a short while ago, 29th October 2013. This example started life with Coakley Bus in Scotland.
The other service subbed out by Brighton & Hove is the two bus 7X servce which was introduced this season and operates direct along the seafront between the City Centre and the Marina. LJ05 BNK (former DW126) is one of a pair of former Arriva London VDL DB250 Wright Geminis recently purchased by Compass Bus and is seen at the Pier today, 23rd July, 2016.
This old compass was amongst my Grandads possesions. We should use compasses more often - they don't send you the wrong way like sat nav systems, and they don't have batteries that can run out!
365 photo - 24.08.2011
Compass Royston of Stockton on Tees Volvo B7R/Je FL02ZXF outside Newcastle Central Station on rail replacement duty on January 17th 2009.
Compass Bus Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 GX13 FSS is seen in Chichester yesterday, 9th November, 2016, on the "flexible " service 99. This bus carries a special livery promoting the South Downs National Park.
Compass Travel SN54 HXG, a Transbus Enviro 300 B44F+27 that was new to Alexander Dennis as demonstrator January 2005. It was sold to Huntingdon & District (fleet no 5334) August 2006.
Acquired by "Stagecoach in the Fens" retaining Huntingdon & District livery, (fleet no 27583) March 2008.
Stored out of service by August 2009.
Subsequently owned by Houstons, Lockerbie by August 2010.
Purchased by Compass for Sainsbury's Chichester contract 28 January 2011.
Seen here in Bognor Regis on Tuesday 22.04.2012 on it's way to Sainsbury at Chichester.
There's one of these in the Ben Franklin post office floor, too, except it's roughly 180 degrees off (that is, "north" points south).
Compass Bus Dennis Trident T183CLO unloads at Three Bridges Station on rail replacement from Brighton.
Compass Bus Enviro 300 SN54 HXG passes through Telscombe Cliffs on 11th August, 2016, whilst working an extra on Brighton & Hove's service 12X between Newhaven and Brighton
A compass is a navigational instrument that shows directions in a frame of reference that is stationary relative to the surface of the earth. The frame of reference defines the four cardinal directions (or points), north, south, east, and west. Intermediate directions are also defined. Usually, a diagram called a compass rose, which shows the directions (with their names usually abbreviated to initials), is marked on the compass. When the compass is in use, the rose is aligned with the real directions in the frame of reference, so, for example, the "N" mark on the rose really points to the north. Frequently, in addition to the rose or sometimes instead of it, angle markings in degrees are shown on the compass. North corresponds to zero degrees, and the angles increase clockwise, so east is 90 degrees, south is 180, and west is 270. These numbers allow the compass to show azimuths or bearings, which are commonly stated in this notation.
There are two widely used and radically different types of compass. The magnetic compass contains a magnet that interacts with the earth's magnetic field and aligns itself to point to the magnetic poles. The gyro compass (sometimes spelled with a hyphen, or as one word) contains a rapidly spinning wheel whose rotation interacts dynamically with the rotation of the earth so as to make the wheel precess, losing energy to friction until its axis of rotation is parallel with the earth's.
The magnetic compass was invented in ancient China around 247BCE, and was used for navigation by the 11th century. The compass was introduced to medieval Europe 150 years later, where the dry compass was invented around 1300. This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.
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