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The western half, located between Athinas Avenue and the sea, is covered with pine trees and consists of two peninsulas, Megalo and Mikro Kavouri (" Big Crab " and " Little Crab ") that feature sandy and pebble beaches in between rocky shores, luxury hotels ( including the Astir Palace Hotel occupying most of Mikro Kavouri ), the local high school, the picturesque chapel of " St. George of the crab ", two marinas, an aquatic sports club ( the " Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni ", see below ), a sports club ( soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis ) and upscale restaurants, taverns and cafeterias on the waterfront.

He was also a water polo goalkeeper for the Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni.

1733 – 1824 ), Greek mathematician and an Nautical science expert, whose family was from Heraklion ( Candia ), Crete.

In 1838 he published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nova investigationis, & c., and the improved Tables of the Moon (" Hansen's Lunar Tables ") based upon it were printed in 1857, at the expense of the British government, their merit being further recognized by a grant of £ 1000, and by their adoption in the Nautical Almanac as from the issue for the year 1862, and other Ephemerides.

Ephemeris time based on the standard adopted in 1952 was introduced into the Astronomical Ephemeris ( UK ) and the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, replacing UT in the main ephemerides in the issues for 1960 and after.

First to the scene were 116 cadets under the direction of Lieutenant Commander H. J. Copeland from USS Nantucket, a training ship of the Massachusetts Nautical School ( which is now the Massachusetts Maritime Academy ), that was docked nearby at the playground pier.

This proposal, the germ of the Nautical Almanac, was approved by the government, and under the care of Maskelyne the Nautical Almanac for 1767 was published in 1766.

In 1849 the Nautical Almanac Office ( NAO ) was established in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a separate organisation.

In 1816 he was secretary of a commission charged with ascertaining the precise length of the second's or seconds pendulum ( the length of a pendulum whose period is exactly 2 seconds ), and in 1818 he became secretary to the Board of Longitude and superintendent of the HM Nautical Almanac Office.

He was, however, allowed the use of the buildings of the signal station on Flagstaff Hill creating the Flagstaff Observatory for Geophysics, Magnetism and Nautical Science at what is now Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1879, he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington ( part of the United States Naval Observatory ), to work with Simon Newcomb.

He conducted some preliminary measurements using largely improvised equipment in 1878, about the same time that his work came to the attention of Simon Newcomb, director of the Nautical Almanac Office who was already advanced in planning his own study.

The reform of the Nautical Almanac in 1829 was set on foot by his protests.

This was one the first projects that led to the development of the field of Nautical Archaeology, along with the excavation of the Viking Skuldelev ships at Roskilde in 1962, and the discovery and raising of the Swedish warship the Vasa ( ship ) in 1961.

Next, Tōgō was sent to Plymouth, where he was assigned as a cadet on HMS Worcester, which was part of the Thames Nautical Training College, in 1872.

The SR. N4 ( Saunders-Roe Nautical 4 ) hovercraft ( also known as the Mountbatten class hovercraft ) was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft built by the British Hovercraft Corporation ( BHC ).

He had hoped that this work would leverage him into the vacant post as superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office but John Russell Hind was preferred, Adams lacking the necessary ability as an organiser and administrator.

Rauma Maritime Museum in the Rauma Nautical School building was founded in 1999.

For some years Hansen's theory continued to be used with Newcomb's corrections ( from the Nautical Almanac's issue for 1883 ), but it was eventually ( as from 1923 ) superseded by E W Brown's theory.

On 30 September 1840, the first stone of the column was laid by Charles Davison Scott, honorary secretary of the committee ( and son of Nelson's secretary, John Scott ), at a ceremony conducted, according to the Nautical Magazine, " in a private manner, owing to the noblemen and gentlemen comprising the committee being absent from town ".

Rinnan has received other awards, including the Medal of Honour from the King of Norway, the inaugural Tampa Award from the Australian organisation Rural Australians for Refugees, the AFRAS Gold Medal from the Association for Rescue at Sea and he was named Captain of the Year 2001 by the Nautical Institute and shipping journal Lloyds List.

Eavis was educated at the fee-paying Wells Cathedral School, followed by the Thames Nautical Training College after which he joined the Union-Castle Line, which comprised part of the British Merchant Navy, as a trainee Midshipman.

The family charity also developed the Daniel Marcus Nautical Centre, in memory of the Porters ' late grandson, who was killed in a car crash in Israel in 1993 while on military service.

Further education colleges in the city include Jewel and Esk College ( incorporating Leith Nautical College founded in 1903 ), Telford College, opened in 1968, and Stevenson College, opened in 1970.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

DMU was founded in 1953 through the merger of three merchant marine institutions: Shanghai Nautical College, the Northeast Navigation College and Fujian Navigation School.

The Tudor Rose is used as the emblem of the Nautical Training Corps, a uniformed youth organisation founded in Brighton in 1944 with 20 units in South East England.

The college was originally founded by Thomas Lane Devitt in 1917 as The Nautical College, Pangbourne with the purpose of preparing boys to be Officers in the Merchant Navy through the shipping company, ' Devitt and Moore '.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy was founded by an act of the state legislature on June 11, 1891 as the Massachusetts Nautical Training School ; the name was changed in 1913 to the Massachusetts Nautical School and it took its present name in 1942.

The peninsular borough's maritime heritage is acknowledged in several ways. The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum occupies a former public school designed by the New York City school system's turn-of-the-last-century master architect C. B. J. Snyder.

( But the ephemerides in the Nautical Almanac, by then a separate publication for the use of navigators, continued to be expressed in terms of UT.

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Two second-magnitude stars, Alpha Pavonis and Epsilon Carinae, were assigned the proper names Peacock and Avior respectively in 1937 by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office during the creation of The Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force.

It not only housed the scientific instruments to be used by Flamsteed in his work on stellar tables, but over time also incorporated a number of additional responsibilities such as the keeping of time and later Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office.

They were planned and organized by the Sub-Committee for Nautical Sports.

Nautical charts are issued by the national hydrographic offices in many countries.

The band also appeared on Saturday Night Live in 1995, performing " Grace, Too " and " Nautical Disaster " in an episode hosted by John Goodman, in order to promote the album.

The IDL does not extend into Antarctica on the world time zone maps by the United States Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) or the United Kingdom's Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office ( HMNAO ).

He took advantage of this opportunity for the study and practice of astronomical observations in northern latitudes, and afterwards published the results of his studies in a small volume on Nautical Astronomy by Night ( 1816 ).

This page from a Sailing Directions assists the navigator by providing pictures and descriptions of a harbor approach. The term Nautical publications is used in maritime circles to describe a set of publications, generally published by national governments, for use in safe navigation of ships, boats, and similar vessels.