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5 unusual facts about keel


An Caol

Keel, County Mayo (Irish Gaelic: An Caol), a town on Achill Island, Ireland.

Calhoun Allen

Allen won a lopsided victory in the Democratic primary over KEEL radio general manager Marie Gifford (1917-2004), a native of Oklahoma who stressed downtown revitalization and civil rights.

Keel

It has the distinction of being regarded by some scholars as the very first word in the English language recorded in writing, having been recorded by Gildas in his 6th century Latin work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, under the spelling cyulae (he was referring to the three ships that the Saxons first arrived in).

Canting keels can be found on racing yachts, such as those competing in the Volvo Ocean Race.

Rhett Forrester

He also recorded an album with ex-Keel Bryan Jay's(real name Bryan Hongola) band "Dogbone".


Bronstein-class frigate

This class was a new design from the keel up, incorporating the FRAM improvements, and was specifically designed to operate the DASH drone helicopter.

Canting keel

This would have given Alinghi an advantage over its challenger for the 2007 America's Cup, unless the challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand, also had a swinging keel.

Catopsilia pyranthe

Pupa: "Much stouter (i.e. than that of Eurema hecabe, and the keel formed by the wing-cases much less pronounced. The normal colour is pale green with a yellow lateral line. We have never found it on any plant except Senna occidentalis. It habitually rests on the upperside along the midrib, like almost all Pierine larvae."

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Dasia griffini

Dasia griffini, commonly known as Griffin's keel-scaled tree skink, is a species of tree skink endemic to central and northern Palawan and southern Mindoro in the Philippines.

Deep Sea Drilling Project

The Levingston Shipbuilding Company laid the keel of the Glomar Challenger on October 18, 1967, in Orange, Texas.

Frederick Keel

In 1902 Keel married Dora Compton, the second daughter of the English-born German landscape painter and mountain climber, Edward Theodore Compton.

During World War I, Keel was held in the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben in Germany, where he played an active role in the camp's musical life, giving many recitals to help boost the morale of his fellow detainees.

Keel himself was arrested and became one of several notable musicians detained at the Ruhleben internment camp near Berlin, where he immediately found himself sharing barracks with fellow composer and RAM colleague Benjamin Dale.

While in Munich that Keel became fascinated by folk music, an interest which blossomed on his return to England where he was able to meet fellow enthusiasts such as Lucy Broadwood, J A Fuller Maitland and, eventually, Cecil Sharp.

Geno Arce

During its five year lifetime IronHorse performed all throughout the United States opening for bands such as “The Outlaws and Ted Nugent” In 2008 Geno Joined the all original lineup of Keel consisting of Ron Keel, Marc Ferrari, Bryan Jay, Dwain Miller and replacing basses Kenny Chaisson.

George W. Crawford

On November 16, 1943 the keel was laid for the SS George Walker Crawford, a liberty ship built by the J.A. Jones Construction Company in Brunswick, Georgia honoring Crawford for his service to the state of Georgia.

GSL-class offshore patrol vessel

Thereafter keel-laying ceremony of the first of the new class offshore patrol vessels was held at Vasco, on 28 September 2012.

Hedysarum

Vexillum is longer than the wings, with an obtuse keel longer or rarely shorter than the wings.

HMS Friday

Her keel was laid on a Friday, she was launched on a Friday, and she set sail on her maiden voyage on Friday the 13th, under the command of a Captain James Friday.

Icebreaker

Built on the orders of merchant and shipbuilder Mikhail Britnev, it had the bow altered to achieve an ice-clearing capability (20° raise from keel line).

John Keel

The book combines Keel's account of receiving strange phone calls with reports of mutilated pets and culminates with the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River.

Leslie Keel

Leslie Keel born Leslie Grace Keel (September 1, 1974) has worked as production designer on numerous independent films such as May, April's Shower, and Dead Birds, and in the art departments of many others, including The Rat Pack and My Father's House.

Mike Fink Keel Boats

The Mike Fink Keel Boats were based on the Walt Disney television shows, later made into feature length movies, Davy Crockett's Keel Boat Race and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.

MV Kalia

Originally called the Bitten Theresa, construction on the ship began on February 28, 1998, when its keel was laid in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.

Rikers Island

The keel for the Vernon C. Bain was laid in 1989 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans.

Saintoise

The traditional saintoise is constructed from several types of wood to create the hull (spruce for the keel, mahogany for the edges and the floor, Tabebuia pallida for members and bow).

San Rafael Reserve of Manageable Resources

The park is also the only place in Paraguay where there have been sightings of the “morena” eagle or “harpía”, maracaná, red and blue parrot, yacutinga, yellow toucan and golden woodpecker, among others.

SS Arthur M. Huddell

SS Arthur M Huddel, IMO: 5025706, is a Liberty ship built by St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company with keel laid 25 October 1943 and the yard workers working overtime to launch on 7 December 1943 and complete outfitting nine days later.

Stephen Keel

On May 29, 2010 Keel scored Portland's second goal in a 3-2 come from behind victory over Argentina’s Boca Juniors in a friendly played at PGE Park.

Terry Keel

He went into a runoff with the incumbent Charles Holcomb, who prevailed with 89,376 votes (53.62%) to Keel's 77,291(46.37%).

The Friendly Skies

Additionally, Richard Hatem revealed in the DVD commentary that Alva Keel living in apartment 29 is an homage to Jim Rockford, the main character in Hatem's favorite television series The Rockford Files, who lived at 29 Cove Road.

The Keel Row

The writer Rudyard Kipling mentioned the tune in one of his accounts of army life in India under the British Raj: "The man who has never heard the 'Keel Row' rising high and shrill above the sound of the regiment...has something yet to hear and understand".

Due to its quick beat, the tune of "The Keel Row" is used as the trot march of the Life Guards of the Household Cavalry as well as of the Royal Horse Artillery.

Truly Blessed

Phyllis Yvonne, Marva King, Mark Philosit, Michelle Kornegay, Annette Hardeman, Jacqueline Gregory, Paula Holloway, Charlene Holloway, Minnie Curry, Terry Price, Darryl Phinnessee, Dorian Holley, Jim Gilstrap, Julia Tiltman Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Wendy Fraser, Rosalind Keel, Fred White, Phyllis St James, Portia Griffin, Joey Diggs, Solomon Henderson Jr., Keith Jones, Sheila Lakin, Bridgent Potts, Ron Monroe, John Kee, Andrea Deese, Clarissa Rhodes, Jeanette Taylor - backing vocals

Warwick Collins

After leaving university, Collins became a yacht designer and invented and patented the tandem keel, which was conceived to create high performance at low draft, but which also remains one of the radical keels in the America's Cup.


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