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  • Thumbnail for Neck of Land Cemetery
    The Neck of Land Cemetery is a small historic cemetery on Summer Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Established in 1687 near the confluence of the Mill...
    2 KB (167 words) - 23:51, 21 May 2023
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    Neck. Historically, Charles II's grant for the Northern Neck included all land between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, including far upstream of...
    28 KB (3,118 words) - 12:26, 4 June 2024
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    The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso. The neck supports the weight of the head and protects the...
    16 KB (1,888 words) - 15:04, 4 April 2024
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    named for Henry, Prince of Wales (1594–1612), the eldest son of King James I. The site of Henricus is located on a neck of land called Farrar's Island...
    12 KB (847 words) - 18:35, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
    Colts Neck Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located in the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020...
    73 KB (8,211 words) - 00:02, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Presque-isle
    piece of land which is closer to being an island than most peninsulas because of its being joined to the mainland by an extremely narrow neck of land. Peñón...
    2 KB (158 words) - 23:23, 14 March 2024
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    Bountiful line within "the small neck of land". See also Coon A Not So Narrow Neck of Land, and “Critique of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Theory” Archived 2015-10-21...
    49 KB (5,999 words) - 18:43, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Shetland islands
    (5 km) from the sea. Mavis Grind (Old Norse for "gate of the narrow isthmus") is a narrow neck of land little more than 100 metres (328 feet) wide separating...
    29 KB (2,942 words) - 17:05, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faiyum Oasis
    Faiyum Oasis (category Geography of ancient Egypt)
    of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert hollow to the west of the Nile Valley. The Bahr Yussef veers west through a narrow neck of land...
    13 KB (1,616 words) - 14:08, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Throggs Neck
    York City Police Department. Throggs Neck is a narrow spit of land in the south-eastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It demarcates...
    38 KB (4,343 words) - 06:06, 30 March 2024
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    billabongs. An oxbow lake forms when a meandering river erodes through the neck of one of its meanders. This takes place because meanders tend to grow and become...
    16 KB (1,821 words) - 07:28, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Neck, New York
    Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck Estates...
    47 KB (4,834 words) - 20:37, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mashpee Neck, Massachusetts
    46500°W / 41.61028; -70.46500 (41.610357, -70.465072). It occupies the neck of land between the tidal Mashpee River to the west and Shoestring Bay to the...
    7 KB (555 words) - 17:04, 11 May 2024
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    Cape Cod Canal (category Bodies of water of Barnstable County, Massachusetts)
    south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately 17.4-mile (28.0 km) long canal traverses the neck of land joining Cape Cod to...
    22 KB (2,027 words) - 21:21, 27 May 2024
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    Promontory fort (category Fortifications in the Isle of Man)
    above a steep cliff, often only connected to the mainland by a small neck of land, thus using the topography to reduce the ramparts needed. The oldest...
    6 KB (701 words) - 17:23, 30 April 2024
  • an organ in the neck of land vertebrates involved in protection of the trachea and (in some of them) sound production and vibration of the larynx A mechanical...
    408 bytes (98 words) - 17:03, 31 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Island Number Ten
    digging a canal across the neck of land east of the town to bypass Island No. 10. Several transports were sent to the Army of the Mississippi when the canal...
    37 KB (5,354 words) - 13:16, 1 April 2024
  • Narrow Neck may refer to: Narrow Neck, Antarctica, neck of land between Langevad Glacier and Daniell Peninsula Narrow Neck, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland...
    356 bytes (79 words) - 13:36, 25 January 2024
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    Jaredites (category Book of Mormon peoples)
    Book of Mormon except that it was north of a narrow neck of land in what was called the "Land Northward" by the Nephites. The New World location of the...
    12 KB (1,243 words) - 20:34, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Niagara Falls
    portage". To Mohawks, the name refers to "the neck", pronounced "onyara"; the portage or neck of land between lakes Erie and Ontario onyara. Many figures...
    98 KB (10,942 words) - 13:36, 6 June 2024
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