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A&E (TV channel)
A&E is an American digital cable and satellite television television channel.
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ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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Advance Publications
Advance Publications, Inc. is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr.
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Air Canada
Air Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada by fleet size and passengers carried.
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Air conditioning
Air conditioning (often referred to as AC, A/C, or air con) is the process of removing heat and moisture from the interior of an occupied space, to improve the comfort of occupants.
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Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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Airplane
An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.
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Akron, Ohio
Akron is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County.
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Albany, New York
Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.
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All-way stop
An all-way stop (or four-way stop when there are four approaches to the intersection) is an intersection system used predominantly in the United States of America, SADC, Liberia and Canada where traffic approaching it from all directions is required to stop before proceeding through the intersection.
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Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, describes the use of radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication.
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Amateur Radio Emergency Service
In the United States and Canada, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is a corps of trained amateur radio operator volunteers organized to assist in public service and emergency communications.
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Amateur radio operator
An amateur radio operator is someone who uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other amateur operators on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service.
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Ambassador Bridge
The Ambassador Bridge (Pont Ambassadeur) is a suspension bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, United States, with Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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American Electric Power
American Electric Power (AEP) is a major investor-owned electric utility in the United States of America, delivering electricity to more than five million customers in 11 states.
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American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies.
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Amherst, New York
Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.
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Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.
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Application server
An application server is a software framework that provides both facilities to create web applications and a server environment to run them.
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Ashland, Ohio
Ashland is a city in and the county seat of Ashland County, Ohio, United States.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Attawapiskat First Nation
The Attawapiskat First Nation (Cree: ᐋᐦᑕᐙᐱᐢᑲᑐᐎ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ, "People of the parting of the rocks"; unpointed: ᐊᑕᐗᐱᐢᑲᑐᐎ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ) is an isolated First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the Attawapiskat River on James Bay.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Bay City, Michigan
Bay City is a city in Bay County, Michigan, located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron.
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Belleville, Michigan
Belleville is a town in Wayne County in the State of Michigan.
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Belleville, Ontario
Belleville (Canada 2016 Census population 50,716; census agglomeration population 103,472) is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern (Central) Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor.
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Bergen County, New Jersey
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Bill Richardson
William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011.
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Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States.
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Boil-water advisory
A boil-water advisory or boil-water order is a public health advisory or directive given by government or health authorities to consumers when a community's drinking water is, or could be, contaminated by pathogens.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Ohio, United States, located 20 miles southwest of Toledo.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Brighton, Michigan
Brighton is a suburb in metro Detroit located in the southeast portion of Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Brittle Power
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security is a 1982 book by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, prepared originally as a Pentagon study and re-released in 2001 following the September 11 attacks.
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Brownout (electricity)
A brownout is an intentional or unintentional drop in voltage in an electrical power supply system.
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Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power station located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Burlington, Ontario
Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton at the northwestern end of Lake Ontario.
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Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.
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Cambridge, Ontario
Cambridge (2016 population 129,920) is a city located in Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.
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Canadian National Exhibition
The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), also known as The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the 18 days leading up to and including Canadian Labour Day, the first Monday in September.
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Candle
A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.
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Capital District, New York
The Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, refers to the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, the capital of the U.S. state of New York.
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Carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly less dense than air.
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Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in too much carbon monoxide (CO).
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Cascading failure
A cascading failure is a process in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of one or few parts can trigger the failure of other parts and so on.
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Cataraqui River
The Cataraqui River forms the lower portion of the Rideau Canal and drains into Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario.
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Cedar Point
Cedar Point is a amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Cellular network
A cellular network or mobile network is a communication network where the last link is wireless.
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Central Michigan
Mid Michigan, occasionally called Central Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Circuit breaker
A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit.
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City Parks Foundation
City Parks Foundation is dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building and education programs for all New Yorkers.
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Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.
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Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is a public airport located in Cleveland, Ohio, southwest of the downtown area and adjacent to the Glenn Research Center, one of NASA's ten major field centers.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.
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Cochrane, Ontario
Cochrane (/'kɒkrɨn/) is a town in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Edison, Inc., commonly known as Con Edison or Con Ed, is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States, with approximately $13 billion in annual revenues as of 2016, and over $47 billion in assets.
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Consumers Energy
Consumers Energy is a public utility that provides natural gas and electricity to 6.6 million of Michigan's 10 million residents.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.
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Cornwall, Ontario
Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
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Critical infrastructure protection
Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or nation.
