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    Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel. Stan Laurel - Miner James Finlayson - The foreman Katherine...
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  • Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel is the second studio album by hip hop supergroup Gravediggaz. Released on September 16, 1997, via Gee Street, V2 and BMG...
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    A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting...
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    Seal of Wisconsin (category Coats of arms with shovels)
    plow, representing agriculture and farming Top right: A pick and shovel, representing mining Bottom left: An arm-and-hammer, representing manufacturing...
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  • swinging a sledgehammer and was later promoted to a pick and shovel crew. He later worked in construction as a concrete mixer and as a shoe packer for a...
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    Northern Star Award (category Canadian sports trophies and awards)
    marble and stands around 75 centimetres high. The words "With Pick and Shovel" (the name of Marsh's long-running Star column) appear above the engraved...
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  • excavation done with pick and shovel, not heavy machinery. The power station is to be upgraded by Meridian Energy between 2011 and 2016 at a projected...
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    Ditch Witch (category 2019 mergers and acquisitions)
    replace the pick and shovel for installation of underground residential utility services. The Ditch Witch organization specializes in the design and manufacture...
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    Queniquea. Due to the lack of machinery, he used a pick and shovel. He was paid two bolívars a day and if all work was not finished in one day, he was not...
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    bought his hillside lot in 1928 and spent most of the next 50 years carving out the terraces with only a pick and shovel, creating his own "castle on a...
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    Bannack, Montana (category Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States)
    Leavitt arrived in Bannack in 1862, and alternately practiced medicine and mined for gold with pick and shovel. "Though some success crowned his labors...
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    representative Auckland's wealth, a pick and shovel in the top right canton to represent the areas mining past and a horizontal stripe underneath with...
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    Construction was mostly by hand, using explosives, pick and shovel, wheelbarrows, and some small machinery, and was at times perilous, with several workers being...
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    Pickaxe (redirect from Pick axe)
    to its shaft and its lowest tine and used as a one-pointed pick, and with it sometimes a large animal's shoulder blade as a crude shovel. During war in...
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    Hurricane, Utah (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    by pick and shovel. Since 1985, the canal has been empty. In 2000, special interest groups came together to preserve the canal, receiving grants and volunteering...
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    yellow gold on a blue background—the colors of the high school. The pick and shovel represent the coal mines that were so important to O'Fallon's economy...
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    Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, jack straws, spillikins, spellicans, or fiddlesticks is a game of physical and mental skill in which a bundle...
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    Prospecting (category Western (genre) staples and terminology)
    area with pick and shovel, and often via the addition of some simple machinery such as a sluice box, races and winnows, to work the loose soil and rock looking...
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  • Shovel Knight Showdown is a 2019 fighting video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. It is an add-on to the platform game Shovel Knight....
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    under very heavy fire and even used a pick and shovel himself to set an example. Elton also received the French Legion d'Honneur and the Turkish Order of...
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    Timberline Lodge (category Buildings and structures in Clackamas County, Oregon)
    technically-trained, were employed," reported the WPA's Federal Writers' Project. "Pick and shovel wielders, stonecutters, plumbers, carpenters, steam-fitters, painters...
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    miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,722 kg of diamonds. The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and is 463 metres wide. It...
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    Waitaki Dam (category Buildings and structures in the Canterbury Region)
    River and was constructed without earthmoving machinery; over half a million cubic metres of material was excavated, almost entirely by pick-and-shovel. The...
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    The anchor is placed in it and buried with care given not to cover the pendant. Pick, shovel, and bucket: The pick and shovel are used to dig the trench...
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    August 1887 – 9 October 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Balding, with a fake moustache, he had many trademark comic...
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    latter offered more money. After graduating from UC, he worked "with a pick and shovel" as an employee of San Francisco in Golden Gate Park. In 1922, he teamed...
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    as a teamster and Wyatt manned a pick and shovel. Not long after, their brothers Jim and Morgan left the family in San Bernardino and headed for the...
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    and the state motto "Forward". In the center, on the shield, there is a plow to represent farming, a pick and shovel to represent mining, an arm and hammer...
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    Slovenes. Biographers have written that he went to work with a pick and shovel at the age of six and was able to uproot trees with a cable around his neck by...
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    the fills. The options were to dig it out by pick and shovel, haul the hillside material by wheelbarrow and/or horse or mule cart or blast it loose. To...
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