steamboat
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The idea, in its early conceptions, included much of what would later make its way to Disneyland — a train, a steamboat and less detailed versions of Main Street and a Frontierland.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
In many ways the steamboat was as much a slice of gold rush America as much as it was a slice of the Pacific Northwest.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2022
Another law did the same for steamboat passengers.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022
Early one morning a few days later, he left for Easton Point where he could catch a steamboat to Baltimore.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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