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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
One of the boats on a recent episode of deadliest catch used the term keelhauling for attaching a weight and dragging it on the bottom of the boat to recover a line attached to a propeller. Someone more knowledgeable in nautical practice may want to add a better description of this here. Jon Thompson 00:44, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Keelhauling, a form of corporal punishment used against sailors; Operation Keelhaul, the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war after World War II; Keelhaul (band), American band from Ohio; Keel-Haul (G.I. Joe), a character in the fictional G.I. Joe universe
Double-barrelled lantaka cannons, kalasag shields, armor, and various swords (including kalis, panabas, and kampilan) used by Moro pirates in the Philippines (c. 1900) (from Piracy) Image 35 Painting from 1772 depicting British and French sailors at battle with Dulcignottes (Ulcinj pirates).
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In April 2009, YouTube launched their earliest HTML5 video player experiments. [73] Throughout 2009, the alphabetical sorting of YouTube's "AudioSwap" feature helped popularizing Alexander Perls' "009 Sound System" music project through frequent use in videos. [74] [75] YouTube XL logo used until 2013. In June 2009, YouTube XL was launched.
The Philippines is considered the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms as approximately 20 cyclones enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), the area of the ocean the ...
youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [3] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [4] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [5] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [6]