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pow

1
Scot the head or a head of hair

pow

2
Scot a creek or slow stream
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PoW

(Proof-Of-Work) See proof-of-work algorithm.
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Critique: An impressively informative, exceptionally well organized and presented, and invaluable contribution to the growing body of World War II Pacific Theatre histories and biographies, "Prisoner of War Number 2378" is an extraordinary and inherently engaging read from beginning to end.
Pte Bower was buried at Heilsberg Prisoner of War Cemetery in Germany - now Lidzbark Warminski in Poland - which contained several thousand burials, mainly of Russians and other eastern Europeans who had died, as PoWs.
Harperley Prisoner of War Camp was turned into a tourist attraction in 2004 but the owners cannot afford to complete its restoration.
More than 65 years after the event, details of the escape have been revealed by villagers in Comrie, Perthshire, as part of a community research project into Cultybraggan Prisoner of War camp.
Interim POW/MIA Committee member and World War II veteran Frank Tracy remembers his time as a prisoner of war at night when he beds down.
How did a non-combatant medical officer who was a prisoner of war become probably the recognisable war hero in Australia?
War trauma, indicated by heavy casualties in a soldier's company or having been a prisoner of war, moderately increased veterans' chances of developing gastrointestinal, cardiac, or mental ailments, the researchers say.
Challenging the September court ruling, the Senate voted 90-9 to support an amendment introduced by former prisoner of war Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona), preventing "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment" against prisoners held by the United States.
``THE Heroes Return'' lottery funded scheme has allowed my father to return to the Normandy seaside town, St Valery-en-Caux, where he was taken prisoner of war on June 12 1940.
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