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Cross Sound Cable
The Cross-Sound Cable is a long bipolar high-voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine power cable between New Haven, Connecticut, USA and Shoreham, Long Island New York, USA.
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Cumberland County, New Jersey
Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Curfew
A curfew is an order specifying a time during which certain regulations apply.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York metropolitan area.
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Deregulation
Deregulation is the process of removing or reducing state regulations, typically in the economic sphere.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.
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Detroit–Windsor Tunnel
The Detroit–Windsor Tunnel (French: Tunnel Detroit-Windsor), also known as the Detroit-Canada Tunnel, is a highway tunnel connecting Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada.
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Dial-up Internet access
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.
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Downriver
Downriver is the unofficial name for a collection of 18 suburban cities and townships in Wayne County, Michigan south of Detroit along the western shore of the Detroit River.
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Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the city centre and main central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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DTE Electric Company
DTE Electric Company (formerly The Detroit Edison Company), founded in 1903, is an investor-owned electric utility which serves most of Southeast Michigan.
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East China Township, Michigan
East China Township is a charter township of St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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East Orange, New Jersey
East Orange is a city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.
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Eastlake, Ohio
Eastlake is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.
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Eastman Business Park
Eastman Business Park, formerly Kodak Park, is a large manufacturing and industrial complex in the city of Rochester, New York, in the United States.
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Electric arc
An electric arc, or arc discharge, is an electrical breakdown of a gas that produces an ongoing electrical discharge.
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
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Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit.
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Electric power transmission
Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.
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Electrical grid
An electrical grid is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers.
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Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an electrical conductor is a measure of the difficulty to pass an electric current through that conductor.
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Electricity market
In economic terms, electricity (both power and energy) is a commodity capable of being bought, sold, and traded.
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Emergency power system
An emergency power system is an independent source of electrical power that supports important electrical systems on loss of normal power supply.
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Emergency telephone number
In many countries the public switched telephone network has a single emergency telephone number (sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or the emergency services number) that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance.
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Energy conservation
Energy conservation is the effort made to reduce the consumption of energy by using less of an energy service.
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Energy management system
An energy management system (EMS) is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric utility grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the generation and/or transmission system.
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Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a bill passed by the United States Congress on July 29, 2005, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie is a city in and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Ernie Eves
Ernest Larry Eves, (born June 17, 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 23rd Premier of Ontario from 2002 to 2003.
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Essex County, New Jersey
Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Fairfield County, Connecticut
Fairfield County is the most populous and the most affluent county in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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FirstEnergy
FirstEnergy Corp is an electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio.
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Flint, Michigan
Flint is the largest city and county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine.
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Fort Erie, Ontario
Fort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.
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Fred Upton
Frederick Stephen Upton (born April 23, 1953) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1987.
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Freeport, New York
Freeport (officially The Incorporated Village of Freeport) is a village in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, US, on the South Shore of Long Island.
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Freight transport
Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.
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Gannett Company
Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.
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Gas flare
A gas flare, alternatively known as a flare stack, is a gas combustion device used in industrial plants such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants, natural gas processing plants as well as at oil or gas production sites having oil wells, gas wells, offshore oil and gas rigs and landfills.
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Gatineau
Gatineau (locally), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York (1995–2006).
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Golden Horseshoe
The Golden Horseshoe is a secondary region of Southern Ontario, Canada which lies at the western end of Lake Ontario, with outer boundaries stretching south from Lake Erie and north to Lake Scugog.
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Governor of New York
The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the U.S. state of New York.
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Grand Ledge, Michigan
Grand Ledge is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan, and the largest city in West Michigan.
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Greater Cleveland
The Cleveland metropolitan area, or Greater Cleveland as it is more commonly known, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio, United States.
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Greater Sudbury
Greater Sudbury, commonly referred to as Sudbury, is a city in Ontario, Canada.
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Greater Toronto Area
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Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Gridlock
Gridlock is a form of traffic congestion where "continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill".
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Guelph
Guelph (Canada 2016 Census population 131,794) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Harper Woods, Michigan
Harper Woods is a U.S. suburban city located on the eastern border of Detroit, Michigan.
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Hartford County, Connecticut
Hartford County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..
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Headquarters of the United Nations
The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz.
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Heat stroke
Heat stroke, also known as sun stroke, is a type of severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than and confusion.
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Heat wave
A heat wave is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries.
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Herb Dhaliwal
Harbance Singh (Herb) Dhaliwal, (born December 12, 1952) is a Canadian politician and businessman.
