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Wedge and land
Greensborough borders the beginning of the Green Wedge, an area of bush land left running out northward into Eltham and Diamond Creek.
However, the Nature Conservancy found that the purchasing and protecting of the land was not enough to protect the Dwarf Wedge Mussel due to the complexity of their life cycle and the interference of the Cuddebackville Dam.
The Wedge ( or Delaware Wedge ) is a small tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Though legally Fawkner and Batman and Wedge, and their respective parties, were considered trespassers on Crown land, they remained in the new settlement, which came to be called Melbourne.
Here Batman showed John Helder Wedge where he had explored and, from these details, Wedge prepared the first map of Melbourne ( published in 1836 ), showing the location Batman had chosen as the site for the " village " and the division of land between association members.

Wedge and between
* The Wedge, part of the boundary between the states of Pennsylvania and Delaware in the United States.
Wedge tombs were built between the Irish late Neolithic and middle Bronze Ages ( about 2500 to 2000BC ).
( Actually, the " Little Grand Canyon " is a few miles upstream where the San Rafael passes between the Wedge on the north and Sid's Mountain and No Man's Mountain on the south ).

Wedge and northwest
When he and Lando reach the Death Star's core, Wedge destroys the power regulator on the core's northwest tower, while Lando destroys the core itself.

Wedge and part
He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems of the time, in support of the Labour Party.
Dembski was part of that group at a symposium at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in March 1992, before they came to call themselves " The Wedge ".
According to Dave Doyle at the National Geodetic Survey, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the common corner of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, at The Wedge is marked by Boundary Monument # 87.
Despite this echo of the Russian Civil War, Red Wedge was not a communist organisation ; neither was it officially part of the Labour Party, but it did initially have office space at Labour's headquarters.
Instead, Mirabelli chose to attend Wichita State University, and was part of the 1989 College World Series championship team which included future major leaguers Eric Wedge, Mike Lansing, and Pat Meares.
Clearly Maryland no longer had a claim to the Wedge, as it is east of the Mason – Dixon Line and as both Pennsylvania and Delaware were owned by the Penns, there was no particular incentive to determine which possession it was a part of, at least until they became separate states.
* Pennsylvania claimed the Wedge because it was beyond the Twelve-Mile Circle and past the Maryland side of the Mason – Dixon Line, therefore neither part of Maryland or Delaware.
Even though the Wedge is outside the Twelve-Mile Circle, because it is south of the 39 ° 43 ' N compromise line, it should not be part of Pennsylvania.
By simple merits of the geometry, the Wedge more logically fit as a part of Delaware, which exercised jurisdiction of the area.
He is known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero, but is best known for playing the part of Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy, and of Tom Campbell-Gore in BBC TV's Holby City.

Wedge and arc
This loss of water is due to the destabilization of the mineral chlorite at approximately 40 – 60 km depth .< ref > Grove, T. L., N. Chatterjee, S. W. Parman, and E. Médard ( 2006 ), The Influence of H < sub > 2 </ sub > O on Mantle Wedge Melting, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 74-89 .</ ref > This is the reason for island arc volcanism at consistent distances from the subducting slab: because the temperature-pressure conditions for flux-melting volcanism due to chlorite destabilization will always occur at the same depth, the distance from the trench to the arc volcanoes is determined only by the dip angle of the subducting slab.

Wedge and Maryland
Even though the area of the Wedge is quite small, just over one square mile, to understand its significance requires some background of the colonial history of the Province of Maryland, the Delaware Colony, and the Province of Pennsylvania.
* Delaware claimed the Wedge because it was never intended that Pennsylvania should go below the northern border of Maryland ( which originally ran at 40 ° N all the way to the Delaware River ).
Route 896 passes very close to the tri-point, and actually passes through Maryland before entering Pennsylvania, while Hopkins Bridge Road, a side road off of Route 896, passes near the northeast corner of the Wedge.

Wedge and border
Diagram of the Twelve-Mile Circle, the Mason-Dixon Line and " The Wedge ( border ) | The Wedge ".
* Wedge ( border )
Diagram of the survey lines creating the Mason-Dixon Line and " Wedge ( border ) | The Wedge "
In 1892, W. C. Hodgkins of the Office of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey monumented an eastward extension of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, and created the " Top of The Wedge Line ".
Diagram of the 12-Mile Circle, the Mason-Dixon Line and " The Wedge ( border ) | The Wedge.
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Wedge and was
Eric Wedge was awarded the first Manager of the Year Award in team history.
In the novel The Truce at Bakura, set one day after the battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker and his friend Wedge Antilles recover a message droid from the titular planet, which was being invaded by the Ssi-Ruuk.
Pastoralist John Batman and surveyor John Wedge planned an expedition from Launceston in 1825 but permission was not granted.
Their core was Luke Skywalker, Wedge Antilles, Zev Senesca, and Wes Janson.
Red Wedge was a collective of musicians who attempted to engage young people with politics in general, and the policies of the Labour Party in particular, during the period leading up to the 1987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
When the general election was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical participants along with The The, Captain Sensible and the Blow Monkeys.
A few further gigs were arranged and the group's magazine Well Red continued, but funding eventually ran out and Red Wedge was formally disbanded in 1990.
The M was followed by the Tasmins, the first of the long running Wedge series.
One of the most popular extensions was the DOS Wedge, due to its inclusion on the Commodore 1541 Test / Demo Disk.
* Knightmoves to Wedge ( 1992 )-re-release of The Wedge with tracks from Knightmoves 12 " single interspersed ; this was later withdrawn in favour of a remastered edition of The Wedge with the Knightmoves tracks added at the end.
In the middle of the first inning, Cleveland manager Eric Wedge brought Maddon's error to the umpires ' attention, and the Rays were forced to forfeit their DH, remove Longoria from the lineup since Zobrist played the top half of the first inning at third base ( Longoria was available as a substitute since he never appeared in the game before that point ), and bat starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine at Longoria's place in the order — third.
Weller was also instrumental in the formation of Red Wedge with Billy Bragg.
The name Wangaratta was given by colonial surveyor Thomas Wedge in 1848 after the " Wangaratta " cattle station, the name of which is believed to have been derived from an indigenous language and meaning " nesting place of cormorants " or " meeting of the waters ".
She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge.
( Now a weekly show, The Wedge was a daily series when Lee hosted.
In 1962 a special version known as the " Max Wedge " was made available for drag racing and street use, this version produced at 5000 rpm.
The Max Wedge was a race-only version of the 426 wedge engine offered from the factory.

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