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    SS Vega was a Swedish barque, built in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1872. The Vega was the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage, and...
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  • of steamships have carried the name Vega, including SS Vega (1872), Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld sailed in 1878 in Vega from Gothenburg along the coast of Siberia...
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    1881 WASHINGTON  Sweden( United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway) SS Vega 1872 1878–79 VEGA  Norway( United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway) Fram 1892 Nansen's...
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  • SS Huddersfield was a passenger-cargo ship built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1872. Huddersfield was built by John Elder...
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    The Vega Expedition (Swedish: Vegaexpeditionen) of 1878–1880, named after the SS Vega and under the leadership of Finland-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik...
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    1870, 1872 and 1875, led him to attempt the discovery of the long-sought Northeast Passage. This he accomplished in the voyage of the SS Vega, navigating...
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    China Navigation Company (category Transport companies established in 1872)
    Erradale SS Shengking SS Shuntien (sunk by enemy action) MV Soochow (also known as Maersk Asia Decimo) MS Taiyuan SS Wang Phu SS Wu Chang MV Wulin SS Yochow...
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    Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Valparaíso (category Religious organizations established in 1872)
    Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. (1998–2018) Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, S.V.D. (2021–present) Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC. (1988–1993), appointed...
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    SS Asiatic (sometimes operated as the RMS Asiatic) was a steamship operated by the White Star Line from 1871 to 1873, a sister ship to Tropic. Sold off...
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  • target in 1907 HSwMS Fenris (1872) - retired in 1903 Hildur class HSwMS Hildur (1872) - sold in 1919 HSwMS Gerda (1872) - retired in 1919 HSwMS Ulf (1873)...
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  • was responsible for designing and implementing plasma experiments aboard VEGA 1 and 2. JPL · 11874 11875 Rhône 1989 YG5 The Rhône, a major river in France...
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  • 3351:1–36.[27] Sturnira mistratensis Rodentia Contreras-Vega & Cadena 2001 Colombia Contreras-Vega, M. & Cadena, A. 2001. Una nueva especie del género Sturnira...
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    cyclist Óscar Vargas (footballer) (born 1980), Honduran footballer Óscar Vega (born 1965), Spanish boxer Óscar Villarreal (born 1981), American baseball...
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  • comet 1P/Halley, and this contributed to the success of the space missions Vega and Giotto. As a leader in educating local schoolchildren about astronomy...
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  • and SS Officer. HILTL, Hermann (1872–1930) Leader of the Frontkämpfervereiningung paramilitary group. HIMMLER, Heinrich (1900–1945) Reichsführer-SS, Chief...
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  • of these areas, the Mafia is also very active in Florida, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Mafia families have previously existed to a greater extent...
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    $20 and court costs. In Root's Peoria City Directory for 1872–73, published on March 1, 1872, Wyatt is a resident in the home of Jane Haspel at Washington...
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  • and raised in United States, has never lived in Slovenia) Anton Korošec (1872–1940) – prominent Yugoslav politician Milan Kučan (born 1941) – first president...
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    Owen, R., The Fate of Franklin. London, Hutchinson, 1978. Huxley, T.H., 1872. Report on Skeleton. Imperial College Archives, Huxley Papers 33.70. Imperial...
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    lights and illuminated glass ceilings for the ocean liners SS Île de France in 1927 and the SS Normandie in 1935, and for some of the first-class sleeping...
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  • in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. 1908 – A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding...
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    childhood accident. Weisz arrived in the United States on July 3, 1878, on the SS Frisia with his mother (who was pregnant) and his four brothers. The family...
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    Fyodor Matyushkin (category 1872 deaths)
    Федорович; 21 July [O.S. 10 July] 1799 - 28 September [O.S. 16 September] 1872) was a Russian navigator, Admiral (1867), and a close friend of Aleksandr...
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  • that premiered on History on July 19, 2009. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the activities at the World Famous Gold & Silver...
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    Palander af Vega (2 October 1842 – 7 August 1920) was a Swedish naval officer, mostly remembered as the captain on Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Vega expedition...
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  • Trade 1788-1844. The Limestone Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-895901-18-4. "The SS Coldbrook and Middleton Island". Far Corners Photography. Retrieved 27 April...
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    and many rebuilt their 4-2-0 and 2-4-0 locomotives as 4-4-0s. In April 1872, Railroad Gazette used "American" as the name of the type. The type subsequently...
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    Zemlya, organised by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society 1878–1879: Swedish Vega expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld completes the Northeast Passage...
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