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Ardashir Vakil Ardashir Vakil is an author whose first novel, Beach Boy, won a Betty Trask Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.His second novel, "One Day" was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
Ardath Mayhar Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar (born 1930) began her writing career in 1979 after a lifetime of experiences in Texas and around the world. She's been nominated for the Nebula Award, won both the Mark Twain Award and the Balrog Award, and numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre.
Ardās The Ardās () is a Sikh prayers that is a done before performing or after undertaking any significant task; after reciting the daily Banis (prayers); or completion of a service like the Paath, kirtan (hymn-singing) program or any other religious program. In Sikhism, these prayers are also said before and after eating.
Ardboe Ardboe (Irish: Ard BĂł), is a small village in the north east of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The boundaries of the parish run the length of a small section of Lough Neagh and border the neighbouring parishes of Ballinderry and Coalisland.
Ardbraccan Ardbraccan is an ancient place of Christian worship, and the location of the former residence of the Roman Catholic, then after the Reformation the Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath. It is located approximately 30 miles (48 kilometres) from Dublin.
Ardbraccan House Ardbraccan House (known sometimes historically as Ardbraccan Palace) is a large Palladian county house in County Meath in the Republic of Ireland. The historic house served from the 1770s to 1885 as the residence of the Church of Ireland Lord Bishop of Meath.
Ardclough GAA Ardclough is a GAA club in Kildare, Whos biggest achievements include winning the Kildare County Senior Football Championship after a replayed final against the Army in 1949, winning 12 Kildare County Senior Hurling Championships the latest in 2006 beating Confey in the final, defeating Buffer's Alley in the 1976 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship and winning the Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship in 2006. Five Ardclough players featured on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium: Richard Cullen, Tommy Christian, Bobby Burke, Johnny Walsh (a replacement All Star in 1976) and Mick Dwane.
Ardeatine massacre The massacre of Fosse Ardeatine (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) took place in Rome, Italy during World War II. On 23 March 1944, 33 German soldiers were killed when members of the Italian Resistance set off a bomb close to a column of German soldiers who were marching on via RasellaThe SS unit that was ambushed was SS Police Battalion "Bozen" from Northern Italy/Austria area.
Ardei umpluĹŁi Ardei umpluĹŁi () is Romanian for "stuffed peppers". Ardei umpluĹŁi, in the Romanian cuisine, are usually prepared with bell peppers (or a similar species) stuffed with ground meat, usually pork, and other vegetables and spices.
Arden (automobile) The Arden was a British automobile manufactured from 1912 to 1916 in Balsall Heath, Coventry. Starting out as a light and somewhat crude cyclecar, by the time production finished four years later, it had grown into a well-made four-cylinder car, featuring full four-seater coachwork.
Arden Eddie Arden Eddie (b. August 4, 1947) is a former Iron Man player, team owner and manager in the Intercounty Baseball League who holds several Intercounty records, including most games played (834), most bases on balls (668), most hits (764) and most stolen bases (170).
Arden family The Arden family is, according to an article by James Lees-Milne in the 18th edition of Burke's Peerage or Burke's Landed Gentry, volume 1, one of three families in England that can trace its lineage in the male line back to Saxon times. The other two are the Berkeley family and the Swinton family.
Arden Heights, Staten Island Arden Heights is a name increasingly applied to the western part of Annadale, a neighborhood located on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York City, USA. The name "Arden Heights" is found on most maps of New York City, including Hagstrom's.
Arden of Faversham Arden of Faversham (also called Arden of Feversham) is an Elizabethan play, entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on April 3, 1592, and printed later that same year by Edward White. It depicts the murder of one Thomas Arden by his wife and her lover, and their subsequent discovery and punishment.
Arden Theatre Company The Arden Theatre Company is a leading regional theatre company located in Stockton-on-Tees, England. Founded in 2002 by Robert Icke and Daniel Hill, the theatre has grown quickly to become one of the premier theatre companies in the region.
Arden Way The Arden Way is a 26-mile offshoot of the Heart of England Way, starting and finishing at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. It is run and waymarked by the Heart of England Way Association and forms a circular walk to be enjoyed with the rest of Heart of England Way and the European route E2.
