Alta.
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The newspaper Il Gazzettino, under a banner headline, “Acqua Alta. Fear and Anger in Venice,” described the city’s residents as “barricaded in their homes.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2019
Gaber, 22, a native of Edmonton, Alta., was led into a windowless room in the U.S.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 24, 2011
Last September in Edmonton, Alta., the Pope denounced the gap between rich northern countries and poor southern ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Calgary, Alta., a dozen children with muscle-control problems have been spending four hours a week with it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vicar-General of St. Albert, Alta., whose history had been identified for fifty years with the Canadian North-West, and whose career had touched the currents of primitive life at all points.
From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Mair, Charles
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