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www.caroldoak.com/free-quilt-patterns.php mariner's compass pattern used without the centre bits and modified so that the vertical and horizontal axes are at the front. Also left out intervening points (ie original pattern has 16 points).
Compass Bus - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 - SN16 OSV seen in Guildford operating service 18 to Bushy Hill on February 9th 2024
Seafarers' House 25th Anniversary Golden Compass Gala Honoring Captain Phillips. ©Bombshell Productions
This compass rose was in the entry way to my favorite English-language bookstore (since closed), Maruzen.
A profile of a Compass soil. Compass soils are moderately well drained and are on summits of ridges and high stream terraces. They have an argillic horizon of brownish yellow sandy loam and sandy clay loam. The lower part of the argillic horizon has masses of reddish, nodular plinthite and has grayish iron depletions. (Soil Survey of Crenshaw County, Alabama)
The Compass series consists of very deep, moderately well drained, moderately slowly permeable soils on broad uplands and sloping side slopes that lead to drainageways in the coastal plain. They formed in thick loamy and clayey marine sediments. Near the type location, the mean annual temperature is about 68 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is about 56 inches. Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults
Solum thickness ranges from 60 to more than 80 inches. Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid throughout except where the surface has been limed. Depth to horizons containing 5 percent or more plinthite ranges from 30 to 50 inches. Content of ironstone nodules ranges from 0 to 5 percent in the A and upper Bt horizons. Depth to the B2t horizons ranges primarily from 40 to 60 inches but as deep as 80 inches in some pedons. These horizons are considered diagnostic for the series.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of Compass soils are in native vegetation. A few small areas are cleared and planted to peanuts, corn, soybeans, and improved pasture grasses. The native vegetation consists of longleaf pine, slash pine, white oak, red oak, laurel oak, water oak, persimmon, sweetgum, gallberry, waxmyrtle, huckleberry, greenbriers, blackberries, and pineland threeawn.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwest Florida and Alabama. The series is of moderate known extent.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/COMPASS.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
Compass Bus T421ADN at Brighton, Old Steine on the Brighton City College service. 08th September 2011.
My Compass
Windblown,
Sea-tossed
Accident of birth,
The compass pulls me
Still and steady,
Exerts a force I cannot
Deny.
Good or ill,
Richer or poorer,
In sickness or in health;
It is a marriage made
Not in heaven, but
History.
(I had actually planned to continue my Gettysburg photos today, but - like the compass - I was pulled in a different direction. Or perhaps it is not so different after all.)
This small compass features a polarized needle, degree indications, as well as eight major points.
All this in a inch and a quarter, it's the perfect, light weight tool you'll need to romp around the woods, or the even more foreign huge cities.
I love how concerned her expression is.
That's all for right now, she'll have to wait a couple of days (when it isn't over 100 degress out) to go on some adventures!
A compass is a navigational instrument for determining direction relative to the Earth's magnetic poles. It consists of a magnetized pointer (usually marked on the North end) free to align itself with Earth's magnetic field. The compass greatly improved the safety and efficiency of travel, especially ocean travel. A compass can be used to calculate heading, used with a sextant to calculate latitude, and with a marine chronometer to calculate longitude. It thus provides a much improved navigational capability that has only been recently supplanted by modern devices such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). A compass is any magnetically sensitive device capable of indicating the direction of the magnetic north of a planet's magnetosphere. The face of the compass generally highlights the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. Often, compasses are built as a stand alone sealed instrument with a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot, or moving in a fluid, thus able to point in a northerly and southerly direction. The compass was invented in ancient China sometime before the 2nd century, and was used for navigation by the 11th century. The dry compass was invented in medieval Europe around 1300. This was supplanted in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.
Other, more accurate, devices have been invented for determining north that do not depend on the Earth's magnetic field for operation (known in such cases as true north, as opposed to magnetic north). A gyrocompass or astrocompass can be used to find true north, while being unaffected by stray magnetic fields, nearby electrical power circuits or nearby masses of ferrous metals. A recent development is the electronic compass, or fibre optic gyrocompass, which detects the magnetic directions without potentially fallible moving parts. This device frequently appears as an optional subsystem built into GPS receivers. However, magnetic compasses remain popular, especially in remote areas, as they are cheap, durable, and require no electrical power supply.
The sole B7RLE on Teesside, Compass Royston's NX59 BYC on the once-a-day 66x (not x66 as the display shows) to Middlesbrough via Teesside Park.