Arden, Berkeley County, West Virginia Arden is an unincorporated hamlet located between Martinsburg and Inwood in Berkeley County, West Virginia, in the United States. Arden is the location of a number of historic sites including the Arden United Methodist Church, Trinity Church, and Ar-Qua Springs, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Ardenne Abbey Ardenne Abbey, or "l'Abbaye d'Ardenne", is the site of a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France containing a chapel built in 1121 and other medieval buildings.
Ardennes The Ardennes (pronounced ar-DEN) (Dutch: Ardennen) is a region of extensive forests and rolling hill country, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France (lending its name to the Ardennes département and the Champagne-Ardenne région).
Ardennes (horse) The Ardennes is one of the oldest breeds of draft horse originating from the Ardennes area in France/North Western Europe. They are heavy-boned but agile at times, with thick legs that help when plowing fields, pulling stumps, and riding.
Ardent (Dungeons & Dragons) An ardent is a character class in the Dungeons & Dragons, a psionic practitioner that derives its powers from its focus on primal truths or concepts ("mantles"). The ardent was introduced in the Complete Psionic book.
Ardent Computer The Ardent Computer Corporation was a graphics minicomputer manufacturing company, one of a very few 3rd parties to base their designs on the MIPS CPUs and the associated MIPS OS, using additional Intel i860's as graphics co-processors. The company went through a series of mergers and re-organizations and changed names several times as their venture capital funders attempted to find a market niche for their "graphics supercomputers".
Ardent Studios Ardent Studios is the Memphis studio where albums released by Ardent Records and many other recording labels are recorded. After the studio's "golden era" in the early 1970s with bands like Big Star and Led Zeppelin, the studio continued recording in the decades afterward with groups like Z.
Ardentinny Ardentinny is a small village on the west shore of Loch Long, fourteen miles from Dunoon in Argyll on the Cowal peninsula. Nearby is 'Cruach a Chaise' (Cheese Hill) while on the opposite side of Loch Long is Coulport, the base for Britain's Trident Nuclear Defence Force.
Ardenwald-Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon Ardenwald-Johnson Creek (also called simply Ardenwald) is a neighborhood straddling the border between Portland (and Multnomah County) and Milwaukie (and Clackamas County), Oregon. It is recognized by both Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement as well as Milwaukie's Neighborhoods Program.
Ardeola Ardeola is a genus of small herons, typically 40-50 cm long with 80-100 cm wingspan. Most breed in the tropical Old World, but the migratory Squacco Heron occurs in southern Europe and the Middle East and winters in Africa.
Ardeonaig Ardeonaig (Gaelic: Aird Eòdhanaig) is a hamlet on the southern shore of Loch Tay in the Stirling Council Area of Scotland. It is approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Killin and lies at the mouth of the Finglen Burn where it enters Loch Tay.
Ardersier Ardersier is a small former fishing village in the Scottish Highlands, on the Moray Firth, east of Inverness, near Fort George, and Nairn. Its name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic "Ard-nan-Saor", or "Headland of the Carpenter", one local legend being that carpenters working on the construction of ecclesiastical buildings on the other side of the Moray Firth were quartered there.
Ardeshir Cowasjee Ardeshir Cowasjee (born 1926) is a renowned newspaper columnist from Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. His columns regularly appear in the country's oldest English language daily newspaper Dawn) and are translated to appear in Urdu press.
Ardeshir Irani Ardeshir Irani (December 5, 1886 - October 14, 1969) was a writer, film director, film producer, film actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of vintage Bollywood. He was renowned for making films in Hindi, English, German, Indonesian, Persian, Urdu and Tamil.
Ardeshir Sepahsalar Ardeshir Sepahsalar is a Persian American Philosopher and the editor-in-chief of Critical Tolerance. He is the great great grandson of Mirza Hossein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh Sepahsalar, founder of The Old Sepahsalar Mosque, prominent Qajar era mosque, now The New Sepahsalar Mosque (Madreseh e Motahari) in Tehran, Iran.
