In past centuries, China was very innovative and developments included gun powder and the compass.
Suddenly we were coming about again, and I watched the compass needle whirl to its new heading.
Or is there some insidious problem looming, causing havoc with our previously extremely reliable navigation tool - the compass?
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"Eyes on the compass, Mr. Cruse, " the navigator, Mr. Domville, reminded me quietly.
Other cars arriving this fall: a redesigned midsize Chrysler Sebring and two new compact Jeep models, the Compass and Patriot.
In this regard, the points of the compass are like money, which has value only because men say that it does.
Then we will have the recess, and a chance to reset the compass and allow our government to govern this country again.
According to the compass screwed onto the bow, Max was sailing directly for it, due north-northwest, and yet the city lights were growing fainter.
For the first phase of this project, the USDA selected an initial list of 27 programs to use as examples for the Compass and map.
The Compass EMP Alternative Strategies Fund has no traditional US stock, international stock, or US bond that you sit and allocate hoping to make money.
The compass was invented by Chinese geomancers about 2200 years ago.
On a recent day in Lopez's third-grade English class in Miami, the students learned the four points of the compass by reading and acting out a poem.
Whether you're lost in the woods, driving through a city, or circumnavigating the globe, the compass is the tool that will help you find your way home.
The woman might have been interested in how my industry source, who had called sugar, fat, and salt the three points of the compass, described her entree.
Many disillusioned Republicans hoped that Mr McCain would provide a compass for a party that has lost its way, but now feel that the compass has gone haywire.
The compass didn't become commonplace in Europe until the mid-1200's.
Beyond the camp, at each point of the compass, Nepalese Gurkhas hired by DynCorp maintained sentry positions in foxholes and in sandbagged machine-gun nests on the roofs of trucks.
The Compass EMP Fund has three mutual funds, but talking about the Alternative Strategies Fund in particular, there are no traditional-what we call long-only-stock or bonds in the portfolio.
What we do cover is real news from every point of the compass including a lot of important American stories that the American news media rarely looks at, at all.
Compass View: for backcountry skiers and riders away from the comfort of a ski resort, the compass view allows them to navigate the traditional way, wherever they are on the mountain.
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The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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But the Compass currently does not do that.
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One of the latest to go on the market is the ComPass Card in Hong Kong, which works as a credit card, a bank and supermarket card, and even awards bonus points on the holder's birthday.
As you look around, the output from the camera appears on the heads-up display augmented with labels showing the location and distance of the nearby train stations based on the compass and GPS data from the goggles.
Instead, pick any point on the compass and strike out uptown, downtown or cross-town to find an altogether more authentic slice of city, along with plenty of evidence that keeping cool in summertime New York is far from thirsty work.
On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).
The Geographic pole is the top of the axis on which the earth spins, the Magnetic pole is where the compass points to, and the Arctic pole is the point on the Arctic Ocean furthest from any land.
It's joined by the LG GD880 we previously spotted in the wild, along with a slew of phones headed for Vodafone, including the Compass slider, and the Krystal (pictured after the break), which apparently packs displays on both sides and some augmented reality-type features (like on the fly translation of newspapers).
This is what I do, this was as close to the wild core of me as I could ever hope to get: I follow the compass of my heart, venturing off the map, making connections, asking questions, going deeper, trying to penetrate the essence of a place so that I can understand it better and bring back precious pieces to share.
The compass was also invented in China, and records exist of how a great fleet was sent under the command of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century to show the Chinese imperial flag in the ports of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, a fleet said to be the largest seen in the world up to that time.
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