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Gaines, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 366
Housing Units (2000): 155
Land area (2000): 0.303608 sq. miles (0.786342 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.303608 sq. miles (0.786342 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31200
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.872318 N, 83.913060 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48436
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Gaines -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 14467
Housing Units (2000): 5410
Land area (2000): 1502.350454 sq. miles (3891.069648 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.490556 sq. miles (1.270535 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1502.841010 sq. miles (3892.340183 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.776734 N, 102.665852 W
Headwords:
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Gaines, TX
Gaines County
Gaines County, TX
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Gaines

Gaines may refer to:

Gaines (surname)

Gaines is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Brian R. Gaines, British systems scientist and engineer
  • Cassie Gaines (1948–1977), American singer; backup singer for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and sister of fellow band member Steve Gaines (below)
  • Charles Gaines (fire chief), fire chief of Fort Worth, Texas
  • Charles Gaines, Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry
  • Chris Gaines (gridiron football) (born 1965), American football player
  • Clarence Gaines (1923–2005), American basketball coach
  • David Gaines (basketball), retired American professional basketball player
  • David Gaines (composer), musician and composer
  • David Gaines (race car driver), NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division race car driver
  • Edmund P. Gaines (1777–1849), United States Army officer, brother of George Strother Gaines
  • Ernest J. Gaines (born 1933), African American author
  • George Gaines (set decorator), Academy Award winner for Best Art Direction
  • George Strother Gaines (1784–1873), American leader in the Mississippi Territory, brother of Edmund P. Gaines
  • Jacques Gaines, Canadian singer, lead singer of Soul Attorneys
  • John P. Gaines (1795–1857), Governor of Oregan Territory
  • John W. Gaines (1860–1926), U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
  • Lloyd L. Gaines, (born 1911, disappeared 1939), pioneering American civil rights litigant
  • Max Gaines (died 1947), pioneering American comic book publisher, father of William Gaines
  • Randal Gaines (born 1955), American politician
  • Reece Gaines (born 1981), American professional basketball player
  • Richard Gaines (1904-1975), actor
  • Rowdy Gaines (born 1959), American swimmer
  • Roy Gaines (born 1934), American blues guitarist
  • Sheldon Gaines (born 1964), American football player
  • Steve Gaines (1949–1977), American musician, guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • William Gaines (1922–1992), American publisher of EC Comics, founder of Mad magazine
  • William E. Gaines (1844-1912), United States Representative (Republican), Civil War veteran
  • William Gaines (professor), Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and professor of journalism
  • Gaines A. Knapp (18448-1918), American politician
  • Chris Gaines, fictional alter ego of American country music singer Garth Brooks

Usage examples of "gaines".

In the early hours of Saturday, Herbert Gaines was driven back to Concorde Tower in the back of Jack Gross' Cadillac.

As Gaines reached out to dial him back, his coffee cup, half full, landed in his lap.

There Gaines stopped, short of the wind break, turned, and kept his eyes on the wall beyond the stationary walkway.

He picked out some landmark, or sign—not apparent to his companion—and did an Eliza-crossing-the-ice back to the walkway, so rapidly that Blekinsop was carried some hundred feet beyond him, and almost failed to follow when Gaines ducked into a doorway and ran down a flight of stairs.

Harvey looked at Gaines, who nodded, and signaled the Cadet Captain to halt his forces.

Seeing this, Gaines did not regret so much his order to shoot, but the deep sense of loss of personal honor lay more heavily on him than before.

He must be caused to center the venom of his twisted outlook on Gaines, to the exclusion of every other thought.

Even after Gaines surrendered, two weeks after the shooting, I watched.

His name was Herbert Gaines, and he had once been Hollywood's hottest new property.

Herbert Gaines had just been watching that face, and those movies, for the thousandth time.

Herbert Gaines smoked listlessly, with his holder clenched between his teeth.

Herbert Gaines, with a curiously intense expression on his face, heaved himself out of his chair and went after him.

Herbert Gaines was interviewed seven times that evening on New York and network television, and an almost tangible wave of resentment against the black population made itself felt across the breadth of the American continent.

Just as Adolf Hitler had successfully blamed the Jews for the financial depression of the 1930s, Herbert Gaines had laid the blame for the plague on the shoulders of the American blacks.

This Gaines guy says on the tube that the niggers is all to blame for the plague, so the white gangs have been cruisin' up to Harlem and puttin' a torch to every-thin' that burns, and a few things that don't.