-
originated with
Thomas Harriot. Many
types of
instruments evolved from the
cross-
staff that can be
classified as backstaffs. Only the
Davis quadrant remains...
- The term Jacob's
staff is used to
refer to
several things, also
known as
cross-
staff, a ballastella, a fore-
staff, a ballestilla, or a balestilha. In its...
- of
prelates are the mitre, the
pectoral cross, and the
episcopal ring. The
origin of the
crozier as a
staff of
authority is uncertain, but
there were...
-
International Red
Cross and Red
Crescent Movement is a
humanitarian movement with
approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and
staff worldwide. It was...
- vice-chairman of the
Boston Red
Cross Volunteer Nurse's Aide Corps,
before being sent to
England in May 1944 as a Red
Cross staff ****istant. She
contacted Patton...
- is
depicted as a
staff with
three horizontal bars near the top, in
diminishing order of
length as the top is approached. The
cross is
analogous to the...
-
following is a list of
Hogwarts staff in the
Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling. The
following teachers and
staff members do not have
their own...
- 20th CJCS. An OSD/Joint
Staff Cross-Functional Team for JADC2 is underway.
Esper ordered the four
services and the
Joint Staff to
create a new
joint warfighting...
-
nautical science. A pre-existing
instrument was the
cross-
staff. The
first working version of a
cross-
staff was
developed for
astronomical study in the 14th...
- to the
Midrash Yelammedenu (Yalḳ. on Ps. ex. § 869): [T]he
staff with
which Jacob crossed the
Jordan is
identical with that
which Judah gave to his daughter-in-law...
