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    Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Врангель, pronounced [ˈvranɡʲɪlʲ]; German: Peter von Wrangel; August 27 [O.S. August 15] 1878 –...
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    Ludwig von Wrangel (Russian: Барон Фердинанд Петрович Врангель, tr. Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel'; 9 January 1797 [O.S. 29 December 1796] – 6 June [O.S. 25...
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    lemming in Canada, is a small lemming found in Arctic North America and Wrangel Island. At one time, it was considered to be a subspecies of the Arctic...
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    USS O-12 (SS-73) was an O-class submarine of the United States Navy. These later O-boats, O-11 through O-16, were designed by Lake Torpedo Boat to different...
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    and Wrangel and his troops were forced to retreat to Crimea in November 1920, pursued by both Red and Black Army cavalry and infantry. Wrangel and the...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Oskar Freiherr von Wrangel (1812-1899) was a Prussian General of the Infantry who was notable for commanding at the Battle of Kolding...
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    0.CO;2. Nokleberg, W. J.; Parfenov, L. M.; Monger, J. W. H.; Norton, I. O.; Khanchuk, A. I.; Stone, D. B.; Scholl, D. W.; Fujita, K. (1998). Phanerozoic...
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     122–123. Beattie & Geiger 1987, p. 158. Kowall, W. A.; Krahn, P. M. & Beattie, O. B. (1989). "Lead Levels in Human Tissues from the Franklin Forensic Project"...
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  • mountain in Belize Gora Sovetskaya 1,096 3,596 Wrangel Island, Chukotka, Russian Federation – Highest in Wrangel Island Kayser Mountain 1,094 3,589 Greenland...
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  • 13th century. In 1644, Major Ernst von Nimitz served under Carl Gustav Wrangel of Sweden. Major Nimitz relocated in 1648 to an area near Hanover, Germany...
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    staff struggled to survive, first on the ice and later on the shores of Wrangel Island. In all, eleven men died before rescue. The Canadian Arctic Expedition...
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    Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three...
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    Walrus (redirect from O. r. laptevi)
    of the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of eastern Siberia, around Wrangel Island, in the Beaufort Sea along the northern shore of Alaska south to...
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    George W. De Long set out in 1879 aboard the Jeannette, hoping to reach Wrangel Island and to discover open seas in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole...
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    April 1920 battled in the Northern Taurida Governorate against the Pyotr Wrangel's troops. Soon after the Polish-Ukrainian union treaty of Warsaw in 1920...
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    namnkunniga män och kvinnor från reformationen till nuvarande tid. Senare delen L-Ö; Samt supplement (in Swedish) (Ny uppl.grundligt genomsedd, omarbetad och...
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    Thomas Crean (Irish: Tomás Ó Cuirín; c. 16 February 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for...
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    Farragut Destroyer 1,365 15 January 1935 sunk 12 January 1943 Wrangel  Swedish Navy Wrangel Destroyer 465 4 May 1918 paid off 13 June 1947, sunk 1960 Wrangler...
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    about 700–400,000 years ago in Siberia, with some surviving on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until as recently as 4,000 years ago, still...
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  • Hermansson Kalling Horn af Åminne Wrangel af Sauss von Schwerin Sinclair von Saltza Falkenberg af Bålby Stålhandske Wrangel Stackelberg Lillienberg Bunge...
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    R.; Nielsen, J.; Knudsen, S. W.; Poulsen, J. Y.; Sünksen, K.; Jørgensen, O. A. (2010). "A checklist of the fish fauna of Greenland waters". Zootaxa....
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  • Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast of Alaska-as seen through the eyes of Soviet Filmmaker and naturalist Yuri Ledin. Wrangel Island...
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    Arctic islands, Saint Paul Island and Wrangel Island, until c. 3700 BP and c. 1700 BP respectively. The Wrangel Island population became extinct around...
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    HMCS Labrador completed the east-to-west transit, under the command of Captain O.C.S. Robertson, conducting hydrographic soundings along the route. She was...
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  • study on the genetic consequences of isolation of woolly mammoths from Wrangel Island (Russia), as indicated by genomic data, is published by Dehasque...
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  • American businessman – Woolworth Building Ferdinand von Wrangel, German explorer – Wrangel Island Doug Wright, Canadian cartoonist – Doug Wright Award...
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  • settlements were the site of battles of the Red Army against the troops of Peter Wrangel. In October 1920, the front line passed near the village. On October 14...
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    Rostov-on-Don and Crimea. Rodzianko supported Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel but when it became clear the White Army had lost, he emigrated to Serbia...
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    moth native to the High Arctic in the Canadian archipelago, Greenland and Wrangel Island in Russia. It is known for its slow rate of development, as its...
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    Chelyuskin Kh. Laptev D. Laptev Chichagov Lyakhov Billings Sannikov Gedenshtrom Wrangel Matyushkin Anjou Litke Lavrov Pakhtusov Tsivolko Middendorff Austro-Hungarian...
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