Chinatowns in the United States, the Glossary

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1. 425 relations: Advance Publications, Alcatraz Island, Alhambra, California, Almy, Wyoming, Alpharetta, Georgia, American Chinese cuisine, American Civil War, American Community Survey, Anaheim, California, Anti-Chinese violence in California, Anti-Chinese violence in Washington, Apple Inc., Arcadia, California, Armour Square, Chicago, Artesia, California, Asia, Asia District, Oklahoma City, Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District, Atlanta, Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885, Avenue U, Baltimore, Bank of America, Barber, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Beijing dialect, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Big Timber, Montana, Bok Kai Temple, Borough Park, Brooklyn, Boroughs of New York City, Boston, Boulevard of the Allies, Broadway (Manhattan), Brooklyn, Brothel, Brown University, Bubonic plague, Buckman, Portland, Oregon, Busch Memorial Stadium, Butte, Montana, California, California gold rush, Canada, Canal Street (Manhattan), Cantonese, Cantonese cuisine, Capital One Arena, Carnegie Mellon University, Carson City, Nevada, ... Expand index (375 more) »

2. Chinatowns in North America

Advance Publications

Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (42 million shares), and Warner Bros.

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Alcatraz Island

Alcatraz Island is a small island offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.

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Alhambra, California

Alhambra (from "Alhambra") is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center.

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Almy, Wyoming

Almy was a coal mining camp in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States, near the town of Evanston.

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Alpharetta, Georgia

Alpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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American Chinese cuisine

American Chinese cuisine is a cuisine derived from Chinese cuisine that was developed by Chinese Americans. Chinatowns in the United States and American Chinese cuisine are Chinese-American history.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Anaheim, California

Anaheim is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Anti-Chinese violence in California

Anti-Chinese violence in California includes a number of massacres, riots, expulsions and other violent actions that were directed at Chinese American communities in the 19th century. Chinatowns in the United States and Anti-Chinese violence in California are Chinese-American history.

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Anti-Chinese violence in Washington

There were at least several incidents of anti-Chinese violence in Washington, a United States territory and later, a U.S. state, which occurred during the 19th, 20th and 21st century.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Arcadia, California

Arcadia is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located about northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.

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Armour Square, Chicago

Armour Square is a Chicago neighborhood on the city's South Side, as well as a larger, officially defined community area, which also includes Chinatown and the CHA Wentworth Gardens housing project.

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Artesia, California

Artesia (Spanish for "artesian aquifer") is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asia District, Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City's Asia District, also known as the Asian District, is the center of Asian culture and International cuisine and commerce in the state of Oklahoma.

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Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District

The Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District (APTHD), San Diego's historic Chinatown, is an eight-block district adjacent to and in part overlapping with the Gaslamp Quarter Historic District.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers, 1885

The Attack on Squak Valley Chinese laborers took place on September 7, 1885, in Squak Valley (now called Issaquah), Washington Territory, when a group of men fired their guns into several tents where a group of Chinese hop pickers were sleeping.

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Avenue U

Avenue U is a commercial street located in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Bank of America

The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan.

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Barber

A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards.

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Beijing dialect

The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese and Beijingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.

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Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Big Timber, Montana

Big Timber is a city in, and the county seat of, Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States.

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Bok Kai Temple

The Bok Kai Temple (literally North Creek Temple) is a traditional Chinese temple in the city of Marysville, California, located at the corner of D and First Streets. Chinatowns in the United States and Bok Kai Temple are Chinese-American history.

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Borough Park, Brooklyn

Borough Park (also spelled Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.

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Boroughs of New York City

The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boulevard of the Allies

The Boulevard of the Allies is a mostly four-lane road in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, connecting Downtown Pittsburgh with the Oakland neighborhood of the city.

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Broadway (Manhattan)

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brothel

A brothel, bordello, bawdy house, ranch, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, or whorehouse is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Buckman, Portland, Oregon

Buckman is a neighborhood in the Southeast section (and a small portion of the Northeast section) of Portland, Oregon.

