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  • Knock, knock, ginger (also known as ding, dong, ditch and ring and run in the United States) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or...
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    Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington...
    121 KB (12,003 words) - 05:24, 21 May 2024
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    Ditch Witch, a trade name of Charles Machine Works, is an American brand of underground utility construction equipment, principally trenchers, which has...
    9 KB (1,008 words) - 10:33, 4 February 2024
  • The Peterborough ditch murders were a series of murders which took place in Cambridgeshire, England, in March 2013. All three victims were male and died...
    26 KB (2,238 words) - 17:54, 22 May 2024
  • The Old Settler's Irrigation Ditch, near Rosston, Oklahoma, in both Beaver County, Oklahoma and Harper County, Oklahoma, was constructed during 1893 to...
    2 KB (138 words) - 01:51, 8 August 2023
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    In military engineering, a ditch is an obstacle designed to slow down or break up an attacking force, while a trench is intended to provide cover to the...
    6 KB (701 words) - 10:31, 4 February 2024
  • States. Baker Mill Branch is formed at the confluence of Old Ditch and Black Savannah Ditch about 0.5 miles southeast of Concord, Delaware, and then flows...
    5 KB (178 words) - 13:58, 26 May 2021
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    demarcate territory. Some of the Grims Ditches may have had multiple functions. The name "Grim's Ditch" is Old English in origin. The Anglo-Saxon word...
    27 KB (2,950 words) - 09:38, 30 August 2023
  • People of the Ditch (Arabic: أصحاب الأخدود, romanized: ʿaṣ'ḥābu l-ʿukhdūdi) is a story mentioned in Surah Al-Burooj of the Qur'an. It is about people...
    9 KB (852 words) - 01:42, 27 April 2024
  • The Ditch is an Irish political news website established by journalists Eoghan McNeill, Roman Shortall, Chay Bowes, and businessman Paddy Cosgrave in...
    21 KB (1,942 words) - 03:41, 10 March 2024
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    settlements of craftsmen along the Old Ditch, German merchant settlements around St Nicholas's church and the old Piast stronghold. In 1186, a Cistercian...
    138 KB (12,599 words) - 14:06, 17 June 2024
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    weekly Cincinnati magazine called The Graphic proposed that the "dead old ditch" be used to provide an unobstructed route for a subway system, with a...
    30 KB (3,724 words) - 21:39, 28 May 2024
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    Moat (redirect from Cross ditch)
    artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In older fortifications, such as hillforts, they are usually referred to simply as ditches, although the function is similar...
    20 KB (2,192 words) - 21:53, 20 May 2024
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    River Fleet (redirect from Fleet Ditch)
    that area. In 1728 Alexander Pope wrote in his Dunciad, "To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams / Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames...
    20 KB (2,509 words) - 00:51, 27 May 2024
  • remnant of the old Fort Lowell Mesquite Bosque. However, urban development and water scarcity have threatened the existence of both the ditch and the bosque...
    11 KB (1,188 words) - 10:29, 13 June 2024
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    Water landing (redirect from Ditching)
    as floatplanes and flying boats, land on water as a normal operation. Ditching is a controlled emergency landing on the water surface in an aircraft not...
    69 KB (4,623 words) - 14:56, 18 June 2024
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    Ditch the Label is a British non-profit charity organization. They operate Ditch the Label Education, which provides free educational resources for schools...
    11 KB (773 words) - 15:56, 10 June 2024
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    The Swift Ditch is a 2 km (1.2 mi) long artificial channel that formed a short-cut for river traffic to and from Oxford, across a meander of the River...
    6 KB (687 words) - 15:02, 8 February 2024
  • flows southwest to join Deep Creek about 0.5 miles northeast of Old Furnace. Shorts Ditch drains 2.53 square miles (6.6 km2) of area, receives about 45...
    5 KB (166 words) - 04:27, 11 April 2024
  • Creek Muddy Branch Mahon River Old Womans Gut Little River Lewis Ditch Sand Ditch St. Jones River Trunk Ditch Beaver Gut Ditch Cypress Branch Tidbury Creek...
    48 KB (3,089 words) - 22:57, 24 April 2024
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