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  1. Adventure
    [schooner] The 1926 schooner Adventure is one of the last of the famous Grand Banks fishing schooners of Gloucester, Massachusetts. She is one of only two "knockabout" fishing schooners surviving. Adventure was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. ==History== Designed by Thomas F. ...
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  2. Adventure
    [ship] The Adventure was a sloop maritime fur trade ship built by the crew of Captain Robert Gray on his second voyage to the Northwest Coast of North America. The 45-ton sloop was built to allow the trading venture to access smaller inlets the Columbia could not reach. At the end of his sec...
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  3. Adventure
    [Furslide album] Adventure is the 1998 debut album of the New York alternative rock band Furslide. == Singles == ==Track listing== ...
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  4. Adventure
    [1945 film] Adventure is a 1945 film, based on the novel The Anointed by Clyde Brion Davis. Clark Gable and Greer Garson star as a sailor and a librarian. It was Gable`s first postwar film and the tagline repeated in the movie`s famous trailer was "Gable`s back and Garson`s got him!" It was ...
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  5. Adventure
    [1925 film] ==Plot== A Solomon Islands plantation owner, David Sheldon (Tom Moore) becomes ill from blackwater fever following the death of many of his fieldhands die from the disease. Joan Lackland (Pauline Starke), a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. Enlisting ...
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  6. Adventure
    HMS Adventure was a British cruiser-minelayer of 6740 tons displacement launched in 1926. HMS Adventure was the first vessel to be designed and built for the British Navy as a dedicated minelayer. HMS Adventure was armed primarily with 340 mines which were for laying, and also with four 4.7-inch ant...
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  7. Adventure
    [Dungeons & Dragons] In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an adventure or module is a pre-packaged book or box set that helps the Dungeon Master manage the plot or story of a game. The term adventure is currently used by the game`s publisher Wizards of the Coast. In early editions of...
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  8. Adventure
    [Television album] Adventure is the second album by New York punk pioneers Television. The follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, Marquee Moon, upon its release it fared worse than its predecessor in the United States but entered the charts at #7 in the UK. A noticeable difference be...
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  9. Adventure
    [role-playing game] Cover of the Brian Eno album Ambient 1/Music for Airports, 1978. ...
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  10. Adventure
    [role-playing games] An adventure is either a published or otherwise written collection of plot, character, and location details used by a gamemaster to manage the plot or story in a role-playing game. Each adventure is based upon a particular gaming genre and is normally designed for use wi...
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  11. Adventure
    [disambiguation] An adventure is an undertaking into the unknown, often having a connotation of danger and excitement. Adventure or The Adventure may also refer to: == Arts and entertainment == === Titled works === ==== Games ==== ==== Music ==== ==== Film and TV ==== ==Ships== ==Other uses=...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(disambiguation)

  12. Adventure
    [Atari 2600] Adventure is a {vgy|1979} video game for the Atari 2600 video game console and is considered the first action-adventure game. Its creator, Warren Robinett, introduced the first widely-known Easter egg to the gaming world. ==History and design== Adventure was published by the con...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)



  1. adventure
    [n] - a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=adventure

  2. Adventure
    Ad·ven'ture noun [ Middle English aventure , aunter , anter , French aventure , from Late Latin adventura , from Latin advenire , adventum , to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/34

  3. Adventure
    Ad·ven'ture transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Adventured ; present participle & verbal noun Adventuring ] [ Middle English aventuren , auntren , French avent...
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  4. Adventure
    Ad·ven'ture intransitive verb To try the chance; to take the risk. « I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak. »
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/34

  5. adventure
    1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. 'Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.' (Milton) ... 2. Risk; danger; peril. 'He was in great adventure of his life.' (Berners) ... 3...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?adventure

  6. adventure
    escapade 1 risky venture noun a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=adventure

  7. Adventure
    • (n.) A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one`s life. • (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. • (v. i.) To try the chance; to take the risk. • (n.) That whi...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/adventure/

  8. Adventure
    (from the article `Furneaux, Tobias`) On Capt. Samuel Wallis` westerly-directed circumnavigation in the Royal Navy ship `Dolphin` (1766–68), Furneaux was among the first Europeans to ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/21

  9. Adventure
    (from the article `electronic game`) The defining `text adventure` was Adventure, written by Will Crowther, probably in 1975, if not earlier. Crowther combined his experiences exploring ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/21

  10. adventure
    adventure 1. That which comes to us, or happens without design; chance, fortune, luck. 2. A chance occurrence, an event or issue, an accident. 3. A hazardous or perilous enterprise or performance; a daring feat; hence, a prodigy, a marvel. 4. Any novel or unexpected event in which one shares; an exc...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2691/

  11. Adventure
    An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme spor...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure

  12. Adventure
    [magazine] Adventure magazine was an American pulp magazine that was first published in November 1910 by the Ridgway company, an offshoot of the Butterick Publishing Company. Adventure went on become one of the most profitable and critically acclaimed of all the American pulp magazines. The ...
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  13. Adventure
    [comic] Reporting statistics of link dwaslova.ru; 0 records. Reports COIBot reported 0 links. ---- Below a full report on all use of the link dwaslova.ru. This list is intended to see how the external link gets used, it does not imply that involved accounts are having a conflict of interest ...
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