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Busch Memorial Stadium

Busch Memorial Stadium (Busch Stadium II) was a multi-purpose sports facility in St. Louis, Missouri, that operated for 40 years, from 1966 through 2005.

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Butte, Montana

Butte is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canal Street (Manhattan)

Canal Street is a major east–west street of over in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States, running from East Broadway between Essex and Jefferson Streets in the east, to West Street between Watts and Spring Streets in the west.

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Cantonese

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.

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Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine, is the cuisine of Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial capital Guangzhou, and the surrounding regions in the Pearl River Delta including Hong Kong and Macau.

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Capital One Arena

Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Carson City, Nevada

Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Cass Corridor

The Cass Corridor is a neighborhood on the west end of Midtown Detroit.

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Cermak Road

Cermak Road, also known as 22nd Street, is a 19-mile, major east–west street on Chicago's near south and west sides and the city's western suburbs.

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Cerritos, California

Cerritos (Spanish for "Little hills") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County.

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Chester A. Arthur

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China Slough

China Slough (also called: Sutter Slough, China Lake, Sutter Lake, Sacramento Chinatown, Sacramento Chinadom, Old Sacramento Chinatown, Yee Fow), is historical site in Sacramento, California.

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China–United States relations

The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA) has been complex and at times tense since the establishment of the PRC and the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan in 1949.

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Chinatown

Chinatown is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting.

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Chinatown, Baltimore

The U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland is home to a small Chinatown.

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Chinatown, Boston

Chinatown, Boston (Cantonese: 唐人街; Jyutping: Tong4jan4gaai1) is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Chinatown, Manhattan

Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.

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Chinatown, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia.

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Chinatown, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest.

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Chinatown–International District, Seattle

The Chinatown–International District of Seattle, Washington (also known as the abbreviated CID) is the center of the city's Asian American community.

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Chinatowns in Brooklyn

The first Brooklyn Chinatown, was originally established in the Sunset Park area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Chinatowns in Queens

There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City.

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Chinatowns in the Americas

This article discusses Chinatowns in the Americas, urban areas with a large population of people of Chinese descent.

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Chinese American church

Chinese American church refers to Christian churches in the United States made up of predominantly ethnic Chinese congregations.

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Chinese American enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley

The Asian American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s. Chinatowns in the United States and Chinese American enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley are Chinese-American history.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Chinese ceramics

Chinese ceramics are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally.

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Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine comprises cuisines originating from China, as well as from Chinese people from other parts of the world.

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Chinese Cultural Center, Phoenix

The Chinese Cultural Center, now the Outlier Center, was a Chinese-themed retail complex in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Chinese dragon

The Chinese Dragon is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large.

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Chinese emigration

Waves of Chinese emigration have happened throughout history.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. Chinatowns in the United States and Chinese Exclusion Act are Chinese-American history.

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Chinese Historical Society of Southern California

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) is an historical society and organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown, California.

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Chinese people

The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation.

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Chinese people in the New York City metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China.

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Chinese Progressive Association

Chinese Progressive Association can refer to one of two organizations.

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Chinese restaurant

A Chinese restaurant is a restaurant that serves Chinese cuisine.

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Chino Hills, California

Chino Hills (curly) is a city located in the southwestern corner of San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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Chop suey

Chop suey (usually pronounced) is a dish from American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, generally consisting of meat (usually chicken, pork, beef, shrimp or fish) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery, and bound in a starch-thickened sauce. Chinatowns in the United States and Chop suey are Chinese-American history.

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Chrystie Street

Chrystie Street is a street on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Chinatown, running as a continuation of Second Avenue from Houston Street, for seven blocks south to Canal Street.

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Chuang Yen Monastery

Chuang Yen Monastery is a Buddhist temple situated on in Carmel, Putnam County, New York, in the United States.

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City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas is an international Buddhist community and monastery founded by Hsuan Hua, an important figure in Western Buddhism.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado Tribune

The Colorado Tribune, also known as Daily and Weekly Colorado Tribune, was a newspaper published in Denver, Colorado from 15 May 1867 to 19 January 1871.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Combat Zone, Boston

"Combat Zone" was the name given in the 1960s to the adult entertainment district in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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Coney Island

Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Congress Street (Portland, Maine)

Congress Street is the main street in Portland, Maine.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Contiguous United States

The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.

