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test Test Act in the UK, an act in force between 1673 and 1828 that made an oath of allegiance to the Church of England and the supremacy of the monarch as its head and repudiation of the doctrine of transubstantiation a condition of eligibility for public office.
Test Act also designates an act of 1871 relaxing restrictions on university entrance for candidates who were not members of the Church of England.
Test-Ban Treaty an international agreement not to test nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space, or under water, signed in 1963 by the US, the UK, and the USSR, and later by more than 100 governments.
test match an international cricket or rugby match, typically one of a series, played between teams representing two different countries; the term is first recorded in an account of five cricket test matches played between England and Australia in the season of 1861–2.
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ROARING FORTIES BLUE CHEESE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/19/2006; ; 515 words
; ...reporting error, a story about Roaring Forties blue cheese in Wednesday's...Diners who read the phrase "Roaring Forties" on a menu might think: Wasn...but in Australia, home of Roaring Forties Blue Cheese, the reference is...
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Sail: Time for the Roaring Forties in Vendee Globe
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 11/30/2004; 461 words
; ...30-2004 Sail: Time for the Roaring Forties in Vendee Globe PARIS, Nov 30...they entered the southern ocean Roaring Forties with its expected succession...a key moment arriving in the Roaring Forties. "I may appear to be calm and...
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"The Roaring Forties"
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 7/1/2005; ; 282 words
; Griffiths, Tom. "The Roaring Forties." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture...the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. "The roaring forties," named for latitude, were the earliest and most...
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Roaring Forties No 5
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/4/1998; 241 words
; Roaring Forties No 5: One of the five free-fall lifeboats on the Nelson platform in the Forties region of the North Sea. In an emergency the boats are boarded from the stern and plunge from their slipways straight into the sea, surfacing about...
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Roaring Forties 6: Crew members relaxing in Tea Shack
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/5/1998; 226 words
; Roaring Forties 6: Crew members relax in the utilitarian surroundings of the Tea Shack. There are 110 shift-workers on Nelson at any one time Neville Elder
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Roaring Forties No 3
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/2/1998; 238 words
; Roaring Forties No 3: The supply ship Skand: Hawk moored alongside the Nelson platform in the North Sea. The ship makes an eight-hour trip from Aberdeen every six days carrying provisions for the crew and materials for the running of the platform Neville Elder
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Roaring Forties.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 7/14/2009; 427 words
; Bev De Meyer performs solo keyboards and vocals at the CS Cable Restorer on The Roaring Forties floating restaurant on Sunday at noon. Expect jazz standards and contemporary tunes. Tickets are R130 and include a three-course...
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Thomson at the mercy of Roaring Forties after keel damage ; SAILING
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/24/2006; ; 386 words
; ...British yachtsman Alex Thomson was under way last night as compatriot and rival Mike Golding battled upwind against the Roaring Forties gales and big seas of the Southern Ocean to pick him up. Thomson, from Gosport, was still aboard Hugo Boss as it...
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Give them a wave, a huge wave The Sydney-Hobart race is an epic test of sailing nerve and skill in the teeth of the Roaring Forties. Ben Ross is blown away
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/29/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...first to prove that it existed, and therefore that Tasmania was an island - the Bass Strait is in the path of the Roaring Forties, a band of wind that runs round the world and produces changeable weather and, on occasion, horrifically rough...
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Sailing: Difficult to break away in battle of weather boffins Grant Dalton (left), the skipper of Club Med, has close company in The Race as he faces a severe test of his sails in the Roaring Forties
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...halfway to Australia and a lot can happen. Everyone is fit and strong as we turn left to join the beltway which is the Roaring Forties and Screaming Fifties, though, at the moment, I don't see us going much further than 52 South. So the sails...
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roaring forties
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
roaring forties name applied, especially by sailors, to the latitudes between 40°S and 50°S, where the prevailing westerly winds are strong and steady. Unlike the winds in the Northern Hemisphere, those in the roaring forties are not impeded by large land areas.
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Roaring Forties
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Roaring Forties, the area in the southern hemisphere between the latitudes of 40° and 50° S. where the prevailing wind blows...
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forties
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
forties the Forties is a name for the central North Sea between Scotland and southern Norway, so called from its prevailing depth of forty fathoms or more. see also hungry forties , the roaring forties .
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roaring
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
roaring do a roaring trade do very good business. the roaring forties stormy ocean tracts between latitudes 40° and 50° south; the name is recorded from the late 19th century.
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Broadway
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...manager before turning to playwriting. He originally wrote Broadway as A Little White Guy , then it was produced as The Roaring Forties , then as Bright Lights , before the play was put into final form by Abbott at Harris's suggestion. Dunning's...
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