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  2. Stafford, Queensland - Wikipedia

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    Stafford is predominantly a residential suburb, including some original Queenslander-style homes and a significant number of post-war Queensland Housing Commission homes on quarter-acre blocks built around the 1940s and 1950s. [citation needed] Stafford lies to the west of Lutwyche Road, along the banks of Kedron Brook. Being an area of that ...

  3. Robert Peary - Wikipedia

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    Robert Edwin Peary Sr. ( / ˈpɪəri /; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North Pole in April 1909, having led the first expedition ...

  4. Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City - Wikipedia

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    72000580 [1] Added to NRHP. October 10, 1972. Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City is a historic home and former orphanage building located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland . It is an imposing -story Federal Flemish bond brick mansion with a sloping gable roof. The small addition on the east end of the house served as an office ...

  5. Washington metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the DC area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Frederick ...

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    39°18′52″N 77°25′26″W. /  39.3144°N 77.4239°W  / 39.3144; -77.4239  ( Buckingham House and Industrial School Complex) Buckeystown. 13. Bullfrog Road Bridge. Bullfrog Road Bridge. November 21, 1978. ( #78001461) Northwest of Taneytown off Maryland Route 97.

  7. Spire City Ghost Hounds - Wikipedia

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    Website. goghosthounds .com. The Spire City Ghost Hounds are a professional baseball team in Frederick, Maryland, that played in 2023. The franchise competed in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and played home games at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium, sharing the ballpark with the Frederick Keys.

  8. Duke of Sutherland - Wikipedia

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    In 1786 he was created Marquess of Stafford in the Peerage of Great Britain. Lord Stafford married secondly Lady Louisa Egerton, daughter of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater . His son from his third marriage to Lady Susanna Stewart, Lord Granville Leveson-Gore, was created Earl Granville in 1833, a revival of the title created for his ...

  9. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pat Burns, an NHL coach, was reported to have died from cancer on September 17, 2010, by the Toronto Star. He actually died two months later on November 19. Steve Burns, host of children's show Blue's Clues, was rumored to have died from a drug overdose in 1998; others claimed that Burns was struck and killed by a car.