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  • 31Cowlyd Tramway — Locale Wales Dates of operation c. 1916–c. 1968 Track gauge 2 ft  (610 mm) Length 4 miles (6.4 km) Headquarters Dolg …

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  • 32Yemen — /yem euhn, yay meuhn/, n. 1. Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People s Democratic Republic of Yemen. 13,972,477; 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Cap.: (political) San a. Cap.:… …

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  • 33mining — /muy ning/, n. 1. the act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines. 2. the laying of explosive mines. [1250 1300; ME: undermining (walls in an attack); see MINE2, ING1] * * * I Excavation of materials from the Earth s… …

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  • 34Arabian Desert — 1. a desert in Egypt between the Nile valley and the Red Sea. ab. 80,000 sq. mi. (207,000 sq. km). 2. the desert region in the N part of the Arabian peninsula. * * * Desert region, Arabian Peninsula. It covers about 900,000 sq mi (2,330,000 sq… …

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  • 35Barbados — Barbadian /bahr bay dee euhn/, adj., n. /bahr bay dohz, dohs, deuhs/, n. an island in the E West Indies constituting an independent state in the Commonwealth of Nations: formerly a British colony. 257,731; 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km). Cap.:… …

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  • 36Tombstone, Arizona — Infobox Settlement official name = City of Tombstone, Arizona settlement type = City imagesize = image caption = imagesize = image caption = mapsize = 250px map caption = Location in Cochise County and the state of Arizona mapsize1 = map caption1 …

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  • 37Charlevoix, Michigan — This article is about the city in Michigan. For other uses of “Charlevoix”, see Charlevoix (disambiguation). Charlevoix, Michigan   City   Aerial view …

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  • 38Regrading in Seattle — The topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades in the city s first century of urban settlement, in what might be the largest such alteration of urban terrain in history.Harvnb|Peterson|1950|p=44] The heart of… …

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  • 39WAR OF INDEPENDENCE — (Heb. מִלְחֶמֶת הָעַצְמָאוּת Milḥemet ha Aẓma ut, or מִלְחֶמֶת הַקּוֹמְמִיּוֹּת Milḥemet ha Komemiyyut, or מִלְחֶמֶת הַשִּׁחְרוּר Milḥemet ha Shiḥrur (the War of Liberation), war waged by the Jews of Palestine for survival, freedom, and political …

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  • 40Tailings — A panorama of Broken Hill, New South Wales, backed by the man made mullock (waste tailings) heaps from the Line of Lode mine (the mullock heaps are the hills that stretch across this image). Tailings, also called mine dumps, slimes, tails, leach… …

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