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March 2021
Traditional Celestial Navigation
Traditional Celestial Navigation Winter 2021: Register Mar 1, 2, 3: Pacific session A fast-paced introduction to standard celestial navigation as it was practiced in the latter half of the 20th century, before the introduction of electronic tools like calculators and other computing devices. Pure paper and pencil methods using tables like H.O.229 and H.O.249 and three-star plots for a fix by the "intercept method" (also known as the Marcq St. Hilaire method). Details of the modern Nautical Almanac are covered, too. This workshop is…
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Christmas Day
Stephen's Day, Boxing Day. Christmas (or the Feast of the Nativity) is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
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New Years Day
New Year's Day, also simply called New Year, is observed on 1 January, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar. In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named.
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