So here is a better picture of a duck, an Eider drake I took earlier this year, on the Ythan estuary. |
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I suppose the densely feathered, black and white head of the drake does slightly resemble a buffalo's head. |
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The drake sported full plumage with chocolate-brown head contrasting with gleaming white breast. |
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Stars of the stamps include a pig and piglets, a Border Collie puppy and a duck and a drake. |
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The family pets were dogs, cats, and a Muscovy drake duck named Lucy which lived for nine years. |
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Some of the sailors played mumblety-peg with their knives or played duck and drake with small ice-cold stones they could find beneath the snow. |
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I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade. |
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By May, Brown and Rihanna had broken up again, and the following spring, she was rumored to be dating drake. |
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From our picture above, you can tell that this drake is something special. |
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A male duck is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen. |
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This species can be distinguished from other scoters, apart from black scoter, by the lack of white anywhere on the drake and the more extensive pale areas on the female. |
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A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. |
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Quin looked as though he might retort with some snide remark he was sure to regret, so Drake interrupted. |
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Her work in Vera Drake is so fully rounded, richly detailed and emotionally devastating that there really is no competition. |
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There were two horses under the oak where Bryony had left Drake and she immediately recognized the second as Driscoll's roan. |
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Drake grabbed a handful of his hair and twisted cruelly just as he finished tying off the rough bandage. |
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Science promises cures and miracles, but the most advanced country in the world risks heading back down a Via Dolorosa to the time of Vera Drake. |
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Drake and Spade sat down, both avoiding looking at the girls as they paid their tab at the register and left. |
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While in the Pacific the crew of the auxiliary traced the footsteps of Sir Francis Drake by landing boats on a Costa Rican shoreline. |
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Julius Drake plays his part with dedication and conviction, particularly in the dissonant sections where Ives' demands are extremely taxing. |
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The firm wants to demolish the furniture centre and put up a horseshoe-shaped building facing Matalan and backing on to Drake Street. |
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Immediately Drake ran over to the group, thinking that the men were laughing and teasing her. |
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She hesitated a second, wondering if Drake would yell at her or make a scene in front of the crew. |
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The boys, being the meatheads they were, cheered and patted Drake on the back. |
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As British children learned to admire the valour of Drake and Nelson, so young Australians were taught to honour the explorers and pioneers. |
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Drake laughed in that manic cackle of his and spun on his heel, his dirty trench coat splaying out around him. |
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Soon after he had joined the army, Drake had shown both talent for combat and strategy as well as a nose for top information. |
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On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. |
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I watched him and Drake battle for the last piece of pumpkin pie, and smiled in spite of myself as I sat down. |
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A host of carnival queens from the region clutched their brollies and smiled at onlookers as they led the procession down Drake Street. |
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Even Drake, who was far from a child when he first met Hon Shun, had grown up in many ways these past months. |
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It was certainly damage that Drake had never seen inflicted by any traditional weapons. |
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Sarah Drake forcibly removed herself from her place on the receiving line and raced over to meet her friend, with Ari, Mike and Mitch in tow. |
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Drake watched it from atop the watchman's truck, against the pole that held the beat-up and coppered bell. |
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Quin refastened the chains, scooted Drake closer to the wall, and shortened them just enough to limit the man's range of motion. |
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While at Drake, she did, however, get serious about completing her bachelor's degree and added a business minor. |
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He began pressing various keys on the console whilst Drake towelled himself off and walked over to the controls. |
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Sian's name has now been engraved on a plaque, which is kept in the chapel at the HMS Drake naval establishment, in Plymouth. |
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Drake gasped as the woman's knee came up quickly to connect with his midsection, knocking the wind out of him and bowling him over. |
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Proposals include brightening up shopfronts and making new pedestrian areas leading onto Drake Street. |
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He nodded his agreement once again, and Drake thought he detected an impish twinkle dancing in his eyes. |
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The only sound was coming from Drake, his breath blowing hard from his lungs with every push up. |
