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31USRC Eagle — was one of the first ten cutters operated by the United States Revenue Cutter Service (later to become the US Coast Guard).The Eagle has been often misidentified as the cutter Pickering which was in fact not launched until 1798 (and so was not… …
32LIFT — vt: to put an end to: make no longer effective lift the stay Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. lift I …
33Priestly undergarments — Part of Judaic series of articles on Priesthood in Judaism   …
34Optical landing system — The Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System of Charles de Gaulle An optical landing system (OLS) (nicknamed meatball or simply, Ball ) is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.[1] From… …
35COMMANDMENTS, THE 613 — (Heb. תַּרְיַ״ג מִצְווֹת, taryag mitzvot). The total number of biblical commandments (precepts and prohibitions) is given in rabbinic tradition as 613. R. Simlai, a Palestinian teacher, states: 613 commandments were revealed to Moses at Sinai,… …
36PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… …
37Snowy Mountains — For the Snowy Mountains of Wyoming, USA, see Medicine Bow Mountains. Snowy Mountains Range …
38Earth sheltering — is the architectural practice of using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to easily maintain a steady indoor air temperature. Earth sheltering is popular in modern times among advocates of passive… …
39Permafrost — This article is about frozen ground. For other uses, see Permafrost (disambiguation). In geology, permafrost, cryotic soil or permafrost soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water (0 °C or 32 °F) for two or more years. Ice is not always …
40German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran — Kormoran redirects here. For other uses, see Kormoran (disambiguation). Auxiliary cruiser Kormoran meets a German U boat at sea Career (Nazi Germany) …