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Coolie

Coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, khuli, khulie, cooli, cooly, or quli) is a pejorative term used for low-wage labourers, typically those of Indian or Chinese descent. Chinatowns in the United States and coolie are Chinese-American history.

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Corona, Queens

Corona is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.

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Cupertino, California

Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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D Magazine

D Magazine is a monthly magazine covering Dallas–Fort Worth.

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Daly City, California

Daly City is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Deadwood, South Dakota

Deadwood (Lakota: Owáyasuta; "To approve or confirm things") is a city that serves as county seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.

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Demographic transition

In demography, demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high death rates in societies with minimal technology, education (especially of women) and economic development, to low birth rates and low death rates in societies with advanced technology, education and economic development, as well as the stages between these two scenarios.

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Demographics of Syria

Syria's estimated pre–Syrian Civil War 2011 population was 22 ±.5 million permanent inhabitants, which included 21,124,000 Syrians, as well as 1.3 million Iraqi refugees and over 500,000 Palestinian refugees. The war makes an accurate count of the Syrian population difficult, as the numbers of Syrian refugees, internally displaced Syrians and casualty numbers are in flux.

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Denver

Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Diamond Bar, California

Diamond Bar is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Dodger Stadium

Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Downtown Crossing

Downtown Crossing is a shopping district within downtown Boston, Massachusetts, located east of Boston Common, west of the Financial District, south of Government Center, and north of Chinatown and the old Combat Zone.

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Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles.

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Downtown Portland, Oregon

Downtown Portland is the central business district of Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Downtown St. Louis

Downtown St.

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Downtown Tacoma

Downtown is the central business district of Tacoma, Washington, United States, located in the inner Northeast section of the city.

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Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

Dyker Heights is a predominantly residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City.

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East Broadway (Manhattan)

East Broadway is a two-way east–west street in the Chinatown, Two Bridges, and Lower East Side neighborhoods of the New York City borough of Manhattan in the U.S. state of New York.

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East Downtown Houston

East Downtown Houston (EaDo) is a district in Houston, Texas.

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East Harlem

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.

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East Kong Yick Building

The East Kong Yick Building is one of two buildings erected in Seattle, Washington's Chinatown-International District (ID) by the Kong Yick Investment Company (the other being the West Kong Yick Building).

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East San Gabriel, California

East San Gabriel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Edison, New Jersey

Edison is a township located in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Elmhurst, Queens

Elmhurst (formerly Newtown) is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.

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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain (also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation) is the power to take private property for public use.

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Eureka, California

Eureka (Wiyot: Jaroujiji; Hupa: Dahwilahł-ding; Uuth) is a city and the county seat of Humboldt County, located on the North Coast of California.

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Evanston, Wyoming

Evanston is a city in and the county seat of Uinta County, Wyoming, United States.

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Expo '74

Expo '74, officially known as the International Exposition on the Environment, Spokane 1974, was a world's fair held May 4, 1974, to November 3, 1974, in Spokane, Washington in the northwest United States.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.

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First transcontinental railroad

America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

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Five Points, Manhattan

Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Footprint Center (formerly America West Arena, US Airways Center, Talking Stick Resort Arena and Phoenix Suns Arena) is a multi-purpose arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It opened under the name America West Arena on June 6, 1992, at a cost of $89 million. It is the home arena of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the former home of the Indoor Football League's Arizona Rattlers.

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Foreign born

Foreign-born (also non-native) people are those born outside of their country of residence.

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Fortune cookie

A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy.

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Fountain Valley, California

Fountain Valley is a suburban city in Orange County, California.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Fremont, California

Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

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Fresno, California

Fresno is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States.

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Fujian

Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.

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Fujian cuisine

Fujian cuisine or Fujianese cuisine, also known as Min cuisine or Hokkien cuisine, is one of the native Chinese cuisines derived from the cooking style of China's Fujian Province, most notably from the provincial capital, Fuzhou.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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Fuzhou dialect

The Fuzhou language (FR), also Foochow, Hokchew, Hok-chiu, or Fuzhounese, is the prestige variety of the Eastern Min branch of Min Chinese spoken mainly in the Mindong region of Eastern Fujian Province.

