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Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The name Polaris is taken from the Pole Star, used for navigation by slaves escaping northwards in the US in the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2019
This week the Finsler comet is almost opposite the Pole Star in its path across the northern sky toward the Big Dipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
They hit water and shot forward, arrowing for the sinking Pole Star.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Nita said that he’d even made a deal for salvage rights on the sunken Pole Star, if he could figure out a way to raise her.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
To find it, Massey suggests first searching for the pole star, which is always in the same place in the sky.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
It is called Polaris, the pole star, and has the distinction of being the star that moves the least amount as the northern sky turns each day.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
In China the pole star is designated as the Imperial Ruler of Heaven and a temple to the God of the North Star stands in the sacred enclosure which marks the centre of the empire.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
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