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Excerpt from the Origin of the Compass Rose by Bill Thoen
The compass rose has appeared on charts and maps since the 1300's when the portolan charts first made their appearance. The term "rose" comes from the figure's compass points resembling the petals of the well-known flower.
Originally, this device was used to indicate the directions of the winds (and it was then known as a wind rose), but the 32 points of the compass rose come from the directions of the eight major winds, the eight half-winds and the sixteen quarter-winds.
In the Middle Ages, the names of the winds were commonly known throughout the Mediterranean countries as tramontana (N), greco (NE), levante (E), siroco (SE), ostro (S), libeccio (SW), ponente (W) and maestro (NW). On portolan charts you can see the initials of these winds labeled around the edge as T, G, L, S, O, L, P, and M.
Delta Connection Embraer ERJ-175LR N609CZ operated by Compass Airlines lands at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport with a flight from Los Angeles. I heard today that the airline is due to cease operations within the next two weeks due to the impact of the current Coronavius outbreak - the world felt a very different place when I took this shot less than two months ago...
I found this compass bus at a pulse bus stop in Worthing on Thursday 19th 2019
(NO PLATE COULD BE SEEN)
Brighton & Hove Mercedes Benz 811D Wadham Stringer 359 (G59 BEL) hung around on the South Coast for another year after disposal, briefly finding a home with Compass Travel. Here, we see it in Worthing on 29th November, 2000.
compass rose, image found at wicked good art (site now defunct)
caveat on site-- most of them are copyright free there is no guarantee that they all are so they do not recommend using them for commercial purposes.
Volvo B10M-61 Plaxton Supreme V AAJ 674Y was supplied new to Roystons of Stockton in early 1983, following a shorter B10M-56 supplied the previous summer. I think this was just before the merger with Compass of Stockton leading to the well-known Compass Royston brand - any further details of those events would be most welcome. AAJ passed to Atkinsons, Ingleby Arncliffe in 1986 but returned home in 1995, eventually becoming a high capacity 3x2 seated school coach. By the time of this shot on 8th January, 2007, it had gained a slightly uncomfortable Paramount style front and a dark red and white livery which I believe was restricted to the school fleet.
It is supposed to say "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live life as imagined."
Trouble is it doens't all fit in. Look at the gap in the top left. Any ideas? what can I do?
Blogged at thingshandmade.blogspot.com/
Barton Park, 5th Dec 2012, Noted in Hants & Dorset Trims workshop,due to return to Compass Bus on the 6th Dec 2012.
Compass Bus took over service 32 on 1st June 2015, following previous operator Arriva's decision its financial performance was not good enough - Compass won the resulting Surrey CC tender process.
Four new Enviro200s were acquired for the route. SK15 HBD is seen arriving at the White Horse in Dorking, bound for Guildford.
High Street, Dorking, Surrey.
As some of you know, one of my hobbies is paranormal investigation. My aim is to find strong evidence of the existence of life after death. I have used all sorts of kit, some useful and some not so useful. In an attempt to find a good way to communicate, I have made a compass Ouija. I got the idea when I was at an investigation at Anne of Cleeves house in Lewes. In one room, we appeared to be talking to a ship's captain. In another room, we appeared to be talking to someone who was rather freaked out by our electronic gadgetry, with its flashing LEDs. I wanted to design something that wouldn't look intimidating to someone from a pre-electronic age, that stood some chance of being manipulable, was capable of capturing language-based communication and that was as immune to human influence as possible. So, this. It is built on the principle that "spirits" appear to find it difficult to move physical objects, but can make changes to electromagnetic fields (such as setting off EMF meters). So, they should also be able to manipulate a compass needle, by the same principle. I finally found a large enough compass to be able to see and give us room for manoeuvre. I also needed something that could be sealed, to avoid breeze (this has a clear lid). I will be debuting it on Saturday, so will report back on whether it works. In spite of its size, I am dubious about whether movements will be precise enough to use the letters and numbers, but let's see. I always have the "Yes", "No" responses to fall back on.
Compass Bus have a number of Enviro 200s on hire from Mistral ready to work the former Big Lemon routes from tomorrow morning. YX24 PLN and YX72 ONA are seen at the Brighton yard yesterday, 30th March, 2025. Also present were YX21 RVL and YX71 OHW.
Seen in North Street on route 47
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I made this compass for iPad applications "African Animator" and "African Puzzle".
For png version without background and transparent drop shadow see
www.ukuru.com/compass/compass.html
© 2010 Roland Urbanek. Image may be used for non-commercial and educational purposes.