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Drake closed his eyes tightly as the voice in his head reverberated around his skull. |
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Drake took a small folder from under his jacket and slid it along the desk to Paddy. |
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Of most interest to Drake obsessives is Tow the Line, a previously unheard song discovered lurking at the end of an old master tape. |
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Like the late Nick Drake, local boy Summers seems too fragile a creature to last very long on this planet. |
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The morning after he is nominated for a brace of Oscars for Vera Drake, Mike Leigh is holed up in an unremarkable office in a London side street. |
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Drake was sitting at the front desks, his back to me, conversing with his partner while setting up equipment. |
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Imagine if Joni Mitchell had teamed up with some British folkies like Nick Drake and John Martyn in the early seventies. |
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Drake took a long moment to gather his scattered wits, his mind clearly fogged by the pain and discomfort. |
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Rather contented with myself, I moved slowly down the hall, suspecting that Drake would assume the guard had killed me. |
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A field gun crew from HMS Drake has demonstrated its skills just days ahead of an inter-service competition. |
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So they parted, with Drake insisting that he had important family matters to take care of. |
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I didn't drink, but that was ok because Drake just downed his double shot latte and then drank mine. |
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Working with the RDA we can help Drake Street rise like a phoenix from the ashes. |
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Drake and Emily thought it was lunchtime, based on vague hunches and guessing, but mostly on the fact that they were hungry. |
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But Drake recognized the tactic and jumped back the instant they met, recovering quickly and charging in once more. |
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Once Kyle and Drake reach the gas station they park the car and hide their weapons under their shirts and get out. |
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A year later, Edwin Drake struck oil at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the United States. |
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The first oil well in the United States, now a dry hole, was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin L. Drake only 145 years ago. |
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It's effectively admitting the only relevant element of Drake's notoriously arbitrary Drake equation is time. |
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When Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859, he used washtubs for storage. |
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The Thorax Gray Drake Fly is designed to provide buoyancy and balance on the water especially in the smaller hook sizes. |
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Movies The Aviator and Vera Drake dominated the star-studded 51st British Academy of Film and Television Awards last night. |
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Drake had his Katana, Judas his halberd, John a rapier and dagger, and Conrad wielded his two long swords expertly. |
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Drake has been following the case on behalf of Fahmy, who is duel Canadian-Egyptian national. |
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Terence Morgan's Drake, endowed from the start with an uncanny self-confidence, struck exactly the right balance between poker-faced laconism and Errol Flynn-like exuberance. |
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In recent years, men like LL Cool J, Eddie Cibrian, Usher, Drake, Vin Diesel, John Cho, and Mario Lopez have been featured. |
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Drake sold all 187 head of cattle two years ago, pinched by regulated milk prices and the rising costs of independent farming. |
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Chesapeake never answered questions about whether that rebate was figured in to the price it charged Joe Drake and his neighbors. |
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The other five include the Drake equation on the likelihood of us forming radio contact with extraterrestrial life, and Shannon's equations on information transmission. |
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In brief, Effingham and Drake outsailed and outgunned their opponents. |
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In the case of the Drake equation, as described in an essay by the magazine editor, it was not difficult to find things that I did not already know. |
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No wonder Drake had such a short temper when it came to Alan. |
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The poor did not share the wealth and luxurious lifestyle associated with famous Tudors such as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and non-monarchs such as Sir Francis Drake. |
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Drake's Bar Mitzvah Dance No 13-year-old has ever had as much swagger as Drake, then simply Aubrey Graham, at his bar mitzvah. |
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Drake says the company led him to believe any expenses would be negligible. |
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All his comedy muckers are in the book, along with others, almost forgotten, such as Charlie Drake, Dickie Henderson, Alfred Marks and Norman Vaughan. |
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Drake took a tight grip of the man's shoulders, but couldn't stop him from falling onto his side and rolling over onto his back with a metal jingle. |
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Tony Drake, 37, who owns Metier Hair Design, Main Street, Fulford, has collected a number of signed celebrity items which he will sell to the highest bidder. |
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Chesapeake promised Drake one-eighth the value of whatever it made from his well. |
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The one-sided Jay Z melee was quickly forgotten, as tabloids printed news of a rekindled relationship between Drake and Rihanna. |
