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Geoff Capes. Geoffrey Lewis Capes (born 23 August 1949) [ 1] is a British former shot putter, strongman and professional Highland Games competitor. [ 2] He represented England and Great Britain in field athletics, specialising in the shot put, an event in which he was twice Commonwealth champion, twice European indoor champion, and competed at ...
The great capes became common points of reference, though other nearby capes were more southern and also notable. Today, the great capes feature prominently in ocean yacht racing, with many races and individual sailors following the clipper route. A circumnavigation via the great capes is considered to be a noteworthy achievement. [3]
The red line is temperature, the green line is the dew point, and the black line is the air parcel lifted. In meteorology, convective available potential energy (commonly abbreviated as CAPE ), [ 1] is a measure of the capacity of the atmosphere to support upward air movement that can lead to cloud formation and storms.
The Inverness cape is a form of weatherproof outer-coat. It is notable for being sleeveless, the arms emerging from armscyes beneath a cape (the sleeved version is an Inverness coat; the shorter-caped, sleeved version is an Ulster coat ). The Inverness cape is a water-repellent garment. The extra layer of cloth at the shoulders traditionally ...
The Cape of Good Hope ( Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [ a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa . A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...
Capes attended St Paul's School, London, and the Queen's College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1851, graduating B.A. in 1856, and becoming a Fellow there. [2] Ordained in 1868, he was a cleric in the Diocese of Winchester, rector of Liphook, [3] rector of Bramshott, and canon of Worcester. [4] In addition, he served as Fellow of Hertford ...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), or Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, [1] also known as CAPES Foundation, [2] is a Brazilian federal government agency under the Ministry of Education, responsible for quality assurance in undergraduate and postgraduate institutions in Brazil.
Kaapse Klopse. The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse ), formerly known as the Coon Carnival and officially called Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, is a Cape coloured minstrel festival that takes place annually on 2 January in Cape Town, South Africa. It is also referred to as Tweede Nuwe jaar (Second New Year).