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  2. Anniston, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]

  3. German Italian Memorial Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The German Italian Memorial Cemetery at the Fort McClellan United States Army post is the burial site for 26 German and three Italian World War II enemy combatants who had been interned at Fort McClellan at their time of death. The rules and practices of disposing of deceased enemy combatants is dictated by International Humanitarian Law, as ...

  4. Fort McClellan - Wikipedia

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    Fort McClellan. Coordinates: 33°42′39″N 85°44′14″W. Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million ...

  5. Freedom Riders National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Riders National Monument. /  33.63500°N 85.90833°W  / 33.63500; -85.90833. The Freedom Riders National Monument is a United States National Monument in Anniston, Alabama established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 to preserve and commemorate the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement.

  6. June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt - Wikipedia

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    John William Anglin (born May 2, 1930) and Clarence Anglin (born May 11, 1931) were born into a family of 14 children in Donalsonville, Georgia.Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, they moved the family to Ruskin, Florida, 20 miles (32 km) south of Tampa, where the truck farms and tomato fields provided a more ...

  7. Monsanto House of the Future - Wikipedia

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    Monsanto House of the Future. /  33.81250°N 117.91833°W  / 33.81250; -117.91833. The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland 's Tomorrowland [1] in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967. [2] It offered a tour of a futuristic home, and was intended to demonstrate the versatility of modern plastics.

  8. Solutia - Wikipedia

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    Solutia and its parent company Monsanto agreed in 2003 to pay $700 million to settle claims by 20,000 Anniston, Alabama residents over PCB contamination. Monsanto documents indicate that the company routinely dumped PCBs in the land and water supply of Anniston and covered up its behavior for more than 40 years.

  9. Bayer's Monsanto wins reversal of $185 million PCBs verdict ...

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    May 1, 2024 at 5:24 PM. By Clark Mindock. (Reuters) - A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a ...