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  2. Border reivers - Wikipedia

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    Hawick in Scotland holds an annual Reivers' festival as do the Schomberg Society in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland (the two often co-operate). The summer festival in the Borders town of Duns is headed by the "Reiver" and "Reiver's Lass", a young man and young woman elected from the inhabitants of the town and surrounding area. The Ulster-Scots ...

  3. River - Wikipedia

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    Flamingos in the delta of the Po river, Italy. A river is a natural flow of freshwater that flows on or through land towards another body of water downhill. [1] This flow can be into a lake, an ocean, or another river. [1]

  4. The Reivers - Wikipedia

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    The Reivers: A Reminiscence, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. It was published a month before his death. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. Faulkner previously won this award for his book A Fable, making him one of only four authors to be awarded it more than ...

  5. River delta - Wikipedia

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    A river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta.The triangular shape of the Nile Delta was known to audiences of classical Athenian drama; the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus refers to it as the "triangular Nilotic land", though not as a "delta". [8]

  6. Atmospheric river - Wikipedia

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    An explanation from the National Weather Service on atmospheric rivers. An atmospheric river (AR) is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere.

  7. Receiver (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A disassembled Mauser action showing a partially disassembled receiver and bolt. In firearms terminology and law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving ...

  8. What Exactly is Your Full Retirement Age and How Does it ...

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    If you were born in this year. This is your FRA. 1943 - 1954. 66. 1955. 66 and 2 months. 1956. 66 and 4 months. 1957. 66 and 6 months. 1958. 66 and 8 months. 1959. 66 and 10 months

  9. Stream - Wikipedia

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    Rocky stream in Italy Frozen stream in Enäjärvi, Pori, Finland Stream near Montriond in south-eastern France Aubach (Wiehl) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A stream is a continuous body of surface water [1] flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.