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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. List of banks in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia

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    The official list is maintained and updated by the Czech National Bank. [1] Central banks ... Moneta Money Bank MONETA Stavební ... Sberbank CZ Union ...

  5. List of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession

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    Commercial bank € 1.14 × 10 ^ 9 [35] [36] October 9, 2008: Bankwest (subsidiary of HBOS) Commonwealth Bank: Bank £ 1.2 × 10 ^ 9 [37] October 13, 2008: Sovereign Bank, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania: Banco Santander: Bank $ 1.9 × 10 ^ 9 [38] October 13, 2008: Royal Bank of Scotland Group (up to 81.14% Bought) Government of the United Kingdom ...

  6. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  7. Pier Gerlofs Donia - Wikipedia

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    Pier Gerlofs Donia (c. 1480 – 28 October 1520) was a Frisian farmer, rebel leader, and pirate.He is best known by his West Frisian nickname Grutte Pier ('Big Pier'; in the pre-1980 West Frisian spelling written as Greate Pier), or by the Dutch translation Grote Pier, which referred to his legendary size, strength, and bravery.

  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. Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank - Wikipedia

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    Montagu Norman (1871-1950) was instrumental in the formation of Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank in 1922. The Anglo-Austrian Bank opened a branch in Prague in 1880. [2] Following the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy in late 1918, more than 50% of the bank's assets were in what became Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and 45 percent of its capital was held by Czechoslovak shareholders. [3]