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Millbrook, North Carolina Millbrook, North Carolina, USA, was a village in Wake County at that time in the intersection of then Wake Forest Road and then Main Street, which is now part of East Millbrook Road. However the recent growth of Raleigh from the 1970s through today has swallowed up the village.
Millbrook, West Virginia Millbrook is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Millbrook is located along Dillons Run on Dillons Run Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 50/25) in southeastern Hampshire County.
Millburn Academy Millburn Academy is a secondary school situated in the centre of Inverness in the heart of the Highlands of Scotland. It offers a state funded education on a wide variety of subjects and has an excellent academic record to date.
Millburn High School Millburn High School is a four-year public high school in Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey. It is part of the Millburn Township Public Schools, and enrolls students from the town of Millburn, including its neighborhood of Short Hills.
Millburn Township Public Schools The Millburn Township Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in prekinderagrten through twelfth grade from Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
Mille (card game) Mille is a two-player card game requiring two standard 52-card decks. Mille is a rummy game similar to canasta in the respects that if a player picks up cards from the discard pile, the player picks up the entire pile, and the only legal melds are three or more cards of a same rank.
Mille Bornes Mille Bornes (also Mille Bournes) is a French card game. In the United States, Mille Bornes is published by Parker Brothers and is commonly available in game stores, as well as toy stores and department stores.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, also known as the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians or the Mille Lacs Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, is an Ojibwa tribe located in Minnesota. The tribe boasts 3,794 tribal members as of July, 2005.
Mille Lacs Indians The Mille Lacs Indians are a Band of Indians formed from the unification of the Mille Lacs Band of Mississippi Chippewa (Ojibwe) with the Mille Lacs Band of Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota). Today, the Mille Lacs Indians consider themselves as being Ojibwe, but many on their main Reservation have the Ma'iingan (Wolf) as their chief Doodem (Clan), which is an indicator of Dakota origins.
Mille Lacs Kathio State Park Mille Lacs Kathio State Park is a Minnesota state park on Mille Lacs Lake. The park preserves habitation sites and mound groups, believed to date between 3000 BC and 1750 AD, that document Sioux Indian culture and Ojibwe-Sioux relationships.
Mille Regretz Mille Regretz is a French chanson which in its 4 part setting is usually credited to Josquin des Prez. Its plangent simplicity made it a popular basis for reworkings (such as the mass setting by Cristobal Morales, and the 6vv (SATTBB) setting by Nicolas Gombert), as well as more recent sets of variations and threnody.
Mille-fleur Mille-fleur (French) literally means "thousand flower" and refers to a background made of many small flowers and plants. It was an especially popular motif in the applied arts and crafts during the Middle Ages in Europe.
Milled coinage The term milled coinage, also known as machine-struck coinage, is used to describe coins which are produced by some form of machine, rather than by manually hammering coin blanks between two dies (hammered coinage) or casting coins from dies.
Milledge Avenue (UGA bus route) The Milledge Avenue bus route is a route of the University of Georgia Campus Transit system. The UGA Campus Transit system carries a greater volume of passengers than any other university transit system in the United States.
Milledge Luke Bonham Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813 – August 27, 1890) was a 19th century American politician and Congressman who served as the Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. He was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
Millen Range The Millen Range () is a prominent NW-SE trending range in Antarctica, located west of Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains. Peaks in the range include Inferno, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gless, Turret, Crosscut and Mount Aorangi.
Millen, West Virginia Millen is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA between Donaldson and Green Spring on Green Spring Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 1) and the South Branch Valley Railroad. Millen is nestled in Green Spring Valley along Green Spring Run between Green Spring Ridge (881 feet) and Valley Mountain (1,437 feet).
Millenary Petition The Millenary Petition was a list of requests given to James I by Puritans in 1603 when he was travelling to London in order to claim the English throne. It is claimed, but not proven, that this petition had 1,000 signatures of Puritan ministers.
Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures Millencolin and the Hi-8 Adventures is a 74 minute homemade video released in 1999 which features live songs, videos, and footage from Millencolin's tours and skateboarding. The film was created by the band's guitarist Erik Ohlsson.
Millenium Village Project The Millennium Village Project aims to establish a foundation of evidence that rural Africa can be on the path towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals using science-based, proven and practical interventions over a five-year timeframe. The Project will empower individual African villages to achieve the MDGs through the implementation of comprehensive, community-based, low-cost, integrated rural development strategies delivered within the budget recommended by the UN Millennium Project.
