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Pulaski

Seat of Giles County southern-central Tennessee, USA, 48 km/30 mi south of Columbia, on Richland Creek; population (1990) 7,900. It is an agricultural market, processing, and distribution centre. The Ku Klux Klan, a secret society dedicated to white supremacy, was founded in Pulaski in 1865 by six former Confederate army officers. Pulaski is also the birthplace of poet and critic John Crowe Ransom.

Pulaski

Seat of Pulaski County, southwestern Virginia, USA, in the Great Appalachian Valley, just west of Claytor Lake (on the New River) 19 km/12 mi southwest of Radford; population (1990) 10,000. Situated at a railway junction, it is a trade and industrial centre for a livestock, dairying, and lumbering area. Furniture, chemicals, and wood products are manufactured.
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The scene on any fire line will include long columns of men, armed with pulaskis and shovels, marching through the forest digging trenches and cutting brush to create firebreaks.
Mission impossible: ecologists agree that there is no way to win the ... by Mark, Jason / Earth Island Journal
Other men use hand tools, like McLeods or Pulaskis, to clear away burnable debris before the wildfire arrives.
Hot, hotter, hottest! by Schilling, Vincent / Children's Digest
When they return to camp for a break, they groom and sharpen their tools - chain saws, Pulaskis (axes with a grub on the end), Rhinos (shovels bent into a 90-degree angle) and Bosleys (shovels than can be transformed with the turn of a pin into scraping tools).
COOL IN CRISIS FOREST SERVICE HOTSHOTS READY FOR DISASTER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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