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  2. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Drawings of tattoos, including initials, hearts, and an anchor, recorded in protection papers [5]: 529 There is a persistent myth that tattoos on European sailors originated with Captain James Cook's crew, who were tattooed in Tahiti in 1769, but Cook brought only the word tattoo to Europeans, not the practice itself.

  3. Nautical star - Wikipedia

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    Nautical star. The nautical star is a symbolic star representing the North Star, associated with the sea services of the United States armed forces and with tattoo culture. It is usually rendered as a five-pointed star in dark and light shades counterchanged in a style similar to a compass rose.

  4. Sailors' superstitions - Wikipedia

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    Another example of superstitions is the North Star (nautical star or compass rose); sailors had the belief that by wearing this symbol it would help them to find his or her way home. [59] Sailors designed mariner motifs of their own, according to their travel experiences in the ocean.

  5. Stone Island - Wikipedia

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    Stone Island is an Italian luxury fashion house specialised in men's apparel, outerwear, and accessories headquartered in Ravarino, Emilia-Romagna.Its core branding includes a nautical star and compass, both of which is printed or overlaid atop a button-on cloth badge with green, yellow, and black detailing.

  6. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    The American Academy of Dermatology distinguishes five types of tattoos: traumatic tattoos that result from injuries, such as asphalt from road injuries or pencil lead; amateur tattoos; professional tattoos, both via traditional methods and modern tattoo machines; cosmetic tattoos, also known as "permanent makeup"; and medical tattoos.

  7. Mau Piailug - Wikipedia

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    Mau's Carolinian star compass (pictured) is the basis for Nainoa's modern Hawaiian star compass. Apart from the bulk of training, which happens at sea, historically boys were taught in the men's house with pebbles, shells, or pieces of coral, representing stars, laid on the sand in a circular pattern.

  8. Polynesian navigation - Wikipedia

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    When the winds are strong at the source area, the swell is larger. The longer the wind blows, the longer the swell lasts. Because the swells of the ocean can remain consistent for days, navigators relied on them to carry their canoe in a straight line from one house (or point) on the star compass to the opposite house of the same name.

  9. Compass rose - Wikipedia

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    An 8-point compass rose is a prominent feature in the logo of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. Hong Kong Correctional Services's crest uses a four-pointed compass rose. The compass rose is used as the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. [22] A 16-point compass rose was IBM's logo for the System/360 product line.

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