To honor Hawaiʻi’s "Star of Gladness," festivities across Oʻahu this week will reflect on the double-hulled canoe's ...

In 1707, a catastrophic shipwreck occurred in the isles of Scilly, off the southwest coast of England. Between 1400 and 2,000 ...

cadets learn the time-tested skills of using a gyro repeater compass to take a fix of the sun’s position to navigate. Just after dusk they arrive out on the top deck with sextants, used to ...

This week's Free Will Astrology touches on the spiritual powers of light and vast darkness, and the history of computers and ...

"For latitude, you can use a sextant to see where you are in north ... you looked at where the sun was at noon on your clock and using charts you could figure out where you were around the earth ...

Their navigations didn’t use compasses or sextants, but relied on analyzing ocean swells ... They don’t reflect the light of ...

Turn to Rob Brezsny and Free Will Astrology, every week in Good Times, for Astrologically themed wisdom and direction from ...

Who needs GPS when you’ve got a sextant and a prayer? Photo Credit ... The brick exterior, weathered by centuries of sun, rain, and probably a few errant cricket balls, stands as a testament to the ...