Ardeshir Tarapore Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzonji Tarapore was born on August 18th, 1923 at Bombay. He belongs to the family of General Ratanjiba who led the army of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who was awarded 100 villages of which Tarapore was main village.
Ardeshir Zahedi Ardeshir Zahedi (Persian: اردشیر زاهدی Ardeshīr Zāhedī) (born October 16 1928) was an important Iranian diplomat during the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the country's foreign minister and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ardglass Ardglass () is a coastal village in County Down, Northern Ireland and still a relatively important fishing harbour. It is situated on the B1 Ardglass to Downpatrick road, about 11 kilometres to the south east of Downpatrick.
Ardglass Marina Ardglass Marina, with its magnificent harbour, is one of three major fishing ports in Northern Ireland. Considerable improvements have been taking place over recent years making Ardglass one of the safest small harbours on the east cost of Ireland.
Ardingly College Ardingly College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school, in the village of Ardingly near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England with approximately 754 pupils. Ardingly caters for children from 2 to 18.
Ardingly Reservoir Ardingly Reservoir is a reservoir that feeds the River Ouse located in West Sussex England 5 miles north of Haywards Heath. The villages of Ardingly and Balcombe are immediately to the east and north of the reservoir respectively.
Ardington Ardington is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district in the English county of Oxfordshire (though formerly in Berkshire). It is about two miles east of Wantage and six miles west of Didcot.
Ardipithecus Ardipithecus is a very early hominin genus (subfamily Homininae). Because it shares several traits with the African great apes (genus Pan and genus Gorilla), it is considered by some to be on the chimpanzee rather than human branch, but most consider it a proto-human because of a likeness in teeth with Australopithecus.
Ardisia elliptica Ardisia elliptica is an evergreen tree, also known as the shoebutton, native to the west coast of India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia and New Guinea. It a prolific reproducer which has made it a successful invasive species in other locations.
Ardlethan, New South Wales Ardlethan is a small service town with an estimated population of 450 located in the Coolamon Shire in New South Wales, Australia. Ardlethan is located at the intersection of the Burley Griffin Way and Newell HighwayCoolamon Shire Council Retrieved 1 January 2007.
Ardloughnabrackbaddy Ardloughnabrackbaddy is a mountain in County Donegal, Ireland with a height of 603m. It is the middle summit and third highest of the mountain chain, called the 'Seven Sisters' by locals (Muckish, Crocknalaragagh, Aghla Beg, Ardloughnabrackbaddy, Aghla More, Mackoght (also known as 'little Errigal') and Errigal.
Ardmore Avenue (NHSL station) Ardmore Avenue Station is an interurban rapid transit station on the SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100). The station is located at Ardmore Avenue and Haverford Road in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania.
Ardmore Higher Education Center The Ardmore Higher Education Center (AHEC) is a consortium-model higher education delivery system which provides academic degree programs from four participating institutions of higher education located in southern Oklahoma. Freshman through graduate courses are offered and students can earn college credits for the purposes of transfer to another college (for completing a degree), or students may complete their degree program at AHEC.
Ardmore Junction (NHSL station) Ardmore Junction is a SEPTA trolley and bus station in the Haverford Township part of Ardmore, Pennsylvania. It is an elevated stop on the Norristown High Speed Line which runs from 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania to the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Ardmore, County Waterford Ardmore (Aird MhĂłr in Irish, meaning "Great Height") is a fishing village in County Waterford situated not far from Youghal on the south coast of Ireland, with a population of around 330. It is believed to be the oldest Christian settlement in Ireland.
Ardmore, Oklahoma Ardmore is an important business, cultural and tourist destination city, as well as the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2005 census estimates, the city had a population of 24,280, while the greater Ardmore area totals 47,784.
Ardnacrusha Ardnacrusha (Árd na Croise in Irish), originally The Shannon Scheme, is Ireland's largest river hydroelectric scheme and is operated on the River Shannon near Limerick City. The plant includes fish ladders so that returning salmon etc.
