Alderson may refer to:
Places
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Alderson, Oklahoma
Alderson is a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census.
History
A post office was established at Alderson, Indian Territory on March 5, 1890. It was named for an employee of the Choctaw, ...
, a US town
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Alderson, West Virginia
Alderson is a town in Greenbrier and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, on both sides of the Greenbrier River. The population was 975 at the 2020 census.
History
Alderson is a community located along the Greenbrier River in ...
, a US town
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Alderson Federal Prison Camp
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson (FPC Alderson) is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
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Alderson, Alberta
Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First World ...
, a ghost town in Canada
Other uses
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Alderson (surname) Alderson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Brian Alderson, Scottish footballer
*Bryce Alderson (born 1994), Canadian soccer player
*Dale Alderson (1918–1982), American baseball pitcher
*Dan Alderson, American scientist and p ...
People
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Charles Alderson
Charles Alderson (born 1946) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on language assessment.
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, linguist
See also
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Alderson drive
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven.
Series
Setting
Formation of the CoDominium
The point of departure of Pournelle's history is the ...
, a fictional interstellar transport drive
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Alderson disk
An Alderson disk (named after Dan Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant platter with a thickness of several thousand miles. The ...
, a fictional artificial astronomical megastructure
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