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	U.S. state - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The name "New York" can refer to any one of three geographical levels: a state, a city in that state, or a county (coterminous with the borough of Manhattan) in that city.
		Only two states have state capitals named for the state (however, such name-sharing occurs commonly with states and provinces in some other countries, where the state or province actually often takes its name from a capital city): Oklahoma, with capital Oklahoma City, and Indiana, with capital Indianapolis (which means Indiana City).
		Appearances given by the stereographic projection to the contrary, Minnesota is the northernmost of the forty-eight continguous United States, as a northern spur of the state contains a portion of Lake of the Woods.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/s/U.S._state_5a68.html (1510 words)

	Wikidpedia - The free online encyclopedia - County (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The most densely populated county (or county equivalent) is New York County, New York with 66,940 people per square mile (ppsm) as of 2000, and the least densely populated county is Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska with 0.08 ppsm as of 2000.
		County government was abolished in Connecticut in 1960, although the names remain for geographical purposes.
		In some states, the county sheriff is the principal law enforcement officer in the county, usually limited to areas outside the jurisdiction of cities and towns.
	www.pagerank10.co.uk /wiki/?title=County_(U.S.) (3581 words)

	County (United States) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Several cities and counties around the country have unified their governments; these consolidated city-county governments are considered both a city and a county under state law.
		By area, the largest county in the United States is North Slope Borough, Alaska at 94,763 square miles (245,435 km²) and the smallest county in the United States is Kalawao County, Hawaii at 13 square miles (34 km²).
		The most populous county (or county equivalent) is Los Angeles County, California with 10,226,506 people as of 2005, and the least populous county is Loving County, Texas with 67 people as of 2000.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=88366 (1365 words)

	Etymology
		The folk etymology, however, is not parallel in structure to iye'=ska - s^a 'red' precedes ska 'white, clear', for example - and does not explain the h or the diminutive.
		Names (Marie), titles of respect (miss, ma'am), or generics ('this woman', 'this lady' -' that woman', 'that lady' are subtly less polite) have to be used instead.
		The verb giimoozaabi, glossed 'to peek', is cited in A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe (Nyholm and Nichols 1995).
	spot.colorado.edu /~koontz/faq/etymology.htm (8634 words)

	U.S._state - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, Alaska, and others.
		Illinois while named for the Illiniwek, is the French name for the Illiniwek and can thus be said to have joint French and Native American origin.
		Contrary to appearances given by the stereographic projection, Minnesota is the northernmost of the forty-eight contiguous United States.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=U.S._state (3696 words)

	21ma.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Each county is run by a commissioners court consisting of four elected commissioners and a county judge elected from all the voters of the county.
		County government is similar to the "weak" mayor-council system; the county judge has no veto authority, but votes along with the other commissioners.
		The term metropolitan division is used to refer to a county or group of counties within a metropolitan area that has a population core of at least 2.5 million.
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	jimbones.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Counties are responsible for local services and law enforcement for areas within their borders that are not within incorporated cities, as well as providing local-level courts.
		Klamath County was created in 1851 from the northern half of Trinity County, but in 1874 it was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties.
		Pautah County was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.
	www.jimbones.com /mod3.php?title=List_of_counties_in_California (1055 words)

	Who Was Who in Name Study
		In 1951, she was present in Chicago at the organizing of the American Name Society and served on its Board of Managers from 1952 to 1956, regretfully refusing the nomination as president in 1956.
		He was convinced that a comprehensive study of family names, including their linguistic and geographical origins, and evidence of both their early and contemporary distribution in Newfoundland, was a fundamental exercise in deepening knowledge of Newfoundland place names.
		He was the guiding light in the creation of the American Name Society in 1951, arranged its first meeting on December 29 of that year, wrote the Society’s constitution and bylaws, and served as its first president from 1951 to 1954 (and again in 1970).
	www.wtsn.binghamton.edu /onoma/Default.htm (14251 words)

	Family Search Lab
		The registers list the name of the infant and parents, legitimacy status, names of godparents and witnesses, place of residence, christening date, the street address in large cities, child's birth date, and the father's occupation, and stillbirths.
		Registers list names of infant and parents, legitimacy status, names of witnesses and godparents, christening date, sometimes birth date, father's occupation, family's place of residence, and street address in large cities.
		Registers list marriage date, names of the bride and groom, whether single or widowed, witnesses, sometimes ages of the bride and groom, residences, occupations, parents' names, birthplaces, and often the closest living relative who gave permission for the bride to marry.
	w3.lib.byu.edu /fslab/descriptions.html (13464 words)

