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2. Wiper (occupation) - Wikipedia

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   A wiper is a position responsible for both cleaning the engine spaces and machinery of a ship and assisting the ship's engineers as directed. Railroad workers who performed similar jobs were also known as wipers, [1] or in the UK as "cleaners". The most junior rate in a ship's engine room, the wiper position is an apprenticeship to become an ...

3. eBay - Wikipedia

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   eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

4. Trico - Wikipedia

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   Trico is an American company that specializes in windshield wipers.Trico, then known as Tri-Continental Corporation, invented the windshield wiper blade in 1917. [2] Its original Trico Plant No. 1 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

5. Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol Unit - Wikipedia

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   Training for each class 1 year, and by 1955, the first three classes of marine candidates had passed out of the course, and after that, the unit was self-sufficient in training new marine candidates. In 2008, the ARP had two female marine candidates pass out of the ARP training program making them the ROC Marine Corps ARP's first female ...

6. Marine Firemen's Union - Wikipedia

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   The Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association (MFOW), commonly referred to as the Marine Firemen's Union, is an American labor union of mariners working aboard U.S. flag vessels. [1] The Marine Firemen's Union is an affiliate union of the Seafarers International Union of North America AFL–CIO.

7. Robert Kearns - Wikipedia

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   Inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper Robert William Kearns (March 10, 1927 – February 9, 2005) was an American mechanical engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present.

8. Wiper - Wikipedia

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   Wiper, a Pakistani English term for a squeegee; Wiper (occupation), a cleaner in the engine room of a ship; wiper (malware), a type of malware; Wiper, a term for a hybrid striped bass; Wiper, a term for the moving contact on a potentiometer; Wiper, another brand name for the Lawnbott; Scott Wiper (born 1970), American writer, film director and ...

9. Vicenç de Roca i Pi - Wikipedia

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   Vicenç de Paül Elies de Roca i Pi, baron of Marmellar (18 July 1780 – 9 July 1852) [1] was a Spanish businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune trading with America. By the end of his life he retired to live in Badalona where he practised charity .