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  2. Junk (ship) - Wikipedia

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    A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are also characteristically built using iron nails and clamps. [ 1 ]

  3. AP World History: Modern - Wikipedia

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    AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.

  4. Djong - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese began firing on the junk, but the cannonball bounced off the hull, and then the junk sailed away. The Portuguese ships then fired on the junk's masts causing them to fall. Near dawn, Flor de la Mar (the highest Portuguese carrack) caught up and rammed the junk, while firing artilleries which killed 40 of the junk's crew.

  5. Fluyt - Wikipedia

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    Dutch fluyt, 1677. A fluyt (archaic Dutch: fluijt "flute"; Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] is a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel. [2]

  6. Costume jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Swatch Bijoux Jewelry. Costume or fashion jewelry includes a range of decorative items worn for personal adornment that are manufactured as less expensive ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable outfit or garment [1] as opposed to "real" (fine) jewelry, which is more costly and which may be regarded primarily as collectibles, keepsakes, or investments.

  7. A Castle Made of Car Parts and Other Junkyard Finds - AOL

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    By Anastasia Anashkina NEW YORK -- Castles usually evoke images of moats and drawbridges, court jesters and thrones -- basically, the stuff of fairy tales. But the Junk Castle in rural Pullman ...

  8. No joke: UK comedian told to remove hot dog from subway ...

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    On the London Underground, hot dogs are no joking matter. Comedian Ed Gamble has been ordered to change a subway station poster campaign for his new standup show because the image of a hot dog ...

  9. Junk - Wikipedia

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    Junk, a sperm whale equivalent of the melon (cetacean) Junk data, any file or byte of data that does not serve any real purpose other than wasting space See also