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Arizona

1861, originally as the name of a breakaway Confederate region of southern New Mexico; organized roughly along modern lines as a U.S. territory in 1863. From Spanish Arizonac, probably from a local name among the O'odham (Piman) people meaning "having a little spring." Alternative theory is that it derives from Basque arizonak "good oaks."

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Arizona (band)

Arizona was a Eurodance project from England that consisted of remixer/ producers Michael Gray and Jon Pearn (both of Full Intention) and vocalist Zeeteah Massiah (born 24 December 1960 in Barbados). Their 1993 club music release " Slide on The Rhythm" (credited to Arizona featuring Zeitia) went to #1 on Billboard 's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In March 1994, "I Specialize In Love" was released and reached #74 in the UK Singles Chart.

NB: They are not to be confused with another funk and soul band of the same name, who recorded an eponymous album for RCA in 1977.

Arizona (disambiguation)

Arizona is a state in the United States of America.

Arizona may also refer to:

Arizona (1931 film)

Arizona is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Laura La Plante, John Wayne and June Clyde. It is one of several films based on Augustus Thomas's 1899 play of the same name.

Arizona (1940 film)

Arizona is a 1940 American Western film starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William and the 4th remake of the 1913 film Arizona. It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

Victor Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score, while Lionel Banks and Robert Peterson were considered for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.

Arizona (Lucky Luke)

Arizona is a Lucky Luke comic by Morris, it was the third album in the series and was printed by Dupuis in 1951.

Arizona (play)

Arizona is a dramatic play written in 1899 by Augustus Thomas, considered one of his best. The play takes place in the Arizona Territory before the Spanish–American War of 1898.

The Territory became the U.S. state of Arizona in 1912.

Arizona (song)

"Arizona" is a song written by Kenny Young and recorded by former Paul Revere and the Raiders member Mark Lindsay, with L.A. session musicians from the Wrecking Crew, in 1969. The single was Number 10 on the Hot 100 on 14 February 1970 and was awarded a RlAA Gold Disc in April 1970.

Arizona (1918 film)

Arizona is a 1918 American silent melodrama film produced by and starring Douglas Fairbanks and released by Famous Players-Lasky under its Artcraft Pictures banner. Based on the successful play of the same name by Augustus Thomas, the film was directed by Albert Parker.

Despite mixed reviews and its release near the end of the Spanish flu epidemic, the film prospered at the box office largely on the strength of its star's drawing power.

Arizona is presumed lost.

Arizona (department)

The Arizona Department (1863−1865) was a department of the Second Mexican Empire, located in the present day state of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico.

It was directly south of the U.S. Arizona Territory, the present day state of Arizona.

Category:Mexican Empire Category:Departments Category:History of Sonora Category:Subdivisions of Mexico Category:1863 establishments in Mexico Category:1865 disestablishments in Mexico

Arizona (1913 film)

Arizona was a 1913 silent film western feature directed by Augustus Thomas based on his famous play Arizona. It is one of the first feature films made in the United States, alongside Cleopatra and Richard III. Cyril Scott plays the lead Lt. Denton.

This film is now lost.

Arizona

Arizona (; O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak [ˡaɺi ˡʃonak]) is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western United States and of the Mountain West states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is one of the Four Corners states. It has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, and one point in common with the southwestern corner of Colorado. Arizona's border with Mexico is 389 miles (626 km) long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.

Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase.

Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with very hot summers and mild winters. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees; the Colorado Plateau; some mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains); as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Alpine, and Tucson. In addition to the Grand Canyon National Park, there are several national forests, national parks, and national monuments.

About one-quarter of the state is made up of Indian reservations that serve as the home of 27 federally recognized Native American tribes, including the Navajo Nation, the largest in the state and the United States, with more than 300,000 citizens. Although federal law gave all Native Americans the right to vote in 1924, Arizona excluded those living on reservations from voting until its state Supreme Court ruled in 1948 in favor of Native American plaintiffs.

Usage examples of "arizona".

Arizona and New Mexico, but do you really think the Anglos in Texas are going to move away and give the state to you?

Emily Carlisle, an arachnologist with the University of Arizona, how Carlisle plays matchmaker between Cody and Hardin, is wonderful, unfortunately, it takes up all too few pages of the book.

They dwell mainly in northeastern Arizona and produce superb pottery, carpets, basketwork, and inlaid and overlaid silver jewelry which is in great demand.

She moved to Bleachfield, Arizona, where her brother, Nathan, was a preacher.

The scrub of southern Texas had given way to cacti, which had given way to the occasional oasis in Arizona, which had given way to the pines and oaks of California, which turned into curbs and streets.

Ann Cymba is a freelance writer, history teacher, gardner, web designer, and parent living near the Arizona desert.

I want you to get the ball rolling on building dorms for them on our Arizona land.

Strike Command and with Fulbright before he walked in here, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona that I would like to offer for sale to him.

Less than two years after the Unzen catastrophe another group of volcano watchers, led by Stanley Williams of the University of Arizona, descended into the rim of an active volcano called Galeras in Colombia.

There was a very remote valley in the southern part of the Arizona Territory where he would send Grueling and his wives.

Christopher had just begun to tell his story to Joel Cassinger when Cassinger was interrupted and informed that Louis Albergetti, the head of national security, who just happened to be at a conference in Arizona, would be in the office momentarily, accompanied by Charles Gutterman, the California head of security who was unavailable at the time Christopher had first phoned their office.

He had been living with the Havasupai Indians in Arizona, he said, and he planned to return immediately and to remain forever.

The Mogollon of the eastern region, the Anasazi of the northeastern highlands, and the Hohokam of southern Arizona, who had been able to raise crops in a barren desert because of the irrigation ditches they had scraped out with stones and shells.

Nevertheless, it was a passable imitation, though bearing a closer kinship to the subsidence formations of the Martian Tithonius Lacus than to the hydrologically formed Grand Canyon of Arizona.

A microscopical examination of the green copper ores of secondary origin in the Clifton and Morenci district of Arizona proves brochantite to be of extremely common occurrence mostly intergrown with malachite which effectually masks its presence: it is not unlikely that the malachite of other localities will on examination be found to be intergrown with brochantite.