burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital. The name "Stromness" comes from the Old Norse Straumnes. Straumr refers...
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Stromness is the second largest town on Orkney, Scotland. Stromness may also refer to: Stromness, South Georgia, a whaling station on South Georgia Island...
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early charts, but since about 1920, the name Stromness has been consistently used. Its name, Stromness, derives from the similarly named town in the...
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Motala ström is the river system that drains lake Vättern, the second largest lake in Sweden, into the Baltic Sea in Norrköping. It is named from the...
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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from...
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Stockholms ström (The Stream of Stockholm), also known as Strömmen (The Stream), in Stockholm is the innermost part of Saltsjön, a bay of the Baltic Sea...
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Stromness Bay is a bay 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, entered between Cape Saunders and Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia. Stromness Bay, like Leith...
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Stromness Academy is a secondary school located in the town of Stromness in the Orkney Islands, established in 1875. Stromness Academy was originally opened...
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Albin Ström (28 November 1892 in Ånimskog – 22 June 1962) was a Swedish socialist politician from Gothenburg. As a young Social Democrat, Ström joined...
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Tarjei Frugård Strøm (born October 26, 1978, in Bergen, Norway) is a drummer for the Norwegian rock groups Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band and Datarock...
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