A sextant was one of the tools this duo used to navigate 8,000 miles to Oregon & back
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jeopardy/1432_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  DUOS | A sextant was one of the tools this duo used to navigate 8,000 miles to Oregon & back | Lewis & Clark. right: Dan. Wrong: Value: $800. Number: 24.
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: Chapter 24  Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding ... Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the ... to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was named the General Grant. ... the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship's chronometers.
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Oregon Trail - Wikipedia  The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) historic eastwest, large-wheeled wagon route and ... Lewis and Clark initially believed they had found a practical overland route to the west coast; however, the two .... under a dome of rock they named Independence Rock and started their long trek on foot to the Missouri River.
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On This Day: Nellie Bly Sets Off on Around-the-World Journey  On Nov. 14, 1889, journalist Nellie Bly set out to circle the globe, seeking to beat the ... Bly conceived of the trip after reading Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. ... 25, 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes after first setting sail on her nearly...
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Jeopary Questions page 524 - ENTERTAINING BIRDS - TriviaBistro ...  UNSUNG HEROES: In 1912 Tom Crean made a solo 35-mile trek on this continent to save 2 of his mates  METALS: Around 3000 B.C. it had 2/5 the value of...
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The History of the Sextant  So what do navigators need to find their position on the earth's surface by ... navigators need an angle-measuring instrument, a sextant, to measure the angle of the ... At the equator, which is zero degrees latitude, Polaris is on the horizon with zero ... In ancient times, the navigator who was planning to sail out of sight of land...
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The Measure of Things - 820 miles - Bluebulb Projects  Miles. Miles. Amount. Equivalents in other units Click here to hide this ... The Rhine river runs 820 miles (1,320 km) in total length. ... book and 1977 movie A Bridge Too Far, was the first of several attempts to capture key bridges across ... 2,750 m above sea level in the Rocky Mountains, to its mouth in the Gulf of California.
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Navigation and Related Instruments in 16th-Century England - Fort ...  Refinement of instruments enabled sixteenth-century mariners to determine latitude ... the navigator measured, as best he could, the heading and speed of the ship, the ... The astrolabe was used to determine latitude by measuring the angle ... in position of 60 nautical miles), so mariners often used the astrolabe in pairs,...
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Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia  In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to about 2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
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Navigation of the American Explorers - 15th to 17th Centuries ...  Navigation Tools for Dead Reckoning and Piloting ... Columbus noticed that, as one sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, the ... A heavy piece of lead at the end of a long marked line had a cavity in its bottom, which, when coated with ... Celestial navigational instruments were designed to help find a vessel's latitudeLatitude
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Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne  ... Chapter 11 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICE; Chapter 12 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG...
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Chapter 24: During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean  by Jules Verne ... Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, ... Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led him into the ... to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and was named the General Grant. ... the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship's chronometers.
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Navigator Light Software - Tecepe  The sextant is an instrument that measures angles. ... One degree is equivalent to 60 minutes. ... The smallest unit of angle used by navigators is the tenth of minute. ... So, a star located near a celestial pole will appear to be stationary in the sky. ... With this data we can only say that our position is in a big circle, with the...
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Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, and the Flight of the Voyager  Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager embody the very spirit and character of the word "pioneers." In December 1986, they became the first people to circumnavigate the world, nonstop, without refueling their plane, the Voyager. They also set world flight records in the process.
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OCEAN TO OCEAN PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT - Ancon Expeditions  TOUR DESCRIPTION On August 15, 1914 the SS Ancon made the first ... Since 1914, more than 900,000 vessels have transited through the waterway ... The duration of the full transit greatly depends on the ship traffic on the Panama Canal.