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    The Great Northern Railway's class Y-1 comprised eight electric locomotives with AAR 1-C+C-1 wheel arrangements. The locomotives were used on the 73-mile...
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  • Y1 (redirect from Y 1)
    company's existing Boeing 737 airliner Great Northern Y-1, an electric locomotive used by the Great Northern Railway. Y1 adrenocortical cell, a mouse...
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    The Great Northern Z-1 was a class of ten electric locomotives built for the Great Northern Railway They were used to work the route through the second...
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    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
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    The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly...
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    Cascade Tunnel (category Great Northern Railway (U.S.) tunnels)
    to U.S. Route 2. Both single-track tunnels were constructed by the Great Northern Railway. The first was 2.63 miles (4.23 km) in length and opened in...
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    prairie between the Great Lakes and Appalachian Plateau, and the Taiga Plains and Boreal Plains ecozones in Northern Canada. "Great Plains", or Western...
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    Great Northern was a passenger ship built at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons under supervision of the Great Northern Pacific Steam Ship Company for...
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    close. Northern Middle English had two close-mid vowels – /eː/ in feet and /øː/ in boot – which were raised to /iː/ and //. Later on[when?], Northern English...
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    Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a royal title normally granted to sons and grandsons of reigning and past British...
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  • The Great Northern Railway developed an extensive network over time, having started in 1846 with the intention of connecting London and York, as well as...
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    territory of Northern Ireland is not part of Britain, but is part of the nation 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' (UK). Great Britain...
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    The common loon or great northern diver (Gavia immer) is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. Breeding adults have a plumage that includes...
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    World War I (redirect from The Great War)
    the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente)...
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    and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e. holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a pike (PL: pike) in Great Britain, Ireland, most...
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    adorn the hillside (particularly on the western edge of Pen-y-Ghent) were revealed during a great storm in July 1881. The ferocity of the water cascading...
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  • Haplogroup N-M231 and Haplogroup Q-M120. The Y-chromosome haplogroup distribution between southern Han Chinese and northern Han Chinese populations and principal...
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    The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part...
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    SS Edward Y. Townsend (official number 203449) was a 603-foot (184 m) American Great Lakes freighter that served on the Great Lakes. She was primarily...
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    Barnett, A.; Fischer, C.; Graham, R. T.; Gleiss, A. C.; Watanabe, Y. Y. (2016). "Great hammerhead sharks swim on their side to reduce transport costs"....
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    Black Death (redirect from Great Plague)
    chain reaction (PCR) techniques for Y. pestis from the tooth sockets in human skeletons from mass graves in northern, central and southern Europe that were...
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    2014 discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its...
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    It is almost certain that Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712–1786) was primarily homosexual, and that his sexual orientation was central to his life...
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    Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 200km 125miles Roosevelt Parkside Wayne State Saginaw Valley State Purdue Northwest Northern Michigan Michigan...
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    354 sq mi), comprising the island of Great Britain, the northeastern one-sixth of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland) and many smaller islands. This...
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    sinh ⁡ y R ) = sgn ⁡ ( y ) sec − 1 ⁡ ( cosh ⁡ y R ) = gd ⁡ y R . {\displaystyle \varphi =\sin ^{-1}\left(\tanh {\frac {y}{R}}\right)=\tan ^{-1}\left(\sinh...
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    González and Ross, Entre el comal y la olla: fundamentos de gastronomía costarricense, p. 171 Rodriguez, The Great Ceviche Book, p. 3 Peschiera, Cocina...
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    painting is the first known depiction of the Great Red Spot as red (albeit raised to the Jovian northern hemisphere due to an optical inversion inherent...
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    Southern royal albatross Northern royal albatross Wandering albatross Light-mantled albatross Sooty albatross Great shearwater Great-winged petrel Kerguelen...
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    52 mm (1.7 to 2.0 in), which is the biggest of any horned owl race despite the otherwise moderate size of B. v. nacurutu. Northern/sub-Arctic great horned...
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