Millennialist movement Millenialist movements have frequently been found through history among people who rally around often-apocalyptic religious prophecies that predict a return to power, the defeat of enemies, and/or the accumulation of wealth. These movements have been especially common among people living under colonialism or other forces that disrupt previous social arrangements.
Millennium (TV series) Millennium is a grim, suspenseful television series, produced by Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files), and set during the years leading up to the dawn of the new millennium. The series was produced in Vancouver, Canada and aired from 1996 to 1999 on the Fox Network.
Millennium 3 Millennium 3 is a television news music package composed by Shelly Palmer. It was composed in 1993 and features up to 150 cuts of opens, closes, stingers, bumpers and promo beds in a hard-hitting action news format.
Millennium coastal path The Millennium coastal path is a pedestrian walkway/cycleway along the south coast of Carmarthenshire, providing a link between Llanelli and Pembrey Country Park. The cycleway forms a section of both the Celtic Trail cycle route (part of NCR 47) and the National Cycle Network NCR 4.
Millennium City Millennium City is a fictional setting in Champions, a game using the Hero System for role-playing games. The city is built upon the remains of Detroit, Michigan, much of which was destroyed in a battle between superpowered heroes and villains in 1992.
Millennium Coastal Park The Millennium Coastal Park was originally a project undertaken by Llanelli Borough Council to transform a 20km stretch of industrial wasteland on the south Carmarthenshire coast in to green parkland. The project was then taken over by Carmarthenshire County Council after the amalgamation of Welsh local authorities and aims to transform the land into a recreational area for the general public.
Millennium Communities Programme The Millennium Communities Programme (or Millennium Villages initiative), is an English Partnerships initiative to construct 7 new 'villages' that are intended to 'set the standard for 21st Century living, and to serve as a model for the creation of new communities' in England.
Millennium Council The Millennium Council is a minor British political party set up by Roger Macnair to campaign for direct democracy. Macnair was the party's only parliamentary candidate in the 2005 UK general election, he stood in his hometown constituency of Basingstoke.
Millennium Dome [O2 , with the Canary Wharf] complex in the background, seen from the River Thames. The [[London 2012 logo, which has now been removed from the Dome, can be seen advertising the fact that it would be an Olympic venue]]
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a research program that focuses on ecosystem changes over the course of decades, and projecting those changes into the future. It was launched in 2001 with support from the United Nations by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Millennium Falcon The Millennium Falcon is a fictional starship that first appeared in the original Star Wars film, A New Hope. It went on to play a major role in the two followup films (The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi respectively), and made a cameo in Revenge of the Sith.
Millennium Force Millennium Force is a steel roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. The fourteenth roller coaster built at the park, it is a royal blue structure and stands 310 feet (95 meters) tall at its highest point.
Millennium Galleries The Millennium Galleries is an art gallery in the City of Sheffield, England. Opened in April 2001 as part of Sheffield's Heart of the City project, it is located in the city centre close to the city library, Sheffield Hallam University, and the city's theatre district.
Millennium Green At least 250 Millennium Greens exist in towns and villages around the UK. Funded in part by the National Lottery via the Countryside Agency, they are permanent areas of green space for the benefit of local communities.
Millennium High School Millennium High School is a public] high school located at 75 Broad Street in [[New York City. The high school is located on the 11, 12, and 13th floors of the former ITT building, 2 blocks south of the New York Stock Exchange.
Millennium High School (Piedmont, California) Millennium High School in Piedmont, California is the Piedmont Unified School District's alternative high school. Millennium strives to help each student find the path that matches his or her unique interests, needs, and learning styles.
Millennium Challenge 2002 Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02) was a major wargame exercise conducted by the United States armed forces in mid-2002, likely the largest such exercise in history. The exercise, which ran from July 24 to August 15 and cost 250 million dollars, involved both live exercises and computer simulations.
Millennium Institute The Millennium Institute (Millennium Intézet) has brought a new approach to the policy making level in Hungary being the first generalistic think tank in the country and having a strong cultural inclination. Its series of lectures Várostudás Kollégiuma (College for the Knowledge on the City) has produced much disucssion and helped to move the public debate on the future of the cities and communities more to the visionary / professional direction from the then prevalent political fights.
Millennium Interactive Millennium Interactive was a Cambridge-based computer games developer responsible for titles such as Rome: Pathway to Power, The Adventures of Robin Hood, James Pond, Defcon 5, Deadline and most notably, Creatures.
Millennium Kids Millennium Kids is an international youth empowerment environmental organization. In Canada, as a not-for-profit organization, the organization facilitates many environmental activities across Ontario (from Ottawa, Toronto, to Kitchener-Waterloo).
