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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. List of banks in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank; Böhmische Escompte-Bank; Böhmische Industriebank; Böhmische Union Bank; eBanka Equa bank; ERB bank; Investiční a poštovní banka; Legiobanka; Sberbank CZ Union banka Wüstenrot hypoteční banka; Zemská Banka; Živnostenská Banka

  4. 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 ]

  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. Anglo-Czechoslovak and Prague Credit Bank - Wikipedia

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    The new bank established its head office in the former headquarters of Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank, which was the larger of the three, at Hybernská 5 in Prague. In 1939, it opened a branch in New York. [21] In late 1938, the bank ceded its operations in the annexed Sudetenland to the Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt . Following Nazi invasion, it ...

  7. Log driving - Wikipedia

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    The version of the Canadian one-dollar bank note issued in 1974 and withdrawn in 1989 featured a view of the Ottawa River with log driving taking place in the foreground and Parliament Hill rising in the background. This banknote was part of the fourth series of banknotes released by the Bank of Canada entitled "Scenes of Canada".

  8. 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.

  9. 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.