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  • 41Canadian Land and Emigration Company — In 1859, the Crown Lands Department in Province of Canada advertised a block of land for sale in (what is now) Haliburton County. The purpose for the sale of the land was to promote rapid settlement of the newly created townships in the district… …

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  • 42Bridal Veil, Oregon — Bridal Veil is a virtual ghost town located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. It was established in the 1880s during a logging boom. It was established by a logging company as it harvested timber on nearby Larch Mountain. It was a… …

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  • 43Michigan logging wheels — Logs were suspended from wheel axle Gen …

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  • 44Brainerd — /bray neuhrd/, n. a city in central Minnesota. 11,489. * * * ▪ Minnesota, United States       city, seat of Crow Wing county, central Minnesota, U.S. It is situated in a forest and lake resort region south of the Cuyuna Range along the… …

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  • 45Equatorial Guinea — Equatorial Guinean. a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 442,516; 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Cap.: Malabo. Formerly, Spanish Guinea. * *… …

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  • 46Idaho — Idahoan /uy deuh hoh euhn, uy deuh hoh /, adj., n. /uy deuh hoh /, n. a state in the NW United States. 943,935; 83,557 sq. mi. (216,415 sq. km). Cap.: Boise. Abbr.: ID (for use with zip code), Id., Ida. * * * State (pop., 2000: 1,293,953),… …

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  • 47Minnesota — Minnesotan, adj., n. /min euh soh teuh/, n. 1. a state in the N central United States. 4,077,148; 84,068 sq. mi. (217,735 sq. km). Cap.: St. Paul. Abbr.: MN (for use with zip code), Minn. 2. a river flowing SE from the W border of Minnesota into… …

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  • 48United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 49lumber — 1. v.intr. (usu. foll. by along, past, by, etc.) move in a slow clumsy noisy way. Derivatives: lumbering adj. Etymology: ME lomere, perh. imit. 2. n. & v. n. 1 disused articles of furniture etc. inconveniently taking up space. 2 useless or… …

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  • 50lumber — I. intransitive verb (lumbered; lumbering) Etymology: Middle English lomeren Date: 14th century 1. to move ponderously 2. rumble II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property …

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