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Wiktionary
n. (cx climbing English) A grip using one hand with the thumb down and elbow out. vb. (cx climbing English) To hold using such a grip
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 479
Land area (2000): 1.690715 sq. miles (4.378932 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.139269 sq. miles (0.360706 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.829984 sq. miles (4.739638 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25560
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.496013 N, 77.643881 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27832
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Housing Units (2000): 376
Land area (2000): 0.350569 sq. miles (0.907970 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.350569 sq. miles (0.907970 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27072
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.313547 N, 85.500848 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47342
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Gaston
Housing Units (2000): 204
Land area (2000): 0.222906 sq. miles (0.577323 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.222906 sq. miles (0.577323 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28100
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.436337 N, 123.141501 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97119
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Gaston
Housing Units (2000): 532
Land area (2000): 3.425865 sq. miles (8.872948 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.425865 sq. miles (8.872948 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28780
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.815927 N, 81.100937 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29053
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Gaston
Housing Units (2000): 78842
Land area (2000): 356.214501 sq. miles (922.591283 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.328053 sq. miles (18.979569 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 363.542554 sq. miles (941.570852 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.284549 N, 81.166447 W
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Gaston, NC
Gaston County
Gaston County, NC
Wikipedia
Gaston is a gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. The series focuses on the everyday life of Gaston Lagaffe (whose surname means "the blunder"), a lazy and accident-prone office junior. Gaston is very popular in large parts of Europe (especially in Belgium and France) and has been translated in over a dozen languages, but except for a few pages by Fantagraphics in the early 1990s (as Gomer Goof), there is no published English translation.
Since the 1980s Gaston has appeared on a wide variety of merchandise.
Gaston is a masculine given name of French origin and a surname. The name Gaston may refer to:
Gaston is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 30th animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is based on the character Avenant who appears in Jean Cocteau's 1946 film adaptation of the fairy tale " Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, although screenwriter Linda Woolverton indicated that she based Gaston primarily on former lovers she had.
Created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton, Gaston is an arrogant hunter whose feelings for Belle drive him to murder the Beast out of jealousy once he realizes that she has fallen in love with his adversary. The character was animated by supervising animator Andreas Deja.
Gaston is the name of a brown fur seal that lived in Prague Zoo in years 1991-2002. He became famous during the 2002 European floods when he escaped from the zoological garden, when the rising waters of the Vltava river flooded his tank at Prague zoo. He swam more than from Prague to Dresden ( Germany) on rivers Vltava and Elbe. He was recaptured north of Dresden and subsequently died due to exhaustion and infection.
"Gaston" is a song from the 1991 Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast. A short reprise is performed later in the musical.
Gaston is a masculine given name or surname. It may also refer to:
Places:
- Gaston, California, an unincorporated community
- Fort Gaston, California, founded in 1859, abandoned in 1892
- Gaston, Indiana, a town
- Gaston, North Carolina, a town
- Gaston County, North Carolina
- Gaston, Oregon, a city
- Gaston, South Carolina, a town
- Gaston, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- A variant spelling of Gastun, present-day Bagras, a Crusader castle in Turkey
Other uses:
- Gaston (comics), a Belgian comic strip by André Franquin
- Gaston (climbing), the climbing technique named after Gaston Rébuffat
- Gaston College, a community college in North Carolina
- Hurricane Gaston
- Tropical Storm Gaston (2010)
- "Gaston" (song), a song from Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Usage examples of "gaston".
Gaston was now a rich man through his marriage with the Baronne de Macumer.
Sir Nigel Loring de Christchurch, de son tres fidele ami Sir Claude Latour, capitaine de la Compagnie blanche, chatelain de Biscar, grand seigneur de Montchateau, vavaseur de le renomme Gaston, Comte de Foix, tenant les droits de la haute justice, de la milieu, et de la basse.
Sir Nigel Loring of Christchurch, from his very faithful friend Sir Claude Latour, captain of the White Company, chatelain of Biscar, grand lord of Montchateau and vassal to the renowned Gaston, Count of Foix, who holds the rights of the high justice, the middle and the low.
Tom, and Billy, redolent of plum pudding and Seven Dials, Gontran, Gaston and Achille, savoring of brasseries and the Sorbonne.
Peter, smiling with genial cheer, ushered Hetty into the hall, where Gaston fussed about taking her scarf and coat.
Groups of English and American students in their irreproachable evening attire, groups of French students in someone else's doubtful evening attire, crowds of rustling silken dominoes, herds of crackling muslin dominoes, countless sad-faced Pierrots, fewer sad-faced Capuchins, now and then a slim Mephistopheles, now and then a fat, stolid Turk, 'Arry, Tom, and Billy, redolent of plum pudding and Seven Dials, Gontran, Gaston and Achille, savoring of brasseries and the Sorbonne.
When the Legislature of 1860-'61 met at Gaston, we estimated that we might count upon fifty-three out of the seventy-one Republican Senators and Assemblymen, and on thirty-four out of the sixty-five Democrats.
Her bladder and kidneys were a drip coffee maker that she could feel and measure as she drove back and forth from Gaston County, and sat on the bench, and went to the movies, and flew on crowded airplanes, or walked on the track and found the field house locked.
The testimony of these two latter men is very difficult either to explain or to explain away, but I cannot deal with this question here, but must refer the reader to a paper on the subject by Mr GASTON DE MENGEL, and the discussion thereon, published in vol.
Go south to Goldsboro from Rocky Mount, then over to Raleigh or Greensboro, so you can head north on the Raleigh and Gaston or the North Carolina Railroad up to the Richmond and Danville.
Her festive genius was still so alive then that when she received new records she would invite Gaston to stay in the parlor until very late to practice the dance steps that her schoolmates described to her in sketches and they would generally end up making love on the Viennese rocking chairs or on the bare floor.
She hit Gaston, Tambourin, Squalus, Hera, and Hallman, and there's not a damned bit of orbital industry left in any of them.
She hit Gaston, Tambourin, Squalus, Hera, and Hallman, and there’s not a damned bit of orbital industry left in any of them.