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There are two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads each in the bottom for both decimal and hexadecimal computation.
Likewise, in Toronto, the Prince Edward Viaduct has five lanes of motor traffic, bicycle lanes, and sidewalks on its upper deck ; and a pair of tracks for the Bloor – Danforth subway line on its lower deck.
According to Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Steele: " Wegener ran to a cabin on the upper deck -- I later found out it was Manning's bathroom.
* In 1946, upper deck seats were installed ; Fenway Park is essentially the first double-tiered ballpark in Boston since the South End Grounds of the 1880s.
Fenway Park is one of the two remaining classic parks still in use in major league baseball ( the other being Wrigley Field ), and both have a significant number of obstructed view seats, due to pillars supporting the upper deck.
In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deckthe upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.
Both types could ( and usually did ) additionally carry smaller carriage-mounted guns on their quarter decks and forecastles ( the superstructures above the upper deck ).
The term " frigate " was used because such ships still mounted their principal armament on a single continuous upper deck.
At this time a further design evolved, reintroducing oars to create the galley frigate such as the Charles Galley of 1676 which was rated as a 32-gun fifth rate but also had a bank of 40 oars set below the upper deck which could be used to propel the ship in the absence of a favourable wind.
These ships were square-rigged and carried all their main guns on a single continuous upper deck.
The first British frigates carried 28 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-four 9-pounder guns ( the remaining four smaller guns were carried on the quarter deck ) but soon developed into fifth-rate ships of 32 or 36 guns including an upper deck battery of twenty-six 12-pounder guns, with the remaining six or ten smaller guns carried on the quarter deck and forecastle.
The uppermost continuous deck may be called the " upper deck ", " weather deck ", " spar deck ", " main deck ", or simply " deck ".

upper and was
The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.
The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.
The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.
At these times he felt a kind of pain in his upper chest, but it was an objective pain, in no way different from others in intensity and not different in kind ; ;
The mouth was thin-lipped and wide, the long cleft in the upper lip like a slide.
But he was totally dissatisfied with his upper body.
Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.
The university was the only one in Denmark and the status of professor represented the upper social level.
The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.
The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.
Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.
The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.
During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.
This might be applied to the top of the nose or the back of the neck, pressed on the upper lip, or inserted into the nostril ( cotton was usually used in this last ).
On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.
To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.
The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.
Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.
The committee decided it was important to support upper case 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes.
While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.
This was not a standard in a modern technical sense – it was the social standard of " upper class " speech.

upper and closed
He reached down and closed his fingers on the man's upper arm.
The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.
The initial extension to the right was absorbed into the upper closed bowl.
This action releases the upper hi-hat cymbal, which falls onto the bottom cymbal and remains there, with gravity then holding the hats loosely closed, and allowing them to be played by the sticks in this position.
Its jaws are a powerful gripping apparatus, as the upper teeth fall into the gaps between the lower teeth when the mouth is closed.
* Any simply connected solvable Lie group is isomorphic to a closed subgroup of the group of invertible upper triangular matrices of some rank, and any finite dimensional irreducible representation of such a group is 1 dimensional.
* Any simply connected nilpotent Lie group is isomorphic to a closed subgroup of the group of invertible upper triangular matrices with 1's on the diagonal of some rank, and any finite dimensional irreducible representation of such a group is 1 dimensional.
A non-empty subset F of a lattice ( P ,≤) is a filter, if and only if it is an upper set that is closed under finite meets ( infima ), i. e., for all x, y in F, we find that x ∧ y is also in F.
In 1996, Thomas Lehman and Langston rejected the scavenging hypothesis, pointing out that the lower jaw bent so strongly downwards that even when it closed completely a gap of over five centimeters remained between it and the upper jaw, very different from the hooked beaks of specialized scavenging birds.
; Alexandrov topology: A space X has the Alexandrov topology ( or is finitely generated ) if arbitrary intersections of open sets in X are open, or equivalently, if arbitrary unions of closed sets are closed, or, again equvalently, if the open sets are the upper sets of a poset.
Its upper surface is somewhat flattened so, when pressed against it, the labrum forms a closed tube for conveying blood from the victim.
A new upper concourse was built above the old and original concourse exits were closed in by new seating.
Most designs can be opened by hand, though some gates that are frequently opened and closed may have a lever attached to assist in bringing the upper wire loop over the gate post
Let F ( x ) be an upper semi-continuous function of x, and that F ( x ) is a closed, convex set for all x.
The upper end of the Downing Street cul de sac closed off access to St. James's Park, making the street quiet and private.
The indicator function of an open set is lower semi-continuous, whereas the indicator function of a closed set is upper semi-continuous.
The canal was closed on 1 July 1854, and the lock and aqueducts on the upper section were dismantled.
In 1323 a substantial two story construction was added at the eastern end of the choir, with a chapel dedicated to Saint Piat in the upper floor accessed by a staircase opening onto the ambulatory ( the chapel of St Piat is normally closed to visitors, although it occasionally houses temporary exhibitions ).
A large section of the upper deck outfield seats was closed.
* The pier ( nl ); it has two floors, the upper one open air, the lower one closed
In both cases the upper watersheds are closed canopy California oak woodlands, with dominant trees of Coast Live Oak, Pacific Madrone and California Bay.
The ' Fleet Market ' was closed during the 1860s with the construction of Farringdon Road and Farringdon Street as a highway to the north and the Metropolitan Railway, while the final upper section of the river was covered when Hampstead was expanded in the 1870s.
Despite pressure from local authorities and navigation companies, the upper river was closed for trade, and a Royal Commission reported in 1909 on the poor state of the lower river, the lack of any consistent authority to manage it, and the unusual practice of towing horses having to jump over fences because there were no gates where they crossed the towing path.
When flows in the upper river are normal, the sluice gates are closed, and most of the flow is routed along the tidal New Bedford River.

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