Rites of passage
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A man tells of testing the stability of a 20-foot Willard Albury-built boat called the 'Abaco' by running it through several hundred miles of rivers. The boat's motor performed smoothly during the 61-hour-1,200-mile trip beginning from Palm City and ending in Georgetown, Md.
Publication Name: Motor Boating & Sailing
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 0027-1799
Year: 1998
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Happy birthday, Moon Pie!
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The Chattanooga Bakery Co of Tennessee made the large, chocolate covered cookies to sell to hungry coal miners in 1917. The Moon Pie has been so popular in the Southern states songs and books have been written about the snack.
Publication Name: Americana
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0090-9114
Year: 1992
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Stable on-line creation of sines or cosines of successive angles
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Sines or cosines can be created on-line with only two tables of length log2 N. This method requires one multiplication and one addition per step.
Publication Name: Proceedings of the IEEE
Subject: Electronics
ISSN: 0018-9219
Year: 1987
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