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  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake Bay
    The Chesapeake Bay (/ˈtʃɛsəpiːk/ CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily...
    111 KB (12,014 words) - 17:16, 9 April 2024
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    Chesapeake is an independent city in Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 249,422, making it the second-most populous city in...
    41 KB (3,609 words) - 21:16, 19 April 2024
  • rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented house on the Chesapeake shore to treat her, subjecting her to a regimen of psychoactive drugs...
    36 KB (3,993 words) - 03:25, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia
    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and...
    5 KB (281 words) - 15:57, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
    The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun...
    32 KB (4,037 words) - 18:07, 11 April 2024
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    between Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay was variously known as the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula or simply the Chesapeake Peninsula. The toponym Delmarva...
    38 KB (3,659 words) - 22:49, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paycom Center
    Center from 2002 to 2010, Oklahoma City Arena from 2010 to 2011, and Chesapeake Energy Arena from 2011 to 2021) is an arena located in Downtown Oklahoma...
    30 KB (3,318 words) - 04:16, 6 April 2024
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    until April 11, 1971. By that time, Chesapeake Engineering Placement Service had changed its name to Chesapeake Television Corporation. The Commercial...
    166 KB (16,534 words) - 06:16, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake Bay Bridge
    called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and, locally, the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland. Spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it...
    52 KB (4,692 words) - 19:23, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
    The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland. The park was established in 1961...
    30 KB (2,862 words) - 07:35, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake Bay impact crater
    The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States. It was formed by a bolide that...
    11 KB (1,129 words) - 20:58, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Chesapeake (1799)
    Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She was one of the original six frigates whose construction...
    50 KB (5,809 words) - 14:32, 11 March 2024
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    Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region...
    130 KB (13,441 words) - 18:06, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel
    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth...
    41 KB (4,572 words) - 21:37, 22 April 2024
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    Department to build the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a squadron of twenty barges powered by small sails or oars (sweeps) to defend the Chesapeake Bay. Launched in...
    223 KB (27,891 words) - 20:02, 30 April 2024
  • The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail is a series of water routes in the United States extending approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km)...
    5 KB (373 words) - 22:30, 2 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
    The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac...
    121 KB (12,003 words) - 13:32, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Chesapeake
    The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American...
    53 KB (4,859 words) - 23:00, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chesapeake–Leopard affair
    The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard...
    27 KB (2,839 words) - 08:44, 20 April 2024
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    Potomac primary (named after the river that splits the region), also called Chesapeake Tuesday, the Beltway primary, and the Crabcake primary, is the confluence...
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