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  Keel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Large keels are common in sailboats, where they act as foils, using the forward motion of the boat to generate lift to counter the lateral force from the sails.
Keels are different from centerboards in that keels are often fixed (though some are retractable) and are often made of heavy materials to provide ballast to stabilize the boat.
Carina is the Latin word for keel and is the origin of the term careen (to clean a keel and the hull in general).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keel   (234 words)

  
 Sail - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
On a sailing boat, a keel or centreboard is used to convert this lateral force into forward movement of the boat with some sideways leaning, or 'heel'.
The forward motion is created because the shape of the keel has a much smaller cross section in the fore and aft axis and a very large cross section on the athwart axis (across the beam of the boat).
Forces across the boat are resolved by balancing the sideways force by the mass of the ballast in the keel being raised against gravity by the boat heeling, while forward forces are balanced by velocity through the water and friction between the hull, keel and the water.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sail   (944 words)

  
 Keeling Islands
Keele University is a British university located by the village of Keele, and the University is the only one in the UK to be associated with a village.
Keele is the largest Campus university in Europe, with a 617 acre (2.5 km²) estate, but is relatively small in terms of student numbers, with 7,500 full-time students currently attending, although the university is currently expanding its numbers.
It was Keel's second book, ''UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse'' (1970), that alerted the general public to the fact that many aspects of contemporary UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled certain ancient folklore and religious encounters.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/118/keeling-islands.html   (1627 words)

  
 aluminum canoe - aluminum canoes - aluminum canoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Keels on canoes will slightly increase the ability to 'track' in a straight line, but decrease the ability to turn quickly to avoid an obstacle.
Keels and "Vee"-bottoms are undesirable for whitewater because they increase the draft.
In wood-and-canvas canoes, keels are rub-strips to protect the boat from rocks and as they are pulled up on shore.
www.destinationary.com /aluminum_canoe.php   (4203 words)

  
 USS Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The fourth ship of this name was USS Ohio (BB-68), a Montana class battleship cancelled before her keel was laid down.
A large American-owned oil tanker, the MV Ohio took part in the August, 1942 convoy to relieve the island of Malta.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /USS_Ohio   (211 words)

  
 Keel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A keel is a large beam around which the hull (ship)hull of a ship is built.
In bird anatomy, the keel (bird)keel is a perpendicular extension of the breastbon to which wing muscles anchor, making possible powered flight/.
State Representative Terry Keel, R-Austin, recently filed in the Republican primary for place eight on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
www.infothis.com /find/Keel   (562 words)

  
 Keel - Memory Alpha
Keel was Maab's chief lieutenant while Maab was Teer of the Ten Tribes, and perhaps before that.
After Maab granted Eleen her life, and Maab's own was forfeit, Keel stood ready.
When Maab sacrified his life to distract Kras, Keel threw his kligat, killing Kras and ending a tense standoff.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Keel   (186 words)

  
 Keel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A keel is a large beam around which the hull of a bow to the stern.
* A keel is also a flat-bottomed boat, particularly the ones used on the rivers Tyne and Wear.
* In keel is a perpendicular extension of the breastbone to which wing muscles anchor, making possible powered flight.
www.med-help.info /?p=Keel   (236 words)

  
 Bird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones.
The exact boundary between dinosaurs and birds is unclear, especially with the recent discoveries in North-east China (Liaoning Province) demonstrating that many small theropod dinosaurs had feathers.
The recently discovered dromaeosaur, Cryptovolans, was capable of powered flight, contained a keel and had ribs with uncinate processes.
www.free-download-soft.com /info/bird.html   (2202 words)

  
 Sinai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is a disambiguation page: if you reach this via an article, please feel free to go back and fix the link on the referring page.
There is no use in trying to praise it, for all slopes leading up to fair, round hills, waving with golden grain, or files of stately trees.
I wonder if a hardy mountain people, who could live on their would be as acceptable to Him who came anointed to preach the gospel to cut by many a flying keel, at Spike Island lying in the sun, all its other living creature was there.
www.explainthat.info /si/sinai.html   (377 words)

  
 Untitled Document
GLOSSER was fortunate in having access to the Xerox POS Disambiguator for English language which, drawing on the Morphological Analyser, picks up the correct part of speech out of all possible morphological descriptions.
The theoretical base of the disambiguator is English Constraint Grammar, a theory from the late 1980s, which determines the function of the word using special rules for morphological characteristics and context.
Disambiguation means getting rid of such morphological descriptions that do not fit the specific context of the word, while semantics is not taken into account.
kdictionaries.com /newsletter/kdn5-2.html   (1815 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cryptozoologists also posit that the thunderbird was associated with storms because they followed the drafts to stay in flight, not unlike a modern eagle rides mountain upcurrents.
Noted cryptozoologist John Keel claimed to have mapped several thunderbird sightings and found that they corresponded chronologically and geographically with storms moving across the United States.
In 2002, a new sighting in Alaska was announced.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thunderbird.html   (570 words)

