GPS
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GPS, or global positioning system, is a US-government-owned
satellite navigation system. Receivers on board constantly calculate a vessel's position based on signals received from at least three of the 24 satellites orbiting at about 20,000 kilometres (12,500 mls.) above the earth. It was invented by two American scientists, Ivan A. Getting (1912–2003) and Bradford W. Parkinson (b. 1935). When the first GPS satellites were launched in 1978, it was initially a military system, but a degraded version was made available for civilian use in 1984 and during the 1990s GPS became widely available for many civilian purposes including
navigation at sea and
marine archaeology. The Russians have developed a similar system called Glonass. In 2004 the European Union came to an agreement with the USA whereby the 30 satellites of the EU's new Galileo system will be compatible with GPS. Galileo is due to come into operation in 2008.
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Edward Alleyn, the new model actor, and the rise of the celebrity in the 1590s.
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...than any other--shaped Edward Alleyn's career, elevating...broadest sense the career of Edward Alleyn fashioned a new and powerful...seventeen years old, Edward's talent had earned...who played alongside Alleyn at various points later...
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Jonson's Epigram 89, to Edward Alleyn.(Ben Jonson to Edward Alleyn )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...so great example dye in me, That Alleyn, I should pause to publish thee...live. Ben Jonson's epigram for Edward Alleyn is generally accepted as a graceful...actor of the age. Jonson compares Alleyn to his great forebears Roscius and...
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Cheerful Givers: Henslowe, Alleyn, and the 1612 Loan Book to the Crown.
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...including John Donne (who just over a decade later became Edward Alleyn's father-in-law), Fulke Greville, and Robert...alchemist, and rosicrucian.(5) Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn appear together on fol. 140(4) under the section...
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Marlowe, company ownership, and the role of Edward II.
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...will argue that the key is Edward Alleyn. Marlowe, having developed...I suggest that he still had Alleyn in mind when he wrote Edward II, even though Pembroke...company, Richard Burbage, not Edward Alleyn, would have debuted the part...
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Dulwich MS. XX, The Telltale: clues to provenance.(Articles)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; THE papers of Edward Alleyn at his College of God's Gift at Dulwich...general. The documents remaining in the Alleyn papers indeed comprise a great treasure...what once must have been contained in Alleyn's and Henslowe's "papers" relating...
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'The college of God's gift'
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...because of its founder in 1619, Edward Alleyn, who played all those 'over-reaching' heroes in Marlowe's plays. Alleyn's presence on the stage might even...Marlowe to write these parts. It was Alleyn who first declaimed, 'Was this...
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Letter to the Editor: Shakespeare was no plagiarist
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/25/1998; 514 words
; ...which precisely lampoons the great Edward Alleyn. Alleyn was not only known as...blank verse as the best of you." Alleyn had refused to lend any more money...See my "Christopher Marlowe and Edward Alleyn" (1993), Chapter VII, "Johannes...
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RADIO CHOICE.(Radio program review)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/27/2006; 386 words
; ...THE start of the 17th century, Edward Alleyn was the toast of Jacobean theatre...script - had a profound effect on Alleyn and it led him to transform his...Today's sparky Afternoon Play, Edward Alleyn's Devil (Radio 4, 2.15pm...
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Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London.(Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...IN 1618, the actor-entrepreneur Edward Alleyn totaled up his yearly expenses...all]."(1) In comparison with Alleyn's other annual expenses his legal...it cost to run Dulwich College, Alleyn's combination orphanage-pensioner...
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The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...IN 1618, the actor-entrepreneur Edward Alleyn totaled up his yearly expenses...all]."(1) In comparison with Alleyn's other annual expenses his legal...it cost to run Dulwich College, Alleyn's combination orphanage-pensioner...
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Edward Alleyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edward Alleyn , 1566-1626, English actor. He was the foremost member of the Admiral's Men , joining the group c.1587, and was the only...
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Alleyn, Edward
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Alleyn, Edward (1566–1626), an actor ( R. Burbage's chief rival) and partner of Henslowe , with whom he built the Fortune Theatre...
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Ngaio Marsh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...stories, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Marsh chose this name as a tribute to her father...attended Dulwich College, founded by Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn. Roderick Alleyn, like the famous Lord Peter Wimsey character created...
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Admiral's Men
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Elizabethan company which, with Edward Alleyn as their star actor, was the only...into an independent company under Alleyn. They had a large repertory of plays...or forgotten. The retirement of Alleyn in 1597 was a great blow, but in...
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Fortune Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...Fortune Theatre, London.1. In Golden Lane, Cripplegate. This was built in 1600 for Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe to house the Admiral's Men , of whom Alleyn was the leading actor. It was erected by Peter Street, who also built the first...
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