How To Use Overland In A Sentence
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Both forces used earth and logs to fortify their defensive fighting positions while fighting the 1864 Overland Campaign.
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Early this morning, Sprint was notified by the Overland Park Police of a non-specific bomb threat against Sprint World Headquarters.
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Kashmir was also a good centre for overland trade with Central Asia.
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A portage is a place between lakes and rivers where the waters become so shallow or rapid that they cannot be navigated, and the boats have to be lifted ashore and carried overland until it is possible to take to the water again.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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Burma also represented a possible overland trade route to China.
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Search and rescue teams had since been combing the area with patrols following overland the route the plane would have taken.
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The surface of the Qingshui River used to be covered from bank to bank with fir trees which were being floated downriver to ports along the Yangtze River and then transported overland to Beijing, Nanjing and Xi'an.
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On a recent visit to Arran, I talked to an elderly resident who recalled that during her childhood there were small puffer boats that people could hop on to travel short distances around the coast, rather than travelling overland.
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The horsemen rode overland as the infantrymen and artillerists crowded onto railroad cars.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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Maurice is nervous about flying, so he usually travels overland.
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A ceremony was held last Friday to mark the formal opening of the overland route to Mt. Kumgang, which is expected to attract many tourists to the mountain resort.
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UPDATE: Fox 4 has identified the teacher under investigation as Michelle Preston, a third-year psychology and world geography instructor. The station cites Lenexa and Overland Park police.
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Data on rainfall, rainsplash, overland flow and soil creep were collected with the help of splashboards, erosion pins, erosion plots, raingauges and channel cross-sections on slopes of 0 to 38.
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Being on a busy stock route, pioneered in the late 1830s when cattle was overlanded from New South Wales, the town soon had a number of stores, a blacksmith, bootmakers, a post office and hotel.
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Also, in the final strip, there's a fine caricature of a Wily's Overland, rather than the standard Jeep, which would have been easier to draw.
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Next came the letters; word must have reached the post office in Plymouth of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay, and the letters had been sent across overland.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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the overland route used by Marco Polo
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They went overland to avoid formalities at the customs post.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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The Overland Monthly journal published many letters of Charlotte Haven in December of 1890.
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With this retort he withdrew overland through Aetolia, and by roads, moreover, which no army, small or great, could possibly have traversed without the consent of the inhabitants.
Hellenica
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From there he eventually became involved in the pastoral industry and overlanded his sheep to South Australia.
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We're here under the guidance of Claire and Duncan, our unstintingly enthusiastic guides from the Dragoman Overland adventure tour company, in whose Mercedes Benz converted truck we plan to forge a 500-mile circular journey.
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The first teamster to provide transport services in and around Quorn was William Abbott, who operated from Saltia where he started carting materials for the Overland Telegraph Line.
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This is not just a random event, said James Overland, a NOAA oceanographer, at a teleconference on Thursday.
The heat wasn't just in USA: Hemisphere warmed to the task
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Nothing short of a Land Rover LR4 can hang with the Cherokee off road, and anything that matches the Overland's luxe-ness and level of amenities (Nappa leather seats, leather - and wood-trimmed dash and doors, heated steering wheel, heated and ventilated front seats, power liftgate, among many other premium features) is about $10,000 more and made in Germany.
Jeep Barrels Past the Drama
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There are these huge overlander trucks loaded with bananas and matoke.
Canada.com
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The Overland Park Police and Fire departments responded quickly and the fire, which spread to two other cars, was contained.
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The federal government also pursued the matter of fugitive slaves escaping overland to territories held by foreign powers.
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Pulling up before the general store, Grace dismounted and elbowed her way through a crowd of men, smilingly demanding "gangway," which was readily granted, though accompanied by quite personal remarks about her, to which, of course, the Overland girl gave not the slightest heed.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
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But when you reflect on the battalions of fantasy writers whose entire knowledge of equitation derives from the overland movement tables in gaming rulebooks, you can easily see how it came about.
Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy
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Water came in overland through large below-surface loading dock doors on the northwest corner of the building.
