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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Yorkshire Coast (section Spurn Point)
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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Sail bogey (section Spurn railway)
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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