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  2. Weather vane - Wikipedia

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    The weather vane is a retired Douglas DC-3 CF-CPY atop a swiveling support. Located at the Yukon Transportation Museum [18] beside Whitehorse International Airport, the weather vane is used by pilots to determine wind direction, used as a landmark by tourists and enjoyed by locals. The weather vane only requires a 5 knot wind to rotate. [19]

  3. Father Time (Lord's) - Wikipedia

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    Father Time is a weathervane at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in the shape of Father Time removing the bails from a wicket. The full weathervane is 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) tall, with the figure of Father Time standing at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m). [1] It was given to Lord's in 1926 by the architect of the Grandstand, Sir Herbert Baker.

  4. Old Thomas - Wikipedia

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    A weather vane, the figure of an old warrior called Old Thomas was put on top of the spire of Tallinn Town Hall in 1530. According to the legend, the model for the weather vane was a peasant boy from the countryside who excelled at the springtime contests involving firing crossbow bolts at a painted wooden parrot on top of a pole , organized by ...

  5. Shem Drowne - Wikipedia

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    Faneuil Hall weathervane. Deacon Shem Drowne (December 4, 1683 – January 13, 1774) was a colonial coppersmith and tinplate worker in Boston, Massachusetts, and was America's first documented weathervane maker. He is most famous for the grasshopper weathervane atop of Faneuil Hall, well known as a symbol of Boston.

  6. Söderala vane - Wikipedia

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    On stylistic grounds it has been dated to c. 1050, and scholars believe it was originally made to be used as a weather vane on a Viking ship. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Comparisons with other Viking-age vanes and analysis of mentions of such vanes in the Icelandic sagas indicate that a vane of this size and splendour may have been made for a large ship like a ...

  7. Vanes Pagasts, Kandavas Novads Weather - AOL

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    Get the Vanes Pagasts, Kandavas Novads local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.

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