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  2. The sea in culture - Wikipedia

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    In Mentz's view, the European exploration of the oceans in the fifteenth century caused a shift in the meanings of the sea. Whereas a garden symbolised happy coexistence with nature, life was threatened at sea: the ocean counterbalanced the purely pastoral .

  3. Sea - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic Ocean near the Faroe Islands. A sea is a large body of salt water.There are particular seas and the sea.The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth.

  4. America the Beautiful - Wikipedia

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    "America the Beautiful" is a ... and the majestic view of the Great ... "From sea to shining sea" is an American idiom meaning "from the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

  5. It's a Beautiful Thing (Ocean Colour Scene song) - Wikipedia

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    "It's a Beautiful Thing" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene with P. P. Arnold. The song was released in 1998 and reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart.It is taken from their 1997 chart-topping album Marchin' Already and was the fourth and final single to be released from the album, following "Hundred Mile High City", "Travellers Tune" and "Better Day".

  6. Seascape - Wikipedia

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    A seascape photograph at Clifton Beach, South Arm, Tasmania, Australia. In the UK a seascape is defined in planning and land use contexts as a combination of adjacent land, coastline and sea within an area, defined by a mix of land-sea inter-visibility and coastal landscape character assessment, with major headlands forming division points between one seascape area and the next.

  7. Horizon - Wikipedia

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    View of the ocean with two ships: one in the foreground and one to the left of it on the horizon. Historically, the distance to the visible horizon has long been vital to survival and successful navigation, especially at sea, because it determined an observer's maximum range of vision and thus of communication, with all the obvious consequences for safety and the transmission of information ...

  8. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.

  9. Ocean - Wikipedia

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    The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. [8] In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. [9] The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic.