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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salher

Salher is a place located near Waghamba in Satana tehsil in Nasik district of Maharashtra, India. It is the site of the highest fort in the Sahyadri mountains and the second highest peak at 1,567 metres (5,141 ft) after Kalsubai in Maharashtra and 32nd highest peak in Western Ghats. This was one of the celebrated forts of the Maratha Empire. The money acquired after raiding Surat was brought to this fort first on its way to the Maratha capital forts.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Mayotte

This is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, one of the Comoros Archipelago islands located on the south-east side of Africa.

Mayotte was the first Comorian island to fall under French influence at the beginning of the 1840s. It was the French administrative and postal center in the archipelago. Between 1911 and 1975, Mayotte's postal history is the same as the other Comoros: part of the Madagascar colony, then part of the Comoros Archipelago overseas territory.

In July 1975, Mayotte's postal history diverged again because its inhabitants voted by referendum to remain a French territory. After a shortage of stamps, stamps of France were used from February 1976 to December 1996.

From 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2011, Mayotte was postally autonomous and issued its own stamps. Postal operations are managed by an overseas subsidiary of La Poste.

From 1 January 2012, with the full integration of Mayotte with France, the island has no longer postal autonomy and uses the stamps of France exclusively.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_le_Corbeau

Marguerite Pitre (5 September 1908 – 9 January 1953), born Marguerite Ruest, also known as Marguerite Ruest-Pitre, was a Canadian conspirator in a mass murder carried out when Albert Guay bombed an airliner, killing all 23 people on the plane. The 13th and last woman to be hanged in Canada, she was executed on 9 January 1953 in Montreal, Quebec.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadu_Plateau

The Dadu Plateau (Chinese: 大肚台地), also known as Dadu Mountain or Dadushan (Chinese: 大肚山; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tōa-tō͘-soaⁿ), is a plateau that stretches across Taichung, Taiwan. It faces the Taichung Basin on the east and the seacoast of Taichung on the west, and lies between the Dajia River and Dadu River. The plateau is long and narrow, has a length of about 20 km, and a width of about 5 to 7 km. It average height is about 151 m, with a highest peak which has a height of 310 m.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Harris

This article is about the Canadian author. For the American philosopher, see Marjorie Silliman Harris.

Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening.
 
Torhamn

Torhamn is a locality situated in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 423 inhabitants in 2010.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Sakawa

Sakawa (酒匂) was the last of four Agano-class light cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Fuel shortages crippled the IJN's operations by the time the ship was completed in late 1944 and she never left Japanese waters. After the war, Sakawa was used to ferry Japanese troops home until she was selected in early 1946 to be expended for nuclear weapon tests during Operation Crossroads. The ship was used as a target during the first bomb test on 1 July and sank the following day.

Actually a fairly interesting read since I like learning about naval vessels.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutor-Saliba_Corporation

The Tutor-Saliba Corporation is a building contractor and heavy civil works construction company. It was founded by Naseeb M. Saliba and Ronald N. Tutor in California through a partnership between their respective firms; A.G. Tutor Company, Inc. and N.M. Saliba Company in 1970. The partnership incorporated in 1981.

In 2008, Tutor-Saliba was ranked the 37th largest general contractor in the United States by Engineering News-Record. It claims $2.7 billion under contract in early 2018. In 2008, Tutor-Saliba and Perini Corp. announced that they will merge in a transaction valued at $862 million creating one of the leading building and civil contractors in the industry.
 
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Cobden, Victoria

Cobden is a town located 200 kilometres southwest of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia named in honour of Richard Cobden.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_(dog)

Nigel (born 17 May 2008) is a male golden retriever dog owned by Monty Don, a British television gardening presenter. Nigel is known for his appearances on the BBC Two gardening programme, Gardeners' World, on which he is seen, with Don's other dog Nellie, following the presenter around his garden and sometimes playing with a tennis ball. Apart from his television appearances, Nigel has his own Twitter account.
 
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