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  2. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...

  3. Tom Leykis - Wikipedia

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    Tom Leykis (pronounced: / ˈ l aɪ k ɪ s /; born 1956 or 1957) [1] [2] is an American former talk radio personality best known for hosting The Tom Leykis Show from 1994 to 2009 (nationally syndicated), and April 2012 to 2018 (internet streamcast/podcast).

  4. San Juan, Southern Leyte - Wikipedia

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    One of his ships had a broken main mast that required immediate repair. The curious natives led by their chieftain, Datu Malitik, gathered on the shore as they closely watched the approaching ships. The natives who were armed noticed the broken mast and shouted “gikabali-an”. Roughly translated, the word means “to experience a breakage or ...

  5. Battle of Nsamankow - Wikipedia

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    In late 1823, following the disagreements between the Fante and the Ashantis, the British declared war on the king of the Ashanti; after organising the defences of Cape Coast, MacCarthy set out with an expedition of some 80 men of the Royal African Colonial Corps (RACC), 170 men of the Cape Coast Militia, and 240 Fanti tribesmen under their local chiefs.

  6. Spirit of Freedom (balloon) - Wikipedia

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    The solo flight circumnavigation lasted 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes (14 days 19 hours 50 minutes to landing) and covered 20,626.48 statute miles (33,195.10 km). During this flight, the balloon reached speeds of up to 322 kilometers (200 miles) per hour, and flew as high as 10,580 meters (34,710 feet).

  7. Anger - Wikipedia

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    Men were aware of the power they held. Given their choleric "nature", men exhibited hot temperatures and were quick to anger. [120] Peter of Albano once said, "The male's spirit, is lively, given to violent impulse; [it is] slow getting angry and slower being calmed." Medieval ideas of gender assumed men were more rational than women.

  8. Music for the Divine - Wikipedia

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    Music for the Divine, the follow-up to 2005's Soul Mover marked a continued increase in Hughes' popularity. The album contains a more varied approach than his previous albums, songs like "Steppin' On", "Too High" and "Monkey Man" follow Hughes' regular style of funk infused hard rock, but other songs like "Frail" and "The Divine" are mellower and lean towards acoustic songwriting.

  9. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    Five days later, as ground crews manoeuver ship K-29 in the damp, foggy morning for launch from Circle #2, the blimp's tail pendants approach a high-voltage power line and 11,000 volts arcs through the ship. Four men holding the metal handling bars on the control car are electrocuted and a fifth is seriously burned.