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Birkenhead

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Bir·ken·head  (bûrkn-hd)
A borough of northwest England at the mouth of the Mersey River near Liverpool. It has extensive docks and is a shipbuilding center. Population: 83,700.
Birkenhead [ˌbɜːkənˈhɛd]
n
(Placename) a port in NW England, in Wirral unitary authority, Merseyside: former shipbuilding centre. Pop.: 93 087 (1991)
Birkenhead2
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(Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of (1872-1930) M, British, POLITICS: statesman, LAW: lawyer, POLITICS: orator) Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of, known as F. E. Smith. 1872-1930, British Conservative statesman, lawyer, and orator


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