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  2. Hydraulic mining - Wikipedia

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    Gold miners excavate an eroded bluff with jets of water at a placer mine in Dutch Flat, California sometime between 1857 and 1870.. The modern form of hydraulic mining, using jets of water directed under very high pressure through hoses and nozzles at gold-bearing upland paleogravels, was first used by Edward Matteson near Nevada City, California in 1853 during the California Gold Rush. [3]

  3. Thank God It's Friday (film) - Wikipedia

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    Maddy ditches Jennifer to attend a hot tub party (with the same sleazy guys who came on to Jennifer). Gus and Shirley decide to give it a try. Carl finally meets a girl, but becomes trapped in a stairway before they can leave together.

  4. Rubble & Crew - Wikipedia

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    "The Crew Builds a Car Wash": Mayor Greatway is planning on competing in Grocer Gabriel's first road race. Another competitor for this race is Speed Meister who sabotages Mayor Greatway's chances by getting mud on her motorcycle. Rubble & Crew works on building a car wash to clean Mayor Greatway's motorcycle. When Speed Meister sabotages the ...

  5. Punishment in Australia - Wikipedia

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    New South Wales, as the founding site for British colonisation Australia in 1788, has had prisons for as long as Australia has had European settlement.The first Australian colony was founded at Port Jackson (now Sydney) on 26 January 1788, and marked the commencement of many decades of convict arrivals from the United Kingdom.

  6. Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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    Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was originally to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing ...

  7. Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]

  8. List of The Magic School Bus episodes - Wikipedia

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    Wanda wants to have the great honor of washing her car, so the rest of the Friz’s class sets up a car wash. She miraculously chooses theirs over automatic car washes. The reason for this is explained when she says that she can't afford to have her hood ornament get wet. When Arnold asks what it's made of, she says, "That's my little secret ...

  9. Women in the California gold rush - Wikipedia

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    Often, sex workers were managed by pimps who collected a large share of their earnings. Drunk customers were a continuous problem. Many men were dirty and wore dirty clothes. Bathing involved a strenuous process of heating water on a wood stove, dumping it in a tub, washing down and then dumping the dirty water.