Davis may refer to:
Places
Antarctica
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Mount Davis (Antarctica)
Mount Davis () is a mountain located 1.6 km north of Mount Bentley and 2.4 km southeast of Mount Hale (Antarctica), Mount Hale in the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. Discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party of 1957–58, under Char ...
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Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago)
Davis Island is an island about long, situated in a position which blocks much of the channel between Brabant Island and Liège Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It is separated from Liège Island on the north by Zlogosh Passage, and from Alben ...
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Davis Valley Davis Valley is an ice-free valley just east of Forlidas Ridge in north-east Dufek Massif, in the Pensacola Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos in ...
, Queen Elizabeth Land
Canada
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Davis, Saskatchewan
Davis is an unincorporated community south of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Davis was once a village but has since shrunk to a handful of houses. It is just northwest of the Muskoday First Nation and southeast of Prince Albert
Prince Albe ...
, an unincorporated community
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Davis Strait, between Nunavut and Greenland
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Mount Davis (British Columbia)
Mount Davis is a mountain in British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscape ...
United States
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Davis, California, the largest city with the name
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Davis, Illinois, a village
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Davis, Massachusetts, an abandoned mining village
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Davis, Maryland, a ghost town
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Davis, Missouri Davis is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by a ...
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Davis, North Carolina
Davis is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Carteret County, North Carolina, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 422.
Geography
Davis is ...
, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Davis, Oklahoma, a city
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Davis, South Dakota, a town
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Davis, West Virginia, a town
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Davis, Logan County, West Virginia
Anthony Davis is an unincorporated community on Installation 07, Virginia West, Canadia. It is part of the Holden census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population de ...
, an unincorporated community
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Davis Island (Connecticut) Davis Island, one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut, was the site of President William Howard Taft's "Summer White House".
See also
*Thimble Islands
*Outer Lands
References
*Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimble ...
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Davis Island (Mississippi) Davis Island is a large island located in the Mississippi River. It lies mostly in Warren County in the state of Mississippi but is also partly in Madison Parish, in the state of Louisiana. It is located about 20 miles southwest of Vicksburg, Missi ...
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Davis Island (Pennsylvania)
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Davis Peak (Washington)
Davis Peak is a mountain just north of Gorge Lake in North Cascades National Park, in the US state of Washington. It is located just south of the Picket Range. While not of particularly high elevation, even for the North Cascades, it is notabl ...
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Fort Davis, Oklahoma
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Mount Davis (California)
Mount Davis is a prominent peak in the Ansel Adams Wilderness on the Inyo National Forest and south of Yosemite National Park. The peak was named in honor of Lieutenant Milton Fennimore Davis, who was with the first troops detailed to guard Yosem ...
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Mount Davis (New Hampshire)
Mount Davis is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is located along Montalban Ridge, a series of summits extending south from Mount Washington in the White Mountains.
Mount Davis is named after the Davis family of Ma ...
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Mount Davis (Pennsylvania)
Mount Davis () is the highest point in Pennsylvania. Located in the Forbes State Forest near the hamlet of Markleton in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County; it lies on a gentle crest of a ridge line extending from central Somerset County sout ...
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Than Kyun
Than Kyun or Davis Island is an island at the southern end of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma. It is the largest and highest island of the Alladin Islands, a scattered cluster of islands extending to the W and SSW of Zadetkyi Island
Zadetkyi Island ...
or Davis Island, Burma
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Mount Davis, Hong Kong
Mount Davis or Mo Sing Leng is an area surrounding and including the westernmost hill on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is 269m tall. Home to mostly luxury residences, Mount Davis was originally settled after the construction of Victoria Road, ...
Train stations
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Davis station (California)
Davis station is a train station in Davis, California. The station is owned by the city, while the tracks are owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. The station is served by Amtrak ''California Zephyr'', ''Capitol Corridor'', and ''Coast Starlight' ...
, Amtrak station in Davis, California
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Davis station (CTA)
Davis is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 1612 Benson Avenue (directional coordinates 1600 north, 800 west), in the middle of downtown Evanston, and next to th ...
, elevated public transit station in Evanston, Illinois
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Evanston Davis Street station
Evanston Davis Street is a commuter railroad station in downtown Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line with trains going south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Met ...
, commuter railroad station in Evanston, Illinois
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Davis (MBTA station)
Davis station is an underground Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line rapid transit station located at Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. The accessible station has a single island platform for the Red Line, as well ...
, subway station in Somerville, Massachusetts
People
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Davis (surname)
Davis is a surname of English and Welsh origin.
As an English surname it may be a corruption of Davy or a reference to King David in the Old Testament. As a Welsh surname may be a corruption of Dyfed, related to Irish colonists who occupied an ...
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List of people with surname Davis
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Davis (given name)
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Dāvis
Dāvis is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:
*Dāvis Bertāns (born 1992), Latvian basketball player
*Dāvis Ikaunieks (born 1994), Latvian footballer
*Dāvis Indrāns
Dāvis Indrāns (born 6 June 1995) is a Latvian football pl ...
Other uses
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Davis Cup
The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
, premier international team event in men's tennis
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University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
, also known as "UC Davis"
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Davis Station, Antarctica, an Australian base and research outpost
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Davis Entertainment, an American independent film production company
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Davis Motorcar Company
The Davis Motorcar Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, which produced three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948. In total the company produced 13 veh ...
, manufacturer of three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948
* "Davis", a song by Chaz Jankel from the album ''
Chazablanca
''Chazablanca'' is the third solo studio album by the English singer and multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel. It was originally released in 1983, on the label A&M.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
*Chas ...
''
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Davis County (disambiguation) Davis County is or was the name of the following counties in the United States:
* Davis County, Iowa, named in honor of Garrett Davis, a Congressman from Kentucky
*Davis County, Utah, named for Daniel C. Davis, captain in the Mormon Battalion
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Davis Township (disambiguation) Davis Township may refer to:
Arkansas
* Davis Township, Grant County, Arkansas, in Grant County, Arkansas
* Davis Township, Van Buren County, Arkansas, in Van Buren County, Arkansas
Indiana
* Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana
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Fort Davis (disambiguation)
Fort Davis may refer to the following.
*Fort Davis National Historic Site
*Fort Davis, Alaska
*Fort Davis, Oklahoma
*Fort Davis, Panama
*Fort Davis, Texas
*Fort Davis (Washington, D.C.)
Fort Davis is a residential neighborhood located in south ...
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Davis's law
Davis's law is used in anatomy and physiology to describe how soft tissue models along imposed demands. It is the corollary to Wolff's law, which applies to osseous tissue. It is a physiological principle stating that soft tissue heal according to ...
, in anatomy and physiology
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Davis gun
The Davis gun was the first true recoilless gun developed and taken into service. It was developed by Commander Cleland Davis of the United States Navy in 1910, just prior to World War I.
Development
Davis' design connected two guns back to back ...
, the first true recoilless gun
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Davis wing
The Davis wing is a World War II-era aircraft wing design that was used by Consolidated Aircraft on the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as well as other models. The airfoil had a lower drag coefficient than most contemporary designs, which allowed ...
, an aircraft wing design
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Justice Davis (disambiguation)
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