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  • 64Great Western Railway — The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company and a notable example of civil engineering, linking London with the West Country, South West England and South Wales. It was founded in 1833, kept its identity through the 1923… …

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  • 65Phoenix Islands — The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they… …

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  • 67Give Yourself Goosebumps — The cover of The Curse of the Creeping Coffin, #8, showing the font used on the covers. Give Yourself Goosebumps was a children s horror fiction gamebook series by R. L. Stine. After the success of the regular Goosebumps books, Scholastic Press… …

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  • 68RMS Tayleur — The RMS Tayleur was a fully rigged iron clipper chartered by the White Star Line, and her fate would be a black mark on that company for years to come. HistoryConstructionThe Tayleur was designed by William Rennie of Liverpool and built for… …

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  • 69Battle of Buffington Island — The Battle of Buffington Island, also known as the St. Georges Creek Skirmish, was an American Civil War engagement in Meigs County, Ohio, on July 19, 1863, during Morgan s Raid. The largest battle in Ohio during the war, Buffington Island… …

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