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Breckenridge, Colorado

Index Breckenridge, Colorado

The Town of Breckenridge is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States. [1]

87 relations: Al Jourgensen, Alpine climate, Alpine slide, American Civil War, Area code 970, Arielle Gold, Barney Ford, Belle Turnbull, Betsy Sodaro, Blue River (Colorado), Breckenridge Ski Resort, Cannabis (drug), Census, Circuit rider (religious), Colorado, Colorado Amendment 64, Colorado metropolitan areas, Confederate States of America, Continental Divide of the Americas, County seat, Dew Tour, Dillon Reservoir, Dredging, Dumb and Dumber, Edwin Carter, Elevation, Federal Information Processing Standards, Fly fishing, Frisco, Colorado, Front Range, General officers in the Confederate States Army, Geographic Names Information System, George E. Spencer, Heather McPhie, HTML, Hydraulic mining, Idaho Springs, Colorado, Index of Colorado-related articles, J. R. Moehringer, JavaScript, Jeff Cravath, John C. Breckinridge, John Lewis Dyer, Katie Uhlaender, Kentucky, List of cities and towns in Colorado, List of counties in Colorado, List of sovereign states, Marriage, Mayor, ..., Methodist Episcopal Church, Monique Merrill, Mountain Time Zone, Municipal corporation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, National Repertory Orchestra, Outline of Colorado, Per capita income, Pete Swenson, Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Placer mining, Population density, Post office, Poverty threshold, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Salt Lake City, Snake River (Colorado), Subarctic climate, Summit County, Colorado, Swan River (Colorado), Taylor Gold, Tenmile Range, Tequila (Dan + Shay song), Tree line, Troy weight, U.S. state, Ullr, Underground mining (hard rock), United States Census Bureau, United States Postal Service, Utah Territory, Vein (geology), Vice President of the United States, White River National Forest, Wildflower, ZIP Code, 2010 United States Census. Expand index (37 more) »

Al Jourgensen

Allen David "Al" Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.

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Alpine climate

Alpine climate is the average weather (climate) for the regions above the tree line.

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Alpine slide

An alpine slide (sometimes denoted with its German name Sommerrodelbahn) is a long chute on the side of a hill, usually built by ski resorts to supplement summer income.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Area code 970

Area code 970 is an area code serving most of the western and northern parts of Colorado.

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Arielle Gold

Arielle Townsend Gold (born May 4, 1996) is an American olympic medalist snowboarder.

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Barney Ford

Barney Lancelot Ford (January 22, 1822 – December 22, 1902) was an escaped slave who became a wealthy businessman and civil-rights pioneer in Colorado.

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Belle Turnbull

Belle Turnbull (1881–1970) was a poet in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Betsy Sodaro

Betsy Sodaro (born June 10, 1984) is an American actress, voice actress and comedian from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles.

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Blue River (Colorado)

The Blue River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Breckenridge Ski Resort

Breckenridge Ski Resort is an alpine ski resort in the western United States, in Breckenridge, Colorado.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Circuit rider (religious)

Circuit rider is a popular term referring to clergy in the earliest years of the United States who were assigned to travel around specific geographic territories to minister to settlers and organize congregations.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado Amendment 64

Colorado Amendment 64 was a successful popular initiative ballot measure to amend the Constitution of the State of Colorado, outlining a statewide drug policy for cannabis.

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Colorado metropolitan areas

The metropolitan areas of the State of Colorado include the urban statistical areas defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget and regions of urban population defined by other organizations.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Dew Tour

The Dew Tour is an extreme sports circuit organized by the TEN: The Enthusiast Network.

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Dillon Reservoir

Dillon Reservoir, sometimes referred to as Lake Dillon, is a large fresh water reservoir located in Summit County, Colorado, south of I-70 and bordered by the towns of Frisco, Silverthorne, and Dillon.

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Dredging

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in harbours, shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments to deepen or widen the sea bottom / channel.

