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    Coin flipping (redirect from Cross and Pile)
    ("ship or head"), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other. In England, this was referred to as cross and pile. During...
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  • to a subsurface layer or a range of depths. A pile or piling is a vertical structural element of a deep foundation, driven or drilled deep into the ground...
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    Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first artificial nuclear reactor. On 2 December 1942, the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction...
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    that "Tim" Pile had certain valuable qualities but he could not think of a worse selection as CIGS. Pile was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order...
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    Nuclear reactor (redirect from Nuclear pile)
    nuclear pile or atomic pile (so-called because the graphite moderator blocks of the first reactor to reach criticality were stacked in a pile). Just as...
    86 KB (10,463 words) - 02:41, 18 May 2024
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    cuckoo Or. Töysä district (Finland): Azure, a pile invected reversed, from which emerges a cross with 'arched' arms. USS Ramage: Azure, on a pile indented...
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    Pile weave is a form of textile created by weaving. This type of fabric is characterized by a pile—a looped or tufted surface that extends above the initial...
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  • A pile is a slender element cast in the ground or driven into it. Since pile construction as well as the final product are mostly invisible, engineers...
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    A pile bridge is a structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles (referred to as piles), which are made of wood, concrete or steel and which...
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    Steinmetz, "Chapter X: Piquet, Basset, Faro, Hazard, Passe-dix, Put, Cross and Pile, Thimble-rig", The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims: In all times...
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    In modern times, cross burning or cross lighting is a practice which is associated with the Ku Klux Klan. However, it was practiced long before the Klan's...
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    exact origins of two-up are obscure, but it seems to have evolved from cross and pile, a gambling game involving tossing a single coin into the air and wagering...
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    beats women. Not isolated incidents. Often." Fox called Monaghan's claims "a pile of bullshit" and said he was not going to "waste too much breath on that...
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    Denver Pyle (redirect from Denver Pile)
    71 "The Outcast", episode 166 "Woman in the White Mask" and episode 187 "Cross of Santo Domingo". He also appeared in "Frontier Range", a 1951 episode...
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    clockwise manner until a jack is placed on the pile. At this point, any and all players may attempt to slap the pile with the hand they didn't use to place the...
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  • Pile Cloth Media Filtration is a mechanical process for the separation of organic and inorganic solids from liquids. It belongs to the processes of surface...
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    Coat of arms of Queensland (category Coats of arms with crosses)
    background and on a green mound, a golden obelisk standing on a pile of quartz with a crossed pick and shovel in the foreground. The symbols on the shield...
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    Wood fuel (redirect from Wood pile)
    defined, and varies from one area to another. For example, in one state a pile of wood 8 feet wide × 4 feet high of 16"-long logs will often be sold as...
    40 KB (4,824 words) - 00:12, 3 April 2024
  • chorus. Textured closer 'Cross My Heart' suggests the band are capable of broadening their sonic palette." "Album Review: Dinosaur Pile-Up - Eleven Eleven"...
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    simple cross near the summit of Lysá hora. They placed it on a pile of stones, where they also placed a bottle with a short message. Stones began to pile up...
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