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  • 1Shaft construction — concerns the building of vertical openings such as Raises and Shafts. Shafts are vertical openings used for supplying equipment, personnel, and support systems to the horizontal tunnel where the pipeline is installed. They can be temporary or… …

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  • 2Loose pulley — Pulley Pul ley, n.; pl. {Pulleys}. [F. poulie, perhaps of Teutonic origin (cf. {Poll}, v. t.); but cf. OE. poleine, polive, pulley, LL. polanus, and F. poulain, properly, a colt, fr. L. pullus young animal, foal (cf. {Pullet}, {Foal}). For the… …

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  • 3The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" — Infobox Book | name = The Boats of Glen Carrig title orig = translator = image caption = dust jacket of The Boats of Glen Carrig author = William Hope Hodgson illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre …

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  • 4The Silence of the Lambs (novel) — infobox Book | name = The Silence of the Lambs title orig = translator = image caption = deletable image caption author = Thomas Harris cover artist = country = United States language = English series = Hannibal Lecter genre = Thriller, Horror… …

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  • 5The Vampire Diaries (novel series) — The Vampire Diaries The Vampire Diaries: Return: Midnight The Awakening The Struggle The Fury Dark Reunion The Return: Nightfall The Return: Shadow Souls The Return: Midnight The Hunters: Phantom The Hunters: Moonsong …

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  • 6The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved — is a seminal sports article by Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson s home town, that first appeared in an issue of Scanlan s Monthly magazine in June of that year. Though not known at the time, the… …

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  • 7Minor tombs in the Valley of the Kings — The majority of the 65 numbered tombs in the Valley of the Kings can be considered as being minor tombs, either because at present they have yielded little information or because the results of their investigation was only poorly recorded by… …

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  • 8Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis — The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis Developer(s) Brøderbund Software Publisher(s) …

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  • 9loose anagen hair syndrome — a syndrome of unknown etiology, usually seen in children, in which scalp hair can be plucked easily and painlessly during the anagen part of the hair cycle, owing to defective anchorage of the hair shaft to the follicle; there is also slowing of… …

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  • 10Fast and loose — Fast Fast, a. [Compar. {Faster}; superl. {Fastest}.] [OE., firm, strong, not loose, AS. f[ae]st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of… …

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