The Great Offshore Grounds is an American novel, by Vanessa Veselka. It won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award....
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writer best known for her 2020 novel The Great Offshore Grounds, which won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award. She is...
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The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest...
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Offshore powerboat racing is a type of racing by ocean-going powerboats, typically point-to-point racing. In most of the world, offshore powerboat racing...
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Panama Papers (redirect from The Panama Papers)
2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s...
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The Great Lakes (French: Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the...
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Outsourcing (redirect from Offshore outsourcing)
confused with offshoring which is relocating a business process to another country but does not imply or preclude another company. In practice, the concepts...
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The United Kingdom became the world leader of offshore wind power generation in October 2008 when it overtook Denmark. Government direction in the development...
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the Eastern Hemisphere. In turn, the proper role for the United States is as an offshore balancer, balancing against the rise of a Eurasian hegemon and...
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the ocean floor, the upwelling area differs from the rest of the Great Australian Bight, especially the areas offshore of Western Australia and the Nullarbor...
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The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia...
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Ronan O'Rahilly (category Offshore radio broadcasters)
1940 – 20 April 2020) was an Irish businessman best known for the creation of the offshore radio station, Radio Caroline. He also became manager of George...
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by many offshore faults, which causes high degree of relief offshore, marked by islands, shallow banks, and deep basins. This is known as the continental...
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Paul Johnson (writer) (redirect from The Offshore Islanders)
Nicolson 1972: The Offshore Islanders: England's People from Roman Occupation to the Present/to European Entry [1985 edn as History of the English People;...
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North Sea (redirect from The North Sea)
breeding and feeding grounds, sand and gravel extraction, offshore construction, and heavy shipping traffic have also contributed to the decline. For example...
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Floating wind turbine (redirect from Floating offshore wind turbine)
A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where...
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World War II bomb disposal in Europe (redirect from Great Yarmouth explosion)
the offshore support vessel Esvagt Njord. 26 February 2021: 2,600 households and the University of Exeter halls of residence were evacuated after the...
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Pyramid Point State Marine Conservation Area (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
Pyramid Point State Marine Conservation Area is an offshore marine protected area located one mile south of the Oregon border in Del Norte County, California...
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Energy and Ørsted US Offshore Wind collaborated on the project. See also: Water agitator deicer, Ring crane The Great Lakes have offshore wind potential of...
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September Israel–Hamas war: The UK suspends 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel. The UK government awards nine offshore wind farm contracts totalling...
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Israel (redirect from The state of Israel)
its own offshore gas fields in 2004. In 2009 Tamar gas field was discovered near the coast, and Leviathan gas field was discovered in 2010. The natural...
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Sunninghill Park (category Houses completed in the 19th century)
records that the house and some of its grounds were sold for £15 million in 2007, £3 million over the asking price, to an offshore trust in the British Virgin...
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Bird migration (redirect from The Effect of Climate Change on Bird Migration)
their favourite wintering grounds in Keoladeo National Park in 2002. Structures such as power lines, wind farms and offshore oil-rigs have also been known...
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predators make a winter pilgrimage to a vast offshore destination between Baja California and Hawaii called the White Shark Café". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved...
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Haddock (category Fish of the Arctic Ocean)
to be harvested sustainably. The haddock populations in the western Atlantic (offshore grounds of Georges Bank off New England and Nova Scotia) are also...
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the International Court of Justice, on the grounds that Finnish-built mobile offshore drilling units would be unable to pass beneath the bridge. The two...
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Nicholas J. Spykman (category Dutch emigrants to the United States)
divisions of the world but renames some: the Heartland the Rimland (analogous to Mackinder's "inner or marginal crescent") the Offshore Islands & Continents...
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the highest run-up of any tsunami wave height of any location outside Sumatra. Due to the topography of the seabed, coastline and reefs offshore, the...
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Clacton-on-Sea (redirect from Great Clacton)
Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm, built in the early 2000s some 3 miles (4.8 km) offshore, is visible from many places in the flat hinterland of the town. As...
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Ocean Ranger (category Shipwrecks of the Newfoundland and Labrador coast)
semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland...
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