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Gallery Place station

Gallery Place station is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C., United States, on the Green, Yellow and Red Lines.

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Garden Grove, California

Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States.

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Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego

The Gaslamp Quarter is a 16½-block neighborhood in the downtown area of San Diego, California.

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Geary Act

The Geary Act was a United States law that extended the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by adding onerous new requirements. Chinatowns in the United States and Geary Act are Chinese-American history.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment.

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

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Government Center, Newark

Government Center is a district in Downtown Newark, New Jersey, bounded by Broad Street, Green Street, Mulberry Street, and Beach Street and named for named for the presence of government buildings centered around a plaza called Federal Square.

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Grand Street (Manhattan)

Grand Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Grant Avenue

Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district.

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Grant Street

Grant Street is the main government and business corridor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Gravesend, Brooklyn

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Grocery store

A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged.

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Guardian US

Guardian US is the Manhattan-based American online presence of the British print newspaper The Guardian.

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H Street (Washington, D.C.)

H Street is a set of east–west streets in several of the quadrants of Washington, D.C. It is also used as an alternate name for the Near Northeast neighborhood, as H Street NW/NE is the neighborhood's main commercial strip.

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Hacienda Heights, California

Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated suburban community in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Hakka cuisine

Hakka cuisine is the cooking style of the Hakka people, and it may also be found in parts of Taiwan and in countries with significant overseas Hakka communities.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.

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Heinlenville

Heinlenville (海因倫鎮; also called the Sixth Street Chinatown 六街唐人埠 and San Jose Chinatown 散那些唐人埠) was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California.

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Helena, Montana

Helena is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana and the seat of Lewis and Clark County.

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Hells Canyon Massacre

The Hells Canyon Massacre (also known as the Snake River Massacre) was a massacre where thirty-four Chinese goldminers were ambushed and murdered in May 1887.

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History of Chinese Americans

The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century. Chinatowns in the United States and history of Chinese Americans are Chinese-American history.

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Hokkien

Hokkien is a variety of the Southern Min languages, native to and originating from the Minnan region, in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.

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Honolulu County, Hawaii

Honolulu County, officially known as the City and County of Honolulu (formerly Oahu County), is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Hsi Lai Temple

Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California.

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Hunan cuisine

Hunan cuisine, also known as Xiang cuisine, consists of the cuisines of the Xiang River region, Dongting Lake and western Hunan Province in China.

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Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, United States.

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Immigration to the United States

Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.

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Interstate 676

Interstate 676 (I-676) is an Interstate Highway that serves as a major thoroughfare through Center City Philadelphia, where it is known as the Vine Street Expressway, and Camden, New Jersey, where it is known as the northern segment of the North–South Freeway, as well as the Martin Luther King Jr.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irvine, California

Irvine is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese people

are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago.

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Japantown, San Jose

Japantown (Japanese: 日本町; Nihonmachi), commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Johns Creek, Georgia

Johns Creek is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.

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Kelley Park

Kelley Park is a city park in San Jose, California, United States.

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Kerns, Portland, Oregon

Kerns is a neighborhood in the inner Northeast and Southeast sections of Portland, Oregon.

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Khmer people

The Khmer people (ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, UNGEGN:, ALA-LC) are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia and the Mekong Delta.

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Killing of Vincent Chin

Vincent Jen Chin (t; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz.

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Kong Chow Temple

Kong Chow Temple is a temple dedicated to Guan Di, located in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the United States.

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Korean Chinese cuisine

Korean Chinese cuisine, also known as Sino–Korean cuisine, is a hybrid cuisine developed by the ethnic Chinese in Korea.

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Koreans

Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Lao people

The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia, who speak the Lao language of the Kra–Dai languages.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.

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List of streets in Baltimore

This is a list of notable streets in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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List of streets of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., includes such notable streets as.

