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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on an arm of the Inland Sea southeast of Hiroshima. It is a naval base and major port.

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  • 'Kure' is a family dining table concept created by relatively unknown Turkish designer Fatih Can Sarioz.

    Turkish Digest 2008

  • Four women were given to them, whom they carried back to Japan, there to become the ancestresses of an uji known as Kure no kinu-nui and Kaya no kinu-nui (clothiers of

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • Have not seen this anime, but I might check it out once I finish most of my long watch list on January 21, 2010 at 11: 02 pm | Reply Rainbowsphere: Holiday Break Kris Kringle: Kure-Nai – “I. AM.NOT.A.LOLICON.”

    A quick review of REC (anime) « Undercover 2010

  • Kure bloomed as a violent garden where Navy Crosses grew.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • One of his junior pilots was killed shortly after the Kure strikes but Kraft, who had scored a hit on a ship there, credited the feat to the youngster.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • But rather than take counsel of the Task Force 38 staff, The Bull was eager to comply with orders that gratified his vanity at the expense of eighty-three young men who died at Kure attacking impotent, immobile ships.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Whether the cost of the Kure strikes was worth the result remains one of the least examined questions of the Pacific War.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Therefore, on the 19th, air strikes targeted warships at Kure, Kobe, and the Inland Sea.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • Three B-29s in formation over Kure Arsenal, a major target complex on the Inland Sea.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The next day Task Force 38 again spread its wings over the Inland Sea, Kure, and elsewhere, sinking three tankers and a merchant ship and damaging a cruiser plus five other vessels.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

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