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2. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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   In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5.

3. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   The key distinction between a ship and a barque (in modern usage) is that a ship carries a square-rigged mizzen topsail (and therefore that its mizzen mast has a topsail yard and a cross-jack yard) whereas the mizzen mast of a barque has only fore-and-aft rigged sails. The cross-jack yard was the lowest yard on a ship's mizzen mast.

4. Holt McDougal - Wikipedia

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   Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the earliest ancestor business, but Holt McDougal is distinct from contemporary Henry Holt and Company, which claims the history from 1866.

5. Stays (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   mizzen-topmast stay goes to the hounds of the main-mast. top-gallant, royal, or any other masts have each a stay, named after their respective masts springstay is a kind of substitute nearly parallel to the principal stay, and intended to help the principal stay to support its mast triatic stay is a stay that runs between masts.

6. Mast (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   This contrasts with a ketch or a yawl, where the after mast, and its principal sail, is clearly the smaller of the two, so the terminology is (from forward) mainmast and mizzen. (In a yawl, the term "jigger" is occasionally used for the aftermast.) [7] Some two-masted luggers have a fore-mast and a mizzen-mast – there is no main-mast. This is ...

7. Mizzen - Wikipedia

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8. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Wikipedia

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   As a result, the royal family of Dubai via their Istithmar World Capital investment vehicle became major stakeholders. [44] Estimates were that EMPG would cut its debt from $7.3bn to $6.1bn. On August 15, 2009, the Financial Times reported in an interview with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's CEO at the time, Barry O'Callaghan, that the refinancing ...

9. Mizen - Wikipedia

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   Mizen (not to be confused with mizzen) may refer to: Mizen Head, one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland; Mizen potato, a potato variety; Jimmy Mizen, a 16-year-old boy killed in May 2008 in London.