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High-intensity discharge lamp
High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube.
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High-voltage direct current
A high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) electric power transmission system (also called a power superhighway or an electrical superhighway) uses direct current for the bulk transmission of electrical power, in contrast with the more common alternating current (AC) systems.
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HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.
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Holland, Michigan
Holland is a city in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Holly, Michigan
Holly is a village in north Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Homeland security
Homeland security is an American umbrella term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive to the national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and minimize the damage from attacks that do occur".
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Howell, Michigan
Howell is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Hudson County, New Jersey
Hudson County, a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609.
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Hudson River
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.
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Humidity
Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Indian Point Energy Center
Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York, just south of Peekskill.
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Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls are a Grammy Award–winning folk rock music American duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Interstate 75 in Michigan
Interstate 75 (I-75) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Miami, Florida, to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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Interstate 91
Interstate 91 (I-91) is an Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States.
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James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
The James A. FitzPatrick (JAF) Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Town of Scriba, near Oswego, New York, on the southeast shore of Lake Ontario.
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James Bay
James Bay (Baie James, Wînipekw) is a large body of water on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada.
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Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934), known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.
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John McCallum
John McCallum (born April 9, 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, university professor and diplomat.
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Just-in-time manufacturing
Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing, also known as just-in-time production or the Toyota Production System (TPS), is a methodology aimed primarily at reducing flow times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers.
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Kanata, Ontario
Kanata is one of the largest suburbs of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.
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Kirkland Lake
Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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Kitchener, Ontario
The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada.
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Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.
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Lake Superior
Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur; ᑭᑦᒉᐁ-ᑲᒣᐁ, Gitchi-Gami) is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America.
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Lambton County
Lambton County is a county in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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Lansing Board of Water & Light
The Lansing Board of Water and Light is a publicly owned, municipal utility that provides electricity and water to the residents of the cities of Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan, and the surrounding townships of Delta, Delhi, Meridian and DeWitt.
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Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Lapeer, Michigan
Lapeer is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Lapeer County.
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Laptop
A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.
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Latham, New York
Latham is a hamlet in Albany County, New York, United States.
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Light pollution
Light pollution, also known as photopollution, is the presence of anthropogenic light in the night environment.
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Lightning
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.
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List of major power outages
This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages.
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Litchfield County, Connecticut
Litchfield County is a county located in northwestern Connecticut in the New York metropolitan area.
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London, Ontario
London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.
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Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road, legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in the City of New York, which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point which now constitutes the present-day Financial District.
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M-15 (Michigan highway)
M-15 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan.
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M-24 (Michigan highway)
M-24 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan that extends through Southeast Michigan and The Thumb, from northeast Auburn Hills to Unionville.
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Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan and is part of metro Detroit.
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Magnum XL-200
Magnum XL-200, colloquially known as simply Magnum, is a steel roller coaster built by Arrow Dynamics at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.
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Maid of the Mist
The Maid of the Mist is a boat tour of Niagara Falls, starting and ending on the American side, crossing briefly into Ontario during a portion of the trip.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.
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Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio, United States.
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Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil Corporation is an American petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company headquartered in the Marathon Oil Tower in Houston, Texas.
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Marathon, Ontario
Marathon is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Thunder Bay District, on the north shore of Lake Superior north of Pukaskwa National Park, in the heart of the Canadian Shield.
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Marion, Ohio
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Ohio, United States.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Massillon, Ohio
Massillon is a city in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio, approximately west of Canton, south of Akron, and south of Cleveland.
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Melvindale, Michigan
Melvindale is a city in Wayne County of the U.S. state of Michigan and a Downriver suburb of Detroit.
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Metro Detroit
The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in the U. S. State of Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area.
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Metro-North Railroad
The Metro-North Commuter Railroad, trading as MTA Metro-North Railroad or simply Metro-North, is a suburban commuter rail service run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public authority of the U.S. state of New York.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U.S. state of New York, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born on February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, engineer, author, politician, and philanthropist.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Michigander
Michigander and Michiganian are unofficial demonyms for residents of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Mid-Atlantic (United States)
The Mid-Atlantic, also called Middle Atlantic states or the Mid-Atlantic states, form a region of the United States generally located between New England and the South Atlantic States.
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Midcontinent Independent System Operator
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc., formerly named Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.
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Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan, or Midtown, represents the central lengthwise portion of the borough and island of Manhattan in New York City.
