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  • 101Chinook wind — For other uses, see Chinook (disambiguation). Adiabatic warming of downward moving air produces the warm Chinook wind Chinook winds (  / …

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  • 102Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park — is a California state park located in Napa County between St. Helena and Calistoga. The park is the site of a water powered grist mill that was built in 1846. It was once the center of social activity as Napa Valley settlers gathered to have… …

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  • 103Weather stick — Also known as a Maine weather stick , the weather stick is a balsam fir rod, generally about 40cm (16 ) long which when mounted outside twists upward with the onset of good weather and downward as inclement weather approaches. These sticks were… …

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  • 104Zang-fu viscera — (zh stp|s=脏腑|t=臟腑|p=zàngfǔ), in visceral manifestations (zh s|脏象), are organs contained within the human body, is the common name of five zang viscera (zh s|五脏), six fu viscera (zh s|六腑), and extraordinary fu viscera (zh s|奇恒之腑).Zang Fu theory is …

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  • 105Upholstery — A New England easy chair at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Delaware Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word upholstery comes from the… …

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  • 106Baler — This article describes the farm machinery. For the municipality in Aurora, Philippines, see Baler, Aurora. A baler is a piece of farm machinery that is used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay or straw) into bales and bind the bales… …

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  • 107List of English words of Persian origin — As Indo European languages, English and Persian have many words of common Proto Indo European origin, and many of these cognate words often have similar forms. Examples of these include: English (Mother) and Persian (Madar), English (Father) and… …

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  • 108Peterhof — ( ru. Петергоф, Petergof , originally named nl. Peterhof , the Dutch for Peter s Court ) is a municipal town within Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland (population 64,791… …

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  • 109Electrofax — An electrofax is an electrostatic printer and copier technology where the image is formed directly on the paper, instead of first on a drum (and then transferred to paper) as it would be in Xerography. It was used in the United States from the… …

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  • 110Glossary of nautical terms — This is a glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, many date from the 17th 19th century. See also Wiktionary s nautical terms, Category:Nautical terms, and Nautical metaphors in English. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R …

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