Manning

name, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of man form-of, gerund, participle, present
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    A town in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
  3. 3
    A river in New South Wales, Australia.
  4. 4
    A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  5. 5
    A town in Upper Austria, Austria.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Carroll County, Iowa.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Scott County, Kansas.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place, the county seat of Dunn County, North Dakota.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Clarendon County, South Carolina.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Angelina County, Texas.

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crewcrewingdeploymentmanoccupyoperate

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"Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev were killed in re-entry in 1971. They were returning to Earth after successfully manning Salyut 1, the first Soviet space station."

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