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Junk: The world's oldest depiction of a rudder. Pottery model of a junk, 1st Century of the Common Era. Kuangchow National Museum (drawing).
 
 
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The basic traditional Chinese ship style is the junk, a flexible design used in river and oceangoing vessels of various sizes. The design's predecessor seems to have been bamboo rafts, with flat ends and many internal compartments separated by...
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A junk is a Chinese sailing vessel. The English name comes from Javanese djong (Malay: adjong), meaning 'ship' or 'large vessel'.[1] Junks were originally developed during the Han Dynasty (220 BC–200 AD) and further evolved to represent one of the...


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The Virginian Pilot
Bill In Congress Could End Laws Keeping Junk Ships In U.s. Waters.(local)
06/02/2004: 825 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: SCOTT HARPER THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Environmental laws that block the foreign scrapping of junk Navy ships and obsolete vessels in the James River "Ghost Fleet" c ould be dropped for six years, according to a new bill in Congress causing a stir...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Junked?
09/22/2001: 550 words, approx. 2 pages
Junked? Film promotions now face an uncertain future after attacks By JOSH SPECTOR The Hollywood Reporter Saturday, September 22, 2001 Los Angeles -- As the studios moved quickly to beef up security this week -- Warner Bros. went so...
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Moody's: junk defaults to triple
9/11/2007: 464 words, approx. 2 pages
Defaults among companies with speculative-grade credit are likely to triple over the next year, underscoring the recent weakness in the debt markets, Moody's Investors Service said Tuesday."We think the era of easy access to credit has ended," said Daniel Gates, Moody's chief credit officer for...
 


 

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