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biscay
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Housing Units (2000): 48
Land area (2000): 0.069412 sq. miles (0.179776 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.069412 sq. miles (0.179776 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06112
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.826888 N, 94.273462 W
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Biscay
Wikipedia
Biscay (in Basque and officially Bizkaia and in Spanish Vizcaya) is a province of Spain located just south of the Bay of Biscay. The name also refers to a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay. Its capital city is Bilbao. It is one of the most prosperous and important provinces of Spain as a result of the massive industrialization in the last years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Since the deep deindustrialization of the 1970s, the economy has come to rely more on the services sector.
Biscay was a brilliant two-year-old Thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Australia in 1965 and who easily won the Maribyrnong Plate by eight lengths.
Biscay is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is situated in the Basque Country and the largest city is Bilbao where around 30% of the electorate of almost a million live. At the time of the 2008 election, Barakaldo and Getxo were the only other large municipalities with electorates over 50,000.
Biscay is a Basque province in Spain.
Biscay may also refer to:
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Bay of Biscay, a gulf on the Atlantic coast of France and Spain
- Biscay, a sea area as used by the BBC shipping forecast
- Biscay (horse), Australian thoroughbred racehorse
- Biscay, Minnesota, a city in Minnesota, United States
- Biscay Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Lord of Biscay, mediaeval ruler of Biscay
- Biscaya, a song and album by James Last
- Bizcaya (football team), was an association football team from Bilbao, Spain
Usage examples of "biscay".
ON MARCH 24, in the Bay of Biscay, Adams could see by telescope the snow-capped mountains of Spain.
Biscay, and in fact none of these large, somewhat ponderous, 1,700-ton boats survived the war.
Initially we were allocated to those 19 boats intended to take up a waiting position in the Bay of Biscay.
Ireland or England as I had expected but, rather, France, in the Bay of Biscay I was standing in to some tiny, nameless Gascon port, when three craft about the size of whaleboats came rowing out toward me, fast as the crews could row.
The British had invaded a small corner of southern France, nothing but a toehold between the southern rivers and the Bay of Biscay, and these men expected the British to attack again.
The sea-wind, howling off Biscay, rattled the casements of her lodgings.
Then a merciful rain-squall swept out of Biscay to help douse the flames even as it helped hide the American boat.
The long Biscay shore, that could thunder with tumbling surf, was this week in gentler mood.
The mayor and cure had begged him to preserve the boats which, even in French defeat, would give life and bread to the communities of the Biscay coast, but in defeat Henri Lassan would do his duty.
For months now, on a diet of worm-infested biscuit, rotting meat, foul water and rum, they had been immured in the forecastles of the great ships that weathered the Biscay storms.
Wellington or the Admiral of the Biscay Squadron could have ordered the two men to stop their scheming, yet they had been allowed to indulge their dreams of madness.
Bay of Biscay, but I never heard of one before that came out of a cloud hi the shape of a raven!
Along the great highway through Biscay the wondering native carters draw their sheep-skinned ox-teams aside, to let the regiments pass, and stray groups of peaceable field-workers in Navarre look inquiringly at the marching and prancing progress.
SEMICHORUS II Till gracious zephyrs shoulder on their sails To where the brine of Biscay moans its tragic tales.
London and its streets and lights diminishing till they are lost in the distance, and its noises being succeeded by the babble of the Channel and Biscay waves.