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Aaron Stanford

Aaron Stanford (born December 27, 1976) is an American actor known for his roles as Pyro in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand and Deadpool & Wolverine, and Doug in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes.

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Acton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, approximately west-northwest of Boston along Massachusetts Route 2 west of Concord and about southwest of Lowell. Westford, Massachusetts and Acton, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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American Association of University Women

The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.

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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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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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Apple

An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus spp.'', among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica).

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Area codes 978 and 351

Area codes 978 and 351 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for north central and most of northeastern Massachusetts.

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Ayer, Massachusetts

Ayer is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Ayer, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Bangladeshi Americans

Bangladeshi Americans (Bangladeshī Markinī) are American citizens with Bangladeshi origin or descent.

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Bleacher Report

Bleacher Report (often abbreviated as B/R) is a website that focuses on sport and sports culture.

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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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Burlington, Massachusetts

Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Burlington, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Business cluster

A business cluster is a geographic concentration of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions in a particular field.

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Cambodian Americans

Cambodian Americans, also Khmer Americans, are Americans of Cambodian or Khmer ancestry.

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Camel hair

Camel hair specifically refers to the fur from the body of a camel, but more generally refers to the fibre (and cloth) that may be made from either pure camel hair or a blend of camel hair and another fibre.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Carlisle, Massachusetts

Carlisle is a town located northwest of Boston in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Carlisle, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Cascade Communications

Cascade Communications Corporation was a manufacturer of communications equipment based in Westford, Massachusetts.

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Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Chelmsford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Chelmsford, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the 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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Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century.

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Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)

Fairview Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in Westford, Massachusetts.

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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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Filipino Americans

Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry.

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Freight train

A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers.

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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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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Groton, Massachusetts

Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. Westford, Massachusetts and Groton, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Haystack Observatory

Haystack Observatory is a multidisciplinary radio science center, ionospheric observatory, and astronomical microwave observatory owned by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Indian Americans

Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.

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Interstate 495 (Massachusetts)

Interstate 495 (I-495) is an auxiliary route of I-95 in the US state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

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Iris Associates

Iris Associates was an American software development company founded in 1984.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans of Japanese ancestry.

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Joel Abbot (naval officer)

Joel Abbot (January 18, 1793 – December 14, 1855) was a U.S. naval officer who served notably in the War of 1812, and commanded a ship during Commodore Matthew Perry's 1853-1854 visit to Japan.

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John Robinson (militiaman)

John Robinson (July 24, 1735 – June 13, 1805) was a Massachusetts militia and Continental Army officer from Westford, Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War.

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Korean Americans

Korean Americans are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent.

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List of counties in Massachusetts

The U.S. state of Massachusetts has 14 counties, though eight of these fourteen county governments were abolished between 1997 and 2000.

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List of regions of the United States

This is a list of some of the ways regions are defined in the United States.

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Littleton, Massachusetts

Littleton (historically Nashoba) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Littleton, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Lowell Line

The Lowell Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from Boston to Lowell, Massachusetts.

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The Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA) is a public, non-profit organization in Massachusetts, charged with providing public transportation to the Greater Lowell area.

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Lowell station

Lowell station, officially the Charles A. Gallagher Transit Terminal, is an intermodal transit station in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, United States.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Martha Reed Mitchell

Martha Reed Mitchell (March 1818 – February 15, 1902) was an American philanthropist and socialite, well known in charity, art and society circles in the U.S. and abroad.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Route 110

Route 110 is a southwest–northeast state route in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Route 128

Route 128, known as the Yankee Division Highway, is an expressway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts maintained by the Highway Division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

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Massachusetts Route 225

Route 225 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Route 27

Route 27 is a south–north state highway in eastern Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Route 40

Route 40 is a east–west state route located in northeastern Massachusetts, entirely within Middlesex County.

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MBTA Commuter Rail

The MBTA Commuter Rail system serves as the commuter rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA's) transportation coverage of Greater Boston in the United States.

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Merrimack Valley

The Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

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MetroWest

MetroWest is a cluster of cities and towns lying west of Boston and east of Worcester, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Middlesex County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States.

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Mike Fucito

Michael Fucito (born March 29, 1986) is a retired American soccer player.

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Nashoba Valley Ski Area

Nashoba Valley Ski Area is a ski area in Westford, Massachusetts, United States, located at 79 Powers Road.

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Nashoba Valley Technical High School

Nashoba Valley Technical High School is a four-year, public regional vocational high school located on Route 110 in Westford, Massachusetts, United States.

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NetScout Systems

NetScout Systems, Inc. (stylized as NETSCOUT) is a provider of application performance management and network performance management products located in Westford, Massachusetts.

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Nettie Stevens

Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes.

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New England town

The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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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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Nikita (TV series)

Nikita is an American action thriller drama television series that aired on the CW from September 9, 2010, to December 27, 2013, in the United States.

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Pakistani Americans

Pakistani Americans (پاکستانی امریکی) are citizens of the United States who have full or partial ancestry from Pakistan, or more simply, Pakistanis in America.

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Pamela L. Gay

Pamela L. Gay (born December 12, 1973) is an American astronomer, educator, podcaster, and writer, best known for her work in astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy projects.

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Pan Am Railways

Pan Am Railways, Inc. (PAR) is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation that operates Class II regional railroads covering northern New England from Mattawamkeag, Maine, to Rotterdam Junction, New York.

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Pat Bradley (golfer)

Pat Bradley (born March 24, 1951) is an American professional golfer.

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Pepperell, Massachusetts

Pepperell is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Pepperell, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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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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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Project West Ford

Project West Ford (also known as Westford Needles and Project Needles) was a test carried out by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory on behalf of the United States military in 1961 and 1963 to create an artificial ionosphere above the Earth.

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Puma (brand)

Puma SE is a German multinational corporation who design and manufacture athletic and casual footwear, apparel, and accessories, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.

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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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Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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Seagate Technology

Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company.

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Seattle Sounders FC

Seattle Sounders FC is an American professional men's soccer club based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Shirley, Massachusetts

Shirley is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Shirley, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Stony Brook Railroad

The Stony Brook Railroad (formally the Stony Brook Railroad Corporation), chartered in 1845, was a railroad company in Massachusetts, United States.

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The Sun (Lowell)

The Sun, also known as The Lowell Sun, is a daily newspaper based in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, serving towns in Massachusetts around the Greater Lowell area and beyond.

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Town meeting

Town meeting, also known as an "open town meeting," is a form of local government in which eligible town residents can directly participate in an assembly which determines the governance of their town.

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Townsend, Massachusetts

Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Townsend, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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Transport corridor

A transport corridor is a generally linear area that is defined by one or more modes of transportation crossing the limits of more than one city or county like highways, railroads or public transit which share a common destination.

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Tyngsborough, Massachusetts

Tyngsborough (also spelled Tyngsboro) is a town in northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Westford, Massachusetts and Tyngsborough, Massachusetts are towns in Massachusetts.

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U.S. Route 3

U.S. Route 3 (US 3) is a United States Numbered Highway running from Cambridge, Massachusetts, through New Hampshire, to the Canada–United States border near Third Connecticut Lake, where it connects to Quebec Route 257.

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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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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".

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