Either go four and a half times the distance of the long axis in the direction the narrow end of the cross points, or join the two pointer stars with a line, divide this line in half, then at right angles draw another imaginary line through the sky until it meets the line from the Southern Cross.

* Continental divide, the geographical term for separation between watersheds

The province was viewed by the Second Continental Congress as a potential avenue for British forces to attack and divide the rebellious colonies, and was at the time lightly defended.

An 1886 Colorado Supreme Court decision set the boundary at the Continental Divide, although the land between the Medicine Bow Range and the divide was made part of Jackson County in 1909.

: For continental divides in general, see Continental divide.

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Gulf of Division or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from ( 1 ) those river systems that drain into the Atlantic Ocean ( including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea ), and ( 2 ) along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean.

The Continental Divide Trail follows the divide through the U. S. from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

* Continental divide

They crossed over the Continental divide of the Rocky Mountains via Sinclair Pass ( near present day Radium Hot Springs ) then down the Kootenay River and Columbia River to Fort Vancouver.

Here the south-trending Continental Divide takes a brief sharp northward loop, which creates an interesting reverse scenario, where the Pacific Basin is on the east side of the divide and the Atlantic Basin on the west.

Continental divide s in North America.

This isthmus is a part of the Northern ( or Laurentian ) Continental divide, and is crossed by the Height of Land Portage which is in the Rove Formation.

It is located east of the Continental divide entirely within Montana in the United States.

The Pend Oreille River watershed divide is formed on the east side by the Continental Divide.

Local segments of the Eastern Continental Divide usually pass within a few miles of the Allegheny Front, and in many places coincide with it ; this divide between waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico separates the westward-flowing Ohio River watershed from the eastward-flowing watersheds of the Susquehanna, Potomac, and James rivers.

* Eastern Continental Divide, a drainage divide that demarcates the watersheds of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard

* Continental divide, a water divide between the drainage of two oceans

* Continental Divide, the North American divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Both the Centennial and Bitterroot mountain ranges are also located here, with the Continental divide found in the Bitterroot range.

This portage crosses the Northern Continental divide ; it thus provides passage between the drainage basin of the Arctic Ocean and that of the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean.

The western Rocky Mountain Division which straddles the Continental divide, is more oriented more towards preservation, primarily because much of the land has been designated as wilderness.

Mountain goats, bighorn sheep, elk, mountain lions, lynx, wolverines and black bears are most common nearest the Continental divide.

Solitude is most common in the Crazy Mountains and in the wilderness areas near the Continental divide.

Divide County was formed following a vote at the November 1910 general election to divide Williams County into two counties.

This division is the most likely origin of the name, though additional deciding factors may have been the fact that Divide County lies on the continental divide between the watersheds that flow into the Gulf of Mexico and those that flow into Hudson Bay and that the county lies on the boundary between the United States and Canada.

In North America another, mainly non-mountainous divide, the Laurentian Divide ( or Northern Divide ), further separates the Hudson Bay-Arctic Ocean drainage region from the Atlantic watershed region.

Within this system there are four continental divides and three triple points, the two mentioned previously and a third near Hibbing, Minnesota where the Northern Divide intersects the Saint Lawrence Seaway divide.

Several endorheic basins straddle the continental divide, including the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming, the Guzmán Basin in New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Bolsón de Mapimí in Mexico.

Two months after the website was launched, Bill Clinton hosted a national Digital Divide Summit in Washington D. C. During the meeting, representatives from civil society and the private sector met with Clinton ; soon, the idea was hatched to create a new national Web portal dedicated to bridging the digital divide.

The Calapooya Mountains and the Calapooya Divide are two parts of a spur of the Western Cascade mountains in the U. S. state of Oregon that form the divide between the watersheds of the Willamette and Umpqua rivers.

* The Laurentian Divide, also known as the " Northern Divide ", a continental divide in North America

In a 2009 BBC documentary about the so-called North-South Divide, presented by ex-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Sewell caused controversy by declaring that the solution to the divide was to send a pox or a plague upon the North so that the people there can all just die quietly.

It consists of all of the province of British Columbia east of the Great Divide and some communities west of the divide.

Aortic pressure is highest at the aorta and becomes less pulsatile and lower pressure as blood vessels divide into arteries, arterioles, and capillaries such that flow is slow and smooth for gases and nutrient exchange.

For the latter Bulgaria had a secret agreement with Serbia to divide it between them signed at 13 March 1912 during the negotiations that led to the establishment of the Balkan League.

Frets are the metal strips ( usually nickel alloy or stainless steel ) embedded along the fingerboard and placed at points that divide the length of string mathematically.

The area forms a water divide, more dramatically at regional flood stage.

The simplest description ( besides the entire area-floodplain ) of the water divide is a " south-bank Orinoco River strip " at the exit point of the Orinoco, also the origin of the Casiquiare canal.

Chicago rests on a continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds.

The most well-known use of the Cooley – Tukey algorithm is to divide the transform into two pieces of size at each step, and is therefore limited to power-of-two sizes, but any factorization can be used in general ( as was known to both Gauss and Cooley / Tukey ).

Frets are metal strips ( usually nickel alloy or stainless steel ) embedded along the fretboard and located at exact points that divide the scale length in accordance with a specific mathematical formula.

The British goal was efficient administration but Hindus were outraged at the apparent " divide and rule " strategy.

In January 1920, at the Paris Peace Conference, negotiators from France, Britain, and Greece agreed to divide Albania among Yugoslavia, Italy, and Greece as a diplomatic expedient aimed at finding a compromise solution to the territorial conflict between Italy and Yugoslavia.

' Color scientists typically divide the spectrum at about 450 nm between violet and blue, with no indigo.

Local Internet registries get assigned at least / 32 blocks, which they divide among ISPs.

Although this design eliminated a number of useful instructions such as multiply and divide it was felt that the overall performance of the system would be dramatically improved because the chips could run at much higher clock rates.

Archaeologists divide the occupation at the site into several periods.

The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.

The other major sticking point, which is reportedly causing concern at government level, is that the majority of people going to Potsdamer Platz are visitors to the city, implying that the original vision of the development as a linking element attracting Berliners themselves, and Berliners from both sides of the former divide, has not really materialised.

Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.

Case 2 includes all p that divide at least one of x, y, or z. Germain proposed the following, commonly called “ Sophie Germain's Theorem ”:

* May 5 – Border Treaty between Brazil and Venezuela: The two countries agree their borders should be traced at the water divide between the Amazon and the Orinoco basins.

* Increasing colonial interest and conquest in Africa leads representatives from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Spain to divide Africa into regions of colonial influence at the Berlin Conference.

The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons, respectively.

* September 19 – Just weeks after arrival at Pensacola, the Spanish missionary colony is decimated by a hurricane that kills hundreds, sinks five ships, with a galleon, and grounds a caravel ; the 1, 000 survivors divide to relocate / resupply the settlement, but suffer famine & attacks, and abandon the effort in 1561.

Events moved at a quick pace after Santa Anna decided to divide his own flying column and race quickly towards Galveston, where members of the Provisional Government had fled.