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    Grain Race or The Great Grain Race was the informal name for the annual windjammer sailing season generally from South Australia's grain ports on Spencer...
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  • The Last Grain Race is a 1956 book by Eric Newby, a travel writer, about his time spent on the four-masted steel barque Moshulu during the vessel's last...
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  • travel writer. His works include A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, The Last Grain Race and A Small Place in Italy. Newby was born in Barnes, London, and grew...
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    portal The Great Tea Race of 1866 Grain race Sail Training International - The Tall Ships Races 2011 "The First Tall Ships Race". Sail Training International...
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    burns for 4 seconds at a height of 4 feet. Eric Newby's book The Last Grain Race (chapter two: "Mountstewart") contains a 1938 reference to what appears...
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    Moshulu (category Grain ships)
    later wrote about his experiences of that voyage in the book The Last Grain Race, and went on to become a famous travel writer. Moshulu arrived in Queenstown...
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    only as "Ploddy Gustav". Of the 13 ships which took part in the 1939 grain race, 10 were Erikson ships. Tjerimai (1913–1925, three-masted composite (wood...
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    made only one round-trip from South Australia to Britain per year, (the grain race), after each marathon voyage going back to Mariehamn to lay up for a few...
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    Netherlands. Sailing ships, such as the windjammers in the heyday of the Great Grain Race between Australia and Europe during the 1930s, often preferred the Cape...
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    turn loaded at the jetty. The peak of the windjammer trade, the Great Grain Race, was in the 1930s; the last working sailing ships visited in 1949. As...
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    Ireland to Australia aboard Moshulu, as chronicled in his books The Last Grain Race and Learning the Ropes. It was the only land that the crew saw on the...
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    1938 final voyage of the four-masted barque Moshulu in his book The Last Grain Race. The route sailed by a sailing ship was always heavily dictated by the...
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  • Amazing Race Canada 10 is the tenth season of The Amazing Race Canada, a Canadian reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. Hosted...
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    Gristmill (redirect from Grain mill)
    grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been...
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    Horn carrying wool, grain, and gold from Australia back to Europe; these included the windjammers in the heyday of the Great Grain Race of the 1930s. Much...
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  • Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the...
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  • The Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman and Ironwoman Series is a professional iron man and iron women racing series, born out of surf livesaving. The series...
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    Pommern STS Sedov Star of India Wavertree Joseph Conrad James Craig Barque Grain race List of large sailing vessels Tall ship Windjammer Schäuffelen, Otmar...
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    Herzogin Cecilie (category Grain ships)
    for a higher price, as told, for example, in The Great Tea Race of 1866 or The Last Grain Race. Typically, ships were loaded in the Spencer Gulf area, Port...
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    Rome, Cura Annonae ("care of Annona") was the import and distribution of grain to the residents of the cities of Rome and, after its foundation, Constantinople...
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    Grain Valley is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. Grain Valley is located in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and is a suburb of Kansas...
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  • A Grain of Wheat is a historical novel written by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, first published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers...
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    Sorghum (redirect from Milo (Grain Sorghum))
    or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and...
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    in several of the Great Grain Races from Port Victoria, South Australia to Falmouth, Cornwall. Barken Viking won the Grain Race of 1948. David James was...
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    The Battle for Grain (Italian: Battaglia del grano), also known as the Battle for Wheat, was a propaganda campaign launched in 1925 during the fascist...
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    Wheat (redirect from Wheat grains)
    Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world. The many species of wheat together make up the...
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    1978 Stark, The Last Time around Cape Horn, p. 80 Stark, p. 152; see Grain race Stark, p. 200 Apollonio, The Last of the Cape Horners, p. 122 Apollonio...
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    on the round-trip from Ireland to South Australia in his book The Last Grain Race (1956), and several pictures of Port Lincoln as it appeared in 1939 are...
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    Maize (redirect from Corn (grain))
    corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000...
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  • Grain in Ear (Chinese: 芒种; Korean: 망종; RR: Mang Jong) is a 2005 Chinese film written and directed by Korean Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu. The title refers...
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