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Wrecking yard - A wrecking yard, or auto salvage yard, more commonly known as junkyard, is the location of an auto dismantling business where wrecked or decomissioned vehicles (most commonly automobiles, but junkyards for motorcycles, bycicles, small planes and boats exist too) are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts are sold to metal recycling companies.

Fountain Green, Illinois - Fountain Green, Illinois, is located about eleven miles northeast of Carthage, Illinois in Hancock County, Illinois. What was once a prosperous farming community had been reduced to an automobile salvage yard by 2000, with grand 19th Century houses surrounded by wrecked automobiles.

Tony Price - Tony Price (1937-2000) was a self-styled "Atomic Artist" and outspoken antinuclear activist. After visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1967 and discovering their salvage yard, he began to create utilitarian objects such as chairs and tables and musical instruments, especially wind chimes and gongs, out of their discarded scraps.

Scotland Yard - New Scotland Yard, often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). New Scotland Yard occupies a 20-storey office block along Broadway and Victoria Street in Westminster, about 500 yards away from the Houses of Parliament.

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"Unique among books of maritime adventure."--"New York Times Book Review When "Tzu Hang, a 46-foot ketch, set sail from Melbourne, Australia, in December 1956 bound for England, Miles salvage yard and Beryl Smeeton salvage yard and their friend John Guzzwell had little concept of the challenges or terrors that awaited them. At that time very few small sailboats had successfully rounded Cape Horn, salvage yard and none had sailed as far south as "Tzu Hang--just north of the Antarctic iceberg limit. Six weeks later, in the icy seas several hundred miles west of Cape Horn, "Tzu Hang was caught from astern by a huge wave that somersaulted her. Beryl Smeeton, who had been alone at the tiller, was thrown thirty yards into the sea. Despite a broken collarbone, she managed to swim to the wreckage of masts salvage yard and rigging in the water where Miles salvage yard and John could heave her on board. "Tzu Hang was a shambles: the tiller, rudder, doghouse, anchor, compass, salvage yard and dinghies had all been ripped away; the masts had broken off level with the deck; salvage yard and the boat was close to sinking. Working beyond exhaustion, the crew emptied the water bucket by bucket, salvaged what they could, built a new doghouse, fashioned a jury rig, salvage yard and five weeks later sailed into Arauco Bay on the Chilean coast. After ten months of repair work in a Chilean navy yard, Miles salvage yard and Beryl Smeeton (without John Guzzwell) sailed again toward Cape Horn salvage yard and again were capsized, dismasted, salvage yard and nearly sunk by a rogue wave. Once more, they survived the disaster salvage yard and sailed 2,000 miles to Valparaiso, Chile. When it was first published in 1959, "Once Is Enough electrified the sailing world. But what keeps it fresh salvage yard and captivating is not just Smeeton's vivid re-creation of thesea's fury. His eloquent descriptions of ordinary life at sea make "Once Is Enough timeless reading for sailors salvage yard and armchair adventurers alike. "It is the struggle of these three indomitable sailors for survival salvage yard and their extraordinary resource . . .
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