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Midway International Airport
Chicago Midway International Airport is a major commercial airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, located eight miles (13 km) from the Loop.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
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Mississauga
Mississauga Also pronounced: Dictionary Reference:, The Free Dictionary: is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Mobile phone
A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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Moosonee
Moosonee (/ˌmusə'niː/) is a town in northern Ontario, Canada, on the Moose River approximately south of James Bay.
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Morris & Essex Lines
The Morris & Essex Lines are a group of former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad railroad lines in New Jersey now owned and operated by New Jersey Transit.
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Morris County, New Jersey
Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.
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Muskegon, Michigan
Muskegon is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is the largest populated city on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan.
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National Capital Region (Canada)
The National Capital Region (Région de la capitale nationale), also referred to as Canada's Capital Region and Ottawa–Gatineau (formerly Ottawa–Hull), is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec, and surrounding urban and rural communities.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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New Haven County, Connecticut
New Haven County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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New Jersey Turnpike
The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP), known colloquially as "the Turnpike", is a toll road in New Jersey, maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.
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New London County, Connecticut
New London County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City blackout of 1977
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977.
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New York City Fire Department
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is a department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services to the five boroughs of New York City.
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New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
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New York energy law
New York energy law is the statutory, regulatory, and common law of the state of New York concerning the policy, conservation, taxation, and utilities involved in energy.
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New York Mets
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Newark Broad Street station
Newark Broad Street is a NJ Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.
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Newburgh, New York
Newburgh is a city located in Orange County, New York, United States, north of New York City, and south of Albany, on the Hudson River.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the American state of New York.
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Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls is a city in Ontario, Canada.
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Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation is a New York State utility company, which was acquired in 2000 by National Grid plc.
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Niagara Peninsula
The Niagara Peninsula is the portion of Golden Horseshoe, Southern Ontario, Canada, lying between the southwestern shore of Lake Ontario and the northeastern shore of Lake Erie.
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Niagara River
The Niagara River is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
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Nickel Centre
Nickel Centre (1996 census population 13,017) was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000.
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children.
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Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station
Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant with two nuclear reactors located in the town of Scriba, approximately five miles northeast of Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario.
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NJ Transit
New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit (NJT; stylized as NJ TRANSIT), is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the US state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania.
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North American Electric Reliability Corporation
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, Georgia, and formed on March 28, 2006, as the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council (also known as NERC).
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North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
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North Jersey Coast Line
The North Jersey Coast Line is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail service running from New York City or Hoboken to Bay Head, New Jersey.
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North Shore Towers
The North Shore Towers and Country Club is a three-building residential cooperative located in the Glen Oaks neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near the city's border with Nassau County.
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North York
North York is an administrative area and former city in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Northeast blackout of 1965
The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont in the United States.
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Northeast Corridor
The Northeast Corridor (NEC) is an electrified railroad line in the Northeast megalopolis of the United States.
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Northeast Corridor Line
The Northeast Corridor Line is a commuter rail line operated by New Jersey Transit along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in the United States.
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the American Northeast or simply the Northeast, is a geographical region of the United States bordered to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Southern United States, and to the west by the Midwestern United States.
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Northern Ontario
Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario; the other primary region being Southern Ontario.
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Northwestern Ontario
Northwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.
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NYC Emergency Management
The NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM) (formerly New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM)) was originally formed in 1996 as part of the Mayor's Office under Rudolph W. Giuliani.
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NYSE American
NYSE American, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), and more recently as NYSE MKT, is an American stock exchange situated in New York City, New York.
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Oak Hill Country Club
Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford, New York, a suburb southeast of Rochester, has a rich history of golf.
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Oakville, Ontario
Oakville is a suburban town in southern Ontario, located in Halton Region on Lake Ontario halfway between Toronto and Hamilton, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area, one of the most densely-populated areas of Canada.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Oil refinery
Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Ontario general election, 2003
The Ontario general election of 2003 was held on October 2, 2003, to elect the 103 members of the 38th Legislative Assembly (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada.
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Orange County, New York
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York.
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Oswego, New York
Oswego is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
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Overcurrent
In an electric power system, overcurrent or excess current is a situation where a larger than intended electric current exists through a conductor, leading to excessive generation of heat, and the risk of fire or damage to equipment.
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Overhead power line
An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances.
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Oxford, Michigan
Oxford is a village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science.
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Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill (Colline du Parlement), colloquially known as The Hill, is an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, located on the southern edge of Cleveland.
