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The Windmill Islands were mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946–47. So named by the US-ACAN because personnel of Operation Windmill, 1947–48, landed on Holl Island at the southwest end of the group to establish ground control for USN Operation Highjump photographs. The term "Operation Windmill" is a popular ...
Quercus brantii, Brant's oak, [4] is a species of oak native to Western Asia, mainly in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. [5] [6] Quercus brantii (covering more than 50% of the Zagros Mountains forest steppe ecoregion) is the most important tree species of the Zagros in Iran. [7] Iranians use its seed in traditional medicine.
It is the oldest windmill on the island of Montreal and one of 18 remaining windmills in Quebec. [ 1 ] Like most mills in New France it was built to a French design, a cylindrical stone tower with a movable roof which could be turned by a tail pole to face the sails to the wind.
The cultivar group Trachycarpus fortunei 'Wagnerianus' is a small-leafed semi-dwarf variant of the species selected in cultivation in China and Japan. It differs in rarely growing to more than 5 m (16 ft) tall, with leaflets less than 45 cm (1 ft 6 in) long; the short stature and small leaves give it greater tolerance of wind exposure. [3]
Written for a young-adult audience, [1] the book is divided into chapters that each teach a specific life lesson. [2] It begins with an unnamed narrator from the real world, whose gender Brooks does not identify, [1] arriving at a deserted island and finding that they are stuck in the world of Minecraft. They are forced to learn how this ...
Windmill Island during Tulip Time 2005. In 1964, the City of Holland purchased the windmill De Zwaan from a retired miller in the town of Vinkel in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. The windmill was shipped from the Netherlands to the port of Muskegon, Michigan on the ship Prins Willem van Oranje. It was brought by truck from ...
Windmill Location Type Built Notes Photograph Harbor Mill Block Island: Smock: c. 1810 Blown down 1938 Littlefield Mill Block Island 1877: Standing 1900 Bristol: Smock: 1797: Moved to Fairhaven, Massachusetts 1821. Bristol Smock: Mid-18th century: Moved to Fall River, Massachusetts: William Boyd's Mill Bristol Blown down 1815. East Street
Southold was a center of windmill building activity by the golden Age of smock mills, 1795-1820. A smock windmill still stands, the Sylvesters (1810) of Shelter Island. The Peconic windmill (1840) was neglected after the 1898 storm and razed in 1906. A replica windmill was restored in Aquebogue that is a copy of the 1804 "Pantigo" smock mill. [22]