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  Washington - LoveToKnow Watches
The eastern half of the state is occupied in the north by a westward extension of the Rocky Mountains, and in the centre and south by the north-western portion of the Columbia Plateau province.
The Okanogan Highlands, the Columbia plain, the E. slope of the Cascade Mountains and the S. portion of the Puget Sound Basin are drained b y the Columbia and its tributaries.
In the valleys of rivers which have overflowed their banks and on level bench lands there is considerable silt and vegetable loam mixed with glacial clay; but on the hills and ridges of western Washington the soil is almost wholly a glacial deposit consisting principally of clay but usually containing some sand and gravel.
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 Columbia - Memory Alpha
Columbia (NX-02) was the second Starfleet starship of the NX class in service during the mid-22nd century.
In the year 2151, Columbia was one of three NX class starships still in the planning stages, intended for deep space, long-range exploration (ENT: "Fortunate Son").
In November 2154, Columbia was stuck in dry dock with engine trouble, delaying her launch, and rendering her unable to assist Enterprise during the hunt for the Romulan drone-ship.
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 Columbia
Columbia is a name used in the English language for the many things and places.
Columbia was also a female personification of the USA, similar to the male Uncle Sam, often seen in political cartoons through the early 20th century.
Columbia shouldn't be confused with Colombia, a country in South America, (also named after Christopher Columbus).
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 Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Columbia is the original name for the United States and inspired the names of many things.
Columbia Station, a station on the Vancouver SkyTrain.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 ipedia.com: Columbia University Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Columbia University, officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private institution of higher education.
Columbia University traces its origins to 1754, when it was founded by royal charter of King George II as "King's College." It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.
Columbia ended up scrapping the plans for the controversial gym and built a subterranean gym under the north end of campus instead; this is the facility in use today.
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 Daniel Edgar Sickles - LoveToKnow Watches
DANIEL EDGAR SICKLES (1825-), American soldier and diplomatist, was born in New York City on the 20th of October 1825.
In 1859 he was tried on a charge of murder, having shot Philip Barton Key, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whom Sickles had discovered to have a liaison with his wife; but was acquitted after a dramatic trial lasting twenty days.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Sickles was active in raising United States volunteers in New York, and was appointed colonel of a regiment.
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 Columbia University Article, ColumbiaUniversity Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Columbia's main campus occupies six blocks in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, and its largest satellite campus, Health Sciences, is situated some fiftyblocks uptown in the island's Washington Heights.
Columbia University traces its origins to 1754, when it was founded by royal charter of King George II as "King's College." It is the oldest institution ofhigher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.
Columbia ended up scrapping the plans for the controversial gym andbuilt a subterranean gym under the north end of campus instead; this is the facility in use today.
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 Columbia University
Columbia's main campus occupies six blocks in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, and its largest satellite campus, Health Sciences, is situated some fifty blocks uptown in the island's Washington Heights.
Columbia is among the top 20 universities in terms of its number of NCAA Division I varsity sports offerings.
During the first half of the 20th Century Columbia and Harvard were considered the best research universities in the country and had the largest endowments.
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 Vancouver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1870, the colonial government surveyed the settlement and laid out a townsite, renamed “Granville.” This site, with its natural harbour, was eventually selected as the terminus for the Canadian Pacific Railway to the chagrin of Port Moody, New Westminster and Victoria, all of which had vied to be the railhead.
The first pavement in British Columbia was the Stanley Park ring road, and was made out of the crushed shells of the large midden at the old native village of Qwhy-qwhy (Lumberman's Arch); it was paved for use by bicycles, which until the introduction of the autmobile later on were a popular form of transportation.
In the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Vancouver has ten constituencies: in the 2005 provincial election, the BC Liberal Party and the BC New Democratic Party each won five seats.
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 Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver is a Canadian city, in the province of British Columbia.
In 1870, the colonial government of British Columbia surveyed the community officially known as Granville.
With the arrival of the railway, Vancouver began to grow rapidly as it was fully connected to all of Canada and thus benefitted from access to Canadian markets.
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 United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Americas, including the region encompassing the thirteen colonies, were originally known as Columbia, prompting the name District of Columbia for the land set aside for the nation's capital.
Columbia remained a popular name for the United States until the early twentieth century, when it fell into relative disuse; but it is still used poetically and appears in various names and titles.
North of the Great Basin and east of the Cascades in the Northwest is the Columbia River Plateau, a large igneous province caused by one of the largest flood basalts ever to appear on Earth, it is marked by dark fl rocks.
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 CBS - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States.
One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established a reputation for quality; prior to the fracturing of the market under cable television, CBS's television network was one of three which dominated broadcasting in the United States.
Unable to sell enough air time to advertisers, on September 25, 1927 Columbia sold the network for $500,000 to William S. Paley, son of a Philadelphia cigar manufacturer.
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 Washington - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Captain Robert Gray (for whom Grays Harbor county is named) then discovered the mouth of the Columbia river and, beginning in 1792, he established trade in Sea Otter pelts.
During the depression era a series of hydroelectric dams were constructed along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity.
Washington is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south (the Columbia River forming most of this border), Idaho to the east and British Columbia, Canada to the north.
