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  Sunderland information - Search.com
Sunderland is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
Sunderland forms part of the larger City of Sunderland which also includes the neighbouring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring and is the largest city, by measures of population and area, between Leeds and Edinburgh.
The urban area of Sunderland was recorded in the 2001 census as 177,739, whilst the population of the larger City of Sunderland was 282,700.
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  Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sunderland is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
Sunderland forms part of the larger City of Sunderland which also includes the neighbouring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring and is the largest city, by measures of population and area, between Leeds and Edinburgh.
The urban area of Sunderland was recorded in the 2001 census as 177,739, whilst the population of the larger City of Sunderland was 282,700.
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 City of Sunderland information - Search.com
The City of Sunderland is in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
In particular, the east and south east – the old parish of Sunderland and the mining village of Ryhope – had lost population to the "New Town" of Washington.
Further Education (FE) is provided by the City of Sunderland College, which has campuses around the city, as well as three Catholic Sixth Form Colleges: St Robert of Newminster in Washington for boys and girls, and St Anthony's for girls and St Aidan's for boys, both in Sunderland.
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 City of Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The City of Sunderland is in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
As a metropolitan authority, Sunderland retained responsibility for waste collection, although disposal of the garbage was a county function, and for education.
Further Education (FE) is provided by the City of Sunderland College, which has campuses around the city, as well as three Catholic Sixth Form Colleges: St Robert of Newminster in Washington for boys and girls, and St Anthony's for girls and St Aidan's for boys, both in Sunderland.
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 South Sea Bubble - LoveToKnow 1911
The chief persons implicated were John Aislabie (1670-1742), chancellor of the exchequer; James Craggs, joint postmaster-general; his son James Craggs, secretary of state; and to a lesser degree the earl of Sunderland and Charles Stanhope, a commissioner of the treasury.
Both the elder and the younger Craggs died in March, while owing to the efforts of Walpole both Sunderland and Stanhope were acquitted, the latter by the narrow majority of three.
By act of parliament the estates of the directors were confiscated; these were valued at £2,014,123, of which £354,600 was returned to them for their maintenance, the balance being devoted to the relief of the sufferers.
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 Sunderland - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sunderland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sunderland was granted city status by Royal Charter in 1992.
Churches were first built at Monkwearmouth on the north bank of the Wear in 674 and at Sunderland on the south bank later in the 7th century.
Sunderland developed as a port during the Middle Ages, with a charter dating from 1154.
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 Sunderland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It has been in the Roman Catholic diocese of Hexham and Newcastle since the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Located at the mouth of the River Wear, the name "Sunderland" is reputed to come from Soender-land: the land divided by the river.
The Port of Sunderland was significantly expanded in the 1850s with the construction of Hudson Dock to designs by River Wear Commissioner's Engineer John Murray, with consultancy by Robert Stephenson [1].One famous vessel was the ‘wonderful’ Torrens, the clipper in which Joseph Conrad sailed, and on which he began his first novel.
She was built in ten months by James Laing at their Deptford yard on the Wear in 1875.Between 1939 and 1945 the Wear yards launched 245 merchant ships totalling 1.5 million tons, a quarter of the merchant tonnage produced in the UK at this period.
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 Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1719 the separate parish of Sunderland was carved from the densely populated east end of Bishopwearmouth by the establishment of Holy Trinity, Sunderland parish church.
Sunderland was put under quarantine, and the port was blockaded, but in December of that year the disease spread to Gateshead and from there, it rapidly spread across the country killing an estimated 32,000 people.
Sunderland is one of the most deprived cities in the North of England, with 11 of the 24 wards featuring in the list of the 2000 most deprived wards in England.
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 Sunderland - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
Sunderland (pronounced: /'sund?l?nd/, /'s?nd?l?nd/ or /'sun(d)l?n/) is a city in Tyne and Wear, England.
According to census statistics, 81.5% of Sunderland residents class themselves as Christian, 9.6% are irreligious, 0.7% are Muslim and 7.6% did not wish to give their religion.
Sunderland station was opened in November 1965 to facilitate football teams and officials from countries who were drawn to play at Roker Park during England's hosting of the 1966 World Cup.
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 Science Fair Projects - Sunderland
In 1712 the separate parish of Sunderland was carved from the densely populated east end of Bishopwearmouth, to serve the port.
Local government was in the hands of the three churches, and when cholera broke out in 1830 the "select vestrymen" as the church councilmen were called showed themselves completely unable to understand and cope with the epidemic.
Sunderland Museum, on Borough Road, was established in 1852, the first municipally funded Museum in the country outside of London.
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 County Durham
County Durham is a county in north-east England, with an area of 223,260 hectares (about 558,000 acres or 870 square miles) and an estimated population (November 2002) of 486,000.
It borders onto Sunderland[?] and Gateshead[?] in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Darlington, and Stockton on Tees[?] and Hartlepool[?] in the former county of Cleveland.
The east of the county between Ryhope[?], Sunderland[?] and Seaton Carew[?], Hartlepool[?] is the coastline of the North Sea.
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 Sunderland (disambiguation) - InformationBlast
Sunderland, which was a part of the traditional county of Durham
Originally formed when several areas were amalgamated into a district of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in 1974.
Sunderland is also the name of several municipalities in the United States, including Sunderland, Massachusetts.
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 Philadelphia (disambiguation) - Biocrawler
Philadelphia, a village north of Houghton-le-Spring, City of Sunderland
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Roget's Thesaurus Bibliography
Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computing, Engineering and Technology, University of Sunderland, England.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Word Sense Disambiguation: The State of the Art.
"Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Models of Roget's Categories Trained on Large Corpora" Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-92).
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 SUNDERLAND - OneLook Dictionary Search
Sunderland : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Sunderland : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
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 Sunderland - DC Database - a Wikia wiki
Sunderland - DC Database - a Wikia wiki
It serves to clarify the difference between several closely named or closely related articles.
I thought you'd like this page from Wikia!
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 Bryan Talbot on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
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A: We're working on a solution, but if you want you can post a brief disambiguation notice.
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