The mortar was captured on a patrol in a rice paddy, from Vietcong forces.

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One hundred acres of his 700-acre farm in Holt Heath, Worcestershire, now resembles a rice paddy field.

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"You can't use any of it, " said Shigeru Matsumoto, a farmer with a rice paddy in this area.

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Churches dot the landscape like buffalo in a rice paddy.

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The grounds were likely a former rice paddy, but it was easier to imagine a cricket match there than women threshing rice.

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It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.

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The 367-room Parkroyal on Pickering, which opened in January, is draped in layers of lush greenery that cascade from garden and pool terraces at various levels of the 16-storey building, creating a striking, contoured rice paddy-like exterior.

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The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.

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On his return to Hong Kong 10 years later, his father's rice paddy was paved over and his old neighborhood had become a dormitory suburb called Fanling New Town.

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