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  Rip Raps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rip Raps is a small 15 acre (60,000 m²) artificial island at the mouth of Hampton Roads in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia.
Rip Raps is located adjacent to one of the unnamed man-made islands of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
The Rip Rap shoals in Hampton Roads were likely the source of the name of the Rip Raps, a notorious Baltimore gang during the Know-Nothing movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rip_Raps   (298 words)

  
 Rip Rap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rip Rap: A permanent, erosion-resistant ground cover of large, loose, angular stone with filter fabric or granular underlining, used to protect the soil from the erosive forces of concentrated runoff, slow the velocity of concentrated runoff while enhancing the potential for infiltration; also utilized to stabilize slopes with problems and/or non-cohesive soils.
Rip rap may be used, as appropriate, at storm drain outlets, on channel backs and/or bottoms, roadside ditches, drop structures and at the toe of slopes.
The rip rap should be placed so that it produces a dense well-graded mass of stone with a minimum of voids.
www.earthresourcesinc.com /RipRap.html   (212 words)

  
 Rip Hunter... Time Master: Variants
Rip Hunter appears at Chronolopolis in a rather 'Planet of the Apes' style outfit with Pre-Crisis uniform on the inside.
Rip Hunter is the 'field leader of the small JLA unit.
During the questioning it is learned that Rip Hunter told the military where the men would be, but no answer is given to whether the time rift was closed.
www.adamarnold.net /riphunter/rhvariants.html   (622 words)

  
 Rip Records - 2004
Josh Mallett, aka "Rip", was born to a European-American mother and a Mexican immigrant father.
Growing up with an increasing love for hip-hop and rap music in a ethnically diverse city and attending a school district where whites were the minorities, Rip always felt like the 'underdog'.
With almost 10 years of laying down extensive ground-work behind him, Rip is still focused on his original ambitious route to success, delivering a unique distinguishable sound on the mic with his instantly recognizable voice.
www.rip-records.com /artists.php   (1701 words)

  
 Devils Lake North Dakota | Fishing Report | Devils Lake, ND
In these areas anglers are pitching cranks such as shad raps into rocky windswept shorelines, trolling cranks, slip bobbering or jigging the edges of trees and sunken rocks, or trolling bottom bouncers with spinners.
For walleyes, anglers are trolling old sunken roads, rip rapped shorelines, and rocky/gravel points with bottom bouncers and spinners or cranks such as shad raps, jointed shads, and salmo's.
For walleyes, anglers are pitching cranks such as shad raps, countdowns, esko's, and hornets or jigs with plastic or leeches in the shallows around rocky shorelines or the edges of weed beds, slip bobbering in the trees or other structure that tends to hold fish, or running live bait rigs in 5-10 feet of water.
www.devilslakend.com /tourism/fishingreport.htm   (6491 words)

  
 RIP
RIP A byproduct of the new NHL rules has been the death of the pure NHL fighter.
Volusia County lifeguards pulled more than 100 bathers from rip currents Tuesday and say a dramatic increase in rescues may be due to changes in the ocean...
Many local residents are concerned about getting ripped off by unscrupulous contractors when they are looking for siding or new windows.
www.mongabay.com /igapo/biotech/RIP.html   (3089 words)

  
 Know-Nothing Riot of 1856 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rip Raps clashed with the Democratic rowdies of the New Market Fire Company at Lexington Market.
Plug Uglies fought with Democrats in the Eighth Ward, which was popularly known as "Limerick" because of its large Irish population.
Emphasis must be placed on the fact that the partisans involved were overwhelmingly well-known fighting men with deep connections to the street violence of the fire companies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Know-Nothing_Riot_of_1856   (348 words)