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Little Fuzhou

Little Fuzhou is a neighborhood in the Two Bridges and Lower East Side areas of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Little Italy

Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood.

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Little Saigon

Little Saigon (Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries.

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Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon

The Lloyd District is a primarily commercial neighborhood in the North and Northeast sections of Portland, Oregon, United States.

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LoDo, Denver

LoDo (Lower Downtown) is an unofficial neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, and is one of the oldest places of settlement in the city.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871

The Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California, United States that occurred on October 24, 1871. Chinatowns in the United States and Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 are Chinese-American history.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York City, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough of New York City.

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Ma-Tsu Temple (San Francisco, California)

The Ma-Tsu Temple is a Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Magnuson Act

The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943, also known as the Magnuson Act, was an immigration law proposed by U.S. Representative (later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and signed into law on December 17, 1943, in the United States. Chinatowns in the United States and Magnuson Act are Chinese-American history.

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Mai Wah Museum

The Mai Wah Museum is located in Butte, Montana, United States.

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Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

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Malaysian Chinese

Malaysian Chinese, Chinese Malaysians, or Sino-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marine Park (neighborhood), Brooklyn

Marine Park is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Maryland Route 355

Maryland Route 355 (MD 355) is a north–south road in western central Maryland in the United States.

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Mayflower Village, California

Mayflower Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Mazu

Mazu or Matsu is a Chinese sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.

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Mesa, Arizona

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

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MGM Grand Detroit

The MGM Grand Detroit is one of three casino resort hotels in Detroit, Michigan, and one of four in the Detroit–Windsor area.

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Midway City, California

Midway City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) that forms part of the county land controlled by Orange County, California.

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Millbrae, California

Millbrae is a city located in northern San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Mission San Buenaventura

Mission San Buenaventura (Misión San Buenaventura), formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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Mohegan Sun

Mohegan Sun is an American casino, owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribe on of their reservation, along the banks of the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut.

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Mongolian cuisine

Mongolian cuisine predominantly consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats.

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Monterey Park, California

Monterey Park is a city in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately east of the Downtown Los Angeles civic center.

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Montville, Connecticut

Montville is a town in New London County, Connecticut in the United States.

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Monument Square (Portland, Maine)

Monument Square (formerly Market Square or Haymarket Square) is a town square in downtown Portland, Maine, about halfway between the East Bayside and Old Port neighborhoods.

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Mott Street

Mott Street is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Napa Valley Register

The Napa Valley Register is a daily newspaper located in Napa, California.

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Napa, California

Napa is the largest city and county seat of Napa County and a principal city of Wine Country in Northern California, United States.

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Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban county located on Long Island, immediately to the east of New York City, bordering the Long Island Sound on the north and the open Atlantic Ocean to the south.

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National Day of the Republic of China

The National Day of the Republic of China, also referred to as Double Ten Day or Double Tenth Day, is a public holiday on 10 October, now held annually as national day in the Republic of China (ROC, commonly referred to as Taiwan).

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National Portrait Gallery (United States)

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum in Washington, D.C., United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Nevada State Capitol

The Nevada State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of Nevada located in the state capital of Carson City at 101 North Carson Street.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing.

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New York State Route 25A

New York State Route 25A (NY 25A) is a state highway on Long Island in New York, United States.

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Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.

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Nihonmachi

is a term used to refer to historical Japanese communities in Southeast and East Asia.

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Ningbo

Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.

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North Coast Journal

The North Coast Journal ("The Journal") is an alternative weekly newspaper serving Humboldt County, California.

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North El Monte, California

North El Monte is a census-designated place (CDP) in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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North Potomac, Maryland

North Potomac is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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North Texas

North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex generally consider North Texas to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, west of Paris, and north of Hillsboro.

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Northeast China

Northeast China, also historically called Manchuria or Songliao, is a geographical region of China.

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Northeastern Chinese cuisine

Northeastern Chinese cuisine is a style of Chinese cuisine in Northeast China.

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Northeastern Mandarin

Northeastern Mandarin (or 东北官话/東北官話 Dōngběiguānhuà "Northeast Mandarin") is the subgroup of Mandarin varieties spoken in Northeast China with the exception of the Liaodong Peninsula and few enclaves along Amur and Ussuri rivers.

