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A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
is a wooded wetland.
Swamp or The Swamp may also refer to:
Books and comics
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''Swamp'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Gary Clark
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''The Swamp'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Hanna Mina
* ''The Swamp'', a 1976 book by
Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician. He was a California Republican Party, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22 ...
*''The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise'', a 2006 book by
Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald (born August 16, 1970) is an American journalist and author who writes about public policy and national politics. He worked as a journalist for ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''Time''. He is presently a senior ...
Film and television
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''The Swamp'' (1921 film), a silent film starring Sessue Hayakawa and Bessie Love
* ''The Swamp'', a 2019 film produced by television series ''
American Experience
''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...
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''The Swamp'' (documentary), a 2020 documentary film by HBO
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''The Swamp'' (Ireland), a 1996–1998 summer replacement for the television series ''The Den'' on RTÉ
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"The Swamp" (''Avatar: The Last Airbender''), a television episode
* The Swamp, a tent that was home to the main characters in the film ''
MASH'' and television series ''
M*A*S*H
''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker.
The ...
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Music
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Swamp music (disambiguation) or simply swamp, a type of American popular music
* The Swamp, a studio space associated with GWAR record label
Slave Pit Inc.
Slave Pit Inc. is the artist collective, production company and independent record label created for releasing projects by the heavy metal band Gwar and related side projects such as Mensrea and Locus Factor.
History (1984–1993)
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''Swamp'' (album), by Phil Thornalley, 1988
* ''Swamp'', an album by Partisans with
Julian Siegel
Julian H. Siegel (born 1966 in Nottingham) is a British jazz saxophone and clarinet player, and a composer and arranger, described by MOJO Magazine as "One of the UK's most creative saxophonists"
Siegel has toured and recorded with Greg Cohen an ...
, 2014
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"Swamp" (song), by That Petrol Emotion, 1987
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"Swamp" (Brockhampton song), 2017
* "Swamp", a song by Talking Heads from ''
Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of sp ...
'', 1983
* "Swamp", a song by Telepopmusik from ''
Angel Milk'', 2005
* "The Swamp", a song by Gruff Rhys from ''
American Interior
''American Interior'' is the fourth solo album by Gruff Rhys, released on 5 May 2014. It is a concept album based on the life of the explorer John Evans. It peaked at number 24 in the UK.http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/gruff%20rhys/
Tr ...
'', 2014
Acronyms
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Southern Waste Management Partnership
Before disbanding in 2015, the Southern Waste Management Partnership (SWaMP) coordinated the disposal and handling of municipal waste, including recycling, in the South of Northern Ireland. The local authorities that were covered by SWaMP (before l ...
, Northern Ireland, UK
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SouthWest Association of Mountain Bike Pedalers, a bike trail building organization in Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Places nicknamed The Swamp
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, the football stadium at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Cypress Lake (Lafayette, Louisiana)
Cypress Lake is a swamp-like lake in the heart of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus that started as a prehistoric bison wallow. Today it is a unique university landmark that is a habitat for native irises, alligators, turtles, bir ...
, also on the UL Lafayette campus
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Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium (sometimes referred to as Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands or The Swamp) was a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The venue was open from 1976 to 2010, and it primarily hosted sp ...
, a football stadium near New York City from 1976 to 2010
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The Swamp (LSUS)
A swamp is a wooded wetland.
Swamp or The Swamp may also refer to:
Books and comics
* ''Swamp'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Gary Clark
* ''The Swamp'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Hanna Mina
* ''The Swamp'', a 1976 book by Bill Thomas
*''The Swa ...
, the soccer stadium at Louisiana State University Shreveport
See also
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Swamp Creek (disambiguation)
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La Cienega (disambiguation)
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Drain the swamp
''Drain the swamp'' is a phrase which has frequently been used by politicians since the 1980s. The phrase can allude to the physical draining of swamps which is conducted to keep mosquito populations low in order to combat malaria, prevalent dur ...
, an idiom of political rhetoric
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