Ardnamurchan Point Ardnamurchan Point (; NM 416 674) is near the western extremity of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is just north of Corrachadh Mor, the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain.
Ardo Ardo was the last of the Visigoth kings in Hispania, reigning from 713 until his defeat and death in 721. The Visigoth kingdom was already severely reduced in area and power when Agila II renounced the throne, and Ardo was unable to stop the muslim conquest of Hispania which had commenced with the Battle of Guadalete (711).
Ardolph Loges Kline Ardolph Loges Kline (February 21, 1858 - October 13, 1930) became mayor of New York City on September 10,1913 upon the death of Mayor William Jay Gaynor. He served out the remainder of Gaynor's term, leaving office on December 31, 1913.
Ardon, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Ardon (; Ossetic: Æрыдон) is a town located in the central part of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. It is situated on the west bank of the Ardon River, located 39 km northwest of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz, at .
Ardoyne Ardoyne (Ard Eoin in Irish, meaning high glen) is a predominantly Irish nationalist and Catholic district in North Belfast, Northern Ireland, made famous by the disproportionate number of incidents during "The Troubles". It is home to approximately 6,000 inhabitants.
Ardra (Star Trek) In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Devil's Due", the people of Ventax II believed in a devil-woman named Ardra (played by Marta DuBois). A thousand years before the episode, Ardra promised to solve all the world's problems.
Ardre image stone The Ardre image stones are a collection of ten rune and image stones, dated to the 8th to 11th centuries. They were used as paving under the wooden floors of the local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland, and were re-discovered when the church was restored around 1900.
Ardrishaig Ardrishaig,pronounced "ar-drishig", (Gaelic: Rubha Aird Driseig) is a lochside village at the southern (eastern) entrance to the Crinan Canal in west Scotland, in Argyll. Historically, this was once used as a smuggling point.
Ardrossan Ardrossan (Gaelic: Aird Rosain) is a town located on the North Ayrshire coast in western Scotland. The name "Ardrossan" describes its physical position — 'ard' meaning height, and 'rossan' a rocky promontory.
Ards Peninsula The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland which separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel on Ireland's northeast coast. A number of towns and villages are located on the peninsula, such as the seaside town of Donaghadee, with the surrounding area known as the Ards district.
Ardscoil RĂ­s Ardscoil RĂ­s (meaning [Edmund] Rice's High School) is a boys' secondary school on Griffith Avenue, Dublin, Ireland. The school is under the trusteeship of the Christian Brothers, however they are to completely withdraw from Education in Ireland in the next few months.
Arduino Arduino is an open source hardware physical computing platform based on a simple I/O board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.
Arduino Berlam Arduino Berlam (1880, Trieste - 1946, Tricesimo) was an Italian architect who took over the work of his father, Ruggero Berlam. From 1905 Arduino actively contributed to his father's works, creating such a harmony that experts now find it difficult to differentiate their work.
Ardusat Ardusat (Hungarian: Erdőszáda) is a large village in Western Maramureş County, Romania on the banks of the Someş River, near the border with Satu Mare County. The first record of its existence dates back to 1230 CE.
Ardvreck Castle Standing on a rocky promontory jutting out into Loch Assynt in Sutherland, north west Highland, Scotland, Ardvreck Castle is a ruined castle dating from the 16th century. The ruins can be reached by driving along the A837 which follows the north shore of Loch Assynt from the village of Inchnadamph.
Ardwell Ardwell (from Gaelic "Ard Bhaile" meaning "high town", pronounced as "Ardwell") is a village in the Scottish unitary council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the shores of Luce Bay in the Southern part of the Rhins of Galloway.
ArDM ArDM (Argon Dark Matter) is a particle physics experiment based on a liquid argon detector, aiming at measuring signals from WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), which probably constitute the Dark Matter in the universe. Elastic scattering of WIMPs from argon nuclei is measurable by observing free electrons from ionization and photons from scintillation, which are produced by the recoiling nucleus interacting with neighbouring atoms.
Are An are (symbol a) is a unit of area, equal to 100 square meters (10 m Ă— 10 m), used for measuring land area. It was defined by older forms of the metric system, but is not part of the modern metric system, the International System (SI).
