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    Lock Wood Island is an island in the River Thames in England just downstream of Nuneham House on the reach above Abingdon Lock. The island sits on a sharp...
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  • canal to contain the lock and turning the land between that and the river into an island. In many cases the lock island contains the lock keeper's house and...
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    at the heavily wooded Lock Wood Island on the eastern bank with the old Radley Boathouse on the opposite side. Beyond the island the river is flanked by...
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    Hurley Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England, situated in a clump of wooded islands close to the village of Hurley, Berkshire. The lock was...
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    first pound lock was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1773. The weir is some distance upstream of the lock between the lock island and Berkshire...
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    Fiddler's Elbow (category Islands of Oxfordshire)
    a set of islands in the River Thames in England alongside and upstream of Sandford Lock, near Kennington, Oxfordshire. Fiddler's Elbow Island is in the...
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    Culham Lock in which parish it lies however maintaining close links with Abingdon by virtue of its current amenities. It is the second-largest island of the...
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    46 m) natural rise between Lock E35 and the Niagara River. There is no Lock E1 or Lock E31 on the Erie Canal. The place of "Lock E1" on the passage from...
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    Lock is a lock and weir on the River Thames in England. It is a pound lock, built by the Thames Navigation Commissioners in 1787. It is on an island near...
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    Sonning Lock is a lock and associated weir situated on the River Thames at the village of Sonning near Reading, Berkshire, England. The first lock was built...
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    set in a lock cut which is one of four streams here and it is surrounded by woods. On one side is Sashes Island and on the other is Mill Island connected...
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    There are islands below Cleeve lock, with weirs between them, and these extend for some distance. On the Streatley side are meadows and woods. The Thames...
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    reinforced narrow islands. The upper island is traversed by and accessible by the lock gates or Teddington Lock Footbridge. The greater lock is against the...
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    in fir wood in 1773. Humphrey Gainsborough, a non-conformist minister at Henley Congregational Church was concerned in the building of the lock. He was...
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    Commission. The lock is on the western side of the north–south flowing reach between the A4094 Maidenhead to Cookham road and Ray Mill Island. The name is...
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    island, Cherry Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Muireach, meaning Murdoch's Island), at the southwestern end of the loch. It is an artificial island,...
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    water above the only lock on the Tideway and is accessible by boat or from the left (generally north) bank by footbridge. The island had a club that was...
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    67th running of the Bathurst 1000, which was first held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in 1960 as a 500-mile race for Australian-made standard...
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  • might threaten his rule, two brothers who were the lords of Beaversdam were locked up as "madmen" (PC) Chippingford: One of four towns named in the country...
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    Anfinson 2003, "He learned that Minneapolis" "construct a lock and dam at Meeker Island". "H.R.3080 – Water Resources Reform and Development Act of...
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    Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia...
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  • Jon Lung (category People from Staten Island)
    needle in a haystack, building a boat out of cardboard and picking a handcuff lock with a bobby pin, impressed the judges, and by the end of the competition...
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    by Omar Portee and Leonard McKenzie while locked up in the George Mochen Detention Center at Rikers Island. A drawing by artist Salvador Dalí, done as...
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    Richmond Lock and Footbridge is a lock, rising and falling low-tide barrage integrating controlled sluices and pair of pedestrian bridges on the River...
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    managed to reach the island, but the rest of the slaves, locked in the hold, drowned. The crew retrieved various equipment, food and wood from the wreckage...
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    in Hollywood is very real." Woods has frequently expressed his conservative political views on Twitter and has been locked out of his account multiple...
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  • Thumbnail for Monkey Island, Bray
    Monkey Island is an island in the River Thames in England, on the reach above Boveney Lock. Its nearest village is Bray, Berkshire. The dominant building...
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  • The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 American science fiction horror film, based on the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. It was directed...
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  • Thumbnail for Tiger Woods
    owed $30 million after an oral agreement was breached when Woods' trust's employees "locked her out of the Residence, removed her personal belongings,...
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  • Thumbnail for Ravanahatha
    coconut shell or hollowed-out cylinder of wood, with a membrane of stretched goat or other hide. A neck of wood or bamboo is attached, carrying between...
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