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    Early in the 19th century, the Leiper Canal built in 1828–29 during the middle of the American canal age ran about 3 miles (5 km) along Crum Creek in...
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  • of Helensburgh Leiper Canal, a canal that, in the nineteenth century, ran along Crum Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Leiper's Fork, Tennessee...
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    superseded by a cargo capable canal, known as the Leiper Canal, also designed by Leiper before his death. In 1850, the canal was replaced by a spur of the...
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    cut stone until about 1828. That early rail line was superseded by the Leiper Canal. The first steam-locomotive train came through in 1854; it used a single...
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  • Leiper Railroad was a 'family business–built' horse drawn railroad of 0.75 miles (1.21 km), constructed in 1810 after the quarry owner, Thomas Leiper...
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    Contra Costa Canal Corning Canal Delta–Mendota Canal Eastside Canal Folsom South Canal Friant-Kern Canal Glenn Colusa Canal Inter-California Canal Kern Island...
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    until 1829, when it was temporarily replaced by the Leiper Canal, then is reopened to replace the canal in 1852. This became the Crum Creek Branch of the...
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    extended canal head at White Haven and returned by locomotive propulsion. Junction Canal, Athens to Elmira, New York, 3.25 miles (5.23 km) Leiper Canal, Crum...
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    vault "Necessary", seats eight Commemorative Plaque at Thomas Leiper Estate Leiper Canal Leiper Railroad Strath Haven High School, school in Nether Providence...
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  • opened for service. The Leiper Railroad, connecting Crum Creek to Ridley Creek, Pennsylvania closes to be replaced by the Leiper Canal. May 28 – Albert Bowman...
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    1829, when it was temporarily replaced by the Leiper Canal, then it was reopened to replace the canal in 1852. This was the first railroad meant to be...
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    Woodward, Peter (1990). Sudan, 1898-1989 : the unstable state. Thomas Leiper Kane Collection. Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers. ISBN 1-55587-193-3. OCLC 20318707...
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  • Glamorganshire Canal system at Treforest in South Wales (3.5 mi (5.6 km)). This includes a three-arch viaduct which still survives. A prototype for the Leiper Railroad...
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  • The Old Oak (category StudioCanal films)
    Andy Dawson as Micky Maxie Peters as Tommy Debbie Honeywood as Tania Neil Leiper as Rocco The film was set and shot in the northeast of England. Loach, who...
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    two decades. 1809 Scottsman quarry owner Thomas Leiper, in 1809 when denied a charter to build a canal along the Crum Creek from his quarry to the docks...
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    of polychromatic brickwork in Britain". It was built in 1892 by William Leiper for James Templeton and Son, for the weaving of Axminster carpets. It was...
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    The infectious nature was discovered by British physician Robert Thomson Leiper in 1915. He successfully infected mice, rats, guinea pigs, and monkey using...
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    months, for the public to experience for 1 shilling each. 1809 – Thomas Leiper constructed a 60 ft long test railway in Philadelphia to show that one horse...
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    transformation from an aristocratic to a totalitarian autocracy. Thomas Leiper Kane Collection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43082-8...
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  • Poirier in 1886. The first human case was discovered by Robert Thomson Leiper in 1915. O. viverrini (together with Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis...
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    Opisthorchiata Opisthorchioidea Braun, 1901 Cryptogonimidae Ward, 1917 Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909 Opisthorchiidae Looss, 1899 Pronocephalata Paramphistomoidea Fischoeder...
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  • so far as to injure the opposition. Guest Starring: Bruce Morton, Neil Leiper, Ralph Riach and Julie Wilson Nimmo 54 4 "South Africa " Ford Kiernan &...
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    at Laurel Hill Cemetery. He was married to Helen Hamilton Leiper, daughter of Thomas Leiper, on April 20, 1814, and together they had six children. Patterson...
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  • road engineer Robert Legget Canadian non-fiction writer Thomas Leiper Designer of a canal and railway Cornelis Lely Dutch civil engineer and statesman,...
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    were expected to take up their studies in the Edwards School under Miss Leiper on September 2, the opening day of school. The school administration was...
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    identity was confirmed in 1907 by British parasitologist Robert Thomson Leiper, identifying the specific snail host, and distinguishing the egg structure...
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  • Coal Company H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad Lawrence Ore Company Leiper Railroad Mehard Coal Company Perry Lumber Company Shawnee Railroad Mauch...
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  • professional ballerina Michael Leib (1760–1822), U.S. Congressman Thomas Leiper (1745–1825), American Revolutionary War veteran, first American to construct...
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    Jonas Earll) Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: George G. Leiper) Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Lewis Maxwell) Expenditures...
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    Bibcode:2013BCons.168...49S. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2013.09.016. Nevard, Timothy D.; Leiper, Ian; Archibald, George; Garnett, Stephen T. (2018). "Farming and cranes...
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