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Q2074
what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Pumps may discharge to the sanitary sewer in older installations.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Once considered acceptable, this practice may now violate the plumbing code or municipal bylaws, because it can overwhelm the municipal sewage treatment system.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Municipalities urge homeowners to disconnect and reroute sump pump discharge away from sanitary sewers.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Fines may be imposed for noncompliance.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Many homeowners have inherited their sump pump configurations and do not realize that the pump discharges to the sewer.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
If the discharge is fed to a laundry sink in the basement, it's likely going to the sewer.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Usually hardwired into a home's electrical system, sump pumps may have a battery backup.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
The home's pressurized water supply powers some pumps, eliminating the need for electricity at the expense of using potable water, potentially making them more expensive to operate than electrical pumps and creating an additional water disposal problem.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Since a sump basin may overflow if not constantly pumped, a backup system is important for cases when the main power is out for prolonged periods of time, as during a severe storm.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
There are generally two types of sump pumps — pedestal and submersible.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
The pedestal pump's motor is mounted above the sump, where it is more easily serviced, but is also more conspicuous.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
The pump impeller is driven by a long, vertical extension shaft and the impeller is in a scroll housing in the base of the pump.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
The submersible pump is entirely mounted inside the sump, and is specially sealed to prevent electrical short circuits .
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
Sump pump systems are also utilized in industrial and commercial applications to control water table -related problems in surface soil.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
An artesian aquifer or periodic high water table situation can cause the ground to become unstable due to water saturation.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
As long as the pump functions, the surface soil will remain stable.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
These sumps are typically ten feet in depth or more; lined with corrugated metal pipe that contains perforations or drain holes throughout.
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what is sump pump used for
Sump pump
They may include electronic control systems with visual and audible alarms and are usually covered to prevent debris and animals from falling in.
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Q2075
when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery " Border Ruffian " elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.
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Q2075
when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
At the heart of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state .
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the United States .
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune ; the events it encompasses directly presaged the American Civil War .
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
Congress had long struggled to balance the interests of pro-slavery forces and anti-slavery forces.
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
The events later known as Bleeding Kansas were set into motion by the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, which nullified the Missouri Compromise and instead implemented the concept of popular sovereignty .
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
An ostensibly democratic idea, popular sovereignty stated that the inhabitants of each territory or state should decide whether it would be a free or slave state; however, this resulted in immigration en masse to Kansas by activists from both sides.
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
At one point, Kansas had two separate governments, each with its own constitution, although only one was federally recognized.
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when was bloody kansas in
Bleeding Kansas
On January 29, 1861, Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state, less than three months before the Battle of Fort Sumter which began the Civil War.
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Q2076
What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6 H|Hydrogen|H6 .
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Its molecule is composed of 6 carbon atoms joined in a ring, with 1 hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom.
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Because its molecules contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms, benzene is classed as a hydrocarbon .
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil , and is one of the most basic petrochemicals .
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Benzene is an aromatic hydrocarbon and the second [n]- annulene ([6]-annulene), a cyclic hydrocarbon with a continuous pi bond .
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
It is sometimes abbreviated Ph –H. Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid with a sweet smell.
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
It is mainly used as a precursor to heavy chemicals, such as ethylbenzene and cumene , which are produced on a billion kilogram scale.
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Because it has a high octane number , it is an important component of gasoline , composing a few percent of its mass.
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What Is Benzene Used For
Benzene
Most non-industrial applications have been limited by benzene's carcinogenicity .
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Q2077
where was giovanni schiaparelli born?
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (; 14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian .
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what is homebrew for wii?
Wii homebrew
Wii homebrew refers to the reuse of Nintendo 's Wii game console to run software that has not been authorized by Nintendo .
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what is homebrew for wii?
Wii homebrew
It achieves this by defeating the Wii 's copy protection and code signing measures.
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what is homebrew for wii?
Wii homebrew
In more general terms, Wii Homebrew refers to the use of the Wii 's hardware, accessories and software for purposes outside those intended by the manufacturer.
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what is homebrew for wii?
Wii homebrew
Original efforts focused on using the Wii Remote as a pointing device on other operating systems, or running web-based games in the built-in web browser.
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what is homebrew for wii?
Wii homebrew
Subsequent developments in games exploits, such as the " Twilight hack ", "Bannerbomb" and its later incarnation "LetterBomb", "Smash Stack", "Indiana Pwns", "Yu-Gi-OWNED", "bathaxx", and "Return of the Jodi", made installing the " Homebrew Channel " possible.
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Q2081
who was bush's national security advisor
Stephen Hadley
Hadley (right) discussing the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis with Bush and Rice.
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who was bush's national security advisor
Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947) was the 21st U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor ), serving under President George W. Bush .
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Q2082
what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Take identical growing plants and give fertilizer to half of them.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
If there are differences between the fertilized plant group and the unfertilized "control" group, these differences may be due to the fertilizer.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the single independent variable .
