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  2. Cleaning station - Wikipedia

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    Cleaning station. A reef manta ray at a cleaning station, maintaining a near stationary position atop a coral patch for several minutes while being cleaned. A rockmover wrasse being cleaned by Hawaiian cleaner wrasses on a reef in Hawaii. Some manini and a filefish wait their turn. A cleaning station is a location where aquatic life congregate ...

  3. Naval trawler - Wikipedia

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    Naval trawlers are vessels built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes; they were widely used during the First and Second World Wars. Some—known in the Royal Navy as "Admiralty trawlers"— were purpose-built to naval specifications, others adapted from civilian use. Fishing trawlers were particularly suited ...

  4. Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial - Wikipedia

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    L3 Communications and Lockheed Martin helped to restore the ship's intercom system and donated money for the battleship to print and distribute brochures for the battleship. See also. U.S. Navy memorials; U.S. Navy museums (and other battleship museums) List of maritime museums in the United States; List of battleships of the United States Navy

  5. File:A plan of His Majesty's dock-yard at Deptford, 1774.jpg

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    Title: "A plan of His Majesty's dock-yard at Deptford, 1774." British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.18.17.10. Place of publication: [London] Publisher: [producer not identified] Date of publication: 1774. Item type: 1 map on 2 sheets Medium: pen and ink drawing Dimensions: 74 x 153 cm, sheets differ in size

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a public building, e.g. a school. a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a building (UK: caretaker, especially for private residences; for schools etc. janitor is also used in the UK) jelly a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark))

  7. File:A plan of His Majesty's dock yard at Portsmouth, 1774.jpg

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    Title: "A plan of His Majesty's dock yard at Portsmouth." British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.14.45.2. Place of publication: [England] Date of publication: 1774. Item type: 1 map Medium: hand coloured pen and ink drawing Dimensions: 122 x 193 cm Former owner: George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

  8. DuSable Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    In 1857, the State of Illinois sold 40 acres (160,000 m 2), including the site later to be known as DuSable Park, to the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. In 1893, the company dug out the Ogden Slip to allow boats to pull cargo from railroads at North Pier and the DuSable Park site was filled in by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

  9. Lake Saint Pierre - Wikipedia

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    Geography. Approximately 12,500 years ago, the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age resulted in a vast basin filled by the Champlain Sea.This sea extended from the city of Quebec to the east, and covered the Lower Mauricie, the Lower Laurentians, the lower part of the Ottawa Valley, Lake Ontario on the western side, and Lake Champlain USA) on the South side.