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"Niton" is a progressive house track with vocals by Jan Burton and some sweet techno elements.
Mike Ragogna: SHOF/PBS Chats: Billy Joel, Jimmy Jam, Jimmy Webb, Garth Brooks, Allan Toussaint, Dwight Yoakum, Hal David, Paul Williams... Mike Ragogna 2011
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Mainly due to financial hardships, Inchbold found accomodation at Niton, on the s. tip of the Isle of Wight and spent much of the next year there during which he painted this picture showing the Undercliffe which runs along the shoreline between St. Catherine's point and Ventnor.
John William Inchbold - The Undercliffe -Spring Time Hermes 2009
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From its very elevated situation, it commands a rich display of the country from Niton to
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BEAUCHAMP, an unpretending residence in the simple cottage style, on the right-hand side of the road, proceeding to Niton: we catch a glimpse of it through the trees.
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A far more disastrous wreck was that of the CLARENDON, a West India trader of 350 tons, which took place on the 11th of October, 1836: and will be remembered with increased interest, as the acknowledged fact of her loss being mainly attributable to the want of some warning beacon on the land, led almost directly to the erection of the splendid light-house at Niton.
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WHITWELL is a very retired village, winding between Godshill and Niton: and having a church of some antiquity.
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West Cowes to Ventnor (thro 'Newport, Blackgang, and Niton,) at 10, returning at 3.
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We have already stated how dangerous this part of the coast is during a south or south-west wind, to vessels unmanageable in a storm: and previously to the erection of the new Light-house, few winters passed without two or more wrecks occurring between Niton and Freshwater Bay.
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Niton, it is my order that the twilight be as slow as our instruments will allow.
Giants on the Earth 1933
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He proposed to call it Niton, and, for reasons which we shall note later, considered that in all probability it had an atomic weight of about 222½.
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