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Flushing, Cornwall Flushing ( kw, Nanskersys) is a coastal village in the civil parish of Mylor, west Cornwall, UK. It is east of Penryn and south of Truro. It faces Falmouth across the Penryn River, an arm of the Carrick Roads. The village is known for it ...

, a village in the United Kingdom *

Flushing, Queens Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the i ...

, New York City **

Flushing Bay Flushing Bay is a tidal embayment in New York City. It is located on the south side of the East River and stretches to the south near the neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. It is bordered on the west by LaGuardia Airport and the Grand Central P ...

, a bay off the north shore of Queens ** Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), a community in Queens ** Flushing Meadows, a park in Queens which includes multiple venue, such as the location of the US Open tennis tournament **

Flushing River The Flushing River