Harrow
The harrow is a mechanical device that is closely related to the plow. Whereas the plow does the initial breaking of the sod, the harrow further loosens the soil and also cuts field stubble. A ...
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Captain Yu Chien-kuo said Tuesday his mind went blank as he
flung himself from a broken cockpit window of China Airlines flight
CI-120 as the flaming Boeing 737-800 exploded in a ball of fire...
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Alvaro Colom, a businessman promising to end Guatemala's desperate poverty, won the country's presidential election, according to official results Monday.Colom beat retired Gen. Otto Perez Molina, ...
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Harare (dpa) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Monday
slammed what he called shameless and relentless efforts by his
opponents to undermine the country's economy, as h...
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LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A lawyer representing nine Iraqi
civilians accused British troops on Friday of "off the scale"
torture and abuse in Iraq, and Britain's Ministry of Defence
said it was re...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
TAUE'S JOB IN NAGASAKI (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published April 23)
Voters in Na...
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"LoveMusik," a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season....
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A man who was killed when the mast broke on a whale-watching catamaran, sinking the boat, died of blunt trauma to the head, an autopsy found Tuesday.Authorities were still investigating what caused...
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