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  2. Conestoga High School - Wikipedia

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    Conestoga High School. /  40.0472°N 75.4533°W  / 40.0472; -75.4533. Conestoga High School, located in Tredyffrin Township, [4] Pennsylvania, is the only upper secondary school in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District. It has a Berwyn post office address, [5] though it is not in the Berwyn census-designated place.

  3. Conestoga College - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, the college was founded as Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology by the government of Ontario to grant diplomas and certificates in career-related, skills-oriented programs. The college started to offer degree programs in B.Eng. Mechanical Systems Engineering [3] and B.A. Tech Architecture - Project and Facility Management ...

  4. Hypophyseal portal system - Wikipedia

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    The hypophyseal portal system is a system of blood vessels in the microcirculation at the base of the brain, connecting the hypothalamus with the anterior pituitary. Its main function is to quickly transport and exchange hormones between the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus and anterior pituitary gland. The capillaries in the portal system are ...

  5. Conestoga wagon - Wikipedia

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    The Conestoga wagon, also simply known as the Conestoga, is an obsolete transport vehicle that was used exclusively in North America, primarily the United States, mainly from the early 18th to mid-19th centuries. It is a heavy and large horse-drawn vehicle which, while largely elusive in origin, originated most likely from German immigrants of ...

  6. Space Services Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Space Services, Inc. of America ( SSIA) is a space services company and holding company. The primary subsidiary company, Celestis is for space burials; other activities include operation of an unofficial ' star registry '. [1] Though today it buys secondary payload space on third-party commercial rockets such as Falcon 9, Taurus, and Spaceloft ...

  7. Conestoga (rocket) - Wikipedia

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    The Conestoga was a launch vehicle design funded by Space Services Inc. of America (SSIA) of Houston, Texas. Conestoga originally consisted of surplus LGM-30 Minuteman stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required for larger payloads. It was the world's first privately funded commercial rocket, but was launched only three times (once as ...

  8. Portal venous system - Wikipedia

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    In the circulatory system of vertebrates, a portal venous system occurs when a capillary bed pools into another capillary bed through veins, without first going through the heart. Both capillary beds and the blood vessels that connect them are considered part of the portal venous system. Most capillary beds drain into venules and veins which ...

  9. Conestoga River - Wikipedia

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    The Conestoga River ( Pennsylvania German: Kanneschtooge Rewwer ), also referred to as Conestoga Creek ( Pennsylvania German: Kanneschtooge Grick ), is a 61.6-mile-long (99.1 km) [4] tributary of the Susquehanna River flowing through the center of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.