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  2. Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Detroit is the principal city in Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan. It is situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region. [117] The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge is the only international wildlife preserve in North America and is uniquely located in the heart of a major metropolitan area. The refuge ...

  3. Downtown Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Downtown Detroit is the central business district and a residential area of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States.Locally, "downtown" tends to refer to the 1.4 square mile region bordered by M-10 (Lodge Freeway) to the west, Interstate 75 (I-75, Fisher Freeway) to the north, I-375 (Chrysler Freeway) to the east, and the Detroit River to the south.

  4. Timeline of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    1979–1980 - Saddam Hussein makes large donations to a Detroit church and receives a key to the city. Hussein's relationship with Detroit began in 1979, when the Reverend Jacob Yasso of Chaldean Sacred Heart congratulated Hussein on his presidency. Yasso said that in return his church had received $450,000 from the former Iraqi dictator. [35] 1980

  5. Category:History of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Demographic history of Detroit; Antoine Dequindre; Detroit Business Institute; Detroit Century Box; Detroit City Hall; Detroit Collaborative Design Center; Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam; Detroit Light Guard; Detroit News Orchestra; Detroit and Pontiac Railroad; Detroit River; Detroit Sleeper Cell; Detroit street circuit; Siege of ...

  6. History of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 1,400,000 of the 1,600,000 white people in Detroit after World War II left the city for the suburbs. [184] Beginning in the 1980s, for the first time in its history, Detroit was a majority-black city. [185] This drastic racial demographic change resulted in more than a change in neighborhood appearance.

  7. Nicknames of Detroit - Wikipedia

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    Named after Detroit's area code, 313, this nickname symbolizes local pride and has been popularized in media such as the film 8 Mile (2002). [5] D-Town A casual and widely used nickname that represents Detroit's urban identity. Renaissance City A nod to Detroit's efforts in urban revitalization and the Renaissance Center complex. Hockeytown

  8. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.

  9. University of Information Technology - Wikipedia

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    The University of Information Technology (UIT; Vietnamese: Trường Đại học Công nghệ thông tin, Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), or VNU-HCM University of Information Technology, is a public university located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a member of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City. Although its ...