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  Isle of Dogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Isle of Dogs is in the centre of this 2005 aerial view of east London as seen from the skies over south London.
A large population of dockyard workers settled on the peninsula as the docks grew in importance.
The Isle of Dogs was connected to the rest of London by the London and Blackwall Railway, opened in 1840 and progressively extended thereafter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_of_Dogs   (1109 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained - Ghosts and Phantoms
The HMS Eurydice, a 26-gun frigate that capsized and sank in Sandown Bay during a blizzard in 1878, is a famous phantom vessel that has been sighted by sailors over the years.
In a Gallup Poll conducted in May 2001, 42 percent of the respondents said that they believed that houses could be haunted by ghosts or spirits of the dead.
Because Hollywood has produced so many motion pictures portraying ghosts and the afterlife, it should come as no surprise that many former homes and places of certain movie stars who have passed on to the other side are said to be haunted.
www.unexplainedstuff.com /Ghosts-and-Phantoms/index.html   (357 words)

  
 TravelSmart Newsletter Book Recommendations
After devouring Kevin C. Fitzpatrick's book, you might be tempted to think of it as a Dorothy Parker encyclopedia - since it is filled with just about everything one could hope to discover about the noted writer, critic, defender of human and civil rights and humorist - although she herself preferred the term "satirist."
She is also somewhat fancifully described as being comprised of "equal parts bootleg scotch, Broadway lights, speakeasy smoke, skyscraper steel, streetcar noise, and jazz horns" - since, for much of her extraordinary life, the former Dorothy Rothschild worked and played on the isle of Manhattan.
This is a book so well documented with street maps, footnotes, and photographs that one could easily use it to organize a "Dorothy Parker Walking Tour"; although that's one of the things that the author, who is also the founder of the Dorothy Parked Society, specializes in.
www.travelsmartnewsletter.com /books.html   (8686 words)

  
 PART - Online Information article about PART
This district is again indicated as the starting-point of Zoroastrianism, by the fact that dead bodies are not embalmed and then interred, as was usual, for instance, in Persia, but See also:
CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand.
custom of nomadic or semi-nomadic tribes who leave the dead to See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PART.html   (6477 words)

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