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- noun In
oceanography , a mostlyenclosed sea that has limited exchange ofdeep water with outeroceans and where the watercirculation is dominated bysalinity andtemperature differences rather thanwinds .
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I thought a bathe would do me good, and I went to plunge for a few minutes into the waters of this mediterranean sea, for assuredly it better deserved this name than any other sea.
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I thought a bathe would do me good, and I went to plunge for a few minutes into the waters of this mediterranean sea, for assuredly it better deserved this name than any other sea.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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Tarragona station (HSL Madrid-Barcelona), near the mediterranean sea.
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All the footage has filmed in Italy in the mediterranean sea.
WN.com - Articles related to Schwarzenegger déclare l'état d'urgence budgétaire en Californie 2010
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All the footage has filmed in Italy in the mediterranean sea.
WN.com - Articles related to Schwarzenegger déclare l'état d'urgence budgétaire en Californie 2010
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The fastest trains in the world in The new Camp de Tarragona station (HSL Madrid-Barcelona), near the mediterranean sea.
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BEIRUT: Thirteen of the 15 bodies recovered from the Ethiopian Airline plane that crashed in the mediterranean sea last month have been identified, security sources said on Friday.
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East Med Sea Peace welcome to the eastern cul de sac of the mediterranean sea .. in its centre lie israel and lebanon and around us we have egypt and the palestinian coast in the south as well as syria turkey and cyprus further north and jordan hugging from the east .. my dream is for us to all live in peace .. brendan's report of the rally at trafalgar square ..
East Med Sea Peace 2009
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East Med Sea Peace welcome to the eastern cul de sac of the mediterranean sea .. in its centre lie israel and lebanon and around us we have egypt and the palestinian coast in the south as well as syria turkey and cyprus further north and jordan hugging from the east .. my dream is for us to all live in peace .. if you look through the commentary on a previous
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East Med Sea Peace welcome to the eastern cul de sac of the mediterranean sea .. in its centre lie israel and lebanon and around us we have egypt and the palestinian coast in the south as well as syria turkey and cyprus further north and jordan hugging from the east .. my dream is for us to all live in peace ..
East Med Sea Peace 2009
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