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Northern and southern China

Northern China and Southern China are two approximate regions within China.

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Northern Pacific Railway

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.

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Northwest (Washington, D.C.)

Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street.

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Northwest District, Portland, Oregon

The Northwest District is a densely populated retail and residential neighborhood in the northwest section of Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich (also called "The Rose of New England") is a city in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Old Patent Office Building

The Old Patent Office Building is a historic building in Washington, D.C. that covers an entire city block between F and G Streets and 7th and 9th Streets NW in the Penn Quarter section of Chinatown.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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On Leong Chinese Merchants Association

The On Leong Chinese Merchants Association, or simply Chinese Merchants Association, formerly known as the On Leong Tong, is a tong society operating out of its territory at the intersection of Canal Street and Mott Street in Chinatown, Manhattan (曼哈頓華埠).

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Opium

Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.

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Opium den

An opium den was an establishment in which opium was sold and smoked.

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Orange County, California

Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oroville Chinese Temple

The Oroville Chinese Temple (列聖宮) is a Chinese folk religious temple built in 1863 in Oroville, California.

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Overseas Chinese

Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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Overseas Filipinos

An overseas Filipino (Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country.

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Pacific Islander

Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands.

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Paifang

A paifang, also known as a pailou, is a traditional style of Chinese architecture, often used in arch or gateway structures.

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Pan-Asianism

Satellite photograph of Asia in orthographic projection. Pan-Asianism (also known as Asianism or Greater Asianism) is an ideology aimed at creating a political and economic unity among Asian peoples.

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Pao Fa Temple

Pao Fa Temple is one of the largest Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist temples in the United States.

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Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey

Parsippany–Troy Hills, commonly known as Parsippany, is a township in Morris County, in the northern portion of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Pearl District, Portland, Oregon

The Pearl District is an area of Portland, Oregon, formerly occupied by warehouses, light industry and railroad classification yards and now noted for its art galleries, upscale businesses and residences.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Convention Center

The Pennsylvania Convention Center is a multi-use public facility in the Market East section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed to accommodate conventions, exhibitions, conferences and other events.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pho

Phở or Pho is a Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles (bánh phở), herbs, and meat (usually beef (phở bò)), sometimes chicken (phở gà).

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Plano, Texas

Plano is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, where it is the largest city in Collin County.

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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century.

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Port of New Orleans

The Port of New Orleans is a significant transport hub located in Louisiana, United States.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Potomac, Maryland

Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Prairie Surf Studios

Prairie Surf Studios (originally Myriad Convention Center and later Cox Convention Center) is a film production complex located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Prospect Hill Cemetery (North Omaha, Nebraska)

The Prospect Hill Cemetery, located at 3202 Parker Street in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is believed to be the oldest pioneer cemetery in Omaha.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Queens

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Racism in Oregon

The history of racism in Oregon began before the territory even became a U.S. state.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.

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Red-light district

A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border.

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Richardson, Texas

Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Richmond District, San Francisco

The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California, developed initially in the late 19th century.

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Rock Springs massacre

The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Chinatowns in the United States and Rock Springs massacre are Chinese-American history.

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Rock Springs, Wyoming

Rock Springs is a city in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States.

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Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, and is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

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Rosemead, California

Rosemead is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Ross Alley

Ross Alley is a north–south alley in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Rowland Heights, California

Rowland Heights is an unincorporated area in and below the Puente Hills in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Salem, Oregon

Salem is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County.

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Salinas, California

Salinas (Spanish for "Salt Flats") is a city in the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Monterey County.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.

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San Bernardino County, California

San Bernardino County, officially the County of San Bernardino and sometimes abbreviated as S.B. County, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Diego free speech fight

The San Diego free speech fight in San Diego, California, in 1912 was one of the most famous class conflicts over the free speech rights of labor unions.

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San Diego Reader

The San Diego Reader is an alternative press newspaper in the county of San Diego.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Peninsula

The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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San Francisco Police Department

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the municipal law enforcement agency of the City and County of San Francisco, as well as the San Francisco International Airport in San Mateo County.