Millennium Live Millennium Live: Humanity's Broadcast was an unsuccessful attempt to broadcast an international television special celebrating the beginning of the Year 2000, or the so-called Millennium. Reports claimed that the show was to have involved broadcasters in up to 130 nations.
Millennium Magic Millennium Magic is a concept by the RFL to take an entire round of Super League matches to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The first Millennium Magic round is scheduled for the weekend of May 5th, 2007.
Millennium Magic Weekend Millennium Magic Weekend is a concept that will see all the rugby league football clubs that participate in Super League play a game at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, to help promote the sport of rugby league football in Wales. This will occur on Saturday 5th May, 2007, and Sunday 6th May, 2007.
Millennium March The Millennium March on Washington drew about 500,000 people to the District of Columbia in 2000. Demonstrators called for equal rights without regard to gender; specifically, most marchers identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Millennium Mathematics Project The Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) was set up within the University of Cambridge in 1999 as a joint project between the Faculties of Mathematics and Education. The MMP aims to support maths education for pupils of all abilities from ages 5 to 19 and promote the development of mathematical skills and understanding, particularly through enrichment and extension activities beyond the school curriculum, and to enhance the mathematical understanding of the general public.
Millennium Music Conference The Millennium Music Conference (MMC) is an annual event that features 3 days of panels, clinics, workshops, mentoring, demo listening sessions, and a music business trade show, held in and around the City of Harrisburg, PA. The event celebrates new music and emerging talent with 3 nights of showcases by original acts and artists.
Millennium of Russia The Millennium of Russia is a famous bronze monument in the Kremlin of Novgorod, Russia. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of Russian history.
Millennium Park (disambiguation) Millennium Park is a name shared by various public and private parks and civic centers named in honor of the millennium celebrations of the year 2000. Listed below are Wikipedia articles featuring those parks and civic centers.
Millennium Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan Millennium Park is the largest urban park in West Michigan, located on the southwest side of Grand Rapids. Millennium Park connects four of the major cities in the area together, including Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Grandville, and Walker.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals Millennium Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area of the United States of America. Founded in 1993, the company conducts research in various scientific areas, currently focusing on inflammation and oncology.
Millennium Promise Millennium Promise is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2025. Its flagship initiative, Millennium Villages, is an integrated, community-driven strategy meant to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provide communities with the basic tools and necessities to put themselves on the path toward self-sustainable development.
Millennium Research Program The Millennium Research Program of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation was launched in 2001 to assist the Foundation in carrying out its mandate to improve access to post-secondary education in Canada and provide students with the educational opportunities they need to prepare themselves for the future. The Research Program advances the study of barriers to post-secondary education and the impact of policies and programs designed to alleviate them.
Millennium simulation The Millennium Run is the name of a simulation created to investigate how the Universe evolved over time, and is used by scientists working in physical cosmology to compare observations with theoretical predictions.
Millennium Science Initiative The Millennium Science Initiative (MSI) is an international initiative funded by the Science Initiative Group and The World Bank dedicated to bringing science and technology from developed nations to the third world. Currently, MSI has a presence in Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam and is looking to start projects in Argentina, Bangladesh, Latvia, and South Africa.
Millennium Shock Millennium Shock is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor and Harry, and is a sequel to Richards' Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock.
Millennium Soldier: Expendable Millennium Soldier: Expendable (known as Expendable in the USA and Seitai Heiki Expendable in Japan) is the title of a top-down run and gun videogame that was released by British developer Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1998, the Sega Dreamcast in 1999, and the Sony PlayStation in 2000.
Millennium Stadium The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm) in Cardiff is the national stadium of Wales, used primarily for rugby union and football home internationals. It was the largest Stadium in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 74,500, but relinquished this distinction when Old Trafford's extension was completed in 2006.
Millennium Stamp The Millennium Stamps were a series of Royal Mail stamps issued in 1999. The stamps were classified into 12 groups (known as "tales") including Entertainment, Science & Technology and Sport, with one group released in each month of 1999.
Millennium Summit The Millennium Summit was a meeting among several world leaders lasting 3 days from September 6 to September 8 2000 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to discuss the role of the United Nations in the turn of the twenty-first century.
Millennium train The Millennium train "M" Set is CityRail's (Sydney) newest member of the electric fleet (4th generation train), manufactured by EDi Rail, in Newcastle. The Millennium train was put into service from June 2002 after extensive testing and replaced ageing 1960s Tulloch trailers, all of which were withdrawn by March 2004.
