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This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). 1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday. 1979 - Events. 1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ... Including:

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Canoe - The parts of a canoe. Bow Stern Hull Seat Thwart (a horizontal crossbeam near the top of the hull) Gunwale (pronounced gunnel; the top edge of the hull) Deck (a compartment containing a foam block which prevents the canoe from sinking if capsized) Some canoes, particularly those used for extended trips, are equiped with a yoke across the center of the boat. It is designed to allow one person to carry the canoe, a ...

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The name Deep has a number of uses: deep (sports): either end of the playing surface. Deep - Articles with similar titles. The Deep is a 1975 novel by John Crowley. The Deep is a 1977 movie based on the 1976 book of the same name written by Peter Benchley. Deep is an album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy in 1990. The Deep a zone of the EverQuest extension The Shadows of Luclin< ... Including:

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A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has sufficient size to carry its own boats, such as lifeboats, dinghies, or runabouts. A rule of thumb saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can't fit on a boat". Often local law and regulation will define the exact size (or the number of masts) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note that one refers ... Including:

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British Broadcasting Company - Post Office stations. In Britain prior to 1922, the General Post Office retained exclusive rights given to it by government, to manage and control all means of mass communication with the exception of the printed word for which authority had devolved to another governmental entity. The foundation of the British system still revolves around a specific interpretation of the word station, which means a location. As such all Post Offices are located at stations, which is also tru ...

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Port of Boston - Ground transportation. The Port of Boston has access to I-90, I-93, I-95, and US 1. On-dock rail connections as well as a rail yard in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton serve the port. Port of Boston - Massport facilities. The public facilities, operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), are located in the neighborhoods of Charlestown, East Boston, and South Boston. Charlestown contains facilities for bulk cargo as well as for automobile ...

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1921 - January. January 1 - In American football, California defeats Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl. January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) January 2 - Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia - 244 dead January 2 - DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens. January 20 - Royal Navy K-boat K5 sinks in the English C ...

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*Ottawa-Hull is a special case in that it is divided by a provincial boundary and the Ontario and Québec grids are not interconnected in any way. Gatineau had power. 2003 North America blackout - Affected infrastructure. With the power fluctuations on the grid, power plants automatically went into "safe mode" to prevent damage in the case of an overload. This put much of the nuclear power normally available offline until those plants could be slowly taken out of "safe mode". In the meantime, the c ...

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One can measure ships in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), draft (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and tonnage. A number of different tonnage definitions exist; most measure volume rather than weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, taxation, etc. In Britain until the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, ship-owners could load their vessels until their deck ...

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1921 - February. February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842) February 26 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840) February 27 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871) 1921 - March. March 2 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841) 1921 - April. April 27 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863) 1921 - May. May 5 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nob ...

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According to system logs, a massive power fluctuation affected the transmission grid at 4:10:48 p.m. EDT. Between 4:12 and 4:15 p.m. EDT, outages were initially reported in Cleveland, Toledo, New York City, Albany, Detroit, and parts of New Jersey. This was followed by other areas initially unaffected, including all five boroughs of New York City and parts of Long Island, Westchester County, Rockland County, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, and most of Southern and Northeastern Ontario, including Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Sudbury and Londo ...

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