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Cowan or Cowans may refer to: Places Australia * Cowan, New South Wales * Cowan Creek, a waterway to the north of Sydney, Australia * Division of Cowan, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia * Hundred of Cowan, a cadastral division in South Australia Canada * Cowan, Manitoba United States * Cowan, California * Cowan, Indiana * Cowan, Pennsylvania * Cowan, Tennessee * Cowans Brook, a stream in Minnesota Other uses * Cowan (surname), a surname * EML ''Admiral Cowan'' (M313), a ''Sandown''-class minehunter of the Estonian Navy See also * * Cowen (other) * Parkinson Cowan, a brand of cooking appliances * Rich & Cowan Rich & Cowan Ltd was a book publisher, based at 37 Bedford Square, London WC1. They specialized in literary books. Books * '' A Ghost in Monte Carlo'' by Barbara Cartland, (1951) * ''Goethe: a play in four acts'' by S. M. and C. S. Fox, London,( ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, New South Wales
Cowan is a small town and suburb near Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Cowan shares the postcode of 2081 with Berowra. Brooklyn, which lies to the north-east of Cowan, is considered the northernmost suburb of the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area. History The town takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning ''big water''. The 1828 census lists two convicts called Cowan, and it is also thought possible that Cowan was named after one of them. Still another suggestion is that it was named after a small town in Scotland. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Generic 2.0license. Besides the English botanist George Caley, who explored the area in 1805, the first Europeans to visit the area were timber-getters. The timber from Cowan was used for coach building, one of the first industries ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan Creek
Cowan Creek is located in New South Wales, Australia. It is a tidal subcatchment of the Hawkesbury River. Almost all of the catchment lies within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Tributaries include Coal and Candle Creek Coal and Candle Creek is a creek located in Sydney, Australia. It is a tributary of Cowan Creek which flows into the Hawkesbury River. See also *Cottage Point, New South Wales Cottage Point is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New ..., which branches off from Cowan Creek at Cottage Point and Smiths Creek. Creeks and canals of Sydney Hawkesbury River {{Sydney-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Division Of Cowan
The Division of Cowan is an Australian Electoral Division in Western Australia. Cowan is an inner-northern Perth seat lying generally between Morley Drive and Hepburn Avenue, extending from the Mitchell Freeway in the west to the Tonkin Freeway and Lord Street in the east. Cowan is a marginal seat that leans toward the Australian Labor Party. The current MP is Anne Aly, and member of Labor and the first Muslim woman elected to federal parliament. She speaks Arabic and has previously worked in the Western Australia public service as a senior policy advisor. History The division was created in 1984 and is named for Edith Cowan, the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament. It is located in the northern suburbs of Perth, including the suburbs of Girrawheen, Greenwood, Landsdale and Marangaroo. It is a marginal seat, changing hands between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. All but one of its members has served at least one term in opposition. For ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hundred Of Cowan
The County of Musgrave is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 22 June 1876 and named after Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of South Australia from 9 June 1876 to 29 January 1877. Description The county covers the part of the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Great Australian Bight between Talia Beach in Anxious Bay in the north and Cape Drummond in the south, and extends inland from the coastline for a distance of about . The town of Elliston falls within the county's borders, and the towns of Lock, Tooligie and Yeelanna are located adjacent to the county's eastern boundary. The Flinders Highway passes along the coastline of the county from the northwest to the southeast, the Tod Highway passes through the county in a north–south alignment near its eastern boundary, and the Birdseye Highway passes through the county in a west–east direction between E ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, Manitoba
Cowan, Manitoba is a town in Manitoba, Canada. It is located off the intersection of Manitoba Highways 10 and 20, 21 miles west of Camperville, and 17 miles east of Minitonas Minitonas is an unincorporated urban community in the Municipality of Minitonas – Bowsman, Manitoba, Canada. It is surrounded by the Swan Valley and is located 15 km east of the Town of Swan River. The community is close to the Duck Mo .... Climate References Unincorporated communities in Parkland Region, Manitoba {{Manitoba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, California
Cowan is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California. Cowan sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Cowan's population was 318. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 0.2 square miles (0.4 km2), all of it land. Demographics The 2010 United States Census reported that Cowan had a population of 318. The population density was . The racial makeup of Cowan was 274 (86.2%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 2 (0.6%) Native American, 0 (0.0%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 32 (10.1%) from other races, and 10 (3.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 161 persons (50.6%). The Census reported that 318 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 94 households, out of which 39 (41.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 50 (53.2%) were opposit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, Indiana