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It is assumed that they must have journeyed overland, before the seas rose and created islands out of the land bridge.
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In a desperate effort to keep the faltering tour project afloat, both sides agreed earlier this year to build an overland route across the demilitarized zone to carry many more tourists at much cheaper prices.
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He soon realised where some good money could be made and started overlanding cattle and sheep from New South Wales to South Australia.
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The geographical position of Mexico, the arid and desolate, herbless and waterless wastes intervening, would prohibit her sending any considerable assistance overland; and, all powerful at court by that time, he would take care that the Russian navy inspired Spain with a distaste for remote Pacific waters.
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Giles later worked on the newly discovered goldfields in the Northern Territory, but in 1874 Charles Todd requested him to overland another 5,000 sheep.
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Flying supplies and reinforcements into the garrison, Slim mounted an overland campaign that gradually broke through to his besieged forces.
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They have discussed problems such as the overland power cables, which have to be re-routed or put underground, financial aspects of the scheme and potential problems.
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The Indian scouts attached to Custer's overland force were among the best in the Montana and Wyoming area.
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This could boldly circumvent taxes imposed on overland trade routes through Ottoman territories.
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A leisurely overland trip to Pusan took three weeks, hurried trips ten days.
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An overland journey would keep her off the pirate-infested sea, but the south of Italy was a gloomy enigma, the haunt of unregenerate pagans and lawless outcasts from the coastal towns.
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Their plan was as follows: The men were each to take their oar, cushion, and rowlock thong, and, going overland from Corinth to the sea on the Athenian side, to get to Megara as quickly as they could, and launching forty vessels, which happened to be in the docks at Nisaea, to sail at once to Piraeus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Veterinarians worried they bordered on being too thin, an observation that intensified the scrutiny the 26-year-old experienced in each successive checkpoint along the Yukon River to Kaltag, and from there, overland to Unalakleet and then along the coast of Norton Sound.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Iditarod Dogs on the Edge
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Today, it's popular with overland trucks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Early this morning, Sprint was notified by the Overland Park Police of a non-specific bomb threat against Sprint World Headquarters.
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The firm will determine the value of the lands that the province needs to buy to create an overland route.
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Next came the letters; word must have reached the post office in Plymouth of the arrival of Hotspur in Tor Bay, and the letters had been sent across overland.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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He said the place to keep a man "huffy" was down on the Southern Overland, among the Apaches, before the company moved the stage line up on the northern route.
Roughing It
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Overland has been colonised by refugees from Land fleeing an airborne disease, but a Land ship arrives to re-claim sovereignty, crewed by survivors subtly affected by the plague, and heralding the onset of a war of independence.
Archive 2010-05-01
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I'd like a pygmy hippo for overland journeys, and a manatee for underwater travel.
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The first telegraph messages from overseas were received in Morse code in this building on 22 October 1872 via the Overland Telegraph Line.
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During the 1880s sheep were still overlanded from nearby properties to Adelaide.
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The result of these links between the Upper South and the northern part of the cotton states was an overland trade that expanded markedly in the years before secession.
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The track later known as the Oodnadatta Track became the main overland route for drovers and later the transcontinental railway to Darwin.
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For the most part it was considered that air forces would be used primarily for scouting and reconnaissance missions, both overland and at sea.
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Overland Data is a global supplier of data storage and storage automation solutions for computer networks.
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Innis adds that the overland route should provide a welcome shortcut for the ‘uphill’ trip back to U.S. waters.
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Of course we would like it because it was part of the No.8 gauge galvanised iron wire that was used in the original overland telegraph line.
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Later in his career Freeman hit the national headlines by helping to drag the Whitby lifeboat six miles overland through deep snowdrifts in answer to a plea for help from the Robin Hoods Bay station.
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It meant that at the moment of its founding, Atchison assumed importance as the eastern terminus of the overland stagecoach lines.
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It was established late in the 1800s as a watering point for cattle being driven overland to markets in Queensland and to other areas within the Northern Territory.
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During 1870 some 3000 sheep from the Lake Hope Area in South Australia were overlanded to the Northern Territory, for the men working on the line at Roper River, by Ralph and John Milner.
