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  2. Center for Plant Conservation - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) is a non-profit organization that includes a network of over 50 participating institutions. Its primary mission is the conservation and restoration of rare native plants of the United States and Canada .

  3. Vegreville egg - Wikipedia

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    The Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian-style Easter egg. The work by Paul Maxym Sembaliuk is built of an intricate set of two-dimensional anodized aluminum tiles in the shape of congruent equilateral triangles and star-shaped hexagons, fashioned over an aluminum framework. The egg is 31 ft (9 m) long and three and a ...

  4. Covelli Centre - Wikipedia

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    Covelli Centre. The Covelli Centre is a multi-purpose arena in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. It opened in 2005, thanks in a large part to a $26 million HUD redevelopment grant secured in 2000 by Congressman James A. Traficant Jr. It is home to the Youngstown Phantoms of the United States Hockey League. The Covelli Centre was previously known ...

  5. Vegreville - Wikipedia

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    Vegreville / ˈvɛɡrəvɪl / ( Ukrainian: Веґревіль) is a town in central Alberta, Canada. It is on Highway 16A approximately 103 km (64 mi) east of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. It was incorporated as a town in 1906, [6] and that year also saw the founding of the Vegreville Observer, a weekly newspaper for the region.

  6. 41 Combat Engineer Regiment - Wikipedia

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    41 Combat Engineer Regiment has fostered a relationship with the Town of Vegreville, Alberta, which is located 103 km east of Edmonton. On 29 April 2006 the unit received the Freedom of the Town , becoming the only unit in the Canadian Forces to have this honour.

  7. Caspian Pipeline Consortium - Wikipedia

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    1,400,000 barrels per day (220,000 m 3 /d) The Caspian Pipeline Consortium ( CPC) is a consortium and an oil pipeline to transport Caspian oil from Tengiz field to the Novorossiysk -2 Marine Terminal, an export terminal at the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. [1] It is one of the world's largest pipelines [1] and a major export route for ...

  8. Capital Centre (Landover, Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    The Capital Centre (later USAir Arena and US Airways Arena) was an indoor arena in the eastern United States, located in Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, D.C. [5] [6] The seating capacity was 18,756 for basketball and 18,130 for hockey . Opened in late 1973, it closed in March 2002, and was demolished that December.

  9. Crisis pregnancy center - Wikipedia

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    A CPC in Lincoln, Nebraska (foreground) intentionally located across the street from an abortion clinic (background). A crisis pregnancy center (CPC), sometimes called a pregnancy resource center (PRC) or a pro-life pregnancy center, is a type of nonprofit organization established by anti-abortion groups primarily to persuade pregnant women not to have an abortion.