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  • 11Mammoth Cave Railroad — spur line …

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  • 12SS Great Eastern — The SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. She was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refueling. Her… …

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  • 13Hāngi — (pronounced /hɑːŋi/) is an ancient New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using super heated rocks buried in the ground in a pit oven. Modernised hangi methods are still used today and are often saved for special occasions due to the large… …

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  • 14aeolipile — /ee ol euh puyl /, n. 1. a round vessel caused to rotate by the force of tangentially escaping steam: an early example of jet propulsion. 2. a device for injecting the vapors of heated alcohol into a laboratory furnace. Also, aeolipyle, eolipile …

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  • 15The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film) — Infobox Film name = The Poseidon Adventure caption = film poster by Mort Künstler producer = Irwin Allen director = Ronald Neame Irwin Allen writer = Paul Gallico (novel) Wendell Mayes Stirling Silliphant (screenplay) starring = Gene Hackman… …

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  • 16USS Sassacus (1862) — For other ships named Sassacus , see USS SassacusThe first USS Sassacus , a wooden, double ended, side wheel steamer, was launched on December 23, 1862 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, sponsored by Miss Wilhelmina G. Lambert.… …

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  • 17Camp Mountain rail accident — infobox AU rail accident title = Camp Mountain rail accident date = 5 May 1947 time = 9:48am location = Camp Mountain, Queensland location dist = 14.95 location dir = NW location city = Brisbane line = Dayboro railway line operator = Queensland… …

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  • 18Robert Webster Cary — Infobox Military Person name= Robert Webster Cary, Jr. born= birth date|1890|8|18 died= death date and age|1967|7|15|1890|8|18 placeofbirth= Kansas City, Missouri placeofdeath= placeofburial= Arlington National Cemetery caption= Robert W. Cary,… …

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  • 19French battleship Masséna — Career (France) …

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  • 20aeolipile — noun /ˈiːəʊlɪpʌɪl/ a steam engine powered by rocket propulsion due to escaping steam; which consists of a pressure vessel mounted on a bearing, with one or more tubes which exhaust steam tangentially to the rotation axis thus creating rotation …

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