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John Day Dam
John Day Dam 219 ft (67 m) high and 5,640 ft (1,719 m) long, on the Columbia River between Oregon and Wash.; built between 1959 and 1968 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is an extremely large generator of hydroelectric power. The dam's reservoir regulates navigation upstream; locks provide ship passage from The Dalles Dam reservoir to McNary Dam (see Columbia basin project ).
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Oregon
Map from: MapQuest.com; 9/16/1998; 251 words
; ...Eugene Florence Fossil Frenchglen Gold Beach Goose Lake Grants Pass Harney Basin Heppner Hermiston Hillsboro IDAHO Idanha John Day Jordan Valley Klamath Falls La Grande La Pine Lakeview Lebanon Madras Malheur Lake McMinnville Medford Mitchell Mount...
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Blair urges warlike foreign policy
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...valedictory resume of his almost 10 years in power. He spoke one day after Britain said it would not follow the United States in committing...minister who quit the government as the Iraq campaign unfolded. John Kampfner, an author and the editor of The New Statesman, said...
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Were Polish clergy tied to police?
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 630 words
; ...when Warsaw's archbishop of just two days, Stanislaw Wielgus, resigned after admitting...Vatican under the pope's predecessor, Pope John Paul II, a Pole, has been criticized...collaboration by the clergy after Pope John Paul died, the Polish church chose to...
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'Price of freedom is costly'
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Illinois and Delaware. Weiner's wife, Deborah, and son John, 15, were the only family members of the fallen able to attend...they'll be dead tomorrow. "You live life on the edge every day," Col. Harry Briesmaster III said before the memorial began...
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Republicans on panel back Bush's Iraq plan
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...bipartisan barrage of criticism a day earlier by the Senate Foreign...plan for the second straight day, Gates said Iraqi lawmakers...Senate minority leader, and Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House...closed-door session, Sen. John McCain of Arizona urged senators...
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Television: Good for Kids
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/13/2007; 370 words
; John Surr's Jan. 5 letter, "What TV Does to Kids...basher. No human can, or should, spend 24 hours a day locked in with a single source. There is time in a toddler's day for a limited amount of carefully selected media. Mr...
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Putting Down Stakes -- in Water; If You Plan to Build a Dock, It's Time to Get Your Ducks in a Row
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...want a simple platform where you can sip iced tea after a hectic day, or do you envision an extended walkway with electricity, boat...foot sailboat? "Docks are really site-specific," said John Friedman, who works in Fairfax County's Code Analysis Division...
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Moon Empire Gets a Bang For Its Buck; Unification Church Tied to Arms Maker
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...afraid if anti-cult groups found out, they'd have a field day," the former member said. But an examination of corporate...arrived too late for the war but was snapped up by gangsters like John Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly. Now Kahr manufactures Auto...
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China Hardens Stance On Tibetan Separatism
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Beijing moved to impose revolutionary policies on Tibet. Ten years ago Monday, China instituted martial law in Lhasa after three days of anti-Chinese riots. Witnesses at the time estimated that 50 Tibetans were killed by police. Since then there have been...
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LAUREL WALKER; IN MY OPINION; Elm Grove milestone plaques have strong foundation
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...2.1-mile walking path. It started as a small idea, said John Gehringer, president of the charitable foundation. The group...Village Hall whose walls are lined with historic photographs of days gone by, it was evident to all that there were other people...
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Zanzibar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...landed at the sheltered harbor located on the site of present-day Zanzibar town. Although the islands had few resources of interest...adviser of the sultan. This was especially the case under Sir John Kirk, the British consul from 1866 to 1887. In a treaty with...
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John Wesley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...secretary to Oglethorpe. During John Wesley's two-year stay in the...the end of their lives. During John Wesley's later years admiration...rejection he had endured in earlier days. Bibliography See John Wesley's letters (ed. by J...
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Richard Grant White
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in Putnam's Magazine that exposed as fraudulent the marginalia that John Payne Collier had discovered on certain Shakespearean manuscripts. White...of English usage— Words and Their Uses (1872) and Every-Day English (1880).
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Woodrow Wilson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...law (1915); the Adamson Act, establishing an eight-hour day for railroad employees, was enacted (1916); and the Federal...resulted in the punitive expedition (1916) into Mexico led by John J. Pershing . Border incidents continued, and relations between...
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Wiltshire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...according to legend, Queen Guinevere spent her last days in the nunnery at Amesbury . Notable Wiltshire residents of the past include Joseph Addison, John Dryden, John Gay, George Herbert, and Christopher Wren.
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