Alta.
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The newspaper Il Gazzettino, under a banner headline, “Acqua Alta. Fear and Anger in Venice,” described the city’s residents as “barricaded in their homes.”
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2019
Gaber, 22, a native of Edmonton, Alta., was led into a windowless room in the U.S.
From BusinessWeek • Feb. 24, 2011
Southern Alberta Airlines teaches at Lethbridge, Alta., and helps the Alberta Provincial Police hunt escaped prisoners.
From Time Magazine Archive
This spring the Hutterites of Pincher Creek, Alta. quietly bought 1,000 acres of farmland near Lind, Wash., leased an additional 5,000 acres with an option to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vicar-General of St. Albert, Alta., whose history had been identified for fifty years with the Canadian North-West, and whose career had touched the currents of primitive life at all points.
From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Mair, Charles
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