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Key dates in Iraq's history.
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These are some key dates in the history of Iraq:
5000-2000 B.C. _ Sumer culture.
2000-500 B.C. _ Babylonia.
A.D. 750-1258 _ Abbasid Caliphate rules eastern Muslim world with headquarters in Baghdad.
1258-1335 _ Mongol invasion.
1534-1918 _ Ottoman Empire.
1912 _ Founding of Turkish Petroleum Co. (controlling Iraq reserves).
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Yacht Rescued from Goodwin Sands in Rough Seas.
M2 Presswire
; ...Government: Yacht Rescued from Goodwin Sands in Rough Seas(C)1994-2008...overnight after grounding on the Goodwin Sands in very rough sea conditions...an exact position aground on the Goodwin Sands, five miles South East of...
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UNITED KINGDOM: PASSENGER BOAT SWAMPED OFF GOODWIN SANDS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...she was in some difficulty at the northern tip of the Goodwin Sands. The red/orange rigid hull inflatable boat with 13...was broached by the sea. The passengers were on the Goodwin Sands at the time and had been playing a game of cricket and...
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Man trapped in sand
Newspaper article from: Pasadena Star-News
; ...cement plant was trapped in sand up to his waist for nearly...Department Battalion Chief Scott Goodwin. "The sand puts a steady, heavy pressure on him," Goodwin said. Co-workers at...is a restricted area, Goodwin said. "He went up there...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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SANDS YIELD WRECKS BRITISH COAST TREACHEROUS.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...add their own names to the sands' grim inventory. ''Diving...lost. The constantly shifting sands - charts are useful for no...settles inexorably into the sand. The toll continues with new...in November 1954 the South Goodwin lightship was lost on the sands with all seven crew. Many...
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Tremont students offer service, sand
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
; ...On Thursday, they went to two local sand yards to fill up buckets with salt and sand donated by contractors John Goodwin and Tim Gott, and on Friday morning...loaded buckets onto a pickup truck at Goodwin's sand yard off Route 102. They...
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Sun, sea and shifting sands Annual trip to the coast that only lasts 1 hour 45 minutes
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...eccentric tourist destination, the Goodwin Sands, four miles off Deal in Kent. The much-feared shifting sands, a graveyard of literally thousands...maximum of one hour and 45 minutes on sands which are covered by 12 feet of water...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Ghost-hunters still wait for the 'The Lady' despite the sands of time.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...their next appearance off Goodwin Sands, Kent, today. And...before crashing into the sand and sinking. "We are...Carter's book, The Goodwin Sands, 45 years ago. According...slammed the ship into the sands in front of the town...
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Letter to the Editor: RIDDLE OF THE SANDS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; Peter Birkett's article on the "ghost ship" of the Goodwin Sands refers to a "three-masted trading schooner". But the illustration shows a three-masted barque. Schooners (fore and aft...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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CITY SAND BARRELS ARE NO LONGER COMMON.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...staff If you are looking for a sand barrel at your local street intersection...Streets Superintendent Roger Goodwin said. Goodwin said the sand barrel program was...were kept busy adding to them," Goodwin said. "We now have pickup sites...
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Sand in the City event to run Sept. 29-Oct. 1.(sandcastle contest )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Bellingham Business Journal
; ...Northwest Discovery Project hosts "Sand in the City" in late September...29 to October I, said Bob Goodwin, executive director. The...the first one in Bellingham, Goodwin said. The organizers will...For more information, call Goodwin at 201-3904, or e-mail...
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