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Drake is another NSA whistleblower, who did exactly what the insiders are claiming Snowden should have done. |
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Heather Ryan is a graduate of Drake University and wonk living in the heart of presidential political bliss in Iowa. |
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They bickered constantly and sniped at each other with abrasive, even caustic, jibes, but Drake made a valiant effort to stop himself short of physical violence. |
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Fishing the Drake hatch in late May is somewhat of a festival. |
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Drake snorted with laughter again as I hung up on him, feeling nervous. |
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I've been fascinated with sailing ships ever since a childhood visit to the reconstructed Golden Hinde of Sir Francis Drake, which circumnavigated the world. |
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Vera Drake, the character, is played by Brit stage vet Imelda Staunton. |
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Big name stars like Jessica Drake host soirees in the casino nightclubs including Vanity and body English. |
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Only Sir Francis Drake and other naval freebooters enjoyed success. |
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He approached Drake, Quin, and Dale with slow, measured steps. |
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The bride, the former Shelby Drake, is a teacher and the daughter of a minister. |
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Try to avoid exercises that increase the strength of short, strong muscles and those that put an undue load on already stretched muscles, Drake says. |
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This version, one of the best yet, included hits from LL Cool J, Run DMC, the beastie Boys, Outkast, Drake, Kanye West, and more. |
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Rates were calculated from the median frequency by the Drake equation. |
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De Mena offers me a glass of Sir Francis Drake, casa Bruja's red ale. |
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Francis Drake made his way to Nehalem Bay in 1579 and spent five weeks in the middle of summer repairing his ship. |
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Wallace and Drake reported that the woody-gall problem found in Peru, South Africa and Australia was related to vein enation. |
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Old Man Drake brought Charlie's new saddle out on the freightwagon, along with the next load of feed and supplies. |
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In 1588, during the Elizabethan period, an English fleet under Francis Drake defeated an invading Spanish Armada. |
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Drake also published accounts in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. |
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She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets. |
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In 1562 Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa. |
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Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic. |
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Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent. |
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When his men noticed that Drake was bleeding profusely from a wound, they insisted on withdrawing to save his life and left the treasure. |
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Drake stayed in the area for almost a year, raiding Spanish shipping and attempting to capture a treasure shipment. |
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Drake and his party found that they had captured around 20 tons of silver and gold. |
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Drake and his men, downhearted, exhausted and hungry, had nowhere to go and the Spanish were not far behind. |
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When Drake finally reached its deck, his men were alarmed at his bedraggled appearance. |
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Drake decided to remain the winter in San Julian before attempting the Strait of Magellan. |
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After this passage, the Pelican was pushed south and discovered an island which Drake called Elizabeth Island. |
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Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts. |
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Before reaching the coast of Peru, Drake visited Mocha Island, where he was seriously injured by hostile Mapuche. |
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Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved his most profitable capture. |
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After looting the Cacafuego, Drake turned north, hoping to meet another Spanish treasure ship coming south on its return from Manila to Acapulco. |
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Befriending a sultan king of the Moluccas, Drake and his men became involved in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. |
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Drake presented the Queen with a jewel token commemorating the circumnavigation. |
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Nevertheless, Drake continued to quarter his new arms with the wyvern gules. |
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In 1580 Drake purchased Buckland Abbey, a large manor house near Yelverton in Devon, via intermediaries from Sir Richard Greynvile. |
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An expedition left Plymouth in September 1585 with Drake in command of twenty one ships with 1,800 soldiers under Christopher Carleill. |
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By extinguishing this for the capture, Drake put the fleet into disarray overnight. |
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In 1589, the year after defeating the Armada, Drake and Sir John Norreys were given three tasks. |
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Additionally, the Sir Francis Drake Channel in the British Virgin Islands bears his name. |
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If their last name was Drake they might be eligible for a share if they paid Hartzell to be their agent. |
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Drake was portrayed by the Canadian actor Matheson Lang in the 1935 film Drake of England. |
