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
In a Double A league at Glens Falls, N.Y., two years ago, Kittle had 40 home runs; at Edmonton, Alta., in Triple A ball last year, he hit 50 homers, two in one inning.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet two weeks ago, Arledge and company purchased the rights to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alta., for $309 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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