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The navigation had been designed with massive weirs near all the locks, to cope with a 1 in 50 year flood level, but before they were constructed, prolonged heavy rain in late August resulted in extensive flooding, causing significant damage to the newly-build banks, which were washed into the channel.
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For example, the BBC website, which had previously been called BBC Online, took on the BBCi brand from 2001, displaying an i-bar across the top of every page, offering a category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index, and a search.
With tools such as cartography, shipbuilding, navigation, mining and agricultural productivity colonisers had an upper hand.
The USAF with two-thirds of the nuclear triad also had requirements for a more accurate and reliable navigation system.
The voyages were made in very small ships, mostly the caravel, a light and maneuverable vessel that used the lateen sail which had been the prevailing rig in Christian Mediterranean navigation since late antiquity.
By this time, however, Panama ’ s importance and influence had become insignificant as Spain ’ s power dwindled in Europe and advances in navigation technique increasingly permitted to round Cape Horn in order to reach the Pacific.
Chalouf or Shaloof ), located just south of the Great Bitter Lake, had become so blocked with silt that Darius needed to clear it out so as to allow navigation once again.
Dieskau planned to attack the British encampment at Fort Edward at the upper end of navigation on the Hudson River, but Johnson had strongly fortified it, and Dieskau's Indian support was reluctant to attack.
Microware later started calling all of its operating systems — including what had been originally called OS-9000 — simply OS-9, and started shifting its business interest towards portable consumer device markets such as cellphones, car navigation, and multimedia.
Engine-powered vessels had larger nets, larger engines, and better navigation.
After the war, the race to miniaturize gyroscopes for guided missiles and weapons navigation systems resulted in the development and manufacturing of so-called midget gyroscopes that weighed less than and had a diameter of approximately.
The construction of the Jia Canal left only of Yellow River navigation on the Grand Canal, from Suqian to Huai ' an, which by 1688 had been removed by the construction of the Middle Canal by Jin Fu.
The advent of the railroads destroyed any interest that Pennsylvania might have had in participating by improving navigation on the river.
This meant it had to rely on short manoeuvrability tests, regularity sections and night map-reading navigation to find a winner, which made it unattractive to foreign crews.
The Braddock Road had been opened by the Ohio Company in 1751 between Cumberland, Maryland, the limit of navigation on the Potomac River, and the French Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River, a site that would later become Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
By the end of the war, TVA had completed a 650-mile ( 1, 050-kilometer ) navigation channel the length of the Tennessee River and had become the nation's largest electricity supplier.
It had parallel lines of longitude to aid navigation by sea, and compass courses could be marked as straight lines.
He was kept as a slave until the age of 24, and by then had so impressed the Bey of Tunis and corsair John Ward, with his skills in gunnery and navigation that the latter offered him a position in his fleet.
The Brazilian government liquidated the Guaíra Falls National Park, and dynamited the submerged rock face where the falls had been, facilitating safer navigation, but eliminating the possibility of restoring the falls in the future.
Finally Dumont undertook his first short navigation of the Mediterranean Sea in 1814, when Napoleon had been exiled to Elba.
Similarly, it had the periodic message,,, ... and various other messages related to navigation between different cards in a HyperCard stack, as well as user input (,, ...), and system events.
Through contacts in the Los Angeles aviation community, Fred Noonan was subsequently chosen as a second navigator because there were significant additional factors which had to be dealt with while using celestial navigation for aircraft.
He had vast experience in both marine ( he was a licensed ship's captain ) and flight navigation.
Fred Noonan had earlier written about problems affecting the accuracy of radio direction finding in navigation.
The planned route straight across the lake was 51. 5 km ( 32 mi ), but she actually had to swim much further because of strong winds and the lack of modern navigation equipment.
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Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only.
The narrow early industrial canals, however, have ceased to carry significant amounts of trade and many have been abandoned to navigation, but may still be used as a system for transportation of untreated water.
These charts may have been in use by the beginning of the Common Era for purposes of navigation.
Because DOM supports navigation in any direction ( e. g., parent and previous sibling ) and allows for arbitrary modifications, an implementation must at least buffer the document that has been read so far ( or some parsed form of it ).
The first four operational satellites for navigation were launched in 2011 and once this In-Orbit Validation ( IOV ) phase was has been completed, additional satellites will be launched.
As applets have been available before CSS, they were also widely used for trivial effects like navigation buttons.
However, there have been attempts to enhance and re-popularize LORAN, mainly to serve as a backup and land-based alternative to GPS and other satellite navigation systems.
Those who accompanied Peary on the final stage of the journey were not trained in navigation, and thus could not independently confirm his navigational work, which some claim to have been particularly sloppy as he approached the Pole.
The U. S. Supreme Court held that Kentucky's jurisdiction ( and, implicitly, that of West Virginia ) extended only to the low-water mark of 1793 ( important because the river has been extensively dammed for navigation, so that the present river bank is north of the old low-water mark.
Antonio López also resented having been forced to grant Brazil free navigation rights on the Río Paraguay in 1858.
Coral reefs and shallow coastal waters make navigation difficult in areas where channels have not been dredged.
They have been part of religious practices and used for celestial navigation and orientation.
The use of sound to ' echo locate ' underwater in the same way as bats use sound for aerial navigation seems to have been prompted by the Titanic disaster of 1912.
Results have been encouraging, and voice applications have included: control of communication radios, setting of navigation systems, and control of an automated target handover system.
The U. S. Coast Guard maintains a base on St. Paul, but no longer maintains a LORAN-C master station, as the technology has been replaced by GPS navigation.
The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.
In the late 16th century the river seems to have been reopened for navigation from Henley to Burcot.
In rodents, the hippocampus has been studied extensively as part of a brain system responsible for spatial memory and navigation.
The Earth's magnetic field protects the Earth from the deadly solar wind and has long been used for navigation.
Nonetheless, this will not enable through navigation from Lake Baikal to the Yenisei, as none of the existing three dams has been provided with a ship lock or a boat lift, nor will the Boguchany Dam have one.
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