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    A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe...
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    the pagination, and arranges for the press workers to print the final or published copies. Galley proofs or galleys are so named because in the days of...
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    A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...
    17 KB (2,181 words) - 22:00, 20 February 2024
  • 11 In: Haslam, Malcolm. The Real World of the Surrealists. New York: Galley Press / W.H.Smith Publishers, 1978. "Guillaume Apollinaire having coined the...
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    illustrated history of the air forces of World War I & World War II. Galley Press. pp. 28–32. ISBN 978-0-86136-792-4. (in English) "French manœuvres"....
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    Moseley 1990, p. 183; Chase 2004, p. 97. Cary Grant in the spotlight. Galley Press. 1980. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8317-3957-7. Wansell 1983, p. 189. Schickel...
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    were placed in a wooden frame known as a galley. Once the correct number of pages were composed, the galleys would be laid face up in a frame, also known...
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  • Mordew (category Galley Beggar Press books)
    positively received. The planned third instalment is named Waterblack. Galley Beggar Press will publish the remainder of the trilogy. The novel has received...
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  • Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd. She was a type of hybrid ship that...
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    109 galleys and six galleasses from the Republic of Venice, 49 galleys from the Spanish Empire, 27 galleys from the Republic of Genoa, seven galleys from...
    61 KB (7,360 words) - 02:12, 15 June 2024
  • and the Broadleaf woodlands of North America. Atlas of World Wildlife. Galley Press. 1973. ISBN 0862834902. Biosystematics of Reticulitermes termites in...
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    antiquity to the late 16th century when sailing ships began to replace galleys and other types of oared ships as the principal form of warships. Throughout...
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    australianmuseum.net.au. Retrieved 2018-04-24. The World Atlas of Birds. Galley Press. Courtship dance footage at the Birds-of-Paradise Project Greater Bird...
    14 KB (1,505 words) - 17:49, 31 March 2024
  • The Irish galley was a vessel in use in the West of Ireland down to the seventeenth century, and was propelled both by oars and sail. In fundamental respects...
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  • Ducks, Newburyport (category Galley Beggar Press books)
    phrase beginning many of these clauses. The novel was published by Galley Beggar Press in Norwich, England after it was rejected by Ellmann's regular publisher...
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  • A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (category Galley Beggar Press books)
    initial print run of 1000 copies, by Galley Beggar Press of Norwich, England. Mr Layte, of Galley Beggar Press recalled that the unusual writing-style...
    13 KB (1,164 words) - 21:41, 23 August 2022
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    {{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link) Galley Press. The World Atlas of Birds. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pteridophora...
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    Bona" of Palazzo Pitti, Florence. In 1611 Spanish galleys from Naples, accompanied by the galleys of the Knights of Malta, raided the Kerkennah Islands...
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  • Marvel number 6, on 20 December 1893, a story paper owned by the Amalgamated Press. Blyth wrote six more Sexton Blake tales, three for Marvel and three for...
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    Venetian navy (redirect from Bastard galley)
    eds. (1995). The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels Since Pre-Classical Times. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-554-3. Nani Mocenigo...
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