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  • 31Salt-water tailor — Salt Salt, a. [Compar. {Salter}; superl. {Saltest}.] [AS. sealt, salt. See {Salt}, n.] 1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. Salt tears.… …

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  • 32Salt — This name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is an English locational surname from the town of Salt in Staffordshire, recorded as Selte in the Domesday Book of 1086, and as Salt in the 1167 Pipe Rolls of that county. The name derives from the Olde… …

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  • 33salt-pan — n. Salt pit, salt mine, salt work …

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  • 34Pit fired pottery — Pit firing is the oldest known method of firing clay. Unfired pots are nestled together in a pit in the ground and are then covered with burnable materials such as wood shavings, leaves, metal oxides, salts, sawdust and dried manure. The top of… …

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  • 35Salt Lake County, Utah — Infobox U.S. County county = Salt Lake County state = Utah seal seallink map size = 150 founded year = 1852 seat wl = Salt Lake City largest city wl = Salt Lake City area total sq mi = 808 area total km2 = 2092 area land sq mi = 737 area land km2 …

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  • 36Salt glaze pottery — Pottery referred to as salt glazed or salted is created by adding common salt, sodium chloride, into the chamber of a hot kiln. Sodium acts as a flux and reacts with the silica in the clay body. A typical salt glaze piece has a glassine finish,… …

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  • 37Pit of despair — For the pit of despair plot device, see The Princess Bride. Harlow s vertical chamber apparatus The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber… …

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  • 38Rose Park, Salt Lake City, Utah — Rose Park is a neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. Rose Park is one of the poorest sections of Salt Lake City, and among the most ethnically diverse areas in Utah Fact|date=September 2008. Of the 61 regions monitored by the… …

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  • 39National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake County, Utah — Location of Salt Lake County in Utah This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake County, Utah. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places …

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  • 40Silver Pit — The Silver Pit is a long valley in the bed of the North Sea, 45 km (27 miles) east of Spurn Head in England. In origin, it is probably a tunnel valley (Benn Evans fig.9.27) which was kept free of periglacial deposits by the Wash River when the… …

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