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  • Westwood rim

    Westwood rim

    The Westwood rim style of cycle rim used on bicycles was one of the original steel rim designs, developed during or before 1891 by Frederick Westwood of Birmingham. Bowden brakes and cables designe

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  • Sherman Fairchild

    Sherman Fairchild

    Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Ca

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  • Strzelecki Ranges

    Strzelecki Ranges

    The Strzelecki Ranges (/s t r ɛ z ˈ l ɛ k i / strehz-LECK -ee) is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland and South Gippsland regions of the Australian state of Victoria.Strzelec

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  • Iron Range

    Iron Range

    The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada. Much of the ore-bearing region lies alongside th

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  • Nicolas Hentz

    Nicolas Hentz

    Nicholas Charles Arnould Hentz (5 June 1753, Metz, France – after 1 July 1830, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a French revolutionary and politician. After fleeing France in 1815, he assumed the na

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  • Bowden cable

    Bowden cable

    This article possibly contains original research.Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (Apri

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  • Finnish Americans

    Finnish Americans

    Finnish Americans (Finnish: amerikansuomalaiset,pronounced [ˈɑmerikɑnˌsuo̯mɑlɑi̯set] ) comprise Americans with ancestral roots in Finland, or Finnish people who immigrated to and reside in the Unit

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  • Steel cable

    Steel cable

    Wire rope is composed of as few as two solid, metal wires twisted into a helix that forms a composite rope, in a pattern known as laid rope. Larger diameter wire rope consists of multiple strands o

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  • Scandinavian Americans

    Scandinavian Americans

    Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222), G

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  • Cubital fossa

    Cubital fossa

    The cubital fossa, antecubital fossa, chelidon, inside of elbow, or, humorously, wagina, is the area on the anterior side of the upper part between the arm and forearm of a human or other hominid a

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