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  2. Category:Ports of the Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Port cities and towns of the United States Gulf Coast‎ (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Ports of the Gulf of Mexico" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.

  3. Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino : Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte ) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history , with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.

  4. Comet - Wikipedia

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    Q3559. A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma.

  5. List of ports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.

  6. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    The Chicxulub crater ( IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo. [3] It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when a large meteorite, about ten kilometers (six miles ...

  7. Gulf Power Company - Wikipedia

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    1,270. Parent. NextEra Energy. Website. www .fpl .com. Gulf Power Company (GPC) was a U.S. electric utility founded in 1925 and headquartered in Pensacola, Florida. It had over 450,000 customers in 10 counties and 71 towns in northwest Florida, and a generating capacity of 2.278 GW. [2]

  8. Gulf News - Wikipedia

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    www .gulfnews .com. Media of the United Arab Emirates. List of newspapers. Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was first launched in 1978, and is currently distributed throughout the UAE and also in other Persian Gulf Countries. Its online edition was launched in 1996.

  9. Gulf of Tonkin incident - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of Tonkin incident ( Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It consisted of a confrontation on August 2, 1964, when United States forces were carrying out covert amphibious operations close to North Vietnamese territorial ...