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    Cesspit, cesspool and soak pit in some contexts are terms with various meanings: they are used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed...
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    building to collapse. Most of the attendants fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement...
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    into a shared brick drain, that would feed into an adjacent soak pit (cesspit). The soak pits would be periodically emptied of their solid matter, possibly...
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    fire. The city had widened the street and the cesspit was lost. It was common at the time to have a cesspit under most homes. Most families tried to have...
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    describe someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits. The word "gong" was used for both a privy and its contents. As the work...
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  • concludes, "Rule 34 can be thought of as a kind of indictment of the Web as a cesspit of freaks, geeks, and weirdos, but seen through the lens of cosmopolitanism...
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    building to collapse. Most of the nobles fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement...
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    June 2017, Michael Simkins of The Guardian wrote, "In this glittering cesspit we call the acting profession, there are plenty of rival thesps who, through...
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    cesspit. Its opening was under a nearby house that had been rebuilt further away after a fire and a street widening. At the time there were cesspits under...
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  • of the home's lack of plumbing, Simmons ordered his family to dig three cesspits, one of which would eventually be where he disposed of some of their bodies...
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    Palestinians in the Territories had access to improved sanitation in 2008. Cesspits were used by 39% of households, while access to the sewer network increased...
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  • initially, but in July 2016 her remains (and the dog's) were found in a cesspit under the garage of her home and her partner was charged with her murder...
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  • was later alleged that she may still have been alive when dumped in the cesspit. During the trial, the prosecution claimed that Stewart had inadvertently...
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    instructions concerning the "secret chamber", the deflection of waste into a cesspit through pipes and the purification of smells through the use of "herbal...
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    garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit (akin to a pit latrine) or the moat (like a fish pond toilet), depending...
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    These toilets had vertical chutes, via which waste was disposed of into cesspits or street drains. In the Indus city of Lothal (c. 2350 BC), houses belonging...
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    yank. This is sometimes further shortened to "seppo" by Australians . Cesspit Fecal sludge management Grease trap Sanitation "Sanitation Systems – Sanitation...
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    Soho in London to fecal contamination of a public water well by a home cesspit. Snow's findings that cholera could be spread by contaminated water took...
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    Inside, the museum has exhibitions in showcases, as well as a reconstruction of a medieval Haarlem cesspit dig....
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    having murdered the son of a local sheikh and throwing his body into a cesspit.[citation needed]> Emissaries from the community were frequently sent overseas...
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    inadequacy of this approach. Early civilizations like the Babylonians dug cesspits below floor level in their houses and created crude drainage systems for...
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  • Biofilters Bioreactor Bioretention Capacitive deionization Carbon filtering Cesspit Chemical addition wastewater treatment Clarifier Coarse bubble diffusers...
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    short-chain organic acids in the septic tank scum layer. Blackwater (waste) Cesspit Dry well French drain Groundwater pollution Leachate Onsite sewage facility...
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    2019. Retrieved March 19, 2019. Rowe, Dan (March 19, 2019). "The online cesspits where hate found a home". The Spinoff. Archived from the original on January...
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    like cesspits, kitchen middens and garbage dumps have proved to be of great value and importance. Undigested remains of plants from cesspits at Coppergate...
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  • I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago, and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin. In 2001, Brady wrote The Gates of Janus, which was published...
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    About 87.6% were connected to a public sewage system and 11.8% used a cesspit. The blockade on Gaza severely restricted the city's water supply. The...
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    Vianoce: Weihnachten (Christmas) vločka: Flocke (flake) žumpa: Sumpf (cesspit) Verbs: študovať: studieren (to study (as in, to major in)) vinšovať: wünschen...
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    sewer network, which meant that effluent, which was previously stored in cesspits, was carried away through drains into the nearest brook. ...the polluted...
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    French Captain Argenton laments that France needs to scrape its supply from cesspits.[citation needed] In the Dr Stone anime and manga series, the struggle...
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