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peninsula

noun as in projecting mass of land

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“There is some sort of secret government project out here on the Virginia peninsula, and they are looking for Colored women who are mathematicians,” Eric told me.

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Scipio went directly to New Carthage, the nexus of Carthaginian power in the Iberian peninsula.

On the peninsula, an even higher rate of breeding females -- 67 percent -- were estimated to have been wiped out.

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The peninsula is home to Great Britain's most remote pub, The Old Forge in Inverie, which is run by Stephanie Harris.

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Early last month, Ukraine struck a refinery in the southern Krasnodar region, as well as an oil terminal and an ammunition depot in the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, according to Russian authorities.

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