10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOOT THE SUN»
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Shoot the sun?" he - exclaimed with six-year-old incredulity. “Why would you
wanna shoot the sun? Jonathan, come here! She's gonna shoot the sun! That sex
-thing is a gun!" War whoops followed. That evening, as I sat at the kitchen table,
my ...
I am training to shoot the sun by shooting at the sun. Would you now please be
so kind and let me continue my work?” The stranger really took a step backwards,
if only a small one. Still, he wasn't willing to give up on his curiosity that easy.
Bernhard Holzleitner, 2010
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How to Get Started on Ocean Sailing
You might also decide to invest in a programmed calculator (there are several on
the market) that saves looking through lots of tables and performing a number of
calculations. At a minimum, you should be able to shoot the sun and develop a ...
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Signal Charley Flaps, Wheels, Hook Down
stars at first light, at noon we shoot the sun; and at last light we shoot the stars
again. “Shooting” means using a sextant to measure the elevation of a celestial
body above the horizon. We use the sextant to obtain our position (latitude and ...
5
Sail South Till
the Butter Melts: Atlantic Adventures in an ...
Firstly, in a small boat when you shoot the sun with your sextant it is easy to
mistake the top of a wave for the horizon and get the wrong answer. His notion
was that you should count the waves so that you knew when you were on a large
one, ...
6
The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms
SHOOT THE SUN, To. To take its meridional altitude; literally aiming at the
reflected sun through the telescope of the instrument. “ Have you obtained a shot
?” applied to altitudes of the meridian, as for time, lunar distances, &0. SHORE. A
prop ...
William Henry Smyth, Edward Belcher, 2013
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Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing
the Cosmos
Today, amateurs can produce images that only twenty years ago a large professional observatory would have been proud of; and this book shows you how.
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Folk Tales of
the North-East
Who will shoot the sun? Nobody had the courage to face the mighty sun, and that
too two of them! All of them said they would get burnt. The people went about
asking everybody — the plants, the animals, the human beings. At last they found
...
Sudhamahi Regunathan, Subir Roy, 2007
After many meetings of the villagers, it was decided that the ten strongest warriors
would shoot the Sun back into the Sky. So the next morning, off marched the
chosen warriors to the baobab tree. "Oho!" they shouted to the Sun. "We'll chase
...
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A Broken Flute:
The Native Experience in Books for Children
Unpaginated, color illusrations; preschool- up; Shasta In this traditional Shasta
story filled with geographical references, Coyote decides to shoot the sun for
misleading him about the coming of spring. As usual his plans backfire; as he
goes ...
Doris Seale, Beverly Slapin, 2006
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Shoot the Sun Down: Director's Cut
Shot in the mid-70s and released near the end of the decade, Shoot the Sun Down is a hard movie to pin down. While it has hints of other popular '70s Western ... «DVD Talk, Oct 13»
