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Seafarers Yacht Club
The Seafarers Yacht Club, originally known as the Seafarers Boat Club, is a Boat club, boating club on the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It has been identified as one of the oldest Black boating clubs in the United States. In 2022, its clubhouse at 1950 M Street SE was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History The Seafarers Boat Club was established in 1945 by Lewis Thomas Green, an African American public school teacher and boatbuilder in Washington, D.C. Seeking docking space and having been rejected by the whites-only boating clubs along the Anacostia River, Green worked with the civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune to lease a spot on the river from the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior. The hard-won lease at 1950 M Street SE, between the Anacostia Railroad Bridge and John Philip Sousa Bridge on what some described as "one of the worst pieces of land along the riverbank," began in February 1947. After growin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, Radius, radially arrayed compass directions (or Azimuth#In navigation, azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A ''compass rose'' is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each separated by 90 degree (angle), degrees, and secondarily divided by four ordinal (intercardinal) directions—northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest—each located halfway between two cardinal directions. Some disciplines such as meteorology and navigation further divide the compass with additional azimuths. Within European tradition, a fully defined compass has 32 "points" (and any finer subdivisions are described in fractions of points). Compass points or compass directions are valuable in that they allow a user to refer to a specific azimuth in a Colloquialism, colloquial fashion, without having to compute or remember degrees. Designations The names of the compass point directions follow these r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
