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    A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe...
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    A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...
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  • Look up galley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A galley is a ship or boat primarily powered by multiple sets of oars. Galley may also refer to: birlinn...
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  • Selly Galley, born 25 September 1987 as Selorm Galley is a Ghanaian actress and TV presenter. She was on Big Brother Africa (season 8). She is married...
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    Galley proofs or galleys are so named because in the days of hand-set letterpress printing in the 1650s, the printer would set the page into "galleys"...
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  • John Edward Galley (born 7 May 1944) is an English former professional footballer who scored 149 goals from 409 games in the Football League playing as...
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    The galley is the compartment of a ship, train, or aircraft where food is cooked and prepared. It can also refer to a land-based kitchen on a naval base...
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  • Adventure Galley, also known as Adventure, was an English merchant ship captained by Scottish sea captain William Kidd. She was a type of hybrid ship that...
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  • The Galley Islands are an archipelago off the northeast coast of Antigua. At the northeastern extremity of North Sound, north of Guiana Island, are the...
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  • Robert Galley (11 January 1921 – 8 June 2012) was a French politician and member of the Free French Forces during World War II, for which he received the...
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  • Garry Michael Galley (born April 16, 1963) is a Canadian broadcaster and former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League...
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    HMS Charles Galley was a 32–gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1676. She was rebuilt in 1693, and again at Deptford...
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  • Galley (8 March 1948 – 1 July 2008) was an English guitarist, best known for his work with Whitesnake, Trapeze, Finders Keepers and Phenomena. Galley...
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    "Galley Slave" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, originally published in the December 1957 issue of Galaxy; it was later...
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  • In arithmetic, the galley method, also known as the batello or the scratch method, was the most widely used method of division in use prior to 1600. The...
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    The Ouzel Galley was an Irish merchant ship that set sail from Dublin in the late seventeenth century and was presumed lost with all hands when she failed...
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    The Province Galley was a ketch commissioned by English colonial officials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and launched on 1 June 1694. She was one...
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    The Eric Thomas Galley Museum (also known as the Galley Museum) is a photographic and general museum in Driffield Street in Queenstown. One of two west...
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    The Luxborough Galley was an English ship owned by the South Sea Company which in 1727 burnt, exploded and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Twelve of the crew...
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  • Maurice Galley (10 August 1934 – February 2017) is an English former footballer who scored 5 goals from 55 appearances in the Football League playing as...
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  • The Galley Slave (1915 film) The Galley Slave (1919 film) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Galley Slave. If an internal...
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  • on a ship's galley. Around 1850, a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ship's galley was made of copper...
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    HMS Anne Galley was an 8-gun fire ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1739 and in active service during the War of the Austrian Succession against Spain...
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    Whydah Gally (redirect from Whydah Galley)
    foremost London slave merchant of his day'. A square-rigged three-masted galley ship, she measured 110 feet (34 m) in length, with a tonnage rating at 300...
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  • James Martyn Galley (4 October 1944 – 4 October 2012) played first-class cricket for Somerset in three matches in the 1969 season. He also played in one...
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  • Galley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Garry Galley, former National Hockey League player Gordon Galley, English footballer Jim...
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    antiquity to the late 16th century when sailing ships began to replace galleys and other types of oared ships as the principal form of warships. Throughout...
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  • Lauren Marie Galley (born January 10, 1995), is a multi-media spokesperson, author and entrepreneur. In 2013, Galley published Girls Above Society: Steps...
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    Venetian navy (redirect from Bastard galley)
    narrow-beamed galley, derived from the trireme, which for a millienium was the principle ship of the Mediterranean. When not in use as warships, galleys were used...
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    Real (Spanish for "Royal") was a Spanish galley and the flagship of Don John of Austria in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Real was built in Barcelona at...
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