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San Francisco riot of 1877

The San Francisco riot of 1877 was a three-day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California by the city's majority Irish population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 25, 1877.

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San Gabriel Valley

The San Gabriel Valley (Valle de San Gabriel), often referred to by its initials as SGV, is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, with the city of Los Angeles directly bordering it to the west, and occupying the vast majority of the southeastern part of Los Angeles County.

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San Gabriel, California

San Gabriel (Spanish for "St. Gabriel") is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California.

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San Jose, California

San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.

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San Luis Obispo, California

paren;;; Chumash: tiłhini) is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. The population was 47,063 at the 2020 census.

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San Marino, California

San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana (Spanish for) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, California, United States.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.

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Scott Act (1888)

The Scott Act was a United States law that prohibited U.S. resident Chinese laborers from returning to the United States. Chinatowns in the United States and Scott Act (1888) are Chinese-American history.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seattle riot of 1886

The Seattle riot of 1886 occurred on February 6–9, 1886, in Seattle, Washington, amidst rising anti-Chinese sentiment caused by intense labor competition and in the context of an ongoing struggle between labor and capital in the Western United States.

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Second Opium War

The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted United Kingdom, France, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shanghai cuisine

Shanghai cuisine (Shanghainese: zaon⁶ he⁵ tshe¹; IPA: zɑ̃¹¹ he⁴⁴ tsʰᴇ¹¹), also known as Hu cuisine (Shanghainese: wu⁶ tshe¹; IPA: ɦu¹¹ tsʰᴇ⁴⁴), is a popular style of Chinese food.

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Shanghainese

The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas.

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Sichuan cuisine

Sichuan cuisine or Sichuanese cuisine, alternatively romanized as Szechwan cuisine or Szechuan cuisine (Standard Mandarin pronunciation) is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province and the neighboring Chongqing municipality.

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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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South Salt Lake, Utah

South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States and is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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South San Francisco, California

South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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South San Gabriel, California

South San Gabriel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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South Station

South Station, officially The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation center after Logan International Airport.

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Southern Min

Southern Min, Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation) or Banlam, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan (many citizens are descendants of settlers from Fujian), Eastern Guangdong, Hainan, and Southern Zhejiang.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Southwest Houston

Southwest Houston is a region in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is the most populous city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).

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Stanton, California

Stanton is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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Stingaree, San Diego

The Stingaree was a neighborhood of San Diego between the boom of the 1880s and the demolition and vice eradication campaign of 1916.

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Stockton Street (San Francisco)

Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Sugar plantations in Hawaii

Sugarcane was introduced to Hawaiʻi by its first inhabitants in approximately 600 AD and was observed by Captain Cook upon arrival in the islands in 1778.

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Sun Yat-sen

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925),Singtao daily.

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Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.

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Sunset District, San Francisco

The Sunset District is a neighborhood located in the southwest quadrant of San Francisco, California, United States.

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Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west.

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Superior, Montana

Superior is a town in, and the county seat of, Mineral County, Montana, United States.

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Tacoma riot of 1885

The Tacoma riot of 1885, also known as the 1885 Chinese expulsion from Tacoma, involved the forceful expulsion of the Chinese population from Tacoma, Washington Territory, on November 3, 1885.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Taishan, Guangdong

Taishan, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Toishan or Toisan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning (新寧), is a county-level city in the southwest of Guangdong province, China.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Taiwanese cuisine

Taiwanese cuisine (Bopomofo: ㄊㄞˊㄨㄢˉㄌㄧㄠˋㄌㄧˇ, or, Bopomofo: ㄊㄞˊㄨㄢˉㄘㄞˋ) is a popular style of food with several variations, including Chinese and that of Taiwanese indigenous peoples, with the earliest cuisines known of being the indigenous ones.

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Taiwanese Hokkien

Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: /), Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.

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Taiwanese people

The term "Taiwanese people" has various interpretations.

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Teahouse

A teahouse or tearoom (also tea room) is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments.

