EDDYSTONE

ĕdˈĭstən, lighthouse, 135 ft (41 m) high, on dangerous rocks in the English Channel, S of Plymouth, SW England. It is the fourth lighthouse on the site (the first was begun in 1696) built between 1878 and 1882 and designed by James Douglas.

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books on: Eddystone  - 215 results

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1.
The Maritime History of Devon
Book by M. M. Oppenheim; University of Exeter Press, 1968
Subjects: Devon (England)--History, Naval
...Century 52 Plymouth Dockyard 74 The Eddystone Lighthouse 96 The Eighteenth Century...22 The St. Jean dAcre, 1854 63 23 The Eddystone lighthouse, 1699 78 24 The Eddystone lighthouse, 1708 25 The third and fourth...
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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
Book by Albert J. Churella; Princeton University Press, 1998
Subjects: Locomotive Industry--United States--Management--History--20th Century
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Medicine, Magic, and Religion: The Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916
Book by G. Elliot Smith, W. H. R. Rivers; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Magic, Medicine--Religious Aspects, Traditional Medicine
...In the little island of Mandegusu or Eddystone, where Mr. Hocart and I spent several...watch over tabooed trees, the natives of Eddystone Island also believe in a number of beings...fusion. There are, however, examples in Eddystone Island in which a similar process of...
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Magic: A Sociological Study
Book by Hutton Webster; Octagon Books, 1973
Subjects: Magic
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Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Book by Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis; Norton, 1998
Subjects: Biomechanics, Mechanics
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journal articles on: Eddystone  - 13 results

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Proto-Oceanic * Mana Revisited
Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 46, 2007
Subjects: Oceanians--Religious aspects, Pacific Islanders--Religious aspects
...ta-mana-i blessed; m-in-ana blessing; Eddystone/Mandegusu mana powerful, potent, effective...and Crowley (2002) include Roviana, Eddystone, Varisi, and other languages of the western...two consequences. First, Roviana and Eddystone preserve most POc final consonants in...
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Aerospace Industry Update
Journal article by Michael H. Cimini; Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 113, 1990
Subjects: Boeing Co. Boeing Helicopters Div.--Contracts, Boeing Co.--Contracts, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers--Contracts, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Co.--Contracts, McDonnell Douglas Corp.--Contracts, Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association--Contracts, United Automobile Workers--Contracts
Aerospace industry update by Michael H. Cimini A new 3-year contract, covering 6,000 employees in the Eddystone, PA, area, was reached between Local 1069 of the United Auto Workers and Boeing Helicopters, a leading producer of military...
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Landscape, Violence and Social Bodies: Ritualized Architecture in a Solomon Islands Society
Journal article by Tim Thomas, Peter Sheppard, Richard Walter; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 7, 2001
Subjects: Anthropological research--Case studies, Architectural design--Social aspects, Symbolism in architecture--Models
...Hocart, A.M. 1922. The cult of the dead in Eddystone of the Solomons. Journal of the Royal...1925. Medicine and witchcraft in Eddystone of the Solomon Islands. Journal of the...55, 229-70. ----- 1931. Warfare in Eddystone of the Solomon Islands. Journal of the...
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The Electric Ariel: Telegraphy and Commercial Culture in Early Victorian England
Journal article by Iwan Rhys Morus; Victorian Studies, Vol. 39, 1996
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Civilization, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901
...seventy-foot canal and reservoir, featuring a model of the Eddystone lighthouse and clockwork boats demonstrating the latest design...Adelaide Gallery, building exhibits such as the model of the Eddystone lighthouse, merged into his own activities at his workshop...
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The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Peter Sheppard; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal (Book)--Book reviews
...trader Andrew Cheyene to what he described in 1844 as sweet potato in Simbo and Roviana in the western Solomons. The soil of Eddystone Simbo is either very indifferent, or the natives pay little attention to its cultivation, as its vegetable...
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magazine articles on: Eddystone  - 6 results