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Drake was considered a hero in England and a pirate in Spain for his raids. |
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The Armada Jewel, given by Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Heneage and the Drake Pendant given to Sir Francis Drake are the best known examples. |
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When Ted Drake became Chelsea manager in 1952, he began to modernise the club. |
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Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh. |
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Cruise ships en route to and from the Antarctic Peninsula sometimes encounter fin whales in the Drake Passage. |
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The latest hypothesized time for the opening of the Drake Passage is during the early Miocene. |
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Currently, an opening of the Drake Passage during the early Oligocene is favored. |
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The chilling of the South Ocean deep water began in earnest once the Tasmanian Gateway and the Drake Passage opened fully. |
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Francis Drake, like Spanish explorers before him, had speculated that there might be an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego. |
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Drake spent his life studying bugs, everything from aphids to water striders. |
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Hence most sailing ships preferred the Drake Passage, which is open water for hundreds of miles, despite very rough conditions. |
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The course that Magellan charted was followed by other navigators, such as Sir Francis Drake. |
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The estuary has been known as the River Plate or Plate River in English since at least the time of Francis Drake. |
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Francis Drake in 1578 and a Dutch VOC expedition in 1616 learned more about the geography. |
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In 1577, Elizabeth I sent Francis Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. |
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Drake completed the second circumnavigation of the world in September 1580, becoming the first commander to lead an entire circumnavigation. |
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It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage, the strait between South America and Antarctica. |
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The killing of their sergeant major by the Spanish rearguard caused Drake to order the town burnt. |
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Drake explored the coasts around his port by ship for some time as well as the surrounding land on foot. |
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Marco Meniketti, tested ceramics from shipwrecks in Mexico, California, and Oregon as well as ceramics linked to Drake found near Point Reyes. |
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Bawlf's work has also been criticized by Edward Von der Porten, President of the Drake Navigators Guild. |
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In the early 1970s, the mortar was researched extensively by the Drake Navigators Guild. |
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These include the Sir Francis Drake Association, the Sir Francis Drake Society and the Drake Navigators Guild. |
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The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway opened a station at Drake Street on 9 May 1850, between Manchester and Leeds. |
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Drake shared everything he knew with Congress only to see it go nowhere. |
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They have 12 shutouts in all and completed their eight-game Drake Stadium regular-season schedule without surrendering a goal. |
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Drake found the statements Chesapeake mailed him each month mystifying. |
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Kuesel K, Bloethe M, Schulz D, Reiche M, Drake HL Microbial reduction of iron and porewater biogeochemistry in acidic peatlands. |
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Drake Willock was the first hemodialysis equipment manufacturer to introduce a hemodialysis machine with a bicarb proportioner. |
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It's underpinned by a bohemian and psychedelic feel and aims to play host to the spirit of legendary singer-songwriter Nick Drake. |
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At least two literary critics, Sandra Drake and Thomas Loe, have examined the zombification and subsequent rebellion of Antoinette, the heroine and focal point of the novel. |
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Rappers were Yo Gotti, Webbie, Drake, Candi Redd, Trina and Nicki Minaj. |
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James Drake, a pioneer of British motorways, was also born here. |
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In 1587 his ship was lost in Cadiz in the raid by Francis Drake. |
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Drake had a European ship pilot aboard who was in ill health. |
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The ship master was so satisfied with the young Drake's conduct that, being unmarried and childless at his death, he bequeathed the barque to Drake. |
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Advocates of the Whale Cove theory dismiss the latitude given by Drake on the grounds that he may have deliberately falsified it in order to deceive the rival Spanish. |
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From 1577 to 1580, Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe. |
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Hilliard's Armada, Gresley, Phoenix and Drake pieces are masterpieces of the jewelled locket, their precious materials, imprese and mottoes encoded with hidden meanings. |
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However, when Sir Francis Drake arrived at the colony in summer 1586, the colonists opted to return to England, due to lack of supply ships, abandoning the colony. |
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In September 1578, Sir Francis Drake, in the course of his circumnavigation of the world, passed through the Strait of Magellan into the Pacific Ocean. |
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If the strong eastward current through the Drake Passage encounters an opposing east wind, this can have the effect of further building up the waves. |
