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    "pickman"), whose job was to hew the rock. Collier, a hewer who hews coal with a pick. Driller, who works a rock drill to bore holes for placing dynamite...
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    In woodworking, hewing is the process of converting a log from its rounded natural form into lumber (timber) with more or less flat surfaces using primarily...
    7 KB (1,004 words) - 15:15, 1 September 2023
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    of the district, in which men would have more typically been forced to hew coal from a prostrate or kneeling position. The Mother and Child is a bronze...
    95 KB (11,728 words) - 15:52, 4 June 2024
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    David Attenborough (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    September 2013, he commented: "If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop. But I'm not. I'm swanning round the world looking...
    178 KB (14,552 words) - 18:08, 23 May 2024
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    prizes and certificates. Prior to a six-month period of study, he was maintaining his wife and family by hewing coals. His only previous period of formal...
    10 KB (1,154 words) - 22:53, 19 March 2024
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    Germany, Poland and the Netherlands), acquiring stakes in Hämeen Sähkö (1996), HEW (1999, 25.1% stake from the city of Hamburg), the Polish heat production...
    28 KB (2,577 words) - 16:18, 28 May 2024
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    Tiefstack Power Station (category Coal-fired power stations in Germany)
    coal-fired power station of Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke (HEW) was commissioned on 17 January 1917 with a nominal output of 20,000 kW. The coal-fired...
    6 KB (551 words) - 16:42, 15 February 2024
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    and 20th centuries, coal was discovered and mined heavily throughout the Leen Valley, which includes Hucknall. This brought wealth to the town and three...
    32 KB (3,769 words) - 00:18, 7 April 2024
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    of Duddingston FRSE (1778 – 1840) minister at Dailly 1800-1805 and artist Hew Ainslie (1792–1878), poet Anne Hepburn, missionary was born here in 1925...
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  • thirteen, and was hewing coal by the time he was sixteen years old. He had a primary education at East Howle Elementary school, but was anxious to improve himself...
    7 KB (683 words) - 18:50, 1 March 2024
  • Interlude – linking the pusher to the hewer Page 39 Song "The Hewer" – The miner who worked at the face, hewing coal, and then loading it. Another dirty...
    6 KB (796 words) - 14:38, 10 August 2023
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    Petit-patrimoine.com. Retrieved 5 October 2012 Commentry website including reference to Thivrier bust. Retrieved 5 October 2012 Archived 11 January 2014 at the Wayback...
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    has a strong coal mining heritage, and is a typical example of a working class village in North Lanarkshire and the Glasgow area. Due to its location...
    29 KB (3,485 words) - 12:58, 25 October 2023
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    used as a prison. The island belongs to Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, whose family acquired it in 1706, and before to the Lauder family for almost six centuries...
    42 KB (4,897 words) - 10:12, 4 February 2024
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    Industry and the Eglinton Castle estate (category Coal in Scotland)
    in Saltcoats in 1759-60. The wives and daughters had carried out the coal hewed by the men up ladders on their backs. A local poet had written: A Dr....
    57 KB (8,126 words) - 18:29, 14 November 2023
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    the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2018. Hew, Denis (2005). Roadmap to an Asean Economic Community. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies...
    269 KB (21,654 words) - 04:04, 10 June 2024
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    golden spike, provided for the occasion as a gift to the CPRR by San Francisco banker and merchant David Hewes. Beginning in 1865, Huntington was also involved...
    37 KB (4,517 words) - 14:16, 25 March 2024
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    folklorists in the 1930s referring to several German placenames in the region bearing the suffix -hau ("hew (off)", i.e. to clear woodland). Most Hauerland...
    3 KB (377 words) - 12:45, 17 April 2023
  • Health Activities of the Department. Prepared for the Special Subcommittee on HEW Investigation, Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, United States House...
    35 KB (4,166 words) - 20:55, 28 March 2024
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    Read during his time in Virginia. In the summer of 1775, Jones met Joseph Hewes and other revolutionary leaders in Philadelphia. From that period, America...
    64 KB (7,217 words) - 16:20, 8 June 2024
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