Titusville

[tahy-tuhs-vil]

noun

1. a town in central Florida.

2. a town in NW Pennsylvania: first oil well in U.S. drilled 1859.

Example Sentences

"The Titusville balm is currently considered to be a recent hybrid," said lead author Andre Naranjo, who conducted the study while completing a Ph.D. with the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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In 1982, construction workers uncovered dozens of 8000-year-old human skeletons in a pond on the edge of Titusville, Florida.

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In 1859, Edwin Drake sank 20 meters of cast-iron pipe into the earth beneath Titusville, Pennsylvania, and struck oil, collecting it in a bathtub.

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TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died.

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He was living in Titusville, Florida, along the state’s Space Coast.

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