Downey may refer to:
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Downey (surname)
Downey is an Irish surname that means in English “belonging to a fort”. The name is found from ancient times in areas of Ireland's modern County Galway, southwest Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Ulster and Leinster and is believed to be the surname of ...
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Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of ...
Places
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Downey, California
Downey is a city located in Southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is considered part of the Gateway Cities. The city is the birthplace of the Apollo space program. It is also the home of ...
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Downey, Idaho
Downey is a city in the Marsh Valley in southern Bannock County, Idaho, United States. It is part of the Pocatello Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 625 at the 2010 census.
The community was reportedly named after one Mr. Do ...
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Downey, Iowa
Downey is an unincorporated community in Cedar County, Iowa.
Demographics
History
Downey was established in 1856, the spring after the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometim ...
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Businesses
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W. & D. Downey, photographic studio
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Downey Studios
The Downey Studios was a production studio in Downey, California.
The studio featured of indoor and outdoor production space including a building and a building which was home of the largest indoor water tank in North America. A suburban residen ...
, created out of a former Boeing plant
Schools
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Downey High School
Downey High School is one of two senior high schools located in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California, and within the Downey Unified School District. It is located at 11040 Brookshire Ave. At the present time the school has an enrollment ...
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Thomas Downey High School
Thomas Downey High School (TDHS) is a High School in Modesto, California. It is one of the seven high schools in Modesto.
Thomas Downey High is the second oldest high school in the city of Modesto and its doors opened to students in the Fall of 1 ...
Downy
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Downy (fabric softener)
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Downy Birch
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Drooping Brome
''Bromus tectorum'', known as downy brome, drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas. It now is present in most of Europe, southe ...
(Downy Brome)
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Downy Emerald
The downy emerald (''Cordulia aenea'') is a species of dragonfly. It is metallic green and bronze in color, and its thorax is coated with fine hairs, hence its name. Like most other emeralds, the downy emerald has bright shiny green eyes. Adults ...
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Downy Hawthorn
''Crataegus mollis'', known as downy hawthorn or red hawthorn, is a species of plant that occurs in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota east to Nova Scotia and southwest to eastern Texas. The range of this species is from southe ...
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Downy Hempnettle
''Galeopsis segetum'', commonly known as downy hemp-nettle, is a species of flowering plant in the sage family, Lamiaceae. It grows as a weed in arable ground throughout Europe. Although superficially resembling the stinging nettle
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Downy mildew
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Downy Oak
''Quercus pubescens'', the downy oak or pubescent oak, is a species of white oak (genus ''Quercus'' sect. ''Quercus'') native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the Crimea and the Caucasus. It is also fou ...
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Downy Serviceberry (disambiguation) Downy serviceberry is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
* ''Amelanchier arborea
''Amelanchier arborea'' (downy serviceberry or common serviceberry), is native to eastern North America from the Gulf Coast north to Thunder Bay in O ...
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Downy Woodpecker
See also
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Downie, a surname
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