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Dumb and Dumber

Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin.

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Edwin Carter

Edwin Carter - log cabin naturalist, was born in upstate New York around 1830.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Fly fishing

Fly fishing is an angling method in which an artificial "fly" is used to catch fish.

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Frisco, Colorado

The Town of Frisco is a Home Rule Municipality in Summit County, Colorado, United States.

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Front Range

The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming.

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General officers in the Confederate States Army

The general officers of the Confederate States Army (CSA) were the senior military leaders of the Confederacy during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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George E. Spencer

George Eliphaz Spencer (November 1, 1836February 19, 1893) was an American politician and a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama; who also served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Heather McPhie

Heather McPhie (born May 28, 1984) is an American freestyle moguls skier.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

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Hydraulic mining

Hydraulic mining, or hydraulicking, is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment.

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Idaho Springs, Colorado

The City of Idaho Springs is a Statutory City in the western United States, the most populous municipality in Clear Creek County, Colorado.

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Index of Colorado-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. state of Colorado.

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J. R. Moehringer

John Joseph "J.R." Moehringer (born December 7, 1964) is an American novelist and journalist.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a high-level, interpreted programming language.

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Jeff Cravath

Newell Jefferson "Jeff" Cravath (February 3, 1903 – December 10, 1953) was an American football player and coach.

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John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier.

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John Lewis Dyer

John Lewis Dyer (March 16, 1812 – June 16, 1901) preached for the Methodist Episcopal for four decades, first in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and then in the mining camps and other communities of his adopted U.S. state Colorado.

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Katie Uhlaender

Katie Uhlaender (born July 17, 1984) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2003.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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List of cities and towns in Colorado

Colorado is a state located in the Western United States.

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List of counties in Colorado

The U.S. state of Colorado is divided into 64 counties.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Methodist Episcopal Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939.

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Monique Merrill

Monique Merrill (born May 29, 1969) is an American ski mountaineer and marathon mountain biker.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−6).

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.

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National Repertory Orchestra

The National Repertory Orchestra (NRO) is an American summer symphony orchestra and academy that offers full fellowships to train young musicians for professional careers in music through performances, master classes and workshops.

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Outline of Colorado

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Colorado: Colorado – 22nd most populous, the eighth most extensive, and the highest in average elevation of the 50 United States.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Pete Swenson

Pete Swenson (born December 25, 1967) from Breckenridge, Colorado, is an American ski mountaineer and Competition Director of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA).

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Pike's Peak Gold Rush

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

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Placer mining

Placer mining is the mining of stream bed (alluvial) deposits for minerals.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Post office

A post office is a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Snake River (Colorado)

The Snake River is a short tributary of the Blue River, approximately 15 miles (24 km) long, in central Colorado in the United States.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, subalpine climate, or boreal climate) is a climate characterised by long, usually very cold winters, and short, cool to mild summers.

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Summit County, Colorado

Summit County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Swan River (Colorado)

The Swan River is a short tributary of the Blue River, approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, located in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.

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Taylor Gold

Taylor Gold (born November 16, 1993) is an American Olympian snowboarder.

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Tenmile Range

The Tenmile Range is a mountain range in U.S. state of Colorado.

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Tequila (Dan + Shay song)

"Tequila" is a song recorded by American country music duo Dan + Shay for their forthcoming third studio and self-titled album.

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Tree line

The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing.

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Troy weight

Troy weight is a system of units of mass customarily used for precious metals and gemstones.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Ullr

In early Germanic paganism, *Wulþuz ("glory") appears to have been an important concept, perhaps personified as a god, or an epithet of an important god; it is continued in Old Norse tradition as Ullr, a god associated with archery.

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Underground mining (hard rock)

Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals, usually those containing metals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel, tin and lead, but also involves using the same techniques for excavating ores of gems such as diamonds.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.

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Vein (geology)

In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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White River National Forest

White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado.

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Wildflower

A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breckenridge,_Colorado

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