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    the Broadback River); 173 kilometres (107 mi) Northeast of downtown Matagami. From its source, the "Rivière des Pôles" (English: Poles River) flows on 30...
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    Polish people (redirect from Ethnic Poles)
    heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out...
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  • The Bug River Poles are Polish people who, either were, or are descendants of, the inhabitants of the area of the Eastern Borderlands, an area to the...
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    terror aimed at Poles were taking place in Eastern Galicia to force Poles to settle on the western bank of the San River under the slogan "Poles behind the...
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    construction pike poles (pick pole, spike pole) are used to lift the sides of timber framed structures, as in barn raising and utility poles. In log driving...
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    8 percent of the city of Kyiv's population (44,400 people) were Poles. Kieven Poles tended to be friendly towards the Ukrainian national movement in...
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    barber poles in the United States. In 1950, William Marvy of St. Paul, Minnesota, started manufacturing barber poles. Marvy made his 50,000th barber pole in...
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    Ohio River, they measured the mouth of the creek where it joined the Ohio in terms of poles, also known as rods. Being approximately 198 feet (12 poles) wide...
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    some and replacing them with dog-travois poles taken from an abandoned Native American camp. Setting poles are also used widely on the Mesopotamian Marshes...
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    hickory wood. Bamboo poles were introduced in 1904, and both aluminum and steel poles appeared after 1945. Glass fiber vaulting poles were invented in 1967...
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