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  • Beaufort Wind Force Scale

    Beaufort Wind Force Scale

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    Agreement On The Meaning Of Words Gives Them Strength In the early 1800s a man named Francis Beaufort understood this better than many. He and Charles Darwin were both on the HMS Beagle making discoveries. While Darwin was recording animals never before recorded, or named, by Europeans, Beaufort was creating a standardized language for sailors…