Cowan is an unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana. History Cowan was founded in 1869, when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Charles McCowan, a longtime resident who donated funds to build a church and school building. Overview The Cowan Street Light Festival was an annual event held in Cowan to raise money to pay for the electricity used by the town's street lights, with most funds raised by selling booths to vendors. However, currently the festival no longer exists. Public education is administered by the Cowan Community School Corporation (formerly the Monroe Community School Corporation). The elementary (K-6) was ranked 8/10. The high school (7-12) was ranked 5/10. Geography The Norfolk Southern Railway passes from north to south through town. Cowan is located one mile north of Oakville. Notable people *Orville Harrold Orville Harrold (17 November 1877 – 23 October 1933) was an American operatic tenor an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, Pennsylvania
Cowan is a populated place in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania, United States. Notable institutions in Cowan include Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...'s Forrest D. Brown Conference Center. History In the 1860s, Cowan was known as Farmersville. Trinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1871. References External links {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Union County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan, Tennessee
Cowan is a city in Franklin County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,737 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Tullahoma, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The earliest settlers arrived in the Cowan area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The home of one such settler, William Russell, served as the Franklin County Courthouse until the establishment of Winchester in 1810.John Abernathy Smith,Franklin County" ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved: 24 April 2016. The town was named for Dr. James Benjamin Cowan, a Civil War-era doctor whose family had lived in the area since the early 1800s. The town of Cowan dates from the mid-19th century and developed mostly as a railroad town. It was the site where several branch lines met the main Nashville to Chattanooga trunk of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway which ran through the important Cowan Tunnel. As the last stop before the uphill climb onto the nearb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowans Brook
Cowans Brook is a stream in Aitkin and Kanabec counties, Minnesota, in the United States. Cowans Brook was named for a lumberjack. See also *List of rivers of Minnesota Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border downstream. It is joined by the Minnesota River at Fort Snellin ... References Rivers of Aitkin County, Minnesota Rivers of Kanabec County, Minnesota Rivers of Minnesota {{Minnesota-river-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cowan (surname)
Cowan is a surname of both Scottish-Irish and Jewish origins. As a Scottish or Irish surname The name Cowan is first seen in the historical record in the UK and Ireland among Briton people in the Scottish and English borderlands. It derives from the old Gaelic MacEoghain or MacEoin (the "mac" prefix meaning "son of") or the Gaelic given name Eoghan. Alternate Anglicized spellings in Scotland include Cowen and Kewon. Similar names with the same derivation in Ireland and Northern Ireland are Coen, Coan, and Coyne, as well as McKeown and McKeon (the Irish prefix "mc" having the same meaning as the Scottish Gaelic "mac"). Notable people with the surname * Adeline May Cowan, Scottish botanist * Aileen H. Cowan (born 1926), Canadian painter and sculptor * Andrew Cowan (other), several people * Austin M. Cowan (1885–1949), Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court * Barry Cowan (broadcaster), journalist and broadcaster * Barry Cowan (tennis), former tennis player * Bernard Cowan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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EML Admiral Cowan (M313)
EML ''Admiral Cowan'' (M313) is a ''Sandown''-class minehunter. Formerly HMS ''Sandown'', lead ship of her class of the Royal Navy, she is now an Estonian Navy ship. Renamed EML ''Admiral Cowan'', she is the flagship of the Estonian Navy and part of the Estonian Navy's mine sweeping flotilla. ''Admiral Cowan'' is the lead vessel of the Estonian Navy Mineships Division and also the first of the three modernised ''Sandown'' class minehunters received. History HMS ''Sandown'' was built by Vosper Thornycroft and was laid down at their Woolston, Southampton shipyard on 2 February 1987 and was launched on 18 April 1988 by the Duchess of Gloucester, as the lead ship of the 12-ship class of ''Sandown'' class minehunters. ''Sandown'' entered service a year later on 9 June 1989. After commissioning, ''Sandown'' carried out an extensive programme of trials, and was not fully operational until December 1992, having suffered problems with her sonar outfit. She participated in a number ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |