Naval cadets were said to have refused to climb a 40-metre mast after a student fell off and died.
The mistake allowed the company to assume it had consent and - despite negotiations to find a different site - the mast went up towards the end of the year.
With a 52-foot mast, Deuce carries 840 square feet of sail, better than 12 times that of the more common, ubiquitous DN class of iceboat (named for a design contest sponsored by the Detroit News in the 1930s).
Thanik Maseepitak, a red businessman, erected a state-of-the-art radio mast and equipped a broadcasting studio in Khon Kaen early in 2010, only for it to be ruled illegal.
The turbines are "majestic and beautiful, " and on a clear day would appear "like a half-inch sailing mast on the horizon, " said Jim Gordon, the president of Energy Management, Cape Wind's developer.
The sail jerks up the 100-foot mast a few feet with each tug.
The whole idea of the fiscal cliff was a lash-ourselves-to-the-mast attempt at self-restraint.
"If he decided to join in late, we've got a turtle with his name -- almost, " Mast said.
The flag at Hampshire police HQ in Winchester is flying at half mast and officers will be holding a one-minute silence at 11:00 BST.
Flags were lowered to half-mast across Italy and the Italian Senate observed a minute of silence.
Gendarmes in the southwestern town of Samatan lowered their flag to half mast in a symbolic protest at pay, under-resourcing and what they see as inadequate support from the courts.
According to a leaked parliamentary report, several cadets on the Gorch Fock were reluctant to climb the mast in November following the death of a 25-year-old student - known only as Sarah S - during a stop-over in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
The loser of one popular game has to do a "forfeit, " such as singing "Puff the Magic Dragon" at the top of the mast, drinking beer through a snorkel and even swimming in shark-infested water.
This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera.
Mr. Babits, who had been aboard the HMS Bounty replica several times and has sailed on other tall-mast ships, said he didn't understand why the ship entered the path of a large storm that everyone knew was coming.
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