Millennium Tower (301 Mission Street) The Millennium Tower or 301 Mission Street is a blue, all glass, 60-story highrise condo tower currently under construction on the border of the South of Market and Financial District in San Francisco. This $400 million project was developed by Millennium Partners of New York City and designed by Handel Architects (Rising 645 ft.
Millennium Transit Services Millennium Transit Services LLC is a bus manufacturer formed in 2003 to take over the former NovaBUS manufacturing plant in Roswell, New Mexico. The company is largely made up of former NovaBUS employees, and financed by the city of Roswell, the State of New Mexico and Pioneer Bank.
Millennium Village The Millennium Village was located in Epcot and was the centerpiece of Disney's Millennium Celebration. The 60,000 square-foot pavilion opened up its doors to the public on October 1, 1999 and was closed down on January 1, 2001.
Millennium Volunteers Millennium Volunteers (often abbreviated as MV) is a national UK government initiative, set up with public funding, and aimed at people aged between 16 and 24. It offers a wide range of volunteering opportunities, with support and accreditation for young people.
Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a popular text by Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis. In it, he argues that the ancient customary wisdom, communal sharing and closeness to nature found in tribal or indigenous societies hold important survival lessons for our modern industrial society steeped in waste, consumerism, ecocide and social rootlessness.
Millenniummon Millenniummon is a character from the Digimon video game series starring Ryo Akiyama, making a cameo in the Digimon 02 series. He is a synthetic-type Digimon that was created as a result of Machinedramon and Kimeramon DNA Digivolving for reasons unknown.
Miller & Martin Miller & Martin is a large Southeastern law firm with offices Atlanta (Georgia), and Nashville (Tennessee), and a main office in Chattanooga (Tennessee). The firm employs over 150 attorneys and a similar number of support staff.
Miller & Rhoads Miller & Rhoads was a Virginia-based department store chain. Throughout its 105 year life-span, the store, often called "Millan Rhoads" by locals, played an active role in the Richmond community, along with its friendly cross-street rival Thalhimers.
Miller (crater) Miller is a lunar impact crater that lies amidst the rugged terrain in the southern part of the Moon. It is attached to the northern rim of the smaller Nasireddin crater, and the outer [of the later reaches almost to the central peak formation at the mid-point of the interior floor.
Miller / Hull The Miller|Hull Partnership, established in 1977 by David Miller and Robert Hull, is a Seattle based architecture firm. In addition to numerous publications, they are the recipients of the 2003 American_Institute_of_Architects National Firm Award, the AIA's highest honor.
Miller Analogies Test The Miller Analogies Test (MAT) is a 120 question, 60 minute (formerly 100 question, 50 minute) standardized test used primarily for graduate school admissions in the USA. The exam aims to measure an individual's logical and analytical reasoning through the use of partial analogies.
Miller Barber Miller Barber (born March 31, 1931) is an American professional golfer who enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) in the 1980s. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Miller Brothers The Miller Brothers, Rand, Ryan and Robyn Miller co-founded Cyan Productions (now Cyan Worlds) and became famous from the unexpected success of their computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990s.
Miller Columns A browsing/visualization technique whose application to tree structures is most well known today as the "View Columns" mode of the Mac OS X Finder. It is closely related to techniques used earlier in the Smalltalk browser, but was independently invented by Mark S.
Miller County, Arkansas Territory Old Miller County was created April 1, 1820 by the Arkansas Territorial Legislature. It included much of what is southeastern Oklahoma and the northeastern counties in Texas (Bowie, Red River, Lamar, Fannin, Cass, Morris, Titus, Franklin, Hopkins, Delta and Hunt).
Miller Electric Miller Electric is an arc welding and cutting equipment manufacturing company based in Appleton, WI. Miller Electric has grown from a one-man operation selling products in Northeast Wisconsin, to what is today the world's largest manufacturer of arc welding and cutting equipment.
Miller Huggins Miller James Huggins (March 27, 1879 – September 25, 1929), nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a Major League Baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships.
Miller Middle School Joaquin Miller Middle School, commonly referred to as Miller Middle School, is a co-educational, public middle school which teaches grades 6-8 in the West San Jose area of San Jose, California, USA. Miller Middle School is part of the Cupertino Union School District.
Miller Publishing Company The Miller Publishing Company was established by siblings Donald Miller and Donna (Miller) Reddington in 2002 to purchase four small weekly newspapers in southwestern Ohio from Cox Communications. Two of the papers are in Warren County, the Franklin Chronicle in Franklin and the Star-Press in Springboro, the Germantown Press.
