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Navvy, a
clipping of
navigator (UK) or
navigational engineer (US), is
particularly applied to
describe the
manual labourers working on
major civil engineering...
- from 1909, this
machine – Ruston's
called it a 'crane
navvy' – is the
oldest surviving steam navvy in the world. It was
originally used at a
chalk pit at...
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navvies, co-founded the
Navvy Mission Society in 1877,
along with the Rev.
Lewis Moule Evans. This
missionary effort was
funded by Garnett's "
navvy novels"...
- an
Irish journalist, poet and novelist,
known as "The
Navvy Poet"
because he had
worked as a
navvy before he
began writing.
MacGill was born in Glenties...
- The
United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams,
commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the
United States Navy's
primary special operations force and...
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Brown in the
Manchester version. The
picture depicts a
group of so-called "
navvies"
digging up the road to
build a tunnel. It is
typically ****umed that this...
- 1995). "Phantom
Trains Wreak Havoc in
Channel Tunnel". The Times. UK. "
Navvies". ingenious. 11
March 2008.
Archived from the
original on 27 July 2009...
- Quaintain, a
widow with
teenage children Hans
Matheson as
Johnny Jackson, a
navvy,
later discovered to be John
Blackwood Clarke Peters as
Ralph Coates, a...
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Donegal has a long
literary tradition in both
Irish and English. The
Irish navvy-turned-novelist
Patrick MacGill,
author of many
books about the experiences...
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greatest railroad contractor,"
industrialist Hugh Ryan. Many
thousands of
navvies worked on the railway. Many were
European immigrants. An
unknown number...