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TIM QUEENEY is the former editor of Ocean Navigator, a magazine for offshore voyagers. Tim's work has appeared in Professional Mariner, American History, and Aviation History. He has had short stories published in the crime anthology Landfall, Best New England Crime Stories 2018 and in the speculative anthology A Land Without Mirrors. Tim lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife and a rescue dog, Frankie. A life-long sailor, he has taught celestial navigation, radar navigation and coastal piloting ashore and at sea — where he tied plenty of knots and handled many a rope.

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	Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization 3.81 avg rating — 188 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George in London 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Atlas Fracture 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The SHIVA Compression 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Borealis Incident 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ceres Plague really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Navigator [ Nov/Dec 2009 Issue No. 182 ] Single issue magazine (Minefields and Lavendar; Voyaging in Albania, Testing a GPS/Loran, Special section: Weather, Issue No. 182) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Navigator Magazine, October 2007, Issue No. 165 (Marine Navigation and Ocean Voyaging, Issue No. 165) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Navigator, November/December 2008, Issue #174 [ single issue magazine ] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ocean Navigator, October 2008, Issue No. 173, Single Issue Magazine (American Yacht Review, Atlantic Exotic, Converter box grabs digital TV, Issue No. 173) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Taylor Swift Rocks a Rope Dress!

Taylor Swift definitely grasps the significance of rope! As a promo shot for her “The Life of A Showgirl” album, she recently posed backstage at a Broadway theater in a dress made of nothing but three-strand rope!

In the history of the American theater, those venues that used hemp rope for their backstage lifting lines were known as “hemp houses.” It’s only recently that the last hemp houses were

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