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2. Friendly Floatees spill - Wikipedia

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   Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and ...

3. Curtis Ebbesmeyer - Wikipedia

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   Keith C. Heidorn, 'Of Shoes And Ships And Rubber Ducks And A Message In A Bottle', The Weather Doctor (March 17, 1999). Retrieved 3 August 2006. Kevin Krajick, 'Message in a Bottle', Smithsonian Magazine, July 2001. Retrieved 3 August 2006. Jane Standley, 'Ducks' odyssey nears end', BBC News, 12 July 2003. Retrieved 3 August 2006.

4. Moby-Duck - Wikipedia

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   Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them is a book by Donovan Hohn concerning 28,800 plastic ducks and other toys, known as the Friendly Floatees, which were washed overboard from a container ship in the Pacific Ocean on 10 January 1992 and have subsequently ...

5. Ducks Unlimited Canada - Wikipedia

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   Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization that works to conserve, create, restore and manage Canadian wetlands and associated uplands in order to provide healthy ecosystems that support North American waterfowl, other wildlife and people. [1]

6. Closeout (sale) - Wikipedia

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   A closeout or clearance sale (also called a closing down sale in the United Kingdom [1]) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale. It may be that a product is not selling well, or that the retailer is closing because of relocation, a fire (a fire sale ), over-ordering, or especially because of bankruptcy . [ 2 ]

7. Rubber duck - Wikipedia

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   A rubber duck or a rubber duckie is a toy shaped like a duck, that is usually yellow with a flat base. It may be made of rubber or rubber-like material such as vinyl plastic . [ 1 ] Rubber ducks were invented in the late 19th century when it became possible to more easily shape rubber, [ 2 ] and are believed to improve developmental skills in ...