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A naval blockade of the norths harbours might of helped.
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June 13, 2009 at 10:12 am well, aparrotlees, dere be tew Portsmouths! one is abit upper norths.
Move? And deprive you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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In 2007, Dixie is aloud to mean one thing, and that is the norths idea of stereotypical ignorance ... a banner for white trash who know nothing of Big Daddy, the Civil War or Jeffersonian Individulism ... but none the less keep her flying, bright, bold and now humiliated ...
GreenCine Daily: Oxford American. Southern Movie Issue. 2007
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On the west, Room XLVI was accessible by means of a large door that was later blocked, and two limestone steps farther norths led to the east-west running Corridor LIX (excavated part: 2.80 m long and 2.6 m wide).
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I mean you know it's got to happen but to lose Gregory Peck and then Katharine Hepburn, it's like two of the sort of moral true norths of Hollywood.
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It is tempting to go on from this to draw comparisons, between the two norths-comparisons which indicate that, the Russians, like good and trusty servants, have put their talents to work while we, recognizing the north as a hard master, have buried ours in the permafrost.
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It will be noticed that the lines in Fig. 19, where unlike poles are opposite, are gathered together as in Fig. 14b, -- where the N end of the magnet faces the S side of the magnetic shell; and that in 19a, where two norths face, the line of repulsion has the same general character as in 14c, in which the N end of the magnet faces the N side of the shell.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various
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I carried it wrapped about my body on every one of my expeditions northward after it came into my possession, and I left a fragment of it at each of my successive "farthest norths": Cape Morris
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
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In some parts of the world the two norths appear to line up perfectly, so declination is 0 degrees, but in other places it is 25 degrees or more.
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In some parts of the world the two norths appear to line up perfectly, so declination is 0 degrees, but in other places it is 25 degrees or more.
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