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    Battery Weed is a four-tiered 19th century fortification guarding the Narrows, the main approach from the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. Located on the...
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    States. It comprises several fortifications, including Fort Tompkins and Battery Weed and was given its present name in 1865 to honor Brigadier General James...
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    New York Harbor as Battery Weed. In 1930, a street in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island was named Weed Avenue, dedicated to Stephen H. Weed. American Civil War...
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    String trimmer (redirect from Weed wacker)
    trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, is a garden tool for cutting grass, small weeds...
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  • completes a dare to also gain a spot in the final, which takes place at Battery Weed. At the final, Vee and Ian are dared to shoot each other with guns, which...
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  • Tompkins (1847) Fort Totten Fort Tyler Fort Wadsworth Fort Washington Battery Weed Fort William Henry Castle Williams Fort Wood Fort H. G. Wright Fort Anderson...
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    These included the red sandstone Forts Richmond (on the site now called Battery Weed) and Tompkins, on the sites of the current forts but of different design...
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    forts Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins are also intact. Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins are only accessible on a ranger-led tour. Battery Dix, Battery Barry...
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    harass work parties constructing siege batteries and trenches. Their fire could also suppress hostile siege batteries. Seacoast mortars could penetrate the...
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    1933. This tunnel was approved in conjunction with the proposed Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel connecting Red Hook with Lower Manhattan. In April 1934, the War...
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    caliber. The four-tier arrangement was only duplicated in the US by Battery Weed at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island and Fort Point in San Francisco. However...
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    Battery Weed...
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    Fort Wadsworth Light is a 1903 lighthouse built atop Battery Weed on Staten Island in New York Harbor. The light illuminates the Narrows, the entrance...
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    Nike antiaircraft missiles. Today an observatory deck on one of the old batteries has views of Jamaica Bay, New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. Fort...
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    next to a farmer's field on Staten Island just above Fort Richmond (Battery Weed). Believing that he would not be caught, he made his way back home to...
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  • from parts of Castleton and Southfield. Fort Tompkins built. 1861 – Battery Weed fortification built. 1865 Church of the Holy Comforter built. Mexican...
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  • of the Gateway National Recreation Area of the National Park Service. Battery Weed Seacoast defense in the United States Roberts, pp. 587-589, 604-605 Fort...
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  • batteries were redesignated, with the light batteries becoming numbered artillery batteries and the heavy batteries at the forts becoming coast artillery companies...
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  • Basketmaker's Shop (Morgan House), Historic Richmond Town August 26, 1969 [24] Battery Weed October 12, 1967 [25] James L. and Lucinda Bedell House April 12, 2005...
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    infantry attacks. While standing near the battery during the intense fighting, Brig. Gen. Stephen H. Weed was mortally wounded and asked to see Hazlett...
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    Series of red sandstone Forts, Forts Richmond (on the site now called Battery Weed) and Tompkins, on the sites of the current forts but of different design...
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    The problem recurred when vessels were sheathed in copper to reduce marine weed accumulation and protect against shipworm. In an experiment, the Royal Navy...
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  • Includes Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!, Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed, Dave and the Giant Pickle (first Larry-Boy Appearance), and all four episodes...
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    patent expired in 2000. Farmers quickly adopted glyphosate for agricultural weed control, especially after Monsanto introduced glyphosate-resistant Roundup...
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  • the 20th century. Featured cartoons : Pappy's Puppy (1955), Dance of the Weed (1941), Problem Pappy (1941), Jerry and the Goldfish (1951), Gone Batty (1954)...
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    vaporizer pens in the form of liquid containers known as cartridges. A battery connected to the atomizer is used to heat the cannabis oil, creating a...
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  • only recorded instance in the Civil War of a battery charging on breastworks." Captain Stephen Hinsdale Weed Lieutenant Malbone F. Watson American Civil...
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    soldiers at Little Round Top, among their victims being General Stephen H. Weed and Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett. Hazlett's guns counter-fired upon them...
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    constant skirmishing. It was fortified by Weed's brigade, five regiments of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and an Ohio battery of six guns. Most of the stone breastworks...
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    and Catholics, and his association with editor and political boss Thurlow Weed, worked against him, and Abraham Lincoln secured the presidential nomination...
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