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  2. Great Raft - Wikipedia

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    The raft blocked the mouth of Twelve Mile Bayou, impeding settlement in the area west of Shreveport. There were many smaller logjams on the Red River. [2] The raft raised the banks of the river, creating bayous and several lakes. Called the Great Raft Lakes, these included Caddo and Cross Lakes, along the lower reaches of the Red River's ...

  3. Log jam - Wikipedia

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    The most famous natural wood raft is the Great Raft on the Red River in Louisiana, which prior to its removal in the 1830s affected between 390 and 480 km (240–300 mi) of the main channel. [3] It has been suggested that such extensive log rafts may have been common in Europe in prehistory. [4]

  4. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape, like RuneScape, has a free-to-play (F2P) mode of the game with limited in-game content, making its money through membership subscriptions from pay-to-play (P2P) players who have access to the full game. [3] Membership can be bought from Jagex either directly or in the form of Bonds. Bonds can be redeemed by players for ...

  5. Thieves' Guild (role-playing game) - Wikipedia

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    Thieves' Guild was designed by Richard Meyer, Kerry Lloyd, and Michael Watkins, and was published in 1980 by Gamelords as a package of 128 loose-leaf hole-punched pages. [1] The second edition featured a cover by David Martin and was published by Gamelords in 1984 as a boxed set including a 40-page book, and two 32-page books, and a sample ...

  6. George Raft - Wikipedia

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    Raft initially refused the film until it was re-written, and the studio suspended him, but Raft eventually made the film, which became a great success. [ 17 ] [ 49 ] The New York Times wrote: "Raft is a vivid and pictorially interesting type, rather than an actor in the technical sense, and consequently he proves unequal to the full ...

  7. Thieves' guild - Wikipedia

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    In popular fiction, a thieves' guild is a formal association of criminals who participate in theft-related organized crime. The trope has been explored in literature, cinema, comic books, and gaming, such as in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser story "Thieves' House" by Fritz Leiber [ citation needed ] and the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons .

  8. 1886 St. Croix River log jam - Wikipedia

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    Other dams were opened, heavy rain storms flooded the upper country, and there was immediately a boom in the water of the Saint Croix, and logs went booming along toward the great Stillwater boom. Logs from the "low-water" drives were easily floated off, and came down stream in immense rafts, almost blockading the river as they moved along.

  9. Invisible Stripes - Wikipedia

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    Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film starring George Raft as a gangster unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden, Jane Bryan and Humphrey Bogart.