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  2. Reno, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Reno (/ ˈriːnoʊ / REE-noh) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, it is about 23 miles (37 km ...

  3. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    1. Crazy party [8] 2. Leave [8] 3. Big wad in nightclubs; spend one's money excessively or irresponsibly [42] 4. Cocaine [42] blow someone down Kill or murder someone; blow someone away [43] Wooden wall telephone with a hand-cranked magneto generator blower. Main article: Telephone. Telephone [31] blue serge Sweetheart [8] bluenose

  4. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Wikipedia

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    Date. June 25–26, 1876. Location. Near Little Bighorn River, Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana, U.S. 45°33′54″N 107°25′44″W  /  45.56500°N 107.42889°W  / 45.56500; -107.42889  (The Battle of Little BigHorn) Result. Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho victory. Belligerents.

  5. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century. Taking place in the town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory ...

  6. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A township in Granville County, North Carolina. A locality within Burwood East, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The capital city of Tank District, Pakistan, and located near Dera Ismail Khan. Apparently this place loves tanks. A town in Estonia. "Tapa" means "kill" in Estonian. A river in North Carolina.

  7. Manchester City F.C. - Wikipedia

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    Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester ...

  8. Frozen (2013 film) - Wikipedia

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    Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. [8] Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen", [1] it was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (in her feature directorial debut) and produced by Peter Del Vecho, from a screenplay by Lee, who also conceived the film's story ...

  9. Big Ten Conference - Wikipedia

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    The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives in 1896, it predates the founding of its regulating organization, the NCAA.