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
This increases the reliability of the results, often through a comparison between control measurements and the other measurements.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Scientific controls are a part of the scientific method .
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
For example, during drug testing, scientists will try to control two groups to keep them as identical as possible, then allow one group to try the drug.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Another example might be testing plant fertilizer by giving it to only half the plants in a garden: the plants that receive no fertilizer are the control group, because they establish the baseline level of growth that the fertilizer-treated plants will be compared against.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Without a control group, the experiment cannot determine whether the fertilizer-treated plants grow more than they would have if untreated.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Ideally, all variables in an experiment will be controlled (accounted for by the control measurements) and none will be uncontrolled.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
In such an experiment, if all the controls work as expected, it is possible to conclude that the experiment is working as intended and that the results of the experiment are due to the effect of the variable being tested.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
That is, scientific controls allow an investigator to make a claim like "Two situations were identical until factor X occurred.
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what is the name of an investigation with controlled variables
Scientific control
Since factor X is the only difference between the two situations, the new outcome was caused by factor X."
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What is the complete ground state electron configuration for the iron atom
Electron configurations of the elements (data page)
<< Chemical elements data references
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 ( O.S. October 19, 1735) – July 4, 1826) was the second president of the United States (1797–1801), having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
An American Founding Father , he was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Well educated, he was an Enlightenment political theorist who promoted republicanism and wrote prolifically about his often seminal ideas, both in published works and in letters to his wife and key adviser Abigail as well as to other Founding Fathers .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
A lawyer and public figure in Boston , as a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress , he played a leading role in persuading Congress to declare independence.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
He assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was its primary advocate in the Congress.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Later, as a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain , and was responsible for obtaining vital governmental loans from Amsterdam bankers.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
A political theorist and historian, Adams largely wrote the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780, which together with his earlier Thoughts on Government , influenced American political thought.
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John Adams
One of his greatest roles was as a judge of character: in 1775, he nominated George Washington to be commander-in-chief , and 25 years later nominated John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the United States .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Adams' revolutionary credentials secured him two terms as George Washington 's vice president and his own election in 1796 as the second president.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
During his one term, he encountered ferocious attacks by the Jeffersonian Republicans , as well as the dominant faction in his own Federalist Party led by his bitter enemy Alexander Hamilton .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts , and built up the army and navy especially in the face of an undeclared naval war (called the " Quasi-War ") with France , 1798–1800.
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John Adams
The major accomplishment of his presidency was his peaceful resolution of the conflict in the face of Hamilton's opposition.
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John Adams
In 1800, Adams was defeated for re-election by Thomas Jefferson and retired to Massachusetts.
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John Adams
He later resumed his friendship with Jefferson.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
He and his wife, Abigail Adams , founded an accomplished family line of politicians, diplomats, and historians now referred to as the Adams political family .
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams , the sixth President of the United States.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
His achievements have received greater recognition in modern times, though his contributions were not initially as celebrated as those of other Founders.
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what was john adams doing to help france
John Adams
Adams was the first U.S. president to reside in the building that eventually became known as the White House .
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
A Watt steam engine .
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The steam engine , fuelled primarily by coal , propelled the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the world.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power , the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools .
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The transition also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial revolution began in Britain and within a few decades spread to Western Europe and the United States.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr. , "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ... Nothing remotely like this economic behavior is mentioned by the classical economists, even as a theoretical possibility."
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
William Bell Scott Iron and Coal, 1855-60
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
Eric Hobsbawm held that it 'broke out' in Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while T. S. Ashton held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
Some 20th-century historians such as John Clapham and Nicholas Crafts have argued that the process of economic and social change took place gradually and the term revolution is a misnomer.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
This is still a subject of debate among historians.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
GDP per capita was broadly stable before the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the modern capitalist economy.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began an era of per-capita economic growth in capitalist economies.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
Economic historians are in agreement that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals and plants.
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what were the major obstacles facing the Industrial Revolution/
Industrial Revolution
The First Industrial Revolution evolved into the Second Industrial Revolution in the transition years between 1840 and 1870, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the increasing adoption of steam-powered boats, ships and railways, the large scale manufacture of machine tools and the increasing use of steam powered factories.
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who is juliet huddy dating
Juliet Huddy
Juliet AnnMarie Huddy (born September 27, 1969), is an American television news reporter, currently appearing on Fox News Channel .
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what is the largest city by area in the us
List of United States cities by area
This list ranks U.S. cities by land area (not including bodies of water).
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what is the largest city by area in the us
List of United States cities by area
Total areas (including water) are also given, but note that, when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately "larger".
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what is the largest city by area in the us
List of United States cities by area
San Francisco is an extreme example; water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km2).
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what is the largest city by area in the us
List of United States cities by area
Note also that in many cases a city may be geographically large primarily because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
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what is the largest city by area in the us
List of United States cities by area
In some cases the county no longer exists, while in others the arrangement has formed a Consolidated city–county (or city- borough in Alaska, or city- parish in Louisiana).
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