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1. Columbia
   [n] - a North American river 2. [n] - a town in west central Tennessee 3. [n] - capital and largest city in South Carolina 4. [n] - a university town in central Missouri
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2. Columbia
   An uptempo song and dance member of the rumba complex, it is a virtuoso acrobatic form performed solo with props called tratados. Columbia is named after a railroad weighing station in Matanzas province.
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3. Columbia
   Co·lum'bi·a noun America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus , the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.
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4. Columbia
   Columbia River noun a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring
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5. Columbia
   capital of South Carolina noun capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina
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6. Columbia
   • (n.) America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer.
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7. Columbia
   (from the article `Physical Sciences`) In July the U.S. space shuttle program resumed flight with launch of the orbiter Discovery. It was the first space shuttle flight since the loss of ... Efforts by NASA to resume space shuttle flights continued slowly, and the date for the next mission slipped to mid-2005. The immediate cause of the...
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8. Columbia
   (from the article `lamp`) The first commercial installation of Edison`s lamp was made in May 1880 on the steamship Columbia. In 1881 a New York City factory was lighted with ...
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9. Columbia
   county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It consists of a mountainous region mostly in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley physiographic province and ...
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10. Columbia
    planned community in Howard county, central Maryland, U.S. It lies southwest of Baltimore and northeast of Washington, D.C. The community, whose ... [1 related articles]
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11. Columbia
    city, seat (1819) of Marion county, southern Mississippi, U.S. It lies on a bluff along the Pearl River, about 80 miles (130 km) south-southeast of ...
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12. Columbia
    city, seat of Boone county, near the Missouri River, central Missouri, U.S., midway between St. Louis and Kansas City. It was originally established ...
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13. Columbia
    borough (town), Lancaster county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies along the Susquehanna River, 12 miles (19 km) west of Lancaster. The site ...
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14. Columbia
    city, capital of South Carolina, U.S., and seat (1799) of Richland county. It lies in the centre of the state on the east bank of the Congaree River ... [1 related articles]
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15. Columbia
    city, seat (1807) of Maury county, central Tennessee, U.S. It lies along the Duck River, 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Nashville. Founded as the seat ...
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16. Columbia
    county, southeastern New York state, U.S., bordered by Massachusetts to the east and the Hudson River to the west. The land rises from the Hudson ...
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17. Columbia
    Columbia is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Dove` Coleman,Colfre,Colm,Colman,Colombain,Colombe,Colombina,Colon,Colum,Columba,Columban,Columbano,Columbanus,Columbia,Columbine,Columbo,Colver,Colvyr From Old English. The name Columbia doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Columbia seems
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18. Columbia
    The Columbia was a Canadian Annapolis Class destroyer of 1060 tons displacement launched in 1919 as the USS Haraden and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy from the USA in 1940. The Columbia was powered by four Yarrow oil fuelled boilers providing a top speed of 35 knots. She was armed with four ...
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19. Columbia
    Columbia, river, c.1,210 mi (1,950 km) long, rising in Columbia Lake, SE British Columbia, Canada. It flows first NW in the Rocky Mt. Trench, then hooks sharply about the Selkirk Mts. to flow S through Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake and receive the Kootenai River (spelled Kootenay in Canada) ...
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20. Columbia
    Columbia, U.S. space shuttle. On its 28th flight, on Feb. 1, 2003, after completing a 16-day scientific mission, the spacecraft disintegrated during reentry, killing its seven-person crew. About 16 minutes before its expected landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Columbia was about 203,000 ft (6...
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21. Columbia
    Columbia (kulŭm'bēu) . 1. City (1990 pop. 75,883), Howard co., central Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Founded in 1967 and developed by James Rouse, it is one of the largest and most successful American planned cities. It incorporates nine villages around a downtown, al...
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22. Columbia
    (river) River in western North America; length over 2,005 km/1,245 mi. It rises in Columbia Lake on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, 130 km/81 mi north of the USA border. It flows through Washington State along the northern border of Oregon, unt...
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23. Columbia
    (supercontinent) `Columbia`, also known as `Nuna` and `Hudsonland`, was one of Earth`s oldest supercontinents. It was first proposed by J.J.W. Rogers and M. Santosh (2002) and is thought to have existed approximately 1.8 to 1.5 billion years (Ga) ago in the Paleoproterozoic bibcode=2002ESRv.....
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24. Columbia
    (supercomputer) Named in honor of the crew who died in the Columbia disaster, `Columbia` is a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics for NASA. Its main purpose was to simulate the violent collision and merger of spiral galaxies that lead to the formation of elliptical galaxies. It is ...
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25. Columbia
    (name) `Columbia` ( ), is a poetic name for the Americas and the feminine personification of the United States of America. It has inspired the names of many persons, places, objects, institutions, and companies in the Western Hemisphere and beyond. Etymology: Columbia is a New Latin to...
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