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unusual facts about cutter


Beautiful Kate

Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg; this was the first novel by Thornburg used for a movie since Cutter's Way (1981).


1840–50 Atlantic hurricane seasons

The schooner revenue cutter Vigilant, USRC Vigilant, was lost off Key West during this hurricane on the 4th and 5th.

Airdrop

The 15,000 pound (6,800 kg) BLU-82, nicknamed the "Daisy Cutter" for its ability to turn a dense forest into a helicopter landing zone in a single blast, was used in Vietnam and recently in Afghanistan.

Alf Wallis

Born at North Carlton in Melbourne to carpenter William Wallis and Mary Ann, née Gorman, he attended state schools at Horsham and Moreland before becoming a cutter's apprentice and journeyman.

Arthur LeSueur

In 1880, Arthur left the family farm and moved to Arvilla, North Dakota, where he worked as a wood-cutter in the winter months and a grain thresher during the harvest season.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Back screen

"Outside" implies that the cutter is closer to the sideline than the screener.

Boats that Built Britain

# "Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter" - Cunliffe sails the 1904 built Cariad, an example of a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, considered by many to be the finest sailing boat design ever

Cambridge Gulf

On September 17, 1819 Philip Parker King on the survey cutter HMS Mermaid, who was mapping the entire north Australian coastline, had landed at Lacrosse Island, from where he noticed a "deep opening" to the south.

Charles Ammi Cutter

Along with classmate Charles Noyes Forbes, Cutter rearranged the library collection on the shelves into broad subject categories during the 1857-58 school year.

Charleston Naval Shipyard

In 1931, Ellicott Dredges delivered the 20-inch cutter dredge Orion still in operation at the old Charleston Naval Shipyard.

Chloe Frazer

Chloe returns in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, working with Nate, Sully and new character Charlie Cutter to infiltrate the inner circle of Katherine Marlowe, who possesses the clues about the details of Sir Francis Drake's voyage to Arabia.

Diamond industry in Israel

Since the fifteenth century, when an Antwerp Jewish diamond cutter Lodewyk van Berken invented the scaif, diamond cutting was one of traditional Jewish crafts.

Dredge suction mouth

The dredge suction mouth is a Cutter Suction Dredger component positioned behind the cutter head of a CSD during extraction of non-cohesive material from the sea bottom.

Edmund Ser

He studied tailoring from a master cutter who fashioned clothes for Queen Elizabeth II.

Evelyn Temple Emmett

His father was a pioneer farmer, prospector and track-cutter, a colourful and multi-faceted personality.

GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast

The basic operational concept bears some similarity to the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, which was used to clear heavily wooded areas in the Vietnam War and in Iraq to clear mines and later as a psychological weapon against the Iraqi military.

Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen

"The Turf Cutter" - composed by Paddy O'Brien (of Daingean, Co. Offaly, and Saint Paul, Minnesota, in honor of his late father Christy O'Brien);

Henry DiSpirito

He settled in Utica, New York, where he worked as a stone cutter and took lessons at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute.

Hopley

Hopley Yeaton (1739–1812), the first officer commissioned into the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service

Invincible Super Man Zambot 3

Armed with fire balls from the mouth, can use the pedal like dish can form into a horn while protecting the head in a similar fashion to Gabura from the original Ultraman, a thick shell that can deflect regular laser attacks and projectiles as well as break the Zambo Cutter, can launch missiles from the cannons on its shoulders, and emit electrical pulses from its body.

Itasca

Itascatown, an historical settlement on Howland Island named after the United States Coast Guard Cutter Itasca (see below)

James Alderman

On the afternoon of August 7, 1927, Alderman and his associate Robert Weech were intercepted by a Coast Guard cutter in the waters between Florida and Bimini.

James Fitzjames

Fitzjames served detached duty on a cutter, the Hind, sailing twice to Constantinople, and on HMS Madagascar, during which time the Madagascar conveyed Otto of Greece from Trieste to Nauplia where Otto was crowned King of Greece.

Japanese submarine I-12

I-12 was sunk by the US minesweeper Ardent and the USCG cutter Rockford on 13 November 1944, 10 days after the sinking of the John A. Johnson, near Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.

Keweenaw Underwater Preserve

One of the most recent large boats on the Great Lakes to be a total loss, the former United States Coast Guard cutter Mesquite, grounded off Keweenaw in 1989 and is now a diveable wreck in this preserve.