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In the Middle Ages there used to be something called the Silk Road, which was an overland trade route that ran from the Atlantic shores of Morocco to the Great Wall of China.
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The army took the traditional overland route down the Danube River and across the Balkans to Constantinople.
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The wheel, the horse, the camel, and roads facilitated huge improvements in the speed and carrying capacity (though not the range) of overland transport when compared with the foot traffic of prehistory.
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While en route, Charles Todd commissioned him to act as estafette between the construction parties of the Overland Telegraph Line.
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The overland route is across some really tough mountains.
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He told the story of overland travel and the frontier, for his own and future generations, in what is essentially a picaresque novel, a work of unperishing fiction, founded on fact.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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The family later moved to Saltia where William operated as a teamster, carting materials for the Overland Telegraph.
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All overland routes were cut.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Pacific port at the end of an overland route short enough to be practical would revolutionize the balance of power in the Pacific, but for now the British have to make small raids at the end of a fragile supply line.
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After this experience we were strangely unanimous as to the desirability of going through in some less risky manner (we accused each other of "funking" afterwards), and accordingly sought the aid of a man, a boy, and a wheelbarrow, and in this unconventional manner conveyed our goods and chattels overland to the other end of the tunnel.
Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe
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It takes 2 days by the overland routes to reach Ladakh.
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Travel is now relatively safe here, and has become increasingly popular as overlanding in parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa has become less so.
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Fortune smiled upon him, however, when short story ‘To the Man on Trail’ was published soon after in Overland Monthly in 1899.
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Overlanders are celebrated as key figures in local pioneer legends, which, typically, emphasise the perils of travelling unprotected through unsettled country and their bravery for doing so.
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However, the overland crossing between Thailand and Malaysia has become a very popular independent traveller's route.
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Tasmania's most famous bush walk, the 50-mile Overland Track winds through St. Clair National Park, in the alpine heart of the island.
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The long-sought overland portage to the Columbia River that President Thomas Jefferson envisioned could not be too far distant.
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Medieval Europeans had known Chinese porcelain from the overland trade through the Near East, but it was a European rarity.
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Water came in overland through large below-surface loading dock doors on the northwest corner of the building.
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It first prospered as a stop at the edge of a desert stretch of The Silk Road, the ancient overland trade route between China and Europe.
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The whole sum, if in shekel weight, did not exceed - L-3. they brought Joseph into Egypt -- There were two routes to Egypt: the one was overland by Hebron, where Jacob dwelt, and by taking which, the fate of his hapless son would likely have reached the paternal ears; the other was directly westward across the country from Dothan to the maritime coast, and in this, the safest and most expeditious way, the merchants carried Joseph to Egypt.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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After arriving in Paramaribo, Suriname on a long overland journey from Guyana, I was tired.
Chris Guillebeau: French Guiana and the $100 Question
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From St. Louis they took the boat for St. Jo, whence the Overland stage started, and for six days “plodded” up the shallow, muddy, snaggy Missouri,
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Menorah Medical Center, in Overland Park, Kan., had the best performance, with no infections in nearly 7,000 central line days.
New infection data from 4 new states, 40 new hospitals
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In one particularly bold maneuver, she dragged her Mediterranean fleet 40 miles overland in order to relaunch it, via the Gulf of Suez, into the Red Sea.
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Is it feasible to make this trip overland?
Times, Sunday Times
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Under the command of Major Warden, the small commando unit is parachuted in and begins an overland march to the site of the bridge.
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Because he knows bluidy well we'd never make it overland wi 'him in the state he's in, and he'd no stay at Eldridge for fear o' bringin 'the English down on MacRannoch.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Remember that the overland trip will help you acclimatize to the high altitude.
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The Japanese intended to capture Allied airfields in east China and to open an overland supply route stretching from Pusan, Korea, to Saigon, French Indochina.
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The aircraft departed from Paris at around 11: 30 and flew out over the Atlantic Ocean for a final supersonic sprint, before heading overland subsonically to the former Aerospatiale factory at Toulouse, where a ceremony was planned to greet the aircraft.
