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  2. Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology

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    Classes are now held in the new McDonnell-Douglas Hall building on the Frost Campus in mid-town St. Louis. Flight training remained at St. Louis Downtown Airport. The move to the Frost campus allowed the curriculum to be expanded and Masters programs to be added. The college also provides many science classes for the main campus.

  3. Wood sandpiper - Wikipedia

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    The wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species , it is the smallest of the shanks , a genus of mid-sized, long-legged waders that largely inhabit freshwater and wetland environments, as opposed to the maritime or coastal habitats of other, similar species.

  4. Ruddy turnstone - Wikipedia

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    The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria.. It is now classified in the sandpiper family Scolopacidae but was formerly sometimes placed in the plover family Charadriidae.

  5. List of sandpipers - Wikipedia

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    Spotted sandpiper: Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) 55 Green sandpiper: Tringa ochropus Linnaeus, 1758: 56 Solitary sandpiper: Tringa solitaria Wilson, A, 1813: 57 Grey-tailed tattler: Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816) 58 Wandering tattler: Tringa incana (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 59 Marsh sandpiper: Tringa stagnatilis (Bechstein, 1803) 60 Wood sandpiper

  6. Ridge Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Ridge Historic District is a residential historic district in the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois. As its name suggests, the district is centered on a ridge , making it one of the few areas of high ground in the generally flat city.

  7. Washington Heights, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Washington Heights is the 73rd of Chicago's 77 community areas.Located 12 miles (19 km) from the Loop, it is on the city's far south side.Washington Heights is considered part of the Blue Island Ridge, along with the nearby community areas of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood, and the village of Blue Island.

  8. Woodcock - Wikipedia

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    The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax.The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. [1]

  9. Civilian Pilot Training Program - Wikipedia

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    Student fliers with Piper J-3s under the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland. The Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) was a flight training program (1938–1944) sponsored by the United States government with the stated purpose of increasing the number of civilian pilots, though having a clear impact on military preparedness.