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Article: Susquehanna
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Susquehanna , river, 444 mi (715 km) long, rising in Otsego Lake, at Cooperstown, N.Y., and zigzagging SE and SW through E central Pa. to Chesapeake Bay near Havre de Grace, Md. The bay is the drowned lower course of the river. The West Branch (c.160 mi/260 km long), which rises in the Allegheny Mts., W Pa., and follows a circuitous course eastward to Sunbury, Pa., is the river's chief tributary. The Susquehanna River traverses an anthracite coal region; the many significant mining and industrial cities on its banks were forced to scale down production as the steel and coal industries declined in the early 1980s. These ...
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Article: FAA Rule on Establishment of Class E Airspace at ...
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July 15, 2008 ;
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... ... Administration has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Establishment of Class E Airspace; Susquehanna, Pa." The document (RIN2120-AA66)(Docket No. 08-AEA-14) was received by the Senate on July 7. For more ...
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