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Look up: cirque

  1. Cirque
    [landform] This category includes technology and design techniques related to the safety of nuclear weapons. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_(lan

  2. Cirque
    [album] (1997) (2000) Cirque is an album by ambient musician Biosphere, which was released in 2000. Miss Kittin used "Le Grand Dôme" on her mix album A Bugged Out Mix. == Track listing == ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_(alb

  3. cirque
    [n] - a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. cirque
    the heads of many glaciated valleys...are shaped like a theatre, or half bowl....The feature is...known as a --. Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Cirque
    Cirque noun [ French, from Latin circus .] 1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. « A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats. » 2. A kind of circular va...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/83

  6. cirque
    corrie noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Cirque
    • (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. • (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. cirque
    (French: `circle`), amphitheatre-shaped basin with precipitous walls, at the head of a glacial valley. It generally results from erosion beneath the ... [5 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/87

  9. Cirque
    A cirque (from a French word for "arena"), corrie (from Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or cauldron) or cwm (Welsh for "valley") is an amphitheatre-like valley head, formed at the head of a valley glacier by erosion. The concave amphitheatre shape is open on the downhill side corresponding to the flatter area of the stage, while the cupped...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque

  10. Cirque
    Glacially eroded rock basin found on mountains. Most alpine glaciers originate from a cirque.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  11. cirque
    Southwest-looking oblique aerial photograph showing a number of snow-covered cirques, cut into the summit of a Coast Mountains ridge along the Alaska-Canada border, east of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Credit: USGS Also known as a corrie or cwm, a steep-sided hollow formed by glacial erosi...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  12. cirque
    French name for a corrie, a steep-sided armchair-shaped hollow in a mountainside
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Cirque
    A steep-walled horseshoe-shaped recess high on a mountain that is formed by glacial erosion.
    Found on http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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