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  2. Jack Petchey - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] He was knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to young people in East London and Essex through the Jack Petchey Foundation. [15] [16] On 27 May 2010, he was given the Freedom of the Borough of Newham. [17] He was also made a Honorary Commodore in the Sea Cadet Corps. [18]

  3. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell - Wikipedia

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    The book states that "an Oyster has a brain", but they do not. (pp. 50). George Washington never had children, but the book states Philip, the son of Washington, was put in charge of redistributing Loyalist-held properties in New York City after the Revolutionary War (pp. 92).

  4. List of oldest surviving ships - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.

  5. Oysterville, Washington - Wikipedia

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    It was a hub of oyster farming as the name suggests. It was the seat of Pacific County until the seat was relocated to South Bend in 1893. In a county seat war , on February 3, 1893, all of the county records and books were stolen in order to move the county seat from Oysterville to South Bend, Washington.

  6. Punta Cana - Wikipedia

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    Punta Cana is a resort town in the easternmost region of the Dominican Republic. It was politically incorporated as the "Verón–Punta Cana township" in 2006, and it is subject to the municipality of Higüey (La Altagracia Province). According to the 2022 census, this township or district had a population of 138,919 inhabitants. [5]

  7. Astron (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Astron (previously named Esmeralda and Bonnie) is a shipwreck located off the coast of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. She was a Russian-owned cargo ship built in France by Chantiers de l'Atlantique during 1957. She was 127 metres (417 feet) long, 27,990 gross tons, and was a motor ship. [1] [3]

  8. Oyster Wars - Wikipedia

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    In 1868, Maryland founded the Maryland Oyster Police Force, nicknamed the Oyster Navy, which was the predecessor of the modern Maryland Natural Resources Police.It was headed by Naval Academy graduate Hunter Davidson and was responsible for enforcing the state's oyster-harvesting laws, but it was an inadequate force to compete with the more heavily armed watermen.

  9. Barceló Bávaro Grand Resort - Wikipedia

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    Bávaro Palace swimming pool. Barceló Bávaro Grand Resort, also known as Barceló Bávaro or simply as Barceló (in the surrounding areas), is a luxury hotel and resort in Punta Cana in the municipality of Higüey, in La Altagracia Province on the east coast of the Dominican Republic, owned by Barceló Hotels and Resorts.