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  2. Salmon Arm - Wikipedia

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    The city of Salmon Arm separated from the district in 1912, but was downgraded to a village in 1958. [5] In 1970, the city of Salmon Arm once again reunited with the District Municipality. Salmon Arm once again became a city in 2005, and is now the location of the head offices of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District. It is a tourist town in ...

  3. Arm (geography) - Wikipedia

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    Although different geographically, a sound or bay may also be called an arm. Both the tributary and distributary of a river are sometimes called an "arm". By extension, a canal arm is a subsidiary branch of a canal or inland waterway. A number of place names are derived from this term, such as Salmon Arm, Indian Arm and Alice Arm.

  4. Shuswap Lake - Wikipedia

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    In the south-west the Salmon River flows into the lake at Salmon Arm. The Eagle River runs down from the Eagle Pass in the Monashees to enter the lake at Sicamous, in the east. The Seymour River empties into the northern end of the Seymour Arm. In addition to these rivers, numerous creeks feed the lake, including Scotch Creek, which runs south ...

  5. Lox - Wikipedia

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    Lax, chiefly a British English word for salmon, is a doublet of the word inherited from Middle English. [4] The word has various cognates in various Indo-European languages. For example, cured salmon in Scandinavian countries is known by different versions of the name gravlax or gravad laks, with lax meaning salmon.

  6. Birthmark - Wikipedia

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    Congenital melanocytic nevus is a type of melanocytic nevus, the medical term for what is colloquially called a "mole", found in infants at birth. Occurring in about 1% of infants in the United States, it is located in the area of the head and neck 15% of the time, but may occur anywhere on the body.

  7. Tillamook people - Wikipedia

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    Salmon River/Nachesne/Nachesna: their name comes from the Salmon River on which they lived, both the river and the people were known as Nachesne/Nachesna. Nestucca/Nastucco/Nestugga : they lived on Little and Nestucca River and Nestucca Bay ; their own name was Stagaush meaning "People of Saga", while "Nestucca/Nestugga" is the placename ...

  8. Man-at-arms - Wikipedia

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    Though in English the term man-at-arms is a fairly straightforward rendering of the French homme d'armes, [b] in the Middle Ages, there were numerous terms for this type of soldier, referring to the type of arms he would be expected to provide: In France, he might be known as a lance or glaive, while in Germany, Spieß, Helm or Gleve, and in various places, a bascinet. [2]

  9. David Williams (Canadian politician) - Wikipedia

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    2024 British Columbia general election: Salmon Arm-Shuswap; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures Conservative: David L. Williams: 16,566: 52.1%: New Democratic: Sylvia Lindgren