Carbondale
Americannoun
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a city in SW Illinois.
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a city in NE Pennsylvania, near Scranton: coal-mining center.
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Aspen Glen Club in Carbondale, Colo., has a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and a shuttle to Aspen Snowmass’s four ski mountains, complemented by ski-fitness classes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Carbondale is in the southwestern corner of Illinois.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2024
Crowds will fill a football stadium in Carbondale, Illinois, where the path of Monday's eclipse will intersect the path of the last solar eclipse to travel across the United States, in 2017.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2024
Because Carbondale happened to be in the path of totality in 2017 and is so again in 2024, it seems many believed Monday’s eclipse encore would trigger a calamitous seismic event in town.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2024
In 1846 at Carbondale almost fifty acres of mine shafts collapsed simultaneously without warning, claiming hundreds of lives.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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