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New Light on Eddystone: Alison Barnes Reveals a New Discovery about the Eddystone Lighthouse: The First of Its Kind to Be Built on Rocks in the Sea
Magazine article by Alison Barnes; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005
Subjects: Architects--Design and construction, Lighthouses--Design and construction, Lighthouses--History, Plymouth, England, Winstanley, Henry--Design and construction
New Light on Eddystone: Alison Barnes Reveals a New Discovery about the Eddystone Lighthouse: The First of Its Kind to Be Built...MILES SOUTH-WEST of Plymouth lies the treacherous Eddystone reef, a collection of shark-tooth rocks upon which...
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Mathematical Water Magic: An Exotic London Theatre Funded the Building of the First Eddystone Lighthouse. Alison Barnes Has Discovered What Kind of Shows It Staged
Magazine article by Alison Barnes; History Today, Vol. 58, October 2008
Subjects: Architects--Works, Theaters--Design and construction, Theaters--History, Winstanley, Henry--Works
...An Exotic London Theatre Funded the Building of the First Eddystone Lighthouse. Alison Barnes Has Discovered What Kind of Shows...William had asked him to build the first-ever lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks. Down the centuries numerous ships had come to grief...
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Sheppard's Pie
Magazine article by Anne Macevoy; The Architectural Review, Vol. 203, April 1998
Subjects: Architects--Contracts, Dwellings--Design and construction, Sheppard, David--Contracts
...Sheppard has re-awakened the craft in a house on a magnificent, very windy site which looks out south over the sea to the fabled Eddystone lighthouse and west to little fishing settlements and the gigantic natural harbour of Plymouth Hoe. For all its local tradition...
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The Great Storm; November 24th, 1703
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003
Subjects: Books--Bibliography, Defoe, Daniel--Records and correspondence, Evelyn, John--Records and correspondence, History--Bibliography, Storms--History, United Kingdom--History
...000 on his Surrey estate. The chimneys of Wells Palace fell in, killing the bishop and his wife in their bed. At sea the Eddystone Lighthouse with its 120ft tower was swept away and the six people in it were killed. Ships over taken by the gale were wrecked...
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Bridging the Dance GAP
Magazine article by Dennis Hensley; The Advocate, July 4, 2000
Subjects: Choreographers--Interviews, Dancers--Interviews, Gap Inc.--Advertising, Johnson, Alan--Interviews, Television advertising
...a life without bigotry and hatred." Johnson certainly got a taste of bigotry growing up in the small industrial town of Eddystone, Pa. "I started taking dance lessons when I was like, 6," says Johnson, "so I was the town sissy." In spite of the oppressive...
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newspaper articles on: Eddystone  - 42 results

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The Spear Hunters
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 17, 2006
...your sea bass. Twelve miles out to sea, in the shadow of the Eddystone lighthouse, I make my first descent. I am about to create...round rocky inlets or get on a boat and anchor at places like Eddystone. Rocky seabeds with weeds often provide happy hunting, while...
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On This Day in ..
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 18, 2007
...1642: Montreal in Canada was founded. 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France. 1882: The present Eddystone Lighthouse, the fourth in existence, was opened. 1909: Fred Perry, three times Wimbledon mens singles champion, was born...
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Time Out: Quiz Challenge
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 7, 2008
...scientific principle determines the direction in which winds rotate around a cyclone? 2. Off the coast of which county is the Eddystone Lighthouse? 3. What word, having a French root, means a constant discharge of firearms? 4. Which organisms produce spores...
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On This Day
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 18, 2007
...agreement for the manufacture of his invention, the lawn mower. The first customer was Regents Park Zoo. 1882: The present Eddystone Lighthouse, the fourth in existence, was opened. 1954: The European Convention on Human Rights came into force. 1961: The...
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Quiz Challenge
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 7, 2008
...scientific principle determines the direction in which winds rotate around a cyclone? 2. Off the coast of which county is the Eddystone Lighthouse? 3. What word, having a French root, means a constant discharge of firearms? 4. Which organisms produce spores...
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encyclopedia articles on: Eddystone  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Eddystone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EDDYSTONE ed ist n, lighthouse, 135 ft (41 m) high, on dangerous rocks in the English Channel, S of Plymouth, SW England. It is the fourth...
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Smeaton, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...engineering, as evidenced by a number of papers read before the Royal Society during this period. He rebuilt (1756 59) the Eddystone lighthouse and worked on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Ramsgate Harbour and many important bridges. Within 10 years he became...
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Cement
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...engineer, rediscovered the correct proportions when he made up a batch of cement using clayey limestone while rebuilding the Eddystone lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall, England. In the United States, production of cement at first relied on processing cement...
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Plymouth , City, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...points of interest on the Hoe are the old Royal Citadel (17th cent.), the upper part of Smeatons lighthouse brought from Eddystone , an Armada memorial, and a naval war memorial. Also noteworthy are the marine-biological laboratories, the aquarium, the...


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