  
 Ed's Bait Shop - Weekly Fishing Report
For walleyes, anglers are pitching cranks such as shad raps, countdowns, esko’s, and hornets or jigs with plastic or leeches in the shallows around rocky shorelines or the edges of weedbeds, slip bobbering in the trees or other structure that tends to hold fish, or running livebait rigs in 5-10 feet of water.
Raps, buckshots, nils, and kastmasters with a minnow head or whole minnow; or chubby darters and sonars have all been working.
Anglers are trolling cranks such as shad raps or reef runners on the sunken roads and jigging the points and bridges.
www.edsbaitshop.com /weekly.htm   (8590 words)

  
 Coastsider:  Photo: Surfing at Kelp Cove
The rip rap is to protect both the beach and the land.
Both to the south of the rip rap as well as the north of the rip rap the bluff is eroding away.
Add to that the fact that the house with the rip rap is not showing any loss of land (at the moment) and so it exaggerates the loss of land of the red house.
coastsider.com /index.php/site/news/1557   (10182 words)

  
 Piscatorial Pursuits' Outdoor Forums: Dunked a drift boat?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I refer to the rip raps above sultan as the three fingers since there are 3 rip raps.
Also that top rip rap used to be one of my favorite fishing holes but now no fish hold since the railroad changed the river direction.
Just a little response to the Rip Rap on the Sky, depending on the water level, it is a pretty good idea with long oars to walk it thru on the left.
www.piscatorialpursuits.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/17/472.html   (1884 words)

  
 61st Virginia Infantry History Company A, Jackson Grays At Sewells Point
From their position the Grays could see Rip Raps in Hampton Roads and Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort in Hampton.
The island, Rip Raps, was created beginning in 1818 on a shoal and is basically a big pile of rocks.
During the engagement a shell from a Sawyer gun on the Rip Raps entered their area and exploded on the breech of a gun.
www.nkclifton.com /61st.reg6.html   (368 words)

  
 Rip Raps Plantation, Sumter County SC
Rip Raps Plantation, Sumter County SC South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Rip Raps Plantation, Sumter County (off U.S. Hwy.
(James McBride Dabbs House) The Rip Raps Plantation, built in 1858 by James McBride, a prominent planter, is significant architecturally as an example of vernacular Greek Revival design and for its association with James McBride Dabbs (1896-1970), a regional author.
www.palmettohistory.org /pilot/Sumter/RipRaps   (279 words)

  
 Belle's Island War Prison
One of their own sutlers, captured with the prisoners, has established a sutlership, and the prisoners make purchases from him of such articles as are not furnished in the daily rations.
They loudly complain of his extortion, however, and threaten to have him sent to the Rip Raps when they get back.
Their funds are running short, too, and many are compelled to part with whatever they have saleable about them.
www.mdgorman.com /Prisons/belles_island_war_prison.htm   (551 words)

  
 Archive > Press > Magazines > NME
Rap: 12" features a surprisingly accomplished Debbie tribute to the New York "Rappin'" craze - compleat with ultra hip Grandmaster Flash namedrop.
Debbie raps a silly story - about real space invaders - but for once sounds genuinely entertained by what she's doing.
The absent "g" is the all important bit: in my mind's rappin' eye I live in the 'hetto.
www.rip-her-to-shreds.com /archive_press_magazines_nme17jan81.php   (1101 words)

  
 mdhs.org > Your Maryland
Around the country Baltimore had come to be known as a rough town.
Know-Nothings got help from the Rip Raps, Plug Uglies, Rough Skins, Blood Tubs, and Wampanoags among others.
Determined to show that New Market was not the toughest bunch in Baltimore, the Rip Raps and the Plug Uglies were massing on Lexington Street.
www.mdhs.org /radio/md_nov7.html   (642 words)

  
 "Interments in the Historic Congressional Cemetery
Major General Scott and Colonel Bankhead arrived here in the steamboat from Richmond yesterday afternoon, and we learn that Major General Macomb, Commander-in-chief of the Army, is expected this morning by the steamboat from Baltimore.
The subject of the visit of these distinguished officers, it is understood, is to inspect the military works at Fort Monroe and the Rip Raps.
We regret to announce the death of General Alexander Macomb, the General-in-Chief of the United States Army which occurred at half past 2 o'clock yesterday.
mlloyd.org /gen/macomb/text/hcc.html   (3028 words)

