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    Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms...
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    The Spurn Lightship (LV No. 12) is a lightvessel (i.e. a ship used as a lighthouse), previously anchored in Hull Marina in the British city of Kingston...
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    53°36′07″N 0°08′46″E / 53.602°N 0.146°E / 53.602; 0.146 The Spurn Point military railway was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
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    the River Humber. The station was opened in 1810, and was located on on Spurn Point in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Previously operated by Hull Trinity...
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    and Robin Hood's Bay. The section of coastline south of Bridlington to Spurn Head is also known as the Holderness coast, from the area of East Yorkshire...
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    Gabler 2006, p. 631. Nicklaus, David (May 8, 2013). "No, Disney didn't spurn St. Louis over beer". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Archived from the original...
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    a wind-driven vehicle that runs along railway tracks. The Spurn railway, built along Spurn Head on the Yorkshire coast of England was built in the First...
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    flooded in the 14th century. The peninsula still survives and is known as Spurn Head. The North Sea lies to the east of the peninsula, the Humber estuary...
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  • new ‘killing machine’, is sweaty, strong and seething. The young actor spurns the athleticism of a Tiger Shroff or Vidyut Jammwal, opting instead for...
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    to take over or acquire Burger King during the 1970s, all of which were spurned by Pillsbury. After the failed attempts to acquire the company, the relationship...
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    Old English spor "footprint, track, trace" and modern English language spurn (as in ankle). It is cognate also with spur, the metal tool on the heels...
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    for sport matches, whereas those in other arts such as aikido generally spurn such competitions. Some schools believe that competition breeds better and...
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    Beauty, as is the North Pennines (a part of which lies within the county). Spurn Point, Flamborough Head and the coastal North York Moors are designated...
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    for most of the nation's history. Though the Founding Fathers generally spurned political parties as divisive and disruptive, and their rise had not been...
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    couple visited Japan on their return journey, Dora took on the role of spurning the local press by handing out notices reading "Mr. Bertrand Russell, having...
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    Goa, Daman, and Diu. After repeated attempts by India to negotiate were spurned by Portuguese prime minister and dictator, António de Oliveira Salazar...
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    Christianity, some ascetics are referred to as Fools for Christ, whereby they spurn the convention of society in pursuit of living a more wholly Christian life...
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    Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin headland of Spurn Head to the north. Ports on the Humber include the Port of Hull, the Port...
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    Aamer; Weissert, Will; Knickmeyer, Ellen (September 15, 2020). "Trump spurns science on climate: 'Don't think science knows'". AP News. Retrieved May...
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    power capacity within a decade, funding emissions-cutting proposals, and spurning a proposed green post-COVID-19 recovery. In 2021, the Johnson government...
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    2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021. Fandos, Nicholas (February 7, 2021). "Spurning Calls to Resign, Liz Cheney Says G.O.P. Must Move Past Trump". The New...
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    com. Retrieved December 1, 2012. Briggs, David (October 5, 2007). "LeBron spurns Tribe, sports Yanks cap". MLB.com. Retrieved December 22, 2021. Van Riper...
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  • which lavished camera time on male models working out in string bikinis who spurn her advances, ultimately pairing off to walk to the men's locker rooms holding...
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    lost sandbank promontory, the modern successor of which is now known as Spurn Point. The town was founded by the Count of Aumale in the mid-13th century...
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    people felt their degradation under such petty tyranny and resolved to spurn it. It was effectually done in Boston, and the government, after all its...
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  • is used in the Quran in the senses of ignore/fail to acknowledge and to spurn/be ungrateful. The meaning of 'disbelief', which has come to be regarded...
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  • December 12, 2002. Retrieved August 5, 2006. (January 24, 2007), "Small Firms Spurn Chapter 11", Wall Street Journal, p. B6B. "This Day In Market History: Lehman...
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    founding of Visva-Bharati University. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels,...
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    Cedar. The goddess Ishtar sends the Bull of Heaven to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull of Heaven, insulting Ishtar...
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    abolitionists and Atlantic slave uprisings caused the British public to spurn slavery. According to the historian Andrew Roberts, "George never bought...
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