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albuquerque
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in New Mexico, U.S., founded 1706 and named for Spanish administrator and viceroy of Mexico Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque (1617-1676); name altered by association with Portuguese soldier Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515), both named from Alburquerque, a town in Spain close to the Portuguese border, meaning "white oak;" ultimately from Latin albus "white" and quercus "oak."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 198465
Land area (2000): 180.641955 sq. miles (467.860495 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.637221 sq. miles (1.650396 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 181.279176 sq. miles (469.510891 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02000
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 35.110703 N, 106.609991 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87102 87104 87105 87106 87107 87108
87118 87120 87121 87122 87123
Headwords:
Albuquerque
Wikipedia
"Albuquerque" is the last song of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Running with Scissors album. At 11 minutes and 22 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever released on any of his official studio albums.
With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about Yankovic's made-up life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after winning a first-class one-way airplane ticket to the city. According to Yankovic, the song is in the style of the "hard-driving rock narrative" of artists like The Rugburns, Mojo Nixon and George Thorogood.
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States.
Albuquerque may also refer to:
Albuquerque is a 1948 American Western directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Lon Chaney, Jr.. Based on the novel Dead Freight for Piute by Luke Short, with a screenplay by Gene Lewis and Clarence Upson Young, the film is about a man who is recruited by his corrupt uncle to inherit his freight-hauling empire in the southwest, and who eventually defects to his uncle's honest business rival.
Albuquerque is a common Portuguese surname, which may refer to:
- Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515), a Portuguese fidalgo and naval general officer
- Cássio Albuquerque dos Anjos (born 1980), a Brazilian goalkeeper
- Filipe Albuquerque (born 1985), a Portuguese race car driver
- João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque (1878–1930), the governor of Paraíba, Brazil between 1928 and 1930
- Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti (1850–1930), the first cardinal to be born in the Americas
- Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1855–1902), a Portuguese soldier
- José Albuquerque (born 1975), a Brazilian boxer
- Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1792–1865), a Portuguese military officer, engineer, poet, scientist and politician
- Marcos Venâncio de Albuquerque (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
- Mike de Albuquerque (born 1947), an English musician
- Oscar Albuquerque (born 1954), a former Canadian soccer midfielder
- Renato de Albuquerque, a Brazilian civil engineer and entrepreneur in the construction and real state businesses
- Glasner da Silva Albuquerque, known as ''Esquerdinha '' Brazilian footballer
Usage examples of "albuquerque".
From Lordburg, from Deming, from Alamogordo and Albuquerque, from Socorro and Santa Fe, they came.
Labs, the installations in Los Alamos rather than those down in Albuquerque.
Probably they had been purchased as gifts at the Amtrak station in Albuquerque, where such things were sold beside the track.
Year by year, almost month by month, Albuquerque was growing into a big city.
None of the buildings in town were tall, not even by Albuquerque standards.
Alex had the impression that he had been driving almost continuously uphill since leaving Albuquerque, and now evergreens of one kind or another were taking up more and more of the landscape.
So in Albuquerque, or Santa Fe, or here, one keeps encountering the same people, same faces, at work, at social events, political rallies, everywhere.
Somehow, without there having been any apparent strain, it had worked out that Alex was going to stay overnight, and drive back to Albuquerque in the morning when, as his hosts put it, his chances of staying on the winding, unfamiliar roads would be much better.
Back in Albuquerque before noon, he headed not straight for his motel but for downtown, where once more he drove past Berserkers Incorporated, checking for any signs of activity.
By the time some maid came in and found her body he would be far from Albuquerque, certainly out of the state.
However he tried to explain to himself what had happened in that Albuquerque motel, it still seemed unreal.
Then later Hank had listened to a few news broadcasts on his own and had heard how the Albuquerque police were still seeking Alex Barrow for questioning and were not getting anywhere with finding him.
Not in a big city like Albuquerque, and not out on a ranch like the one his other set of grandparents had owned when they were still alive.
See, it and another truck fixed up in a similar way were both reported stolen from the Labs in Albuquerque some weeks ago.
Labs in Albuquerque they had fitted out this van and another truck with super radar systems, all kinds of gadgets.