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The British had subjugated large parts of India, bringing, it was thought, some forty million people under their rule, and the Russians were pushing south-eastwards overland into Central Asia.
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A Royal Marines Commando from an heroic World War II raid on occupied France has returned to the area where he made his epic overland escape.
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With little fuel left, the fishing boat's skipper decided the only option was to try to escape overland to neutral Sweden.
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Often the transport cost of English timber equaled the value of the wood itself, and twenty miles was considered the maximum profitable overland haul.
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The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says it has sent the first UN convoy of aid overland into Burma, and a planeload of shelter supplies has been flown in from Dubai.
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Does this writer realise that the cost of a tunnel would be far greater than the cost of an overland route?
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It would treat the army's move as a convoy in A and B, and would keep the convoy intact in C. Those who feel that the army move should be considered overland, not convoyed, won't like that.
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WHEN Margaret Dunning was 10 years old, she lost control while driving the family's Overland touring car and careered into a barn, fracturing several boards.
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The political disintegration closed overland trade just as Europe's new national states entered an era of exploration and colonialism.
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However, juveniles and adults can both be found inland, and sightings, though rare, are so regular in fall that a small percentage of the population must use an overland migration route.
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Even when overlanders Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney drove cattle from NSW to Adelaide in 1838, they had more men than saddle horses.
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In 1893, when Dixon was eighteen, Overland Monthly published his first illustrations, and he quickly achieved fame as a leading delineator of western life.
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For the most part it was considered that air forces would be used primarily for scouting and reconnaissance missions, both overland and at sea.
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The migratory instinct is so strong that some adults will writhe overland for up to 24 hours between landlocked ponds and sea-bound rivers to reach the ocean.
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Kuat Drive Yards developed the All Terrain Open Transport as a basic overland troop carrier.
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The place to get sushi in the metro is actually Ichiban Sushi at 11809 College Blvd Overland Park, KS 66210.
18 posts from March 2007
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Mackey was the ninth musher into this, the last of the Yukon River checkpoint before the race turns overland on the portage to Unalakleet on the Bering Sea.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Defending Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey Concedes 2011 Race
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All materials for the Royal palaces were shipped into Dundee and overland by horses.
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With the inconvenience of continual mortality we were forced to give over our intended enterprise to go with Nombre de Dios, and so overland to Panama, where we should have strucken the stroke for the treasure, and full recompense of our tedious travails.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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Deeply embarrassed, he prepared to depart by an overland route.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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Mr Overland said he was not a "wowser" and it was also up to local and state governments and its citizens to develop geographic areas in a socially responsible way.
The Australian | News |
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Like other modern SUVs, the Grand Cherokee Overland Summit, available with rear-wheel or four-wheel drive, is a work of unitized-frame construction - used to reduce vehicle weight and increase fuel economy.
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Summit: Off the canvas and off the road, in style
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The province has deliberately overestimated the costs of building a tunnel, while underestimating the costs of land necessary for the overland highway route, said Wood.
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Similarly, the British conjured North Indian products as continually flowing overland westward to the collection point of Ludiana, then down the Sutlej river south to Mithenkote, from where the Lohanis would incessantly transport and market the goods in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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The most important decision made by Stirling was that any insertion into enemy territory would be best done by going overland - not by parachute drop.
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From St. Louis they took the boat for St. Jo, whence the Overland stage started, and for six days "plodded" up the shallow, muddy, snaggy
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
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an overland journey
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Moving the boats and equipment on water was always the preferred option to portaging or carrying everything including boats overland between stretches or bodies of navigable water.
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The letter would express concerns about environmental impacts of a proposed overland route the Ministry of Transportation is considering.
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They were also employed in the construction of the Overland Telegraph line and of a railway across the desert - which was called the Ghan, after their handlers, believed to come from Afghanistan.
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The trick is to move from body-on-frame to unitized-frame construction without undermining the primary appeal of an SUV as a go-anywhere, do-everything vehicle - a bit of magic the new Grand Cherokee Overland Summit pulls off nicely.
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland Summit: Off the canvas and off the road, in style
