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 1950 he hustled into newly oil-rich Edmonton, Alta. with a 4-ft. by 5-ft. shiny-brown briefcase, drew out a series of dazzling plans to redevelop the city's downtown area in a $25 million project.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mountain lions in Waterton, Alta., have been observed using the angles of buildings and even the beds of pickup trucks to conceal themselves when hunting.
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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