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Selfridge, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 223
Housing Units (2000): 85
Land area (2000): 0.268541 sq. miles (0.695517 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.268541 sq. miles (0.695517 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71660
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.042028 N, 100.924673 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58568
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Several people are or were named Selfridge:

  • Harry Gordon Selfridge (1856–1947), founder of Selfridges Department Store
  • Peter A. Selfridge, current United States Chief of Protocol.
  • Oliver Selfridge, grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge and a pioneer in artificial intelligence
  • Thomas O. Selfridge (1804–1902), an admiral in the United States Navy, during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War
  • Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. (1836–1924), an admiral in the United States Navy and son of Thomas O. Selfridge
  • Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), a lieutenant in the US Army and the first person to die in a powered airplane crash
  • John Selfridge, a mathematician

Places named Selfridge:

  • Selfridge, North Dakota
  • Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan, named for Thomas Selfridge

Other:

  • Selfridges, a chain of department stores in the United Kingdom
  • USS Selfridge (DD-320), a United States Navy destroyer named for Thomas O. Selfridge
  • USS Selfridge (DD-357), a United States Navy destroyer named for Thomas O. Selfridge and Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr.
  • Mr Selfridge, a British-American television series about Harry Gordon Selfridge & Selfridges

Usage examples of "selfridge".

Selfridge woofs on the bar and everybody jumps off their stools, right?

A few pleasant people from Philadelphia and Baltimore were picknicking at the inn, and the Selfridge Merrys had come down for three weeks because Kate Merry had had bronchitis.

And he lifts Selfridge like a foot up in the air—and Zambonis the bar with him!