Battle of Fort Oswego (1756)
The Battle of Fort Oswego was one in a series of early French victories in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War won in spite of New France's military vulnerability.
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The Battle of Fort George was a battle fought during the War of 1812, in which the Americans defeated a British force and captured the Fort George in Upper Canada. The troops of the United States Army and vessels of the United States Navy cooperated…
Barry County, Missouri
Barry County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 35,597. Its county seat is Cassville. The county was organized in 1835 and named after William Taylor Barry, a U.…
BankUnited Center
The BankUnited Center, officially the University of Miami BankUnited Center, originally named the University of Miami Convocation Center, is a 7,972-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The venu…
BNY Mellon Center (Pittsburgh)
BNY Mellon Center is a 55-story, 220.98 m (725.0 ft), skyscraper located at 500 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Announced on March 27, 1980, the tower was completed in June 1984. It is the second-tallest building in the city and w…
Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec (Navajo: Kinteel) is a city in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Farmington, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,578 as of the 2013 population estimate from the United States Census Bureau…
Audubon Park, New Orleans
Audubon Park (historically French: Plantation de Boré) is a city park located in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States. The park is approximately six miles to the west of the city center of New Orleans and sits on la…
Astor Row
Astor Row is the name given to 28 row houses on the south side of West 130th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, which were among the first speculative townhouses built in the area. Designed…
Aspen–Pitkin County Airport
Aspen–Pitkin County Airport (IATA: ASE, ICAO: KASE, FAA LID: ASE), also known as Sardy Field, is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Aspen, in Pitkin County, Colorado, U…
Ashland County, Ohio
Ashland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 53,139. Its county seat is Ashland. The county is named for "Ashland", the home of Senator Henry Clay near Lexington, Kentucky.
Arthur Avenue
Arthur Avenue is a street in the Fordham section of the Bronx, New York City's northernmost borough. It was once the heart of the Bronx's "Little Italy". "Little Italy" generally refers to Arthur Avenue and East 187th Street. Although the historical…
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh (AIP) is a private, for-profit, higher education institute located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, that emphasizes design education and career preparation for the creative job market.
Arlington Hall
Arlington Hall (also called Arlington Hall Station) was a former girl's school and the headquarters of the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) cryptography effort during World War II. The site presently houses the George P. Shultz…
Arizona State Prison Complex – Eyman
Arizona State Prison Complex – Eyman is a state prison for men located in Florence, Arizona.
Arizona City, Arizona
Arizona City (O'odham: Al Ṣon) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 10,475 at the 2010 census.
Argyle, Texas
Argyle is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States, with a population of 3,282 as of the 2010 census.
Arden, Delaware
Arden is a village and art colony in New Castle County, Delaware, in the United States, founded in 1900 as a radical Georgist single-tax community by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price. The village occupies about 160 acres, with half k…
Archer City, Texas
Archer City is a city in Archer County, Texas, United States. The city lies at the junction of State Highway 79 and State Highway 25. It is the county seat. It is located 25 miles south of Wichita Falls, Texas and is part of the Wichita Falls Metrop…
Arabi, Louisiana
Arabi is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, between the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans and Chalmette within the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area.
Apache Point Observatory
The Apache Point Observatory (APO) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico (USA) approximately 18 miles (29 km) south of Cloudcroft. The observatory is operated by New Mexico State University (NMSU) …
Allentown, New Jersey
Allentown is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Akutan, Alaska
Akutan (ACK-oo-tan) (Achan-ingiiga in Aleut) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.
Admiralty Island
Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, at (57°44′N134°20′W). It is 145 km (90 mi) long and 56 km (35 mi) wide with an area of 4,264.1 km² (1,646.4 sq mi), making it the seventh largest island in the United S…
Abbeville County, South Carolina
Abbeville County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, its population was 25,417. Its county seat is Abbeville.
86th Street (Manhattan)
86th Street is a major two-way street in the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
LUMINA
LUMINA, also known as 201 Folsom Street, is a 655-unit residential development project under construction in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
2005 Logan Airport runway incursion
The 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion was a near runway collision that occurred at approximately 7:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on 9 June 2005 between US Airways Flight 1170 (US1170) and Aer Lingus Flight 132 (EI132). EI132 was an Airbus A330-300…
2003 Chicago balcony collapse
On June 29, 2003, the deadliest porch collapse in United States history occurred in Chicago. An overloaded balcony collapsed during a party in an apartment building, killing thirteen people and seriously injuring fifty-seven others. The ensuing inve…
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF) is the principal U.S. National Forest in the U.S. state of Nevada, and has a smaller portion in Eastern California.
Tekko (convention)
Tekko (formerly Tekkoshocon) is an annual anime convention held during April at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The convention has been held in various locations around the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and is run…
Zero Milestone
The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C. intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be reckoned when it was built. At present, only roads in the Washington, D.C.
Zachary, Louisiana
Zachary is a city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States, in the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
World of Motion
World of Motion (October 1, 1982 – January 2, 1996), sponsored by General Motors, was the former tenant of the Transportation pavilion at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. It was an opening day attraction at EPCOT Center in 1982 and it closed i…
Worland, Wyoming
Worland is a city in Washakie County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 5,487 at the 2010 census.
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
Wood-Ridge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 7,626, reflecting a decline of 18 (-0.2%) from the 7,644 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased b…
Wonder Wheel
Wonder Wheel is a 45.7-metre (150 ft) tall eccentric Ferris wheel located at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, US.