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Suck the monkey
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So that seamen could smuggle liquor aboard, jamaicans sold them coconut shells drained of milk and filled with rum. the end of the nut was said to look like a monkey’s face, so the phrase was originally applied to imbibing rum from such a nut. later, it came to mean illicitly inserting a straw or pipe into a cask in order to suck alcohol from it. this was also known as bleeding the monkey.
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Suez canal, английский
An artificial waterway connecting the mediterranean and red seas, providing a shorter route than cape agulhas for ships sailing from europe or america to southern asia, eastern africa, or oceania. excavation begun in april 1859, and the canal opened to navigation in november 1869. it passes through three lakes, manzala in the north, timsah in the middle, and the bitter lakes further south, and has no locks due to minor sea level differences and flat terrain. there are several passing bays, but most of the canal is single lane. it can accommodate vessels of up to 16 m (53 ft) draft, and improvements are scheduled to increase this to 22 m (72 ft) by 2010. currently, those that draw too much can offload part of their cargo onto a canal-owned boat and reload at the other end of the canal.
Subtropical surface currents, английский
Currents on either side of the equator, in all ocean basins. • the north and south equatorial currents both run westward at about 5 kilometers (3 miles) a day, at depths of 100 to 200 meters (330–660 feet). • the eastward-flowing equatorial counter-current represents partial return of these currents. in the pacific ocean it is intensified during el nino events. • warm water western boundary currents flowing from the equator towards higher latitudes—the best known of which is the north atlantic gulf stream—are narrow jet-like flows extending some 1000 meters (3300 feet) below the ocean surface and traveling at between 40 and 120 kilometers (25–75 miles) a day. • in contrast, eastern boundary currents, flowing in the opposite direction and carrying cold water towards the tropics, are generally broad and shallow, creeping along at 3 to 7 kilometers (2–5 miles) per day. • other surface currents include the north pacific current and north atlantic drift in the northern hemisphere, and the south pacific, south indian, and south atlantic currents in the southern. • further south, the antarctic circumpolar current flows continuously around that continent as a more or less closed system. • the somali current off the horn of africa is unusual because it reverses direction, running northward from may to september and southward from november to march.
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