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  2. The monkey and the coconuts - Wikipedia

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    It so happens that 3*20=60 works for two sailors: applying the recursion formula for n twice yields 96 as the smallest number of coconuts in the original pile. 96 is divisible by 4 once more, so for 3 sailors awakening, the pile could have been 121 coconuts. But 121 is not divisible by 4, so for 4 sailors awakening, one needs to make another leap.

  3. Sailor - Wikipedia

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    Three types of mariners, seen here in the wheelhouse of a ship: a master, able seaman, and harbour pilot.. A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

  4. Manning the rail - Wikipedia

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    Sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln man the rails during her return to port after participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom Lütjens rendering honours to USS Winston S. Churchill after the 11 September attacks. Manning the rail is a method of saluting (or rendering honors) used by naval vessels.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    "Sailor" for AB, abbreviation of able seaman. "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword setters.

  6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.

  7. Line-crossing ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...

  8. Sailors use ‘HELP’ sign made of palm trees to escape ...

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    The sailors, identified as three men in their 40s with sailing experience, set out from Polowat Atoll, southeast of Guam, on 31 March. Their boat, a 20-foot open skiff with an outboard motor ...

  9. Red sky at morning - Wikipedia

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    Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The concept is over two thousand years old and is cited in the New Testament as established wisdom that prevailed among the Jews of the 1st century AD by Jesus in Matthew 16:2-3 .