Are Bhashe Arebhashe or Gowda Kannada is a dialect of the Kannada language, particularly, spoken by the people belonging to ‘Gowda’ community (among Hindus) who are the natives of Sullia and Bhagamandala of Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu districts, respectively. It is also spoken by eastern parts of Kasaragod district of Kerala state.
Are we nearly there yet equation In mathematics, the are we nearly there yet equation is a humorous equation formulated by University of Warwick mathematician Dwight Barkley to describe the time at which a child on a car journey will first ask the seemingly inevitable question, "Are we nearly there yet?" It is an example of mathematical modelling of a common process in everyday life.
Are We The Waiting "Are We The Waiting" is the fifth track on the normal edition of Green Day's seventh studio album American Idiot. In some countries, it is the fourth track, because tracks three and four ("Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams") are combined into a single track and "Are We The Waiting" and "St.
Are We There Yet Are We There Yet is the 17th episode in season 3 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
Are We There Yet? (John Reuben Album) "Are We There Yet" is the first album released by popular Christian rapper John Reuben. It was released on May 9, 200, and its most popular song is "Do Not", which was also the song that Reuben first made into a music video.
Are Ye Right There Michael Are Ye Right There Michael is a song by the 19th-century and early 20th-century Irish composer and musician Percy French, parodying the state of the rail system in rural County Clare. Because of a slow train and the decision of the driver to stop for no apparent reason while en route, French, though having left Sligo in the early morning, arrived so late for an 8 PM recital, which he was due to give, that the audience had left.
Are You Are Missing Winner Are You Are Missing Winner is an album by British rock band The Fall, released in November 2001 on CD and in January 2002 as a vinyl picture disc. Since the previous year's release of the critically acclaimed The Unutterable, Fall front man Mark E.
Are You Carrying Any Gold Or Living Relatives? Are You Carrying Any Gold Or Living Relatives: Through The Soviet Union with Nila is a book by Irene Kampen about her travels in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969. Kampen visits the Soviet Union with her friend and translator Nila Magidoff.
Are You goin' to Narnia? The opening track for The Roar of Love, album by band 2nd Chapter of Acts, gives the listener in the first seconds a taste of a different music experience, with an intro that resembles a musical play, as if it's giving time for a title or credits to appear, a narration to be performed, or acting characters to be introduced.
Are You Gonna Be My Girl "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States.
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken" is a song by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions later covered by Sandie Shaw in 1986. Shaw had made a comeback two years earlier thanks to Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths and having released a cover of their song "Hand In Glove" discussed making an album with their label, Rough Trade Records.
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking is the debut album by rock band The Like, released by Geffen in 2005 in the United States and 2006 in selected international markets including the United Kingdom. In some markets where released, a music video for "What I Say And What I Mean" is included, in other markets, a cover of Split Enz's "One Step Ahead" is included as a bonus track.
Area (architecture) Area is the name given in architecture to an excavated, subterranean space around the walls of a building, designed to admit light into a basement, and often providing access to the house for tradesmen and deliveries. The term is most commonly applied to urban houses of the Georgian period in England, where it was normal for the service rooms, such as the kitchen, scullery and laundry, to be in the basement.
Area 4, Cambridge Area 4 is one of the neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts, roughly between Central Square, Inman Square, and MIT. It is bounded on the south by Massachusetts Avenue and Main Street, on the west by Prospect Street, on the north by Hampshire Street, and on the east by the Boston & Albany Railroad tracks.
Area 51 Area 51 (currently known as Air Force Flight Test Center, Detachment 3 and also known as Dreamland, Watertown Strip, Paradise Ranch, The Box, Groom Lake, Neverland, and others) is a remote tract of land in southern Nevada, located at , at the southern edge of a large dry salt flat called Groom Lake. It is owned by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Air Force, containing an airfield whose primary purpose is believed to be the secret development and testing of new military aircraft.
Area 51 (first-person shooter) Area 51 is a first-person shooter developed in tandem for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC, and is loosely based on the 1996 light gun video game Area 51. Players control Ethan Cole, a HazMat operative voiced by David Duchovny sent to the infamous base to investigate some manner of viral outbreak.
