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With 18 compartments in various sizes for storing your favourite books, the Book Porcupine is a product that is based on the idea of negative spaces.
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He looks like the friggin 'Porcupine in that drawing.
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The disparity between pre-human and posthuman changes at Naracoorte resembles that described for an analogous North American mammalian succession in Porcupine Cave, Colorado (Barnosky et al., 2004b).
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Porcupine is really a wonderful centre, and what Cobalt has done in the production of enormous wealth from silver, Porcupine is going to do in the production of vast amounts of gold.
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Go where you will today in Porcupine, you become thoroughly convinced of the extraordinary feature awaiting its development.
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There were almost as many mines for the region as in Porcupine, and there was gold in a great many of them.
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Now, Porcupine is considered a great gold region, and has been compared withthe Rand and all these other famous regions, but it has not produced any gold up to the present.
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Then beyond Porcupine is the great forest region with 300,000,000 acres of pulpwood.
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At the distance of fourteen miles we reached the mouth of a river on the north, which from the unusual number of porcupines near it, we called Porcupine river.
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This river we call Porcupine from the great number of those anamals found about it's mouth. - a Short distance above about 1/4 mile and on the Lard Side a large Creek falls in, which R. Fields went to examine & reports that it is a bold running Stream, 30 yds wide as this
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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