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    The Wool Road (also later known as 'The Old Wool Road') was a historic road in New South Wales, Australia, that ran from Nerriga to what is now called...
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    materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...
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    Dobcross (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham)
    in the opposite direction to Oldham. This service runs along Wool Road, lying just to the east of the village, which is a 5 minute walk from the square...
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    Wooler (/ˈwʊlə/ WUUL-ə) is a town in Northumberland, England. It lies on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, near the Cheviot Hills. It is a...
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  • The Wool Track is a name given to the road route between Balranald and Cobar, via Ivanoe, in New South Wales, Australia. It connects the Sturt Highway...
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    Biella (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    an important wool processing and textile centre. There is a small airport in the nearby comune of Cerrione. The first inhabitants of the area were Ligurians...
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    well into the 20th century. In 1841, the private township of South Huskisson on Jervis Bay was founded as a seaport and terminus of The Wool Road. It was...
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    The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 km (4,000 mi)...
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    Fort Wool is a decommissioned island fortification located in the mouth of Hampton Roads, adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT). Officially...
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    village site and a route over the mountains from Nerriga to Vincentia. It was intended that this pass, known as The Wool Road would allow movement of agricultural...
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    Innes. In 1840 the Wool Road from the Northern Tablelands was under construction to enable wool and other produce to be shipped from the port. Port Macquarie...
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  • John Mackenzie (colonial settler) (category British Army personnel of the Peninsular War)
    particularly associated with Nerriga, Braidwood, and The Wool Road, but also with Dangelong, in the Monaro region. Mackenzie was born, in 1791, at Edinburgh...
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    John Coghill (Australian politician) (category Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council)
    Legislative Council. During 1841, he was in command of the convict road gang that built The Wool Road. In Braidwood, there is a wall plaque to his memory, in Anglican...
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    Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 – November 10, 1869) was an officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican–American...
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    A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required...
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    townships along the road from Braidwood to Jervis Bay (The Wool Road). Some of these towns never eventuated at all, and others were not built in the form planned...
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  • the Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons, first appearing in 1949 in the...
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    A roads in zone 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 and A7 roads, and west of the A1 (road beginning with 6). "A613 (Gateshead)". sabre-roads.org...
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    Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian based in England. He has released six albums, including 2020's Viva Forever, produced by Dan Schlissel for Stand...
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    locality in the City of Shoalhaven in New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Braidwood Road (which was originally built as the Wool Road), where it...
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    Vol. 9.4. London: John Murray. pp. 530–531. The Wool Road (New South Wales) Roberts, Jason. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest...
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    Junee (category Towns in the Riverina)
    'Junee' was gazetted in 1863 on the wool road to Sydney. That same year, Ben Hall and his bushranging gang raided the village. In 1866 Junee's population...
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  • This is a list of numbered roads in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada....
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    list of numbered municipal roads in Quinte West, Belleville and Hastings County, Ontario. The City of Quinte West and the City of Belleville are single-tier...
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    lookout, and the modern-day Wandean Road were built originally as part of The Wool Road in 1841. Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Jerrawangala"...
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  • Mousseline de Laine) was a kind of mixed cloth with cotton warp and wool in the weft. Delaines have many variations such as made of undyed yarns, and...
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    elevation of 768 metres (2,520 ft) above sea level. After 'The Wool Road' (now Braidwood Road) was built, there was to be a township near to Tianjara Falls...
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    Haute couture (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    due to the fact that wool easily absorbs colour, so it is important to be cautious in order not to ruin the wool. Some of the higher-end wools are alpaca...
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  • Stewart Ryrie (colonial settler) (category British Army personnel of the Peninsular War)
    the family fortunes were badly affected, by the drought and economic depression of the early 1840s and probably also by the failure of The Wool Road and...
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    Eliza Forlonge (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    843703, 145.624385) on Forlonge Memorial Road, Euroa, Victoria. It is a slab of granite in the shape of a wool pack. In 1940, a sundial (Coordinates: -41...
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