Look up chinook or Chinook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinook may refer to: The name derives from a settlement of Indigenous people in Oregon...
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The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Chinook, is from the Native American Chinook people...
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The Chinook salmon /ʃɪˈnʊk/ (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon. Its common name is derived from the...
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United States Army's Boeing CH-47 Chinook, the RAF Chinook fleet is the largest outside the United States. RAF Chinooks have seen extensive service in the...
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Chinookan peoples (redirect from Chinook people)
Expedition encountered the Chinook Tribe on the lower Columbia. The term "Chinook" also has a wider meaning in reference to the Chinook Jargon, which is based...
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The Chinook is a breed of sled dog, developed in the state of New Hampshire during the early 20th century. The Chinook is New Hampshire's official state...
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Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks...
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Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific...
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Chinookan languages (redirect from Chinook languages)
assigned: chh (Chinook, Lower Chinook) and wac (Wasco-Wishram, Upper Chinook). For example, Ethnologue 15e classifies Kiksht as Lower Chinook, while others...
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Chinook Pass (elevation 5430 ft./1656 m.) is a pass through the Cascade Range in the state of Washington. The pass is located on the crest of the Cascade...
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Chinook Sciences is a US and UK based technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery. Chinook Sciences holds many patents for...
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On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions...
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Chinook Centre (formally branded as "CF Chinook Centre") is the largest shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located near the geographic centre...
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The Chinook River is a short stream located near the mouth of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. The Chinook River originates just north...
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Chinook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 457 at the 2020 census. Chinook was the site...
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The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982...
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Billy Chinook was a chief and member of the Wasco tribe. Chinook was a guide for John C. Frémont and Kit Carson, who explored Central Oregon from 1843...
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Chinook station is a CTrain light rail station in Manchester Industrial (not to be confused with Manchester), Calgary, Alberta. The station opened on...
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Chinook is a computer program that plays checkers (also known as draughts). It was developed between the years 1989 to 2007 at the University of Alberta...
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On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting...
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Chinook is a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,185 at the 2020 census. Points of interest are...
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Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern...
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Washington State Route 410 (redirect from Chinook Scenic Byway)
State Route 410 (SR 410, partially named the Chinook Scenic Byway, and also named the Stephen Mather Memorial Parkway) is a 107.44-mile (172.91 km) long...
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Gavin McInnes (redirect from Anal Chinook)
Secondary School. As a teen, McInnes played in an Ottawa punk band called Anal Chinook. He graduated from Carleton University. McInnes co-founded Vice in 1994...
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Middle Schools Name Type Established Enrollment Mascot Chinook 6-8 1961 710 Orcas Komachin 6-8 1992 643 Wolves Nisqually 6-8 1967 817 Totems Salish 6-8...
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USS Chinook has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: USS Chinook (SP-644), a patrol vessel in commission from 1917...
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(74 mi) northeast of Brooks. Chinook was named after the Chinook wind, a "warm dry westerly wind from the Rocky Mountains. Chinook recorded a population of...
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Chinook Health is part of Alberta Health Services, the governing body for healthcare regulation in the Canadian province of Alberta. Chinook Health administers...
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Chinook helicopter crash may refer to: the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash in Shetland, killing oil workers the 1994 Scotland RAF...
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Chinook Middle School can mean one of four schools in the US state of Washington: Chinook Middle School in Bellevue, Washington, part of the Bellevue...
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