Klaus Moje

Moje became a journeyman glass cutter and worked in his family's shop until he received a scholarship to study glass art in Rheinbach and then in Hadamar.

La León

On an island in the Paraná Delta of Argentina, Álvaro (Román) works as a fisherman and a reed cutter.

Library Journal

In its early issues, Charles Cutter, creator of the Cutter Expansive Classification system, developed his ideas; R. R. Bowker discussed cataloging principles; and managing editor Melvil Dewey made recommendations for early library circulation systems.

Luis Piedrabuena

From the remains of the ship with much difficulty he built the small cutter "Luisito", sailing it to Punta Arenas.

Marmaduke Stalkartt

Stalkartt's Naval architecture (1781) was divided into seven books: 'Of Whole-Moulding'; 'Of the Yacht'; 'Of the Sloop'; 'Of the Forty-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Seventy-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Cutter, and Ending of the Lines'; and 'Of the Frigate'.

Melvin A. Cook

His work on slurry explosives paved the way for the development of the BLU-82, nicknamed the "Daisy Cutter" (because of its use in Vietnam to clear helicopter landing zones), one of the largest and most powerful conventional bombs in the U.S. military inventory, using aluminized slurry.

MV Antarctic Dream

The ship was christened Piloto Pardo, after Luis Pardo, the captain of the cutter Yelcho, which rescued the stranded men of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition from Elephant Island, Antarctica, in August 1916.

Negative cutting

The negative cutter will translate the Timecode in the EDL list to edge numbers (keykode) using specially designed negative cutting software to find which shot is needed from the rushes negative.

Non Nước

Non Nước Village, marble cutter village and caves near the beach in Da Nang.

Oskar Speck

On release, Speck worked as an opal cutter at Lightning Ridge, before moving to Sydney and establishing a successful career as an opal merchant.

Överskärargränd

Överskärargränd (Swedish: "Cloth Finisher's Alley" or, literally, "Over-cutter's Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Paul Clark

Paul Leaman Clark, World War 2 beachmaster who had a Sentinel-class cutter named in his honor

Paul M. Blayney

He has served as a cutter and patrol boat commander and is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College.

Peter Firmin

Charlotte is also an illustrator; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury; Katy,who works for a farmers' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy,a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

Radiata Stories

During an interview, Roppyaku Tsurumi of SCEJ said most Japanese RPG character designs were cookie-cutter and indistinct noting "Even when I look at the characters in Radiata Stories, it just looks like the other games" but he had no problems distinguishing manga characters.

Ring of Brodgar

The first formal survey of the Ring of Brodgar and surrounding antiquities was performed in 1849 by Royal Navy Captain F.W.L. Thomas of HM cutter Woodlark.

Rocks and Shoals

Rocks and Shoals plays a major part in the first quarter of the Tom Clancy novel Clear and Present Danger, when the captain of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter decides to try a pair of pirates under its rules for rape and murder.

Shershen-class torpedo boat

Designated as TKAs (ru. Torpednyy Kater; eng. Torpedo Cutter), the Project 183 boats were designed as simple fast attack craft suitable for cheap manufacture and easy maintenance.

Siege of Derry

On 28 July, under the orders of Major General Percy Kirke, three armed merchant ships, Mountjoy, Phoenix and Jerusalem (a cutter) sailed toward the boom, protected by the frigate HMS Dartmouth under Captain John Leake.

SolveSpace

Preparing CAM data – Export 2D vector art for a waterjet machine or laser cutter; or generate STEP or STL, for import into third-party CAM software

Spaulding Wooden Boat Center

In May 2007, Lin and Larry Pardey loaned the foundry casting patterns for their Lyle Hess-designed 30 foot cutter Taleisin to the safe keeping and management of the SWBC.

Three Little Fishies

In Force of Habit, the 15h episode of the 1982-1983 television show Tales of the Gold Monkey, the main character, an ex Flying Tiger named Jake Cutter, played by Stephen Collins, sings the song in the middle of a storm to keep morale up in his plane.

United States Coast Guard Yard

After completing an extensive, four-year repair project on the Coast Guard Cutter Barque Eagle in the 1980s, the cutter returned to the yard in 1995 and 1998 for repair availabilities.

USCGC Active

For ships named Active that served in the United States Revenue Cutter Service, predecessor to the United States Coast Guard, see USRC Active.


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