Alderson may refer to:
Places
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Alderson, Oklahoma, a US town
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Alderson, West Virginia, 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, a fictional artificial astronomical megastructure
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