Albany
Americannoun
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a city in and the capital of New York, in the eastern part, on the Hudson.
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a city in southwestern Georgia.
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a city in western Oregon.
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a seaport in southwestern Australia: known as a resort town.
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a city in western California, on San Francisco Bay.
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a river in central Canada, flowing east from western Ontario to James Bay. 610 miles (980 km) long.
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a city in E New York State, on the Hudson River: the state capital. Pop: 93 919 (2003 est)
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a river in central Canada, flowing east and northeast to James Bay. Length: 982 km (610 miles)
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a port in southwest Western Australia: founded as a penal colony. Pop: 22 415 (2001)
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Involved with much shipping, Albany is a major transshipment point. It used to be an important fur-trading center.
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There are now more than a dozen similar bills winding through statehouses from Olympia, Wash., to Albany, N.Y., as legislators try to rein in a practice the majority of Americans see as dangerous and corrosive.
From Los Angeles Times
She also has reported about higher education and business at the Houston Chronicle and the Albany Times-Union.
The eastern-most port of the Erie Canal, Albany had grown to about fifty thousand residents.
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East of Columbus, Ohio, where New Albany has become another data-center hot spot, community development director Jennifer Chrysler last year gave so many presentations to out-of-town peers that it strained her small staff.
Police in Moore's hometown of New Albany, Indiana were called to a property on Saturday night, when Moore was found in a garage.
From BBC
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