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    related to Sampans. "Cranks with Planks presents Sampans -n- Yulohs" (via Wayback Machine) (includes excerpt from G.R.G. Worcester's Junks and Sampans of the...
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    It is peddled by the sampans cruising on the Pearl River. Selling sampan congee was one of the livelihoods of these boats. Sampan congee is made from rice...
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    Sampans (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃pɑ̃]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Communes of the...
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    observed an unknown size enemy force in sampans 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Cao Lanh. The gunships attacked the sampans with machine guns and rockets and...
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    Berncastle in 1850 describes the sampan panjang as very light boats and was elegant in shape. He notes that the sampans were propelled by paddles or lateen...
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  • Sampan, also known as San-Ban, is a 1968 Hong Kong film which was the first feature directed, written and co-produced by Terry Bourke. The film was successful...
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    Suddenly, Viet Cong manning two sampans opened fire on the Americans. While Williams and his men neutralized one sampan, the other one escaped into a nearby...
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    traditional sampans to cruise around the typhoon shelter or to cross the waters to Ap Lei Chau is a popular activity for tourists. The sampans to Ap Lei...
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  • Sampan is a newspaper based in Chinatown in Boston, Massachusetts. It is New England's only bilingual Chinese and English newspaper. The newspaper was...
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  • Sampan Kesi (Thai: สัมพันธ์ เกษี, born 3 July 1999) is a Thai professional footballer who plays as a left back for Thai League 1 club Khon Kaen United...
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  • Indonesian sampans 1 mile from Raffles Lighthouse. Upon interception of the unlit sampans, Teal was fired upon with automatic weapons from the sampans. The...
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    guideboat Banks dory, Gloucester dory, and McKenzie River dory Dinghy Sampans rowed by foot in Ninh Bình Province of northern Vietnam. Scull, Single...
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  • sampans, five were wounded and two were unscathed. A Coast Guard destroyer arrived and sent launches to connect the ship to the two crippled sampans and...
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  • USNS Sampan Hitch (T-AGM-18) was a missile range instrumentation ship which earlier operated as the U.S. Air Force Ocean Range Vessel USAFS Sampan Hitch...
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    dictionary. "Cranks with Planks presents Sampans -n- Yulohs" (includes excerpt from G.R.G. Worcester's Junks and Sampans of the Yangtse.) "How To Scull A Boat"...
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    Bali has no major waterways, although the Ho River is navigable by small sampan boats. Black sand beaches between Pasut and Klatingdukuh are being developed...
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    unloading sampans at a river crossing, who began running and failed to obey an order to stop. As the men fled, Kerry and his crew opened fire on the sampans and...
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    after running aground during a storm. (Originally the 71 foot long Aku Sampan Fuji Maru.) YP-205 Saba Island, Caribbean Sea; 18°30′N 65°00′W / 18.500°N...
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    from coastal waters, lakes, and rivers employing small steamboats and sampans." While most Amphibious Raider forces remained at Camp Knox in Calcutta...
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  • merchants (smugglers and legitimate). The pirates had a large junk, and 18 sampans which are flat bottomed, wooden fishing boats. Around 1573, the Japanese...
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    engagement between the two PBRs (105 and one other) and two Viet Cong (VC) sampans escalated into a three-hour running battle involving more than 50 enemy...
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  • from a 1940s Indonesian gambang kromong folk song about sampan boats, called "Dayung Sampan", by the pasindhèn Dasimah. Teng recorded a Cantonese version...
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    motors drove the shafts all the time. Many targets in the Pacific War were sampans or otherwise not worth a torpedo, so the deck gun was an important weapon...
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    operations. On one occasion, a six-man fire team ambushed one junk and two sampans, accounting for seven Viet Cong dead and the capture of valuable intelligence...
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    further 3,390 estimated killed, 8,637 structures, 15,568 bunkers, 1,267 sampans and 74 bridges destroyed. RAAF transport aircraft also supported anti-communist...
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    Five Goats Lady Sin Cultural symbols Red cotton flower Hong Kong orchid Macau lotus Sampan Cultural hubs Guangzhou Foshan Nanning Hong Kong Macau v t e...
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    temple no. 45 (from the 8th or 9th century) features large sailboats and sampans with inflated square sails. A wide ship with a single sail is depicted...
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    these traders travelled in were called "Sampans" and thota means port or anchorage so the port where sampans anchor came to be known as Sampantota. After...
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    Narrowboat Naval architecture Panga (boat) Pirogue Poveiro Rescue craft Sampan Ship's boat Skiff Tour boat Traditional fishing boats Tûranor PlanetSolar...
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    his PBRs (Patrol Boats, River) against concentrations of enemy junks and sampans. As a result of the three-hour battle, the American naval force killed...
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