  
 Rapper Mac Dre Killed In Kansas City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
November 02, 2004, 3:35 PM ET A San Francisco Bay area underground rap star, who police say was also a member of a gang of robbers, was killed in Kansas City, Mo., when a gunman shot into a van in which he was riding.
Hicks recorded raps mocking law enforcement, often naming specific officers, including Nichelman, who was a lead investigator on the case.
Hicks was the second California rap artist fatally shot in Kansas City this year, police said.
billboard.com /bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000698069   (556 words)

  
 MP3 Unsigned - The Best MP3's from New and Unsigned Artists
Rip-One is a steady flow artist who raps a bout life situation and hardships of people.
He can also enter the club realm and put it down just the same.
Rip-One is not only a rapper, He's also a Producer.
www.mp3unsigned.com /Rip-One.ASP   (63 words)

  
 Lincoln Plans the Recapture of Norfolk - Norfolk Highlights - Chapter 46
The trip down the bay on the Coast Guard cutter Miami was rough and it was not until around nine o'clock the next night that Fort Monroe was reached.
After an early breakfast, the presidential party visited the Monitor and then went over to the Rip Raps.
Just then the Virginia steamed into sight off Sewells Point, and as it was surmised that she might again engage the Monitor, the party took time off to see a fight that never took place.
www.norfolkhistorical.org /highlights/46.html   (741 words)

  
 Crankbait Tactics for Huge Pre-Spawn Bass
If these techniques don't work in a few hours, use a slight pumping action of the rod as you reel, keeping contact with the bait.
If it hits a rock, weeds, or other structure, hesitate a second, and then rip it off quickly, and reel it in with a steady retrieve.
You can also yo-yo the bait similar to a spoon or spinnerbait in deeper water near points and drop-offs, which can be extremely effective in colder water or on inactive fish that are suspended.
www.americanboating.org /crankbait_tactics.asp   (1146 words)

  
 Mollus War Papers
That practice was to throw a lot of shells into the batteries on Sewells Point in which we were assisted by the guns on the Rip Raps.
The gun crews of the second and third divisions, armed for boarding, were ranged along the bulwarks so as to be out of the way of any raking fire.
During the afternoon a large number of troops were embarked on transports to be landed below Sewells Point, the batteries on the Rip Raps meanwhile keeping up a constant fire on Sewells Point and the surrounding woods, but landing was not attempted.
suvcw.org /mollus/warpapers/DCv1p447.htm   (2762 words)

  
 Archive > Press > Magazines > NME
She ripped up all David's clothes and ran off with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith!
The lead guitarist has swooned to too many Lita Ford axe-binges while the little twiddles of "deeper" and "substantial" electric progress niggle at my patience with all the allure of crumbs in the bed.
Gone is the soft-focus cameo clarity skimming the water-front of a blonde's lifestyle - surfing, vice raps, gang warfare, Chinese girls, giant ants and catfights.
www.rip-her-to-shreds.com /archive_press_magazines_nme_4feb1978.php   (2727 words)

  
 Jackson's Grays, Company a, 61st Virginia Infantry, CSA
They were the most advanced battery amongst the defenses of the harbors of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and were within range of the Federal guns.
This was very annoying to them as they were not allowed to reply with their guns.
When the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, went down to Hampton Roads and had her battles with the Union fleet on the 8th and 9th of March, 1862, the battery took part, with two rifle six-inch guns, in the engagement, as the naval vessels, passing to and from Fortress Monroe, passed within range of its guns.
www.nkclifton.com /jksong.htm   (2294 words)

  
 Neenah 4th - Article 2
--On Saturday afternoon the Odds and Ends or Rip Raps of Neenah and Menasha turned out in full costume, to the delight of the … people.
In the evening the display of Fireworks came off…the display was a very creditable one, and with the music from Turners’ band and the choir, the evening passed off very pleasantly.
Its little feet were burned in a terrible manner, and it is thought the child cannot live.
www.uwosh.edu /archives/neenahpast/independence/newspaper2.htm   (105 words)

