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111Canoe — A canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes usually are pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be covered. In its human… …
112Stealth technology — also known as LOT (Low Observability Technology) is a sub discipline of military electronic countermeasures which covers a range of techniques used with aircraft, ships and missiles, in order to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar …
113Space debris — populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Note the two primary debris fields, the ring of objects in GEO, and the cloud of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) …
114Anaconda Plan — The Anaconda Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General in Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an …
115Countersteering — For the similar technique used in automobiles, see Opposite lock. Graphs showing the lean and steer angle response of an otherwise uncontrolled typical bike, traveling at a forward speed in its stable range (in this case 6 m/s), to a steer torque …
116General Electric CF6 — The General Electric TF39 and CF6 are a family of high bypass turbofan engines. Originally developed as the TF39 to power the C 5 Galaxy, they were the first high power high bypass jet engines available, and went on to power a wide variety of… …
117western Africa, history of — Introduction history of the region from the 11th century to the present. A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… …
118List of geological faults of Wales — This is a list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of Wales. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in brief, the main types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust… …
119Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …
120Streamliner — A streamliner is any vehicle that incorporates streamlining to produce a shape that provides less resistance to air. The term is most often applied to certain high speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor bullet… …