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Parry Sound, Ontario
Parry Sound is a town in Ontario, Canada, located on the eastern shore of the sound after which it is named.
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Passaic County, New Jersey
Passaic County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is part of the New York metropolitan area.
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Passaic River
The Passaic River is a mature surface river, approximately 80 mi (129 km) long, in northern New Jersey in the United States.
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Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
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PATH (rail system)
Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey, as well as lower and midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Paxton Media Group
Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah.
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Payphone
A payphone (alternative spelling: pay phone) is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or a privacy hood, with pre-payment by inserting money (usually coins) or by billing a credit or debit card, or a telephone card.
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Peekskill, New York
Peekskill, officially the City of Peekskill, is a city in Westchester County, New York.
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Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke (2016 population 13,882; CA population 23,269) is a city in Ontario, Canada at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Pennsylvania Station (New York City)
Pennsylvania Station, also known as New York Penn Station or Penn Station, is the main intercity railroad station in New York City.
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Pennsylvania Station (Newark)
Pennsylvania Station (also known as Newark Penn Station) is a major transportation hub in Newark, New Jersey.
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Petro-Canada
Petro-Canada is a retail and wholesale marketing brand of Suncor Energy.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Pittsfield Township, Michigan
Pittsfield Township, officially the Charter Township of Pittsfield, is a charter township south of Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Pittsford, New York
Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
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PJM Interconnection
PJM Interconnection LLC (PJM) is a regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States.
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Plattsburgh (city), New York
Plattsburgh is a city in and the seat of Clinton County, New York, United States.
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the United States, New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.
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Portage Bridge
The Portage Bridge (Pont du Portage) crosses the Ottawa River just down-river from the Chaudière Bridge, joining the communities of Gatineau, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario.
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Power outage
A power outage (also called a power cut, a power out, a power blackout, power failure or a blackout) is a short-term or a long-term loss of the electric power to a particular area.
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Power-flow study
In power engineering, the power-flow study, or load-flow study, is a numerical analysis of the flow of electric power in an interconnected system.
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PR Newswire
PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases based in New York City.
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Premier of Ontario
The Premier of Ontario (Premier ministre de l'Ontario) is the first minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario and the province’s head of government.
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Price gouging
Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.
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ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power.
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Protective relay
In electrical engineering, a protective relay is a relay device designed to trip a circuit breaker when a fault is detected.
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Public switched telephone network
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's circuit-switched telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators, providing infrastructure and services for public telecommunication.
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QST
QST is a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts, published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL).
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant
The Robert Emmett Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, commonly known as Ginna (pron. gin-NAY), is a nuclear power plant located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, in the town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York, approximately east of Rochester, New York.
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Race condition
A race condition or race hazard is the behavior of an electronics, software, or other system where the output is dependent on the sequence or timing of other uncontrollable events.
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Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.
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Rationing
Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand.
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Refining (metallurgy)
In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal.
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Regional Municipality of Niagara
The Regional Municipality of Niagara, also known as the Niagara Region, or colloquially "Regional Niagara", is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of Southern Ontario, Canada.
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Regional Municipality of Waterloo
The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is a regional municipality located in Southern Ontario, Canada.
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Regional transmission organization (North America)
A regional transmission organization (RTO) in the United States is an electric power transmission system operator (TSO) which coordinates, controls and monitors a multi-state electric grid.
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Repeater
In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.
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Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal (born February 13, 1946) is an American attorney and politician who has served as a United States Senator from Connecticut since 2011.
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Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal, also known unofficially as the Rideau Waterway, connects Canada's capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, to Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River at Kingston, Ontario.
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Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.
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Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York, part of the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ–PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Rockville Centre, New York
Rockville Centre is an incorporated village located in Nassau County, New York, in the United States.
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Rogers Centre
Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated just southwest of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario.
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San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Francisco, California.
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Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County.
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Sarnia
Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, and had a 2016 population of 71,594.
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Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste.
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Sewage
Sewage (or domestic wastewater or municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced from a community of people.
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Shea Stadium
Shea Stadium (formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium)) was a stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. of the dedication handout that shows the stadium is in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. Built as a multi-purpose stadium, it was the home park of Major League Baseball's New York Mets for 45 seasons as well as the New York Jets football team from 1964 to 1983. The venue was named in honor of William A. Shea, the man who was most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York. It was demolished in 2009 to create additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, the current home of the Mets.
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Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations
Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations are two hydroelectric generating stations in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than approximately.
