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  • Lazenby, Henry (February 19, 2015). Tracy Hancock (ed.). "Docu-series gives glimpse into world of placer-mining pioneers". Mining Weekly. Retrieved...
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    water supply to surrounding paddy fields in the area. Shutting down the sluice gates of the Mavil Aru on July 21 depriving the water to over 15,000 people...
    55 KB (4,966 words) - 13:28, 6 May 2024
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    them, damaging some of the sluice gates in a controlled demolition. The Russians then opened more sluice gates, allowing water to rush out of the reservoir...
    187 KB (17,829 words) - 12:07, 28 May 2024
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    Boston, Lincolnshire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    1762. A sluice, called for in the act, was designed to help scour out The Haven. The land proved to be fertile, and Boston began exporting cereals to London...
    70 KB (7,940 words) - 08:16, 20 May 2024
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    had the sluices opened. But that night the crossing was successfully concluded. The next day the 25 soldiers in the redoubt that had agreed not to open fire...
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  • overhead sluice. The two jump off at the Salem yard and A-No.-1 uses Cigaret as a foil to steal a turkey. A policeman (Simon Oakland) chases them to a hobo...
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  • would be revamped for environmental CGI. The gang has now apparently moved to a place called Fixham Harbour and the show is now animated in CGI animation...
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    were based at Bullock Creek in the Wombat Ranges, where they made money sluicing gold and distilling whisky, and were supplied with provisions and information...
    119 KB (16,054 words) - 00:38, 26 May 2024
  • viscera sluicing toward the camera." Similarly, Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post wrote that "after a while it's easy to become numb to the repulsive...
    115 KB (11,720 words) - 01:26, 30 May 2024
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    acting as a storage basin until the water could be let out to river or sea, either by a sluice gate at low tide or using further pumps. This system is still...
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  • abotter) aboté aboteau abotter abotté abouter "(trade term) to join the ends of something" ( < à + OFr boter < Frk *bautan, bōtan (cf Frk *but "end", ON bútr)...
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  • which are agricultural in nature: Breaking down the ridges Covering up the ditches Releasing the irrigation sluices Double planting Setting up stakes Skinning...
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    A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary...
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    Oil Company's Martinez refinery mid-day on July 17, would normally be sluiced to other fuel tanks in the following 24 hours. Sixty-seven officers and crew...
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  • mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico" as a means of "augmenting his [father's] pay with a mining venture", during which he "sluiced inland rivers and crisscrossed...
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    flowed around the estate via a system of interconnecting lakes, ponds and streams linked by a network of dams, water sluices, bridges and cascades. Spring...
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    Gold (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    at Las Medulas in León, where seven long aqueducts enabled them to sluice most of a large alluvial deposit. The mines at Roşia Montană in Transylvania...
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  • List of Pawn Stars episodes (category Articles to be expanded from January 2022)
    is derived from History.com, accessed April 19, 2010. The same site also gives the 1980s as the date of the lunchbox, which is clearly an error, as the...
    393 KB (538 words) - 17:41, 19 May 2024
  • missing, she called Jay to try to get it back but failed. Jay called Goldie and tried to get her to persuade Catherine to give her the necklace but Catherine...
    71 KB (1,676 words) - 02:30, 12 May 2024
  • a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Key to...
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