  
 Men in Black Biography,info
John Keel thought that many MIB were of an "Asian" appearance, though he also thought this description was inadequate, and hinted that some MIB might not be human.
While Bullard and others have simply noted the similarities and differences, some ufologists, such as John Keel, have argued there are explicit connections between older and more recent accounts of fl-clad figures; that the demons of old and the men in fl of today are one and the same.
Jerome Clark writes that "In Keel’s view, MIB are a ubiquitous presence in human history," involved with the likes of such pivotal figures as Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Julius Caesar and Malcom X.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Men_in_Black   (4803 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> nl:Fram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Nansen commissioned the shipwright Colin Archer from Larvik to construct a vessel with these characteristics.
Fram was built with an outer layer of greenheart wood to withstand the ice and almost without a keel to handle the shallow waters Nansen expected to encounter.
The rudder and propeller were designed to be retracted into the ship.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/nl:Fram   (644 words)

  
 Icebreaker - Enpsychlopedia
Sometimes metal sheeting was placed at the bows, stern and along the keel.
Icebreakers are expensive to build and very expensive to run, whether the icebreaker is powered by gas turbines, diesel-electric powerplant or nuclear energy.
They are uncomfortable to travel in on the open sea: almost all of them have thick, rounded keels and with no protuberances for stability they can roll even in light seas.
www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Icebreaker   (991 words)

  
 Unterseeboot 556 - Wikipedia
Unterseeboot 556 (U-556) was a Type VIIC submarine of the Kriegsmarine.
Her keel was laid down January 2, 1940 by Blohm and Voss, of Hamburg, Germany.
She was commissioned February 6, 1941 with Kapitänleutnant Herbert Wohlfarth in command.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unterseeboot_556   (775 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Lead XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lead is used in high voltage power cables as sheathing material to prevent water diffusion into insulation.
Lead is used for the ballast keel of sailboats.
Its high weight-to-volume ratio allows it to counterbalance the heeling effect of wind on the sails while at the same time occupying a small volume and thus offering the least underwater resistance.
www.applemacpro.com /s/Lead   (1366 words)

  
 Keel
CONTROVERSY is still following Australia's famous 1983 America's Cup victory and designer Ben Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel on the yacht Australia II.
The next step is getting written into the budget by 2008-09.
deck design hull keel mast performance provide sailing strength tartan
www.gamelow.com /Bands-K/Keel.php   (602 words)

  
 Bismarck
During the design process, Bismarcks displacement grew to 42,600 tons, well over the 35,000 tons allowed by the naval agreement with Great Britain.
Nonetheless, her keel was laid down at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 1 July 1936, she was launched on 14 February 1939, and commissioned in August 1940 with Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann in command.
Her sister ship, Tirpitz, was commissioned in February 1941.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bismark.html   (760 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Keel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Keel; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Keel   (358 words)

  
 LibraryThing: Work disambiguation and the "Ship of Theseus"
Once everything is changed and I'm satisfied it works, I will add the last element, exposing work disambiguation to the masses.
I admit it would be easier in some cases, and just for this, maybe a field showing the English title could also be shown.
I like the idea of disambiguation but I think the translation/international issue is going to cause some big problems.
www.librarything.com /blog/2006/02/work-disambiguation-and-ship-of.php   (5531 words)

  
 Carina - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Carina is also used as a place name.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Carina   (216 words)

  
 SonicBreakdown: Wikipedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Nansen called upon the shipwright Colin Archer from Larvik to construct him a unique vessel.
Fram was built with a wood called greenheart as the outer layer to withstand the ice, and built almost without a keel to handle the shallow waters Nansen thought he would encounter.
The rudder and propeller were made so that they could be pulled into the ship to protect them from damage.
www.sonicbreakdown.com /wikiSearch.do?title=Fram   (541 words)

  
 Case Seahorse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
:''This article is about the fish; for other meanings of seahorse, see Seahorse (disambiguation).''
USS ''Seahorse'' (SSN-669), a ''Sturgeon''-class submarine, was the second submarine and third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seahorse, a small fish whose head and upper body suggest the head and neck of a horse.
The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 9 March 1965 and her keel was laid down on 13 August 1966.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/32/case-seahorse.html   (1285 words)

  
 [No title]
A sailing yacht can vary in overall length (LOA Monohull keel sails.
By contrast, Multihull catamaran hulls Modern yachts have efficient sail-plans sloop Bernoulli's principle to generate lift.
People Yamamoto Gonnohyoe : the 16th Prime Minister of Japan Yamamoto Isoroku : naval commander : musician; member of seminal Osaka -based noise / kraut band Boredoms.
www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/ya   (1795 words)

  
 Paul : search word
See also: Saint Paul for a list of buildings and places.
Across the Rhine the sun came wading through river, without a ripple upon its surface, or visible motion of the riding at anchor, keel to keel with another, that lay right under beautiful.
But I will not attempt to describe the Rhine; it would make this god; and his style flow onward royally with breaks and dashes, like times, be reflected in it.
www.searchword.org /pa/paul.html   (237 words)

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