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  2. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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    Sandbags can be used to build levees, barricades, dikes and berms to limit erosion from flooding. Sandbags can also be used to fortify existing flood control structures and limit the effects of sand boils. Sandbag structures do not prevent water seepage and therefore should be built with the central purpose of diverting flood water around or ...

  3. List of Hebrew exonyms - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.

  4. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Faggot: The origin of the slur usage of the word "faggot" (originally referring to a bundle of firewood) may be from the term for women used in a similar way to "baggage", i.e. something heavy to be dealt with. The usage may also have been influenced by the British term "fag", meaning a younger schoolboy who acts as an older schoolboy's servant ...

  5. Sandbag (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sandbag (Smash Bros.), a character from Super Smash Bros. Melee. Sandbag (non-profit organisation), a campaign group for reduction of carbon emissions. Sandbag, the term used for deceptively hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone early in an engagement. Sandbag in the sense of bullying or ganging up.

  6. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    The Latin name Caesarea was also applied to the colony of New Jersey as Nova Caesarea, because the Roman name of the island was thought to have been Caesarea. [70] [71] The name "Jersey" most likely comes from the Norse name Geirrsey, meaning 'Geirr's Island'. [72] New Mexico: November 1, 1859: Nahuatl via Spanish: Mēxihco via Nuevo México

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  8. Sangar (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    Sangar from the Western Sahara conflict probably dating from the 1980s Illustration from the Manual of Military Engineering (1905). A sangar (or sanger) (Persian: سنگر) is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, [1] and now built of sandbags, gabions or similar materials.

  9. Category:Given names by language - Wikipedia

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