Shanty

  • 31shanty town — shanty towns also shantytown N COUNT A shanty town is a collection of rough huts which poor people live in, usually in or near a large city …

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  • 32shanty town — ► NOUN ▪ an impoverished area consisting of large numbers of shanty dwellings …

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  • 33Shanty Point — (coord|66|25|S|65|38|W|) is a small point within Darbel Bay, lying close west of the mouth of Cardell Glacier on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955 57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland… …

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  • 34shanty boat — shanty boat, a rude houseboat used especially on the Mississippi River and in logging areas …

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  • 35Shanty-Chor — Ein Shanty (englisch auch chanty aus dem Französischen: chanter = singen) ist ein Seemannslied. Shantys sind Lieder der Matrosen zu gemeinschaftlicher harten Arbeit auf Segelschiffen vor dem Mast und lassen sich in ihrem Ursprung bis ca. 1450… …

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  • 36Shanty Hollow Lake — Infobox lake lake name = Shanty Hollow Lake image lake = caption lake = image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Warren County, Kentucky coords = type = reservoir inflow = outflow = catchment = basin countries = United States length =… …

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  • 37shanty towns —    Migration from countryside to town has long been a feature of Spanish life, and was accentuated in the 1940s and 1950s by post Civil War hardship and by the shift in the economic base from agriculture to industry, with consequent pressure on… …

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  • 38shanty town — UK / US [ˈʃæntɪ ˌtaʊn] noun [countable] Word forms shanty town : singular shanty town plural shanty towns an area where very poor people live in shanties …

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  • 39Shanty Hogan — James Francis Shanty Hogan (March 21, 1906 April 7, 1967) was a Major League Baseball catcher from 1925 to 1937. Hogan was listed at 6 1 , 240 pounds an exceptionally large player, especially for his era.cite web|url=http://www.baseball reference …

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  • 40shanty towns — Improvised housing settlements, usually but not exclusively associated with Third World cities. Common characteristics include illegal occupancy of land (squatting); concentration on land of low economic value (such as river banks or rabbish… …

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