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Albertus W. Catlin

Brigadier General Albertus Wright Catlin (December 1, 1868 – May 31, 1933) was a United States Marine Corps general.

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Algonquian peoples

The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.

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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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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, lawyer, and former government official who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 to 2021.

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Animal glue

Animal glue is an adhesive that is created by prolonged boiling of animal connective tissue in a process called rendering.

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Area codes 716 and 624

Area codes 716 and 624 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and four surrounding counties in western New York.

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Bank of Gowanda

Bank of Gowanda is a historic bank building located at Gowanda in Cattaraugus County, New York.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Batavia, New York

Batavia is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States.

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Bill Paxon

Leon William Paxon (born April 29, 1954) is an American lobbyist and former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area

The Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan area, designated by the United States Census Bureau, encompassing two counties - Erie and Niagara - in the state of New York.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cattaraugus County, New York

Cattaraugus County (locally known as Catt County) is a county in Western New York, with one side bordering Pennsylvania. Gowanda, New York and Cattaraugus County, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Cattaraugus Creek

Cattaraugus Creek is a stream, approximately long, in western New York in the United States.

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Cattaraugus Reservation

Cattaraugus Reservation is an Indian reservation of the federally recognized Seneca Nation of Indians, formerly part of the Iroquois Confederacy located in New York.

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Cattaraugus Reservation, Cattaraugus County, New York

Cattaraugus Reservation is an Indian reservation located partly in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Cattaraugus Reservation, Erie County, New York

Cattaraugus Reservation is an Indian reservation located partly in Erie County, New York, United States. Gowanda, New York and Cattaraugus Reservation, Erie County, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Cattaraugus, New York

Cattaraugus is a village in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. Gowanda, New York and Cattaraugus, New York are villages in New York (state).

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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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Collins Correctional Facility

Collins Correctional Facility is a medium security prison in Collins, New York in the United States.

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Collins, New York

Collins is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. Gowanda, New York and Collins, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Connecticut

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

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Danby, Vermont

Danby is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States.

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Daniel G. Garnsey

Daniel Greene Garnsey (June 17, 1779 – May 11, 1851) was an American politician from New York, Michigan and Illinois.

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Dunkirk, New York

Dunkirk is a city in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Erie County, New York

Erie County is a county along the shore of Lake Erie in western New York State. Gowanda, New York and Erie County, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Erie people

The Erie people were Indigenous people historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Gowanda Correctional Facility

The Gowanda Correctional Facility was a medium-security prison for men located in Gowanda, New York, United States.

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Gowanda Village Historic District

Gowanda Village Historic District is a historic district located at Gowanda in Cattaraugus County, New York.

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Greg Lamberson

Gregory Lamberson (born April 19, 1964) is an American filmmaker and author.

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Halloween

Halloween or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve) is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day.

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Holland Land Company

The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam,Kirby, C.D. (1976).

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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jared Sidney Torrance

Jared Sidney Torrance (August 3, 1852 or 1853 – March 29, 1921) was an American real estate developer, best known as the founder of Torrance in southwest Los Angeles County, California.

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John Candy

John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian who is best known for his work in Hollywood films.

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John Elliot (songwriter)

John Elliot (also known as Jack Elliot, John M. Elliot, John M. Elliott and Jack Elliott) (7 May 1914 – 3 January 1972) was an American songwriter, credited with having written more than 600 songs for motion pictures.

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Joseph Giglio

Joseph Giglio (born September 12, 1954) is an American politician, who is serving as a member of the New York State Assembly since 2005.

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List of counties in New York

There are 62 counties in the U.S. state of New York.

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List of towns in New York

This is a list of towns in New York.

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Little Valley, New York

Little Valley is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Lodi, New York

Lodi is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Micropolitan statistical area

United States micropolitan statistical areas (μSA, where the initial Greek letter mu represents "micro-"), as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), are labor market and statistical areas in the United States centered on an urban cluster (urban area) with a population of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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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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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York and Lake Erie Railroad

The New York & Lake Erie is a class III railroad operating in Western New York.

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New York State Route 39

New York State Route 39 (NY 39) is an east–west state highway in the western portion of New York in the United States.

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New York State Route 438

New York State Route 438 (NY 438) is a north–south state highway located entirely in Erie County, New York, in the United States.

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Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States. Gowanda, New York and Niagara Falls, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Olean, New York

Olean is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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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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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Perrysburg, New York

Perrysburg is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Persia, New York

Persia is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States.

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Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician.

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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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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American road trip comedy film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy, with supporting roles by Laila Robins and Michael McKean.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Robert Morris (financier)

Robert Morris Jr. (January 20, 1734May 8, 1806) was an English-born American merchant, investor and politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Scarecrow

A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin that is often in the shape of a human.

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Seneca County, New York

Seneca County is located in the U.S. state of New York.

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Seneca language

Seneca (in Seneca, Onöndowaʼga꞉ʼ Gawë꞉noʼ, or Onötowáʼka꞉) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Hodinöhsö꞉niʼ (Iroquois League); it is an Iroquoian language, spoken at the time of contact in the western part of New York.

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Seneca Nation of New York

The Seneca Nation of Indians is a federally recognized Seneca tribe based in western New York.

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Sex offender

A sex offender (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who has committed a sex crime.

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Springville, New York

Springville is a village in the southeastern section of the town of Concord in Erie County, New York, United States. Gowanda, New York and Springville, New York are Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area and villages in New York (state).

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Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

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Stone Age

The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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Torrance, California

Torrance is a coastal city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in southwest Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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U.S. Route 62 in New York

U.S. Route 62 (US 62) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from the United States–Mexico border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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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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Urgent care center

An urgent care center (UCC), also known as an urgent treatment centre (UTC) in the United Kingdom, is a type of walk-in clinic focused on the delivery of urgent ambulatory care in a dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency department located within a hospital.

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