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Software bug
A software bug is an error, flaw, failure or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.
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Southern Ontario
Southern Ontario is a primary region of the province of Ontario, Canada, the other primary region being Northern Ontario.
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Southern Tier
The Southern Tier is the counties of New York west of the Catskill Mountains along the northern border of Pennsylvania.
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Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Co. is a major United States airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and the world’s largest low-cost carrier.
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Southwestern Ontario
Southwestern Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Spencer Abraham
Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952) is an American attorney, author and politician who was a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001 and the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2005.
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Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in western New England, and the historical seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.
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St. Catharines
St.
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St. Clair River
The St.
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St. Clair, Michigan
St.
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Starrett City, Brooklyn
Starrett City (informally and colloquially known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek (East New York) section of Brooklyn, New York City.
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State attorney general
The state attorney general in each of the 50 U.S. states and territories is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer.
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State observer
In control theory, a state observer is a system that provides an estimate of the internal state of a given real system, from measurements of the input and output of the real system.
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State of emergency
A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions that it would normally not be permitted.
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Staten Island
Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.
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Stewart International Airport
New York Stewart International Airport is a public/military airport in Orange County, New York, United States.
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Sylvania, Ohio
Sylvania is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.
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Telemetry
Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring.
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Telephone line
A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit within the industry) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system.
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Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
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The Ann Arbor News
The Ann Arbor News is a newspaper serving Washtenaw and Livingston counties in Michigan.
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The Birmingham News
The Birmingham News is the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama.
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The Herald-Palladium
The Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties.
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The Oregonian
The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.
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The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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The Times-Picayune
The Times-Picayune is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837.
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay is a city in, and the seat of, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada.
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Timmins
Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River.
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Toledo Mud Hens
The Toledo Mud Hens are a Minor League Baseball team located in Toledo, Ohio.
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Toronto Pearson International Airport
Toronto Pearson International Airport (often referred to as Toronto Pearson, Pearson Airport, or simply Pearson) is the primary international airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and surrounding region known as the Golden Horseshoe in the province of Ontario, Canada.
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Toronto streetcar system
The Toronto streetcar system is a network of eleven streetcar routes in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
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Toronto subway
The Toronto subway is a rapid transit system serving Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
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Toronto Transit Commission
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is a public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Traffic light
Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic.
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Transient (oscillation)
A transient event is a short-lived burst of energy in a system caused by a sudden change of state.
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Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
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Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American media conglomerate that is part of AT&T's WarnerMedia, and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner.
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Union County, New Jersey
Union County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
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United States Secretary of Energy
The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the U.S. Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fourteenth in the presidential line of succession.
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University at Buffalo
The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula (UP), also known as Upper Michigan, is the northern of the two major peninsulas that make up the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Upstate New York
Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., or simply Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Via Rail
Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as VIA Rail Canada) is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by Transport Canada, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada.
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Vinyl chloride
Vinyl chloride is an organochloride with the formula H2C.
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Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.
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Wall Street
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Walton Hills, Ohio
Walton Hills is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Waterloo Region Record
The Waterloo Region Record (formerly The Record) is the daily newspaper covering Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, including the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, as well as the surrounding area.
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Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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Waverly, Tioga County, New York
Waverly is the largest village in Tioga County, New York, United States.
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Wawa, Ontario
Wawa is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located within the Algoma District and associated with Wawa Lake.
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WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 45), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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West Michigan
West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for an arbitrary region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.
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Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is a city in Ontario and the southernmost city in Canada.
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Woodstock, Ontario
Woodstock is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
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WXYZ-TV
WXYZ-TV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 41), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Year 2000 problem
The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K, is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000.
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1999 Southern Brazil blackout
The 1999 Southern Brazil blackout was a widespread power outage (the largest ever at the time) that occurred in Brazil on March 11, 1999.
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2003 Italy blackout
The 2003 Italy blackout was a serious power outage that affected all of Italy—except the islands of Sardinia and Elba—for 12 hours and part of Switzerland near Geneva for 3 hours on 28 September 2003.
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2003 PGA Championship
The 2003 PGA Championship was the 85th PGA Championship, held from August 14-17 at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club near Rochester, New York.
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2011 Southwest blackout
The 2011 Southwest blackout, sometimes referred to as the Great Blackout of 2011, was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, the Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, and Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona.
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3-1-1
3-1-1 is a special telephone number supported in many communities in Canada and the United States.
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9-1-1
9-1-1, also written 911, is an emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), one of eight N11 codes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
