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 Telegraph poles - the art of landscaping !!
Then she spitted the charred and crusty tuber on a pointed stick and held it close to her mouth; she had stopped whistling and instead pursed her cracked, wind-parched lips to blow the earth and ashes off the potato skin.
But he was still in a hurry; trying to go faster than the telegraph poles, he took long slow leaps across the field; the mud flew from his boots as he leapt over the soggy ground, but leap as he might, he seemed to be crawling.
During the US Civil War the telegraph was used extensively, but the messages were sometime unreliable, hence the association of rumour on the grapevine.
www.railwaysleeper.com /KFtelegraphpoles%20in%20literature.htm   (752 words)

  
 antiquarian books on communications
Hundreds of engravings and photographs of early British telegraph instruments, with description of their operation and drawings and schematics of their use in their various positions.
Mullaly, John The Laying of the Atlantic Cable, or, the Ocean Telegraph, being a complete and authentic narrative of the attempt to lay the cable across the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1855, and of the three Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857 and 1858 [etc].
As special correspondent of the New York Herald newspaper, the author was on board the U.S. frigate niagra during the Atlantic telegraph expeditions of 1857-58, and present at the landing of the cable at Newfoundland on August 5, 1858.
www.artifaxbooks.com /afxrare/comm.htm   (5490 words)

  
 American English
There are differences in nomenclature depending on whether the main fuselage is intended to touch the water (a flying boat or sea plane) or whether the only part intended to touch the water are floats in more or less the position where a normal aircraft would have wheels (a float plane).
Although the provision of a public telegram service by the then Post Office is a distant memory, the poles that support the overhead wires are still quite frequently called "telegraph poles".
Pole, usually wooden, supporting power and communications cables especially for final distribution to domestic premises.
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html   (12175 words)

  
 mugwhump jism » 2005 » October   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Deng Yaping - a female ping pong player who won gold medals, studied at Cambridge, and is now involved with China’s olympic commitee(?)
Lei Feng - a mother theresa-like figure, this soldier helped everyone he met, and was repaid by being struck down by a telegraph pole in a car accident when he was 22.
It’s not clear how many of the stories about him are true, as his life story was used as communist propaganda.
china.gurtlush.com /?m=200510   (1647 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Lucien Bianchi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lucien however won the race as a member of the Gulf-sponsored JWA team and took his Ford GT40 to victory with Pedro Rodriguez.
He then joined the Alfa Romeo sportscar team but early in 1969 he was testing for Le Mans when he suffered a mechanical failure on the Mulsanne Straight and the car went out of control and hit a telegraph pole.
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www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-bialuc.html   (447 words)

  
 lotusinthemud: Environment
You could be forgiven for believing that Chew Magna was just another quiet corner of conservative rural England.
But a flier stuck to a telegraph pole tells a different story.
Continue reading " Chew Magna: Is this greenest village in Britain?" »
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 START CENTER
Click on Remote Access (or PPP on some Macs)
Alternatively, if you have the Control Strip feature activated you can click on the icon that shows an Apple Mac and a telegraph pole and click again on Disconnect.
The dialer is required for all windows users.
www.budgetsurf.com /members/disconnect.html   (184 words)

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