A pirogue (/pɪˈroʊɡ/ or /ˈpiːroʊɡ/), also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French...
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The Pirogue (French: La Pirogue) is a 2012 Senegalese drama film directed by Moussa Touré. The film follows a fisherman, Baya Leye, with a group of Senegalese...
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Pirogues River is a major river of southwestern New Caledonia. It flows into the sea at Pirogues Bay. It is noted for its ophiolite reserves. Pašava, Jan;...
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Pirogue Island State Park is a public recreation area on an island in the Yellowstone River, two miles north of Miles City, Montana. The 269-acre (109 ha)...
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Canoe sprint (redirect from Pirogue racing)
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to...
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by pirogues (dugout canoes), which can take passengers across the estuary to Gabon.[citation needed] It is about 15 minutes away from Cogo by pirogue. Cohen...
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Papa Noël is modeled after Santa Claus, in which he arrives at homes in a pirogue towed by eight alligators. In some families, his visit is followed by the...
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Heights "La Piragua" (song), a cumbia song by José Barros Piragua, or pirogue, a small, fast, flat-bottomed boat This disambiguation page lists articles...
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locks and by that time, steamboats' barges had replaced them. The larger pirogue is more famous on the lower Mississippi River. The earlier ones were carved...
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The Pirogues de Bercy are a group of dugout canoes (or fragments of canoes) dating from the Neolithic period that were discovered in 1989 during construction...
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known as the director of critically acclaimed films Toubab Bi, TGV and La Pirogue. Apart from direction, he is also a technician, writer, producer and actor...
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2024 Nouakchott migrant boat disaster occurred on 22 July 2024, when a pirogue carrying hundreds of migrants capsized near the coast of Nouakchott, the...
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Serer and Jola legend), two sisters boarded a pirogue with their parties. Due to act of nature, the pirogue broke into half at the Point of Sangomar. Those...
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Best Seller and Jukebox charts. "I'm Coming Home" / "I Got A Hole in My Pirogue" (Columbia 40813) was released around this time, as well. On February 9...
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Grand Tower Island Howell Island Nodaway Island Tower Rock Cow Island Pirogue Island State Park Wild Horse Island Yorks Islands Goat Island Grand Island...
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(paddle boat) Personal water craft (PWC) Pinnace (ship's boat) Pink (ship) Pirogue Pleasure barge Pleasure craft Police watercraft Pontoon Powerboat Pram...
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sisters and early ancestors of the Serer and Jola people respectively whose pirogue broke at the Point of Sangomar separating the two groups) Yoruba mythology...
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barge Flatboat Gondola Jon boat Keelboat Landing Ship, Tank Norfolk punt Pirogue Pontoon boat Pram Punt Pünte Quffah Sandolo Scow Sharpie (boat) Thames...
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German, they are called Einbaum ("one tree" in English). Some, but not all, pirogues are also constructed in this manner. Dugouts are the oldest boat type archaeologists...
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Up to 63 migrants died in an incident off Cape Verde involving a pirogue which had voyaged from Senegal departing on 10 July. 38 persons from the boat...
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diners at every range of the demographic. Popular dishes include Eggplant Pirogue, Veal Copeland, and Jambalaya Pasta among other classic Copeland concoctions...
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November 2021. Worsley, The Trumpet Shall Sound, pp. 153–9. Tabani, Marc, Une pirogue pour le Paradis : le culte de John Frum à Tanna (Vanuatu). Paris : Editions...
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sailing vessels. The term periagua overlaps, but is not synonymous with, pirogue, derived through the French language from piragua. The original periaguas...
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the pirogue to move through the very shallow water of marshes and be easily turned over to drain any water that may get into the boat. The pirogue is usually...
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whose body represents the Niger and whose horns represent the Bozo fishing pirogues. A 2000 census counted the Bozo population of Mali to be 132,100. Ligers...
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Peopling of Oceania (section Pirogues)
types: single-hulled pirogues, double-hulled pirogues (catamaran), and single-hulled outrigger pirogues (Proa). Single-hulled pirogues seem ill-suited to...
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Don Loppadi Transport of buffalos on the Mekong (from Don Det) Mekong pirogue at sunset, Don Puay Man watering cucumbers on small island Kitchen garden...
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blunderbusses, some of which were mounted and used as small swivel guns on the pirogues. Crude tripwire activated blunderbusses, known as alarm guns, spring guns...
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included some of Gray's best known designs – the Bibendum Chair and the Pirogue Day Bed. The Bibendum chair was a take on the Michelin Man with tire like...
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Tiagba is popular with tourists. The village affords such activities as pirogue (canoe) rides and staying nights in the old houses that stand on the lakeside...
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