horse latitudes
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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horse latitudes, areas of the ocean between
latitudes 30° and 35° which lie between the generally westerly winds of the higher latitudes and the
trade winds, usually areas of prolonged calms. The name is said to come from the act of throwing the ‘
dead horse’ overboard. This was because, in the days of
square-riggers, it took, from the start of the voyage to sailing clear of these areas of calm, about the same amount of time as it did for seamen to work off the advance of pay they had received on signing their
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Where the winds get lost. (Horse Latitudes)
Magazine article from: Yachting; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Horse Latitudes. The Horse Latitudes are a series of semi-permanent...understand how the Horse Latitudes are formed, picture the...regions. At 30 to 35 degrees latitude, some of this cooling air...the world's oceans, the Horse Latitudes, per se, apply mainly ...
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Horse latitudes.(long term care insurance)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Life & Health; 1/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...been going through the horse latitudes? The horse latitudes, according...vessels transporting horses to the West Indies often...effect, thrown their horses overboard (i.e...exited the business (horse overboard!), another...
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Paul Muldoon. Horse Latitudes.(The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures)(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Paul Muldoon. Horse Latitudes. New York. Farrar, Straus &...His latest volume of poems is called Horse Latitudes. It has nothing to do with...The title of his new book of poems, Horse Latitudes, isn't a place, so it...
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Horse Latitudes: Poems.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 5/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; Horse Latitudes: Poems. By Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus...fathoms, but still remarkable to behold. Horse Latitudes, Muldoon's first book since...understandable but severe. Most readers of Horse Latitudes will find a powerful if troubled...
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The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures/Horse Latitudes
Magazine article from: Poetry; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Muldoon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30.00. Horse Latitudes, by Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...poems, Muldoon has a new book of those out as well: Horse Latitudes, which is less interesting, because less singular...
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Paul Muldoon's carryings on.(Horse Latitudes, The End of the Poem, General Admission)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; PAUL MULDOON Horse Latitudes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007...to call his "corpus," given that in Horse Latitudes the end of art, as of war...by an excrescent "n," manifests in Horse Latitudes a problem with language that...
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In praise of the poetic problem ; The End of the Poem By Paul Muldoon FABER [pound]25 (406pp) ++ Horse Latitudes By Paul Muldoon FABER [pound]14.99 (107pp)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/15/2006; ; 659 words
; ...back to his poems. Horse Latitudes, his 10th collection...ships transporting horses to the West Indies...of water meant the horses had to be thrown overboard. But "Horse Latitudes" is also...Centuries. Thus Horse Latitudes encompasses...
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Horse Latitudes
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 4/1/2007; ; 397 words
; Horse Latitudes, by Paul Muldoon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2006. $22 Horse Latitudes, released concurrently with Muldoon...days when Spanish vessels transported horses to the West Indies, would throw their...
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MacNeice knew when to stop ; POETRY ++ Horse Latitudes By Paul Muldoon FABER [pound]14.99
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/5/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...a pun as Paul Muldoon goes horse, you can't help wondering...an immediate warning: "The horse latitudes designate [ie are] an area...sailors traditionally threw horses overboard to conserve food...watched an old white horse cross the picket / of himself...
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Books: A swampy tale deep in the heart of Essex James Urquhart can't find the focus of a bold voyage from colonial forests to the ruins of Stansted Airport; Horse Latitudes by Jay Merrick Fourth Estate, pounds 10.99, 276pp
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/27/1999; ; 542 words
; ...commission to fetch two horses from the mysterious...easy comparison between Horse Latitudes and Heart of Darkness...ridden return with the horses, and his embarcation...distressing transport of the horses is sharp and exciting, taken as a whole, Horse Latitudes remains just...
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horse latitudes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...latitudes two belts of latitude where winds are light...migration of the sun. The horse latitudes are associated with...Capricorn." The term horse latitudes supposedly originates...vessels transported horses to the West Indies...mid-ocean in this latitude, thus severely ...
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horse
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...type of strength. (See also horses .) horse chestnut the fruit of this...remedy for chest diseases in horses, and the name (recorded from...botanical Latin Castanea equina . Horse Guards in the UK, the mounted...for ceremonial duties. horse latitudes a belt of calm air and sea...
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dead horse
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...adrift, the money being divided among the crew. To flog a dead horse , to expect, vainly, to get extra work out of a ship's crew while they are working off the dead horse. See also horse latitudes .
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wind
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pressure known as the horse latitudes , regions of descending...of the horse-latitude belts toward the 60° latitude belts of low pressure...the 60° latitude belts of low pressure...of the temperate latitudes), t
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Atmospheric Circulation
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...circulation belts over the middle latitudes between 30 degrees and 60...also occur at 30 degrees latitude where Hadley cells and Ferrell...regions were given the name horse latitudes by sailors bringing horses to the Americas. Stranded...flows back to 60 degrees latitude north and ...
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