Bristol

[ bris-tl ]

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noun

a seaport in Avon, in southwestern England, on the Avon River near its confluence with the Severn estuary.
a city in central Connecticut.
a township in southeastern Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
a deepwater seaport in eastern Rhode Island.
a city in northeastern Tennessee, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Virginia.
a city in southwestern Virginia, contiguous to but politically independent of Bristol, Tennessee.
a bi-state region comprising the twin cities of Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia.

Bristol

/ ˈbrɪstəl /

City of Bristol
City of Bristol a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
City of Bristol
City of Bristol a unitary authority in SW England, created in 1996 from part of Avon county. Pop: 391 500 (2003 est). Area: 110 sq km (42 sq miles)

Another fine "any time" plate is Bristol Bay (Alaska) sockeye salmon.

Bristol has her already-established blog on the site while Piper has begun to record her own video commentary.

“I saw a lunatic, simply stated,” the victim, a contractor from nearby Bristol, told police.

One of the first to get a drug in this class to market was Bristol-Meyers Squibb, with Yervoy.

Bristol-Meyers also declined a request to comment on the issue of financial orphans.

It is but 50 miles from Bristol, and not so much as 100 miles from Oxford, and the coach passes very near this place.

One day the Bristol mail was robbed; another day the Dover coach; then the Norwich waggon.

William Berry, an English author, died at Bristol, aged 77; author of various works on genealogy and heraldry.

But these were trifles compared with the devastation committed at Bristol, when its recorder.

The Bristol fire is universally imputed to design and patriotic virtue.

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