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Recent Examples of millstreamDating back to at least the 12th century, the island is separated from Lesser Town by a millstream that powered local mills for hundreds of years.—Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 One of them is recorded in the Domesday Book, which was written in 1086, and pieces of a Roman millstone have recently been found in the bed of the millstream.—Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2021
During delivery, the newborn’s head became stuck in the vaginal canal in a complicated medical event known as shoulder dystocia, according to Taylor and Ross’ lawsuit against St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center.
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Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
Then into motorboats for hair-raising dashes through tortuous canals and across rough water to dams far back in some vast marsh.
In September 2021, the frigate HMS Richmond—deployed to the western Pacific with an aircraft carrier group—transited the waterway en route to Vietnam after operating in the East China Sea.
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Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Situated between Iran and Oman, the Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.
From there, water is pumped into a State Water Project aqueduct and moved south, mostly to Southern California.
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George Skelton,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
There was just enough water to float us through the dank tunnel under the ancient stone aqueduct that carries the canal over the mouth of the run, and out in the river there wasn’t much more.
Over roughly a decade, approximately 8,000 giant sequoias — some aged over 2,000 years — were felled using cross-cut saws, axes, steam donkeys and elaborate flume systems that transported logs to distant mills.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
Next was dad Harry following closely behind as his little princess met a Disney Princess, before the family was photographed going up a log flume ride at Tiana's Bayou Adventure.
The focus is on the Bangs Lake outfall control structure, which is currently maintained by manually making adjustments to the sluice gate.
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Gregory Harutunian,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
Still, on May 4, India lowered sluice gates at the Baglihar dam, effectively reducing the downstream flow to Pakistan through the Chenab River by up to 90%, according to the Hindustan Times.
There, it was successfully utilized to help spawning American shad and blueback herring bypass a spillway located between Lake Marion and the Santee River.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 May 2025
Occasionally, the Army Corps will open spillways and floodways that are designed to divert floodwaters during extreme weather events.
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