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The Chines drain water from the southern slopes of Brighstone Down and from as far as Shorwell to the east. The stream ( the Buddle Brook ) formed is significant enough to power two mills, Yafford Mill and Brighstone Mill , and where it finally drains into the sea the stream is at least four metres wide and is crossed by a small wooden footbridge.
Different numbers of chines. The simplest type of chine construction is the single-chine "V" shape, with two flat panels joined at the keel (A). This type of hull is among the simplest to build, but they lack stability on a narrow "V" and may lack freeboard on a wide "V".
Two Tigers is a popular traditional Mandarin nursery rhyme called "Liang Zhi Lao Hu" in Mandarin.Variations adopt the tune of the French melody "Frère Jacques ...
Les Deux Amants" (Old French: "Les Deus Amanz", English: "The Two Lovers") is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem, written by Marie de France sometime in the 12th century. The poem belongs to what is collectively known as The Lais of Marie de France. Like the other lais in the collection, "Les Deux Amants" is written in Old French, in ...
Ladder Chine. Ladder Chine is a geological feature on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England ( the Back of the Wight). [1] [2] It is west of the village of Chale.It is a sandy coastal ravine, one of a number of such chines on the island created by stream erosion of soft Cretaceous rocks.
"The Boy Who Wanted the Impossible" in Chinese Fables and Folk Stories. Mary Hayes Davis was working as a journalist for a major Chicago newspaper, when she met Reverend Chow Leung of the Central Baptist Chinese Mission. [8]
A hong (Chinese: 行; pinyin: háng; Jyutping: hong4-2) was a type of Chinese merchant establishment and its associated type of building. [1] Hongs arose in Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) as intermediaries between Western and Chinese merchants during the 18–19th century, under the Canton System.