Miller Puckette Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. Puckette is best known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia synthesis, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s.
Miller test The Miller test is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.
Miller v Miller Miller v Miller [2006] (House of Lords) is a divorce (property settlement) case between Alan Miller and Melissa Miller. He is an asset manager in the City who had a fortune of some ÂŁ30m (per The Times - which says 17.
Miller's Crossing Miller's Crossing (1990) is a gangster film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney and John Turturro. The film's plot depicts a power struggle between two rival gangs and how the protagonist (played by Byrne) plays both sides off each other.
Miller's Department Store Miller Brothers Company, its name shortened to Miller's after its acquisition by Garfinkel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, was a major eastern Tennessee chain of stores founded in Chattanooga, becoming a part of Allied Stores and eventually sold to Hess's in 1986; it converted to Proffitt's in 1992. Its flagship store, on the corner of Seventh and Market streets in Chattanooga, was famed for having Chattanooga's only "Subway," which consisted of an underground shopping area that tunneled beneath Broad Street to another building at the corner of Seventh and Broad.
Miller's knot A Miller's knot (also Sack knot or Bag knot) is a binding knot used to secure the opening of a sack or bag. Historically, large sacks often contained grains; thus the association of these knots with the miller's trade.
Miller-Davis Law Buildings The Miller-Davis Law Buildings, known commonly as the Miller Davis Building, are located on Main and Front Street in the McLean County, Illinois city of Bloomington. The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1979.
Miller-Dieker syndrome Miller-Dieker syndrome is a disease characterised by a developmental defect of the brain, caused by incomplete neuronal migration. The brain is smooth (also known as lissencephaly), has an absence of sulci and gyri, has a cerebral cortex 4 layers thick instead of 6 and shows microcephaly.
Miller-Urey experiment The Miller-Urey experiment (or Urey-Miller experiment) was an experiment that simulated hypothetical conditions present on the early Earth and tested for the occurrence of chemical evolution. Specifically, the experiment tested Oparin and Haldane's hypothesis that conditions on the primitive Earth favored chemical reactions that synthesized organic compounds from inorganic precursors.
Millerandage Millerandage is a French term referring to an viticultural problem in which grape bunches contain berries of greatly different size and, most important, different levels of maturity. Its most common cause is too cold or otherwise bad weather during the flowering stage of the vines.
Millerites The Millerite tradition is a diverse family of denominations and Bible study movements that have arisen since the middle of the 19th century, traceable to the Adventist movement sparked by the teachings of William Miller.
Millers Dale railway station Millers Dale railway station was a station situated in Millers Dale in the Peak District. It was built by the Midland Railway on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway from Rowsley.
Millers River The Millers River is a river in New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, originating in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and Rindge, New Hampshire, joining the Connecticut River just downstream from Millers Falls, Massachusetts.
Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania, 3 miles (5 km) west of Lancaster. Millersville University is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Millesons Mill, West Virginia Millesons Mill is an unincorporated hamlet in Hampshire County, West Virginia, USA. Millesons Mill is located between Springfield and Points on Springfield Pike (West Virginia Secondary Route 3) along the South Branch Potomac River.
Millet The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one, based on similar characteristics and uses.
Millet (Ottoman Empire) Millet (stress on the e) is an Ottoman Turkish term for a confessional community in the Ottoman Empire. In the 19th century, with the Tanzimat reforms, the term started to refer to a legally protected ethnic and religious minority group, other than the ruling Sunni.
Millet butterflyfish The millet butterflyfish, Chaetodon miliaris, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the eastern Central Pacific from Johnston Island and Hawaii, at depths down to 250 m. Its length is up to 13 cm.
Millfield Millfield is a distinctive Independent school in Street, Somerset, England. It is the largest co-educational boarding school in the country and renowned for its sporting excellence, as well as for dedicated teaching across a very wide range of standards.
Millfield Metro station Millfield is a suburb, roughly in the centre of Sunderland. This station dates from the opening of the Pelaw to Sunderland and South Hylton metro extension in 2002, but stands on the alignment of the former Sunderland to Durham mainline that fell to the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.
Millfield Mine disaster The Millfield Mine disaster, Ohio's worst mine disaster, occurred November 5, 1930 in a Sunday Creek Coal Company mine in Athens County, Ohio. According to the historical marker at the site in Millfield, the explosion killed 82 people, including the company's top executives who were in the mine inspecting new safety equipment.

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