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1Scramble for Africa — For the book by Thomas Pakenham, see Thomas Pakenham (historian)#The Scramble for Africa. For information on the colonization of Africa prior to the 1880s, including Carthaginian and early European colonization, see Colonization of Africa. The… …
2Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood — The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood (SPBW), founded in 1963, is the oldest consumer based group interested in stimulating the brewing of, increasing the awareness of, and encouraging the drinking of cask conditioned real ale.… …
3History of Fall River, Massachusetts — For much of its history, the City of Fall River, Massachusetts has been defined by the rise and fall of its cotton textile industry. From its beginnings as a rural outpost of the Plymouth Colony, the City grew to become the largest textile… …
4Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask — A typical SNF shipping cask mounted on a railroad car. Spent nuclear fuel shipping casks are used to transport spent nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants and research reactors to disposal sites such as the nuclear reprocessing center at… …
5Fall River, Massachusetts — Infobox Settlement official name = Fall River, Massachusetts imagesize = image caption = Downtown Fall River nickname = The Scholarship City motto = We ll Try image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location in Bristol County in Massachusetts… …
6Bill of lading — Admiralty law History …
7The Ballad of the White Horse — is a poem by G K Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911 AD. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading… …
8American Printing Company (Fall River Iron Works) — The American Printing Company, located in Fall River, Massachusetts grew to become the largest producer of printed cotton cloth in the world by the early 20th Century. The company grew as an offshoot of the Fall River Iron Works, established in… …
9History of California wine — California wine has a long and continuing history, and in the late twentieth century became recognized as producing some of the world s finest wine. While wine is made in all fifty U.S. states, up to 90% (by some estimates) of American wine is… …
10Spile — A spile is a small wooden peg used to control the flow of carbon dioxide out of a cask of ale.Cask ale is served without externally supplied carbon dioxide or nitrogen. The idea that it is served flat with no bubbles at all, though, is a… …