	U.S. state information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan and others.
		Maine is also named after a historical region in France of the same name.
		The origins of the names of Oregon and Rhode Island are unknown, although various theories exist.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/U.S._state (2704 words)

	U.S. state
		Many later states reflect the names of indigenous Indian tribes: Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Mississippi, and more; half the state-names have such origins, not counting Hawaii.
		Many states in the southeast and southwest have Spanish names since Spain or Mexico controlled these territories at some stage: California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Texas, and perhaps Arizona, as well as, of course, New Mexico.
		List of state capitals and former capital cities in the United States
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/u/u_/u_s__state.html (754 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The name "New York" can refer to any one of three geographical levels: a state, a city in that state, or a
		Only two states have state capitals named for the state (however, such name-sharing occurs commonly with states and provinces in some other countries, where the state or province actually often takes its name from a capital city): Oklahoma, with capital
		List of U.S. states that were never territories
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/U.S._state.html (935 words)

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		List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS (en)
		List of Ministers of Defense of Denmark (en)
		List of ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany (en)
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	Texas - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Texas does not have townships—areas within a county are either incorporated or unincorporated.
		A long list of cities within Texas, as well as international destinations are served directly from this airport.
		Although located in the middle of the service areas of DART, the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, and the Trinity Railway Express that connects the two, the city of Arlington remains the largest city in the United States that is not served by a public transportation system.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Texas (6537 words)

	Washington
		The state is named after George Washington, the first President of the United States.
		Captain Robert Gray (for whom Grays Harbor county is named) then discovered the mouth of the Columbia River.
		According to the U.S. Census as of 2005, Washington has an estimated population of 6,287,759, which is an increase of 80,713, or 1.3%, from the prior year and an increase of 393,619, or 6.7%, since the year 2000.
	www.photonicsknowledge.com /opticaldevices/Washington (3638 words)

	By Subject - Humanities - Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It will record all known Australian names, documenting their pronunciation, generic class, status (gazetted, obsolete, non-gazetted, sensitive, disputed etc.), origin, meaning, history, cultural significance (of both name and site), and map reference and location.
		The general aim of the database is to record any place name that is, or has been used, in South Australia.
		Associated with each name are up to 38 fields of information relating to feature type, classification, location, derivation, and cross-references to current, previous, and alternative names
	www.lib.washington.edu /Subject/Humanities/dr/eldic.html (1370 words)

	ABCgenealogy: Regional/United_States
		List of extinct U.S. counties - This is a list of U.S. counties that were established by a state, provincial, colonial, or territorial government, which no longer exist, for one reason or another.
		Lists of U.S. county name etymologies - Alphabetically and by State.
		The purpose of this site and mail list is for the submission of newspaper abstracts (or links to other sites with newspaper abstracts) from United States newspapers published prior to 1923.
	www.abcgenealogy.com /Regional/United_States/more3.html (848 words)

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		Towards this end I have developed a website to demonstrate some of the applications which may be developed using simple tools such as the synchronization of sound and text files, and have been giving workshops to groups of language instructors at Harvard.
		Before this I taught classical and biblical Greek at various universities and institutions (I was previously a member of the list teaching at the U of Calif., Riverside).
		Along with any other effect you can name, I am interested in the changes of pedagogy, student/teacher relationship, and type and length of writing that comes from teaching in a computerized environment.
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		For example, you may remember that an article was mentioned sometime in the last few months, but can't remember anything about it except the author's name, or one or two words in the title.
		Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of 3 referees, and one representative publication, to: University of California, San Diego Search Committee Department of Linguistics, 0108 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1991.
		Letters of application, curriculum vitae, the names, addresses and phone/FAX numbers of three referees, together with a statement of research interests, and one published article (if available) should be sent to: Dr. Victor Froese, Head, Department of Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.751-800 (14991 words)

	TEXAS : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Texas has over 1,000 school districts—all but one of the school districts in Texas are separate from any form of municipal government.
		School districts may (and often do) cross city and county boundaries—an exception to this rule is Stafford Municipal School District.
		School districts have the power to tax their residents and to use eminent domain.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Texas (7247 words)

	Washington information - Search.com
		Wahkiakum County has many residents of Scandinavian origin.
		Previous ships had held that name in honor of George Washington.
		For more details on this topic, see List of Washington state symbols.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Washington (2804 words)

	ABCgenealogy: What's New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Some place-names in south Wales and their etymologies
		NZ-CIG Mailing List at RootsWeb - A mailing list for the members of the Cornish Interest Group of New Zealand to be advised of the activities of the Group and to recieve help and advice from time to time.
		Additional information can be found on the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Cornish Interest Group website.
	www.abcgenealogy.com /New/25-May-2006.html (297 words)

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