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  • 41landing — Land Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a… …

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  • 42pectoral rail — Land Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a… …

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  • 43Simoun (anime) — Infobox animanga/Header name = Simoun caption = Screenshot from the anime s opening sequence ja name = シムーン ja name trans = Shimūn genre = Drama, Steampunk, YuriInfobox animanga/Anime title = director = Junji Nishimura studio = flagicon|Japan… …

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  • 44Nansen's Fram expedition — Fram leaves Bergen on 2 July 1893, bound for the Arctic Ocean Nansen s Fram expedition, 1893–1896, was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer …

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  • 45Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition — The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), also known as the Endurance Expedition, was the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition sought to achieve the first… …

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  • 46arctic — arctically, adv. /ahrk tik/ or, esp. for 7, /ahr tik/, adj. 1. (often cap.) of, pertaining to, or located at or near the North Pole: the arctic region. 2. coming from the North Pole or the arctic region: an arctic wind. 3. characteristic of the… …

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  • 47Ernest Shackleton — Infobox Person name = Ernest Henry Shackleton image size = 180px caption = Ernest Shackleton birth date = birth date|1874|2|15|df=yes birth place = Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland death date = dda|1922|1|5|1874|2|15|df=yes death place = South… …

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  • 48Polar bear — This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Polar bear (disambiguation) …

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  • 49Arktika 2007 — ( ru. Российская полярная экспедиция Арктика 2007 ) was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of… …

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  • 50S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 — was an ill fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. S. A. Andrée (1854 ndash;97), [Andrée, christened Salomon August, invariably went by his initials as an adult.] the first Swedish balloonist, proposed …

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