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These winds are exacerbated at the Horn by the funneling effect of the Andes and the Antarctic peninsula, which channel the winds into the relatively narrow Drake Passage. |
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After capturing a Spanish ship heading for Manila, Drake turned north, hoping to meet another Spanish treasure ship coming south on its return from Manila to Acapulco. |
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Sailing ships, however, partly because of variable winds and currents in the strait, generally preferred the Drake Passage, as they had more room to maneuver there. |
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It is shorter and more sheltered than the often stormy Drake Passage. |
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Pactolus Bank, visited by Sir Francis Drake, may fit into this category. |
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The opening of the Drake Passage may have played a role as well though models of the changes suggest declining CO2 levels to have been more important. |
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It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge and island arc system supporting various islands. |
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Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces between South America and Antarctica. |
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Around 23 Ma, the Drake Passage opened between Antarctica and South America, resulting in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that completely isolated the continent. |
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The Southern Ocean, geologically the youngest of the oceans, was formed when Antarctica and South America moved apart, opening the Drake Passage, roughly 30 million years ago. |
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In the 1860s, Pennsylvania oil fields became a major supplier of oil, and a center of innovation after Edwin Drake had struck oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. |
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Regardless of the time at which the opening of the Drake Passage occurred, the effect on the cooling of the Southern Ocean would have been the same. |
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The onset of Antarctic glaciation occurred during the early Oligocene, and the effect of the Drake Passage opening on this glaciation has been the subject of much research. |
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The Drake Passage is located between South America and Antarctica. |
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Devon is known for its mariners, such as Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Richard Grenville, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Chichester. |
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John Paul Jones became the first great American naval hero, capturing HMS Drake on April 24, 1778, the first victory for any American military vessel in British waters. |
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The first meeting of the five central conspirators took place on Sunday 20 May 1604, at an inn called the Duck and Drake, in the fashionable Strand district of London. |
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This expedition, led by Sir Francis Drake and John Norreys raided Corunna but withdrew from Lisbon after failing to coordinate its strategy effectively with the Portuguese. |
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The following year Elizabeth I launched the Counter Armada, under Sir Francis Drake, but it was unsuccessful in its goals, resulting in Spain retaining naval superiority. |
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However, Drake had been guiding the English fleet by means of a lantern. |
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Opposing them the English were in two sections, Drake to the north in Revenge with 11 ships, and Howard to the south in Ark Royal with the bulk of the fleet. |
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Howard ceded some control to Drake, given his experience in battle. |
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A raid on Cadiz, led by Francis Drake in April 1587, had captured or destroyed some thirty ships and great quantities of supplies, setting preparations back by a year. |
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Around 1563 Drake first sailed west to the Spanish Main, on a ship owned and commanded by John Hawkins, with a cargo of people forcibly removed from the coast of West Africa. |
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Modern workings of stories involving Drake include the 1961 British television series Sir Francis Drake, and the 2009 US television movie The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake. |
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In the United States Drakes Bay and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard of Marin County, California are both named after him, as well as the high school in San Anselmo, California. |
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On being warned of the approach of the Spanish fleet, Drake is said to have remarked that there was plenty of time to finish the game and still beat the Spaniards. |
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The next day, Drake was present at the Battle of Gravelines. |
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Drake was naturally pleased at his good luck in capturing the galleon and he showed it by dining with the captured ship's officers and gentleman passengers. |
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Drake used the plans that Sir Richard Grenville had received the patent for in 1574 from Elizabeth, which was rescinded a year later after protests from Philip of Spain. |
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With the success of the Panama isthmus raid, in 1577 Elizabeth I of England sent Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. |
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In the accompanying interview RiRi opens up about her turn-ons, love, as well as the infamous club brawl between her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown and rapper Drake. |
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The company's Kuwaiti unit Drake and Scull Kuwait has been awarded the MEP contract for a private residential development and the second college for Sabah Al-Salem University. |
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Drake could not resist a joke and teased them by looking downhearted. |
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