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  2. History of Delta Air Lines - Wikipedia

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    Delta Air Lines is a major American airline. [1] [2] The company's history began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters Inc., founded in 1925 in Macon, Georgia [3] to combat the boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. [4]

  3. Delta Air Lines - Wikipedia

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    The history of Delta Air Lines began with the world's first aerial crop dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters, Inc.The company was founded on March 2, 1925, in Macon, Georgia, before moving to Monroe, Louisiana, in the summer of 1925. [14]

  4. River delta - Wikipedia

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    A river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta.The triangular shape of the Nile Delta was known to audiences of classical Athenian drama; the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus refers to it as the "triangular Nilotic land", though not as a "delta". [8]

  5. Delta - Wikipedia

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    Delta commonly refers to: Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet D (NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet

  6. Nile Delta - Wikipedia

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    People have lived in the Nile Delta region for thousands of years, and it has been intensively farmed for at least the last five thousand years. The delta was a major constituent of Lower Egypt, and there are many archaeological sites in and around the delta. [6] Artifacts belonging to ancient sites have been found on the delta's coast.

  7. Delta (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Delta (/ ˈ d ɛ l t ə /; [1] uppercase Δ, lowercase δ; Greek: δέλτα, délta, ) [2] is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter dalet 𐤃. [ 3 ]

  8. Delta blues - Wikipedia

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    Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues. Guitar and harmonica are its dominant instruments; slide guitar is a hallmark of the style. Vocal styles in Delta blues range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.

  9. Mississippi Delta - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.