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Temple City, California

Temple City is a city in Los Angeles County, California located northeast of downtown Los Angeles and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.

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Temple of Kwan Tai

The Temple of Kwan Tai (Yale: Móuhdai Míu, also known as the Mendocino Joss House or Mo Dai Miu) is a Chinese Taoist temple in Mendocino, California, dedicated to Kwan Tai. Chinatowns in the United States and temple of Kwan Tai are Chinese-American history.

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Thai people

Thai people (ชาวไทย; endonym), Chao Phraya Thai (ไทยลุ่มเจ้าพระยา; exonym and also academic), Central Thai people (คนภาคกลาง; exonym and also domestically), Southern Thai people (คนใต้; exonym and also domestically), Siamese, Thai Siam (ไทยสยาม; historical exonym and sometimes domestically), Tai Noi people (ไทน้อย; historical endonym and sometimes domestically), are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Thailand.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average print circulation in 2022 of 65,369.

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The Fresno Bee

The Fresno Bee is a three-times a week newspaper serving Fresno, California, and surrounding counties in that U.S. state's central San Joaquin Valley.

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The Healdsburg Tribune

The Healdsburg Tribune is a weekly newspaper covering the community of Healdsburg, California and the surrounding areas.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate

The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Thien Hau Temple (Los Angeles)

The Thien Hau Temple.

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Thoroughfare

A thoroughfare is a primary passage or way of transport, whether by road on dry land or, by extension, via watercraft or aircraft.

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Tin How Temple

The Tin How Temple (also spelled Tianhou Temple) is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States.

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Tong Wars

The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the late 19th century among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatowns of various American cities, in particular San Francisco. Chinatowns in the United States and Tong Wars are Chinese-American history.

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Tower block

A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China.

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Trans-Mississippi Exposition

The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition was a world's fair held in Omaha, Nebraska, from June 1 to November 1 of 1898.

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Tufts Medical Center

Tufts Medical Center (until 2008 Tufts-New England Medical Center), a 15-building campus located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a downtown Boston hospital midway between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Uyghur cuisine

Uyghur cuisine (translit, уйғур таамлири; p) is the cuisine of the Uyghur people, which are mainly situated in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.

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Ventura, California

Ventura, officially named San Buenaventura (Spanish for "Saint Bonaventure"), is a city in and the county seat of Ventura County, California, United States.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vietnamese people

The Vietnamese people (người Việt) or the Kinh people (người Kinh|lit.

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Virginia City, Nevada

Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county.

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Walla Walla, Washington

Walla Walla is a city in and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.

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Walnut, California

Walnut is a city in the eastern part of Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Washingtonian (magazine)

Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park

Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park is a state park located in the center of the town of Weaverville, California.

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Wenzhounese

Wenzhounese (Wenzhounese), also known as Oujiang, Tong Au or Au Nyü, is the language spoken in Wenzhou, the southern prefecture of Zhejiang, China.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Western Hemisphere

The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.

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Westminster, California

Westminster is a city in western Orange County, California, United States.

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Whitestone, Queens

Whitestone is a residential neighborhood in the northernmost part of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Willamette River

The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow.

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Winnemucca, Nevada

Winnemucca is the only incorporated city in, and is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wu Chinese

Wu (Wu romanization and IPA:ngu ngei, (Shanghainese), (Suzhounese), Mandarin) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, and the part of Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu.

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Yao people

The Yao people or Dao (người Dao) is a classification for various ethnic minorities in China and Vietnam.

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Zhejiang cuisine

Zhejiang cuisine, alternatively known as Zhe cuisine, is one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of Chinese cuisine.

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Zhongshan

Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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1911 Revolution

The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China.

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1968 Washington, D.C., riots

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting.

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2000 United States census

The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.

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7th Street (Washington, D.C.)

There are two north–south arteries in Washington, D.C. named 7th Street that are differentiated by the quadrants of the city in which they are located.

See Chinatowns in the United States and 7th Street (Washington, D.C.)

See also

Chinatowns in North America

• Chinatowns in Canada
• Chinatowns in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Chinatowns in Mexico
• Chinatowns in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatowns_in_the_United_States

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