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One example that appears to support that view is some Australian Aborigines’s instinctive knowledge of the cardinal points without need of a compass.
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Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
Rondon’s logs from that first afternoon show that at one time or another the river’s course flowed in the direction of each of the four cardinal points of the compass.
—Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
Photo: Esa Alexander (Reuters) PublishedYesterday Countries in the four cardinal points of Africa witnessed much tumult today (March 20).
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
Tracts from the Middle Ages offered their own elaborations: a comet travelling west to east foretold a foreign invader; a comet appearing at a certain cardinal point meant a leader would soon die.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
Even the most sober-minded Egyptologists agreed that the pyramids were aligned to the cardinal points of the compass with a precision that would be difficult to better even in modern times.
—Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
Archaeoastronomers — those who study how ancient people related to the sky — tell us that many of the walls and windows at Chaco are aligned with cardinal points, the sun and other stars, and the buildings functioned as an observatory and calendar.
—Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
Money and mystification, not knowledge or ignorance, are its cardinal points.
—Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
Rondon’s logs from that first afternoon show that at one time or another the river’s course flowed in the direction of each of the four cardinal points of the compass.
—Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
Photo: Esa Alexander (Reuters) PublishedYesterday Countries in the four cardinal points of Africa witnessed much tumult today (March 20).
—Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
Tracts from the Middle Ages offered their own elaborations: a comet travelling west to east foretold a foreign invader; a comet appearing at a certain cardinal point meant a leader would soon die.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
But, for the Arensberg chronicle, the cardinal point is their friendship—the French magus and the gamier avatar of Henry James’s Daisy Miller.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
Even the most sober-minded Egyptologists agreed that the pyramids were aligned to the cardinal points of the compass with a precision that would be difficult to better even in modern times.
—Jimmy Maher, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2020
Archaeoastronomers — those who study how ancient people related to the sky — tell us that many of the walls and windows at Chaco are aligned with cardinal points, the sun and other stars, and the buildings functioned as an observatory and calendar.
—Jim Robbins, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2019
Money and mystification, not knowledge or ignorance, are its cardinal points.
—Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
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“Cardinal point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cardinal%20point. Accessed 27 Jun. 2024.
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