  
 Eye Weekly - Extended Play - 04.06.06
Vocalists shine throughout the album, with newcomer MC Nicky Blaze lending her talents to numerous tracks.
Whether singing on pieces like the moody "Everyday" or letting the raps rip on songs like "Bob Your Head," Blaze (who's also recorded with Roni Size) comes strong and skilled.
Rudeboy DJ Mexican is also all over the mic, lending his hard-hitting toasts to pieces including "Dance Your Troubles Away," a joyous, revolution-minded stormer with horns and vocals a-blazin'.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.06.06/clubs/extendedplay.php   (534 words)

  
 SC Mortgages of Negroes
Lucretia married March McBride, who was probably first owned by a Vaughn and then by Ellenor McBride or the McBride family, who were owners of the Rip Rap Plantation.
Ref. In the Historic Sketches of Sumter County, page 227 it states: Rip Raps on 378 near Dabbs Crossroads.
McBride, for whom was named tract of land originally granted by the King of England to Peter Mellette in 1750 and later sold to James Bradley and in turn given to his daughter, Mrs.
members.aol.com /pastense2/mortgage.htm   (1768 words)

  
 The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
This former steam tug was armed with one 32-pounder banded rifle and detailed to observe Union naval operations at the mouth of the James River.
The Rifled Sawyer gun on Fort Calhoun (otherwise known as the Rip Raps Battery) shelled Confederate batteries at Sewell’s Point.
The venerable old frigate USF United States had become the C.S.R.S. Confederate States after the Federal abandonment of Gosport Navy Yard.
www.mariner.org /exhibitions/ussmonitorcenter/blog_archive.php?b=2006-06-01&page=2   (252 words)

  
 AFTER THE BATTLE-CSS Virginia Home Page
It looked as if the fleet was about to make a fierce onslaught upon us.
The Monitor and the other vessels did not venture to meet us, although we advanced until projectiles from the Rip Raps fell more than half a mile beyond us.
Our object, however, was accomplished; we had put an end to the bombardment, and we returned to our buoy.
cssvirginia.org /vacsn/base/afterbtl.htm   (973 words)

  
 Rip-raps: drift thoughts wide apart.:a machine-readable transcription.
Let us all in the meantime go about and be doing all the good we can to our fellow-men; for there is no truth surer than this, for it is God's own truth, that Love is the fulfilment of all righteousness, and the law has so declared it.
We friends occupied the same state-room that night; and this was the compensation gratuitously rendered by one party for the delightful conversation which entertained us, until we were rapped out of a sound sleep by the night watchmen, as we were landed at the wharf of Norwich.
We were battered about by the “Rips,” the wind and tide working at cross purposes, and chafing our sides; a heavy squall struck us, which had been threatening us all the afternoon, with the
lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/lhbtn/03226/03226.sgm   (12979 words)

  
 Perry: BBC Boards
Fished it a few weeks past and caught several nice bass with nice shoulders on them.
The rip raps are a good place to start.
Sure ain't no bass on the rip raps either!
bbcboards.zeroforum.com /zerothread?id=134889&postid=1206497   (295 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Lincoln's Secret Weapon | Eyewitness to the Battle (3)
I believe I have already told you the compliments paid us by Gen. [John] Wool and Sec'y Fox -- all regarded us as their deliverers nor doubt could the rebels have succeeded in their designs it would have been a disastrous thing for the country.
They could have destroyed and driven off the shipping in the harbour, shelled out the Rip Raps [see map], and Fortress Munroe itself would have been at their mercy as Gen. Wool afterwards told us.
The[y] would have attacked Gen. [Joseph] Mansfield's army at Newport News in front while [Confederate Major General John] Magruder took them in the rear.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/monitor/battle3.html   (1466 words)

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