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Escalator
Escalator Background An escalator is a power-driven, continuous moving stairway designed to transport passengers up and down short vertical distances. Escalators are used around the world to move pedestrian traffic in places where elevators would be impractical. Principal... Read more |
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Miami Indians
Miami ETHNONYMS: Miamiouek, Maumee, Oumami, Twightwees Orientation Identification. The Miami are an Algonkian people, closely related to the Illinois. They inhabited the area to the south and west of Lake Michigan in mid-continental North America when Europeans first entered the region... Read more |
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Ballinspittle
Ballinspittle (Moving Statue) Ballinspittle is a village in county Cork, Ireland, and the site of a reported paranormal moving statue of the Virgin Mary. In the same year, 1985, many statues of the Virgin Mary throughout Ireland were reported to be moving. The first reports began in Asdee, county... Read more |
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Thomas Pringle
Thomas Pringle Scottish writer Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) is considered the father of South African poetry. He lived in South Africa for six years, during which time he established a family settlement in the Eastern Cape. Unable to make a living as a writer in South Africa, he moved to London... Read more |
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Concourse
Concourse an assembly of things or persons brought together; a moving group of people or things. See also assemblage. Examples: concourse of atoms, 1692; of books, 1855; of humours, 1604; of spiritual joy, 1628; of particles of matter, 1677; of all nations, 1642; of people, 1440; of dependent... Read more |
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Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat Bandleader, violinist For the Record … Selected discography Sources Best-known for having popularized the rumba in the United States during the 1930s, Xavier Cugat’s Latin-influenced band lead the way in a new music craze among the dancing and radio-listening public. A... Read more |
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Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art (RCA), London. Britain's pre-eminent training school for artists and designers. Since 1967 it has been a postgraduate university institution, but it has had many changes of status, name, and location since it was founded in 1837 at Somerset House as the School of Design.... Read more |
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Duncan Sheik
DUNCAN SHEIK Born: Montclair, New Jersey, 18 November 1969 Genre: Rock Best-selling album since 1990: Duncan Sheik (1996) Hit songs since 1990: "Barely Breathing," "Bite Your Tongue," "Wishful Thinking" Duncan Sheik is best known for his breakthrough single "Barely Breathing," a surprise... Read more |
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Kammu
Kammu PRONUNCIATION:kah-MOO ALTERNATE NAMES:Khamu; Khmu LOCATION:Laos POPULATION:About 500,000 LANGUAGE:Kammu RELIGION:Animism; some Buddhism and Christianity 1 • INTRODUCTION The Kammu (also written Khamu and Khmu) are believed to be the original inhabitants... Read more |
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Black and white together in South Shore
...Street in South Shore. My father...being a great neighbor in his community, South Shore. In...everybody living in South Shore was white...block and white neighbors fled, ... |
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PIPER SHORES KEEPS SENIOR RESIDENTS ACTIVE, INTERACTIVE
...Final Section: Your Neighbors-South Page: 4G By...residents at Piper Shores, a 1-year...care once they move to Piper Shores...great ideas. Your life doesn...want to be good neighbors." Hogan ... |
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WHO NEEDS CITY LIFE? EASTERN SHORE IS HOME.(COMMENTARY)
...the Eastern Shore six years ago...and I moved to South Carolina the...available. The move afforded me...head back to South Carolina at...feels beneath your feet, the winsome...running into 10 people I knew in the grocery ... |
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Safe havens from a tsunami: Ocean Shores heeds 'wakeup call'.(News)
...reporter OCEAN SHORES, Grays Harbor...sign advises people to move to higher...damage. "Your best fighting...areas where people would be unlikely...Raymond and South Bend. In...quake, many people likely ... |
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Sidewalk Neighborhoods on foot: From old Camas to new Camas; Lake trail leads...
...posh Lacamas Shores neighborhood...You can leave your car here or...lake where people swim and water...Y where the south-shore trail continued...into Lacamas Shores. In short...three months, neighbors throw ... |
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Eastern Shore craftsman turns chunks of wood into elegant furniture.
...the Eastern Shore and as he drops...Maryland or south toward the...along with new neighbors who complained...their pick-your-own fields...decided to move south. They sold...Working for other people, you have ... |
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Live an active adult lifestyle at South Shore's Oak Point.(Arts and Lifestyle)
...you need to move to Florida to enjoy your retirement...Located on the South Shore, Oak Point...the home of your dreams a reality...walk to the neighbors, but you are...section of people. Some ... |
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Sand-castle boom at shore
...castle boom at shore -- Price...next-door neighbor's house...and the area south of the Route...folks."Your middle class and your seniors on...We have people who doubled...s young people have been forced to ... |
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Where Have All Neighbors Gone? // Execs Come and Go in Some Burbs
...world of your parents...on-the-move corporate...the North Shore, the plusher...19,000 people - had moved...he or she moves on. Or you move on. Hello...each new neighbor. If, for...from the ... |
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Levoy Theatre's neighbors, who were evicted from homes in Millville, sue for...
...Several people who were...theater's neighbor, Fath Department...planning to move anywhere...the seven people. "They're people who don...and eat all your meals out...to the south, which remains...any need to ... |