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  • Annesley South Junction Halt is a former halt on the Great Central Railway on the section between Nottingham Victoria and Sheffield Victoria. The halt...
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  • The first USS Sacramento was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. Sacramento was launched on 28 April 1862 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in Kittery...
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    SS Ranchi was Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company "R"-class steam ocean liner that was built in 1925 and scrapped in 1953. From 1939 to 1943...
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  • Gerhard Zucker (1908–1985) was a German businessman and rocket engineer. Born in Hasselfelde, he first came to public notice in 1931, when he began to...
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    The Lockheed Martin AN/AAS-38 Nite Hawk is a FLIR, laser designator, and laser tracker pod system for use with laser-guided munitions. The Nite Hawk has...
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  • Chartered in 1866, the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad was originally planned to connect the Western & Atlantic Railroad at Cartersville, Georgia, to...
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    James & Browne was a British automobile manufacturer, based in Hammersmith, London between 1898 and 1910. The enterprise started in 1896 as a partnership...
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  • USS Gaivota (SP-436) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918. Gaivota was built as a private steam yacht of the same name...
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  • Berg Propulsion is a Swedish company that designs and manufactures controllable-pitch propellers for the marine industry. The company produces customized...
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    Coventry Corporation Transport was the operator of trams and motorbuses in Coventry, Warwickshire from 1912 to 1974. The operations of Coventry Corporation...
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  • The 1001 class were a class of ten[citation needed] diesel-electric locomotive built by English Electric and Vulcan Foundry in 1955 for Nigerian Railways...
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    From the 1880s until well into the 1950s, virtually all long-distance transportation of United States Mail was performed by the railroads. Specially equipped...
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