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    The Polar 8 Project was a Canadian shipbuilding project intended to provide the Canadian Coast Guard with a large and heavy class icebreaker capable of...
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  • The Polar Icebreaker Project (previously Polar Class Icebreaker Project) is an ongoing Canadian shipbuilding program under the National Shipbuilding Strategy...
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  • Requirements for Polar Class Ships, or any of the following specific ships or projects: United States Coast Guard USCGC Polar Star and USCGC Polar Sea are jointly...
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    The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can...
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    mega icebreakers (the Polar 8 Project) for promoting Canadian sovereignty in territorial waters claimed by Canada; USCGC Polar Sea had made an unauthorized...
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  • (1953–1959) Velvet Glove AAM (1953–1956) General Purpose Frigate (Canada) Polar 8 Project Bras d'Or class (1960–1971) Canada-class submarine (1987-1989) Multi-Mission...
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  • The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated Christmas fantasy adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles...
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    Polar Class (PC) refers to the ice class assigned to a ship by a classification society based on the Unified Requirements for Polar Class Ships developed...
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    The 1985 Polar Sea controversy was a diplomatic event triggered by plans for the navigation of USCGC Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage from Greenland...
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    Corporation becomes Versatile Pacific Shipyards 1992 – Cancellation of the Polar 8 Project leads to bankruptcy of Versatile Pacific Shipyards. The North Vancouver...
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  • future Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that will be built under the Polar Icebreaker Project as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy. The ship is expected...
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    Polar bear population sizes and trends are difficult to estimate accurately because they occupy remote home ranges and exist at low population densities...
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    Arctic tropospheric polar vortex A polar vortex, more formally a circumpolar vortex, is a large region of cold, rotating air; polar vortices encircle both...
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    Aurora (redirect from Polar Aurora)
    complexity. The form of the aurora, occurring within bands around both polar regions, is also dependent on the amount of acceleration imparted to the...
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  • A polar route is an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap regions. The term "polar route" was originally applied to great circle navigation...
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  • icebreaker under construction at Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards under the Polar Icebreaker Project as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy. The ship was initially...
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    designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. January 1 Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia...
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    The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), previously known as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory...
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    USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. Commissioned on 23 February 1978, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding...
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    The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the northernmost of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34'...
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    Sisu Polar is a truck model series produced by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Sisu Auto. It came into the market in 2011 and the main applications...
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  • This article consists of projects of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)...
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    the market crash of 1987. The OSLO Project of development of oil sands in Northeastern Alberta; The Polar 8 Project. Herb Gray, interim leader of the Official...
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  • Polar Star and the medium icebreaker USCGC Healy, with three new multi-mission vessels referred to as Polar Security Cutters (PSC). These heavy polar...
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    Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012), The Art of the Steal (2013), Polar (2019), and The Marksman (2021). Katheryn Winnick was born on December 17...
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  • true polar wander, the Earth rotates with respect to a fixed spin axis. Research shows that during the last 200 million years a total true polar wander...
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  • advances in space exploration were made as well, including the first crewed polar orbit spaceflight, and the first successful landing of a spacecraft on the...
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    they are called polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), detectable as a diffuse scattering layer of water ice crystals near the summer polar mesopause. They...
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    1966) 1896 – Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer (died 1995) 1897 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator...
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  • The International Polar Years (IPY) are collaborative, international efforts with intensive research focus on the polar regions. Karl Weyprecht, an Austro-Hungarian...
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