Area 51: Site 4 Area 51: Site 4 is a light gun arcade game developed by Atari Games in 1998, and sequel to the original Area 51, picking up where that game left off. Though the graphics have been improved, they rely on the same FMV streaming technology as the original, and the gameplay remains largely the same as the original game.
Area 51: The Alien Interview Area 51: The Alien Interview is a documentary film released on video in 1997 which centers around color video footage claimed to have been obtained by a man who identifies himself only as "Victor," who purports it to be of an extraterrestrial being interrogated at a government facility.
Area 71 Area 71 is the unofficial title for Wal-Mart's 125,000-square-foot datacenter which is located in Joplin, Missouri right across state lines from Arkansas. The datacenter has a supposed capacity of over 460 terabytes of data, or 460,000,000,000,000 bytes of data.
Area air defence Area-defense is the defense of a Area or location, as opposed to point defense, which is the defense of a specific target such as a building, Airfield, etc. Area defense systems have medium to long range and can be made up of various other systems and networked into an area defense system (in which case it may be made up of several short range systems combined to effectively cover an area).
Area bombardment Aerial area bombardment is the policy of indiscriminate bombing of an enemy's cities, for the purpose of destroying the enemy's means of producing military materiel, communications, government centres and civilian morale. It differs from the use of bombs to destroy military targets.
Area bombing directive The Area bombing directive was an Air Ministry directive issued to RAF Bomber Command on 14 February 1942, eight days before Air Marshal Arthur Harris became Air Officer Commanding (AOC) of Bomber CommandLongmate refernces page 138.
Area broadcast shift In telecommunication, an area broadcast shift or radio watch shift is the changing from listening to radio transmissions intended for one broadcast area to listening to transmissions intended for another broadcast area.
Area code 209 North American area code 209 is a California telephone area code which covers Stockton, Merced, Modesto, San Andreas and the Central Valley. It was created in a split with area code 916 as a flash-cut sometime during 1958.
Area code 213 North American area code 213 is a California telephone area code which was one of the first three area codes created in California in October 1947. It originally contained all of Southern California and was generally associated with Los Angeles.
Area code 218 Area code 218 is one of the two original telephone numbering plan codes for Minnesota, though it has been modified since inception. By area, the region is the largest area code in the state, covering roughly the top half and including cities such as Duluth and Brainerd.
Area code 219 Area code 219 is a North American Numbering Plan area code for Northwest Indiana that includes Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, Jasper and counties. The area code includes such cities as Whiting, Gary, Hammond, Merrillville, Munster, Highland, Valparaiso, Michigan City, and La Porte.
Area code 225 Area code 225 is a telephone area code that covers part of southern Louisiana, including the Baton Rouge area. The area code was the second area code to be split off from the original area code 504, which had at originally covered the entire state previously.
Area code 228 Area code 228 is the telephone area code for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was the second Mississippi area code, created in 1997 when it was split off from the original area code 601, which covered the entire state.
Area code 239 Area code 239 covers a large area of Southwest Florida including Lee and Collier counties as well as small parts of Hendry and Charlotte counties and the Everglades National park in Mainland Monroe County. It was created as an area code split from area code 941.
Area code 242 The area code (242) is the local telephone area code of The Bahamas. The (242) area code, or "(BHA)" was created during a split from the original (809) area code which was done on or around the date October, 1996.
Area code 246 The area code (246) is the local telephone area code of Barbados. The (246) area code, or "(BIM)" perhaps short for "Bimshire" -- was created during a split from the original (809) area code which was done on or around the date July 1996.
Area code 253 Area code 253 is a telephone dialing code in Washington for the suburbs south of Seattle and of the southern Puget Sound area, centered at Tacoma and extending to include the areas around Gig Harbor, Auburn, and Roy.
Area code 264 The area code (264) is the local telephone area code of Anguilla. The (264) area code, or "(ANG)" was created during a split from the original (809) area code which was done on or around the date March, 1997.

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