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 Vancouver (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captain George Vancouver, 18th Century British naval officer and explorer of North America's Pacific north coast.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, actually two distinct municipalities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, which includes the entire Vancouver metropolitan area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vancouver_(disambiguation)   (263 words)

  
 Nas - Free net encyclopedia
Nas and Graham continued to work together, but their partnership was cut short when Graham was shot and killed by a gunman in Queensbridge on May 23, 1992.
Columbia began to press Nas to work towards more commercial topics like the rapper The Notorious B.I.G., who had become successful by releasing street singles that still retained pop-friendly appeal.
Columbia had scheduled to release the pirated material from I Am under ther title Nastradamus during the latter half of 1999, but, at the last minute, decided Nas should record an entirely new album for release.
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 Lillooet - Dic.blogopt.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lillooet, a town in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia.
Lillooet West was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections
Lillooet East was a historical provincial electoral district in the 1894, 1898 and 1890 British Columbia elections
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 SonicBreakdown: Wikipedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major television network and radio broadcaster in the United States.
The network was renamed "Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System." Later in 1928, another investor took a major position in Columbia stock, Paramount Pictures; for a time it was said the network would be re-named, as "Paramount Radio".
The network name was streamlined to "Columbia Broadcasting System." Paley believed in the power of radio advertising; his family had seen their "La Palina" cigar become a best seller after young William convinced his elders to advertise on Philadelphia station WCAU.
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 Columbia University and the Elections: Profiles
Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., MPH, is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Chief Division of Infectious Diseases at Harlem Hospital.
Albert Fishlow is the director of the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia.
She is the author of The Press, Presidents, and Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1990); Terrorism and the Media: From the Iran Hostage Crisis to the World Trade Center Bombing (Columbia University Press, 1994, 1996); and Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, 2002), among other publications.
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 Oregon - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Its northern border lies along the Columbia River and the east along the Snake River.
Exploration by Lewis and Clark (1805-1806) and Britain's David Thompson (1811) publicized the abundance of fur in the area.
Since the Columbia River is perhaps the most significant geographic feature of the region, it is plausible that the name was anglicized to Oregon and thence became known as such.
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 Vancouver - Wikitravel
University of British Columbia This Campus has streets lined with trees and stretching over an area encompassing a small city, the UBC campus offers much to see and much to do.
There are two large publicly funded universities in Vancouver's metropolitan area: The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University (in Burnaby).
A common belief is that marijuana is legal in British Columbia, that is a myth.
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 EMI - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Electrical and Music Industries Ltd formed in March 1931 from a merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company/HMV.
In 1955, to replace the loss of its long-established licensing arrangements with RCA Victor and Columbia Records, EMI entered the American market by acquiring 96% of the stock of Capitol Records.
The company established subsidiary operations in a number of other countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia and New Zealand.
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 Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver ranks second in a worldwide quality of life survey of 215 cities, conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Neighbourhoods of interest within the city include the downtown area, Gastown, Chinatown (especially the Dr Sun Yat Sen classical Chinese garden), and Granville Island, Stanley Park, and the University of British Columbia campus and adjacent parklands.
Vancouver and its adjacent communities are the home of two major universities, the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, as well as a number of community colleges.
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 Vancouver, British Columbia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Vancouver (49n16 123w07 PST) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia.
Vancouver and its adjacent communities are the of two major universities the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) as well as a number community colleges.
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 United States - Knowmore
There is a federal district, the District of Columbia, comprising the capital, Washington, D.C. The United States also owns a number of overseas territories.
The US is divided into three distinct sections: the continental United States, also known as "The Lower 48"; Alaska, which is physically connected only to Canada; and the archipelago of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean.
The United States also holds several other territories, districts and possessions, notably the federal district of the District of Columbia, which is the nation's capital, and several overseas insular areas, the most significant of which are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.
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 Space shuttle - Memory Alpha
There is some speculation that the starships of the NX class followed a naming pattern similar to that of the shuttles.
NX-01 is Enterprise, NX-02 is Columbia, so NX-03 may be Challenger, etc.
The space shuttle registered as OV-165 was a later type of shuttle used by Humans.
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Columbia University, 1993 — 1998 Graduate Research Assistant Participated in various projects in Natural Language Summarization, Statistical Information Extraction, and Digital Libraries.
Research Adviser Columbia University, 1993 — 1996 Supervised undergraduate and MS student research projects - 5 students.
Zvi Galil Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science Columbia University 1214 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027-7003, USA Phone: (212) 854-6574 Fax: (212) 666-0140 (galil@cs.columbia.edu) Dr.
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 Columbia - OneLook Dictionary Search
Columbia : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include Columbia: british columbia, columbia river, columbia university, cape columbia, columbia plateau, more...
Words similar to Columbia: capital of south carolina, columbia river, more...
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 EMI: emi music, emi record, emi group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Electric and Musical Industries Ltd formed in March 1931 from a merger of the UK Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company.
In 1957, to replace the loss of its long-established licensing arrangements with RCA Victor and Columbia Records (Columbia USA cut its ties with EMI in 1951), EMI entered the American market by acquiring 96% of the stock of Capitol Records.
In 1972, EMI replaced the Columbia and HMV pop music labels with the emi record label.
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