Rural Municipality of Morris
Morris is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The Town of Morris, a separate urban municipality, is located in the southeastern corner of the RM.
The RM has a population of 3,047 persons as of the 2016 Canada ...
, Manitoba
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Morris, Manitoba
Morris is a small town in the Pembina Valley region of Manitoba, Canada, located 51 km south of Winnipeg and 42 km north of Emerson. Morris is home to 1,885 people (2016). Named after Alexander Morris, the second Lieutenant Governor o ...
Morris, Connecticut
Morris is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 2,256 at the 2020 census.
Europeans first began to settle the area that became Morris about 1723. Originally part of the town of Litchfield, it was called the ...
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Morris, Georgia
Morris (also Morris Station) is an unincorporated community in southeastern Quitman County, Georgia, United States. Its elevation is 249 feet (76 m). It has a ZIP code of 39867. The community lies a short distance to the south of U.S ...
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Morris, Illinois
Morris is a city in and the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area. The population was estimated at 15,053 in 2019.
Description
Morris is the Grundy County seat and has a larg ...
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Morris, Indiana
Morris is an unincorporated community in Adams Township, Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States ...
, an unincorporated community
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Morris, Minnesota
Morris is a city in and the county seat of Stevens County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,105 at the 2020 census.
Morris is surrounded by some of the nation's richest agricultural land, and agribusiness is important to the loca ...
Morris (village), New York
Morris is a village in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 583 at the 2010 census.
The Village of Morris is centrally located in the Town of Morris and is northwest of the City of Oneonta.
History
The village was or ...
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Morris, Oklahoma
Morris is a city in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,494 at the 2010 census, an increase of 14.3% from the figure of 1,294 recorded in 2000.
History
The community began as a cattle stop on the Ozark and Cherokee Cen ...
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Morris, Pennsylvania
Morris is an unincorporated community in Morris Township, Tioga County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It lies at the junction of state routes 414 and 287, between Williamsport and Wellsboro. Babb Creek, a tributary of Pine Creek, flow ...
, an unincorporated community
* Morris, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Morris, Kanawha County, West Virginia
Morris is an extinct town in Kanawha County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify Wes ...
Auxiliary floating drydock
An auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under a ship in need of repair below the water line. Water is then pumped out of the floating dry dock, ...
in Port Arthur, Texas
Companies
* Morris & Co., a company manufacturing items of decorative art
* Morris & Company, an early 20th century meatpacking company
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Morris Air
Morris Air was a low-fare airline in the western United States, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It began scheduled operations in 1992, and was sold to Southwest Airlines in December 1993 for over $120 million in stock. The airline officially became ...
, a former low-fare airline, now part of Southwest Airlines
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Morris Communications
Morris Communications, headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, book publishing and distribution, visitor publications, and online serv ...
, an American publishing company
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Morris Motors
Morris Motors Limited was a British privately owned motor vehicle manufacturing company formed in 1919 to take over the assets of William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, William Morris's WRM Motors Limited and continue production of the same veh ...
, a former British car manufacturer
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Morris Multimedia
Morris may refer to:
Places
Australia
*St Morris, South Australia, place in South Australia
Canada
* Morris Township, Ontario, now part of the municipality of Morris-Turnberry
* Rural Municipality of Morris, Manitoba
** Morris, Manitob ...
, an American publishing company
People
* Morris (given name), a first name (including a list of people with the name)
* Morris (surname), a family name (including a list of people with the name)
* Lord Morris (disambiguation), various people and titles
* Morris, one of the 14 merchant families known as the
Tribes of Galway
The Tribes of Galway ( ga, Treibheanna na Gaillimhe) were 14 merchant families who dominated the political, commercial and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late 19th centuries. They were the families ...
Morris (cartoonist)
Maurice De Bevere (; ; 1 December 1923 – 16 July 2001), better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator and the creator of ''Lucky Luke,'' a bestselling comic series about a gunslinger in the American Wild West ...
, pseudonym for the Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere (1923–2001)
* Morris (singer), stage name of Romanian singer Marius Iancu (born 1976)
Other uses
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Morris Canal
The Morris Canal (1829–1924) was a common carrier anthracite coal canal across northern New Jersey that connected the two industrial canals at Easton, Pennsylvania across the Delaware River from its western terminus at Phillipsburg, New Jers ...
, a defunct canal which once transported coal across northern New Jersey
* Morris station, a former railway station in Morris, Illinois
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Morris the Cat
Morris the Cat is the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s.
Description
A large orange tabby tomcat, the character of Morris the Cat is "the world' ...
Morris Bridge
The Morris Bridge is a bridge over the Illinois River
The Illinois River ( mia, Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River and is approximately long. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, it has a drainage basin ...
, over the Illinois River at Morris, Illinois
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Morris dance
Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may ...
, a traditional English dance form
* Morris worm, one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet
See also
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Three men's morris
Three men's morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines)
that is similar to tic-tac-toe. It is also related to six men's morris and nine men's morris. A player wins by forming a mill, that is, three of thei ...
, a board game that may have existed in Egypt as early as 1400 BCE
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Nine men's morris
Nine men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players dating at least to the Roman Empire. The game is also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl in English. ...
, a board game that emerged from the Roman Empire, and the variant six men's morris
* Eleven men's morris, a European variation of Morabaraba that uses the same board but is played with eleven counters
* Twelve men's morris, a board game similar to Morabaraba
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Maurice (disambiguation) Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
* Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and L ...
Morriston
Morriston (; cy, Treforys ) is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward. It is the largest community in Swansea county.
Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town (e.g. the local fo ...
