| Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham (, ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. It also includes part of Shelby County. The population of the city was 229,800 according to the 2007 estimate. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, as of the 2008 census estimates, has a population of 1,117,608. Birmingham,_Alabama
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| Coral reef Coral reefs are aragonite structures produced by living organisms, found in marine waters with little to no nutrients in the water. In most reefs, the predominant organisms are stony corals, colonial cnidarians that secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate. The accumulation of skeletal material, broken and piled up by wave action and bioeroders, produces a massive calcareous formation that supports the living corals and a great variety of other animal and plant life. Coral_reef
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| Juneau, Alaska The City and Borough of Juneau () is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-Alaska Territory was moved from Sitka. The municipality unified in 1970 when the City of Juneau merged with the City of Douglas and the surrounding borough to form the current home rule municipality. Juneau,_Alaska
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| Terminator (solar) The terminator or twilight zone is a fictive line that delimits the illuminated Terminator_(solar)
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| Skywarn SKYWARN is a program of the United States' National Weather Service (NWS). Its mission is to collect reports of localized severe weather. These reports are used to aid forecasters in issuing and verifying severe weather watches and warnings and to improve the forecasting and warning processes and the tools used to collect meteorological data. Skywarn
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| WikiProject Cities Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Cities
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| Axial tilt astronomy, axial tilt is the inclination angle of a planet's rotational axis in relation to its orbital plane. It is also called axial inclination or obliquity. The axial tilt is expressed as the angle made by the planet's axis and a line drawn through the planet's center perpendicular to the orbital plane. Axial_tilt
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| Virginia Beach Virginia Beach () is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. It is the most populous city in Virginia and the 41st largest city in the United States, with an estimated population of 440,415 in 2008. Virginia_Beach
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| Portsmouth, Virginia Portsmouth is an independent city located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 100,565, but a 2006 Census estimate showed the city's population had increased to 101,377.The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U.S. Navy facility which is actually located in Portsmouth, despite its name. The shipyard builds, remodels, and repairs the Navy's ships of all types. Portsmouth,_Virginia
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| Poquoson, Virginia Poquoson () is an independent city located on the Virginia Peninsula, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. As of 2007, the city population was 11,858, and the median household income was $78,191, the second highest in all of Hampton Roads. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Poquoson with surrounding York county for statistical purposes. Poquoson,_Virginia
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| Newport News, Virginia Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads.The area known as Newport News was part of Warwick County, one of the eight original shires of Virginia formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. Newport_News,_Virginia
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| Nelson County, Virginia Nelson_County,_Virginia
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| Hampton, Virginia Hampton is an independent city in Virginia, and therefore not part of any Virginia county. One of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads, it is on the southeast end of the Virginia Peninsula, bordering on Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. Virginia, the most populous settlement with the name, and one of the oldest cities in the United States. Hampton,_Virginia
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| Franklin, Virginia Franklin is an independent city in Virginia. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Franklin with Southampton county for statistical purposes. The population was 8,346 at the 2000 census. Franklin,_Virginia
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| Chesapeake, Virginia Chesapeake is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads portion of the Hampton Roads region of eastern Virginia in the United States. One of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads, Chesapeake was formed in 1963 by a political consolidation of the City of South Norfolk with the former Norfolk County, which dated to 1691.Chesapeake is a diverse city with urban areas as well as many square miles of protected forests and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp. Chesapeake,_Virginia
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| Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Lehigh_County,_Pennsylvania
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| Chumash people The "Chumash" are Native American people who historically inhabit chiefly central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south. They also occupied three of the Channel Islands: Chumash_people
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| Tampa, Florida Tampa () is a United States city in Hillsborough County, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. The population of Tampa in 2000 was 303,447. According to the 2007 estimates, the city has a population of 382,060, making it the 54th largest city in the United States.Tampa is a part of the metropolitan area most commonly referred to as the "Tampa Bay Area". Tampa,_Florida
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| Long Beach, California Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles. Long Beach borders Orange County on its southeast edge. Long Beach is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the fifth-largest in California. As of 2008, its estimated population was 492,682. In addition, Long Beach is its county's 2nd largest city after Los Angeles, and also the largest city nationwide that is not a county seat. Long_Beach,_California
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| Boulder, Colorado Boulder,_Colorado
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| St. Louis County, Missouri St. Louis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. According to the 2000 census, the population was 1,016,315, making the county the most populous in the state of Missouri. Its county seat is Clayton. St. Louis County is part of the sprawling St. St._Louis_County,_Missouri
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| Michigan/Archive 1 Talk:Michigan/Archive_1
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| Alpena County, Michigan Alpena County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 31,314. The county seat is Alpena. It is considered to be part of Northern Michigan.It was founded originally in 1840 as Anomickee County. In 1843, the name was changed to Alpena, a pseudo-Native American word — a neologism coined by Henry Schoolcraft, meaning something like "a good partridge country." This was part of a much larger effort to rename a great many of the Michigan counties at the time. Alpena_County,_Michigan
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| London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton () is a London borough in South London, England and forms part of Outer London. It covers an area of and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It is one of the southernmost boroughs of London. It is south of the London Borough of Merton, west of the London Borough of Croydon and east of the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. London_Borough_of_Sutton
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| Rain gauge rain gauge (also known as a udometer or a pluviometer Pluviograph ]cup) is a type of instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation (as opposed to solid precipitation that is measured by a snow gauge) over a set period of time. Rain_gauge
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| Arlington, Texas Arlington,_Texas
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| Gibson County, Indiana Gibson County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2000, the population was 32,500. The 2005 Annual update puts it at 36,908. Gibson County's Alphanumeric County Number is 26. The county seat is Princeton. Gibson_County,_Indiana
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| Rabun County, Georgia Rabun County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 15,050. The 2007 Census Estimate shows a population of 16,519. The county seat is Clayton, Georgia.With an average annual rainfall of over , Rabun County has the title of the rainiest county in Georgia and one of the rainiest counties east of the Mississippi River. Rabun_County,_Georgia
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| Saint Charles, Missouri St. Charles (; Spanish:St. Charles County, Missouri. It lies just to the northwest of St. Louis, Missouri, on the Missouri River, and played for a time a significant role in the United States' westward expansion. It is the second oldest city west of the Mississippi, founded in 1765 as Les Petites Côtes, "The Little Hills", by Louis Blanchette, a French Canadian fur trader, and was the last "civilized" stop for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Saint_Charles,_Missouri
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| Port A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually found at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake. Ports often have cargo-handling equipment such as cranes (operated by longshoremen) and forklifts for use in loading/unloading of ships, which may be provided by private interests or public bodies. Port
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| John F. Kennedy International Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport is an international airport located in Queens County, New York in southeastern New York City about 12 miles (19Lower Manhattan. It is the top international air passenger gateway to the United States and is also the leading freight gateway to the country by value of shipments. John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport
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| Clark County, Arkansas Clark_County,_Arkansas
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| Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Plaquemines Parish (Cajun French:Paroisse Plaquemine) is the parish with the most combined land and water area in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Pointe à la Hache. As of 2000, the parish's population was 26,757.The name is . Plaquemines_Parish,_Louisiana
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| Monterey Bay Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean, along the central coast of California. The bay is south of San Francisco, between the cities of Santa Cruz and Monterey. The Monterey Bay Area, or sometimes just The Bay Area, are local colloquialisms sometimes used to describe the whole of the coastal communities of Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. Monterey_Bay
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| Hurricane Lili Hurricane Lili was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season for the United States. Lili was the twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm developed from a tropical disturbance in the open Atlantic on September 21. Hurricane_Lili
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| List of tropical cyclones This is a list of notable tropical cyclones, subdivided by basin and reason for notability. List_of_tropical_cyclones
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| Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester () is a city in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America. A 2006 estimate put the population at 175,898, making it the estimated second-largest city in New England by population, after Boston. It is the county seat of Worcester County. Worcester,_Massachusetts
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| Mexico City International Airport Mexico City International Airport (), also called "Benito Juárez International Airport"Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. It is Mexico's and Latin America's busiest. Although this was not its official name for several decades, it was formally named after the 19th century president Benito Juárez in 2006, and is Mexico's main international and domestic gateway. Mexico_City_International_Airport
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| Subtropical cyclone subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of a tropical and an extratropical cyclone. As early as the 1950s, meteorologists were unclear whether they should be characterized as tropical or extratropical cyclones. They were officially recognized by the National Hurricane Center in 1972. Subtropical cyclones began to receive names off the official tropical cyclone lists in the Atlantic Basin and the southwest Indian ocean. Subtropical_cyclone
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| Barajas Airport Barajas_Airport
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| Orlando, Florida Orlando is a major city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, located in Central Florida. The city was reportedly named after Orlando Reeves, a soldier who died in the area in 1867. It was incorporated on July 31, 1875, and as a city in 1885. Orlando,_Florida
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| Carbondale, Illinois Carbondale, "The Capital of Southern Illinois tm," is a city in Southern Illinois in the midwest United States. It is located on Illinois Route 13 and US Highway 51, miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Nesteled on the northern end of the Shawnee National Forest, Carbondale is the home of Southern Illinois University. Carbondale,_Illinois
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| Wetland This article contains general information pertaining to all wetlands. For more details, see the specific wetland types, such as bog, marsh, and swamp. For Charlotte Roche's novel see Feuchtgebiete.A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish. Wetland
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| Coraopolis, Pennsylvania Coraopolis is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 6,131 at the 2000 census. In 1940 the population peaked at 11,086. It is a small town located to the west of Pittsburgh, along the Ohio River. The town is noted for its steep topography, numerous brick streets and many large, old and exquisite homes. The American Bridge Company is headquartered in Coraopolis. Coraopolis,_Pennsylvania
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| Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. It was named in honor of WWI aviator and test pilot Lt Col Frederick Irving Eglin. Since its founding in 1933 Eglin has evolved from a remote bombing and gunnery range in the 1930s (although very little actual bombing was done at the outset) into the military's primary non-nuclear test facility, it now supports a wide variety of multi-service test missions as well as providing a home for many special operations functions. Eglin_Air_Force_Base
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| Minneapolis – Saint Paul Minneapolis_–_Saint_Paul
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| Distress radiobeacon Distress radio beacons, also known as emergency beacons, are tracking transmitters which aid in the detection and location of boats, aircraft, and people in distress. Strictly, they are radiobeacons that interface with Cospas-Sarsat, the international satellite system for search and rescue (SAR). Distress_radiobeacon
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| Concord, Alabama Concord is a census-designated place in Birmingham, Alabama, United States northwest of Hueytown. At the 2000 census the population was 1,809. This area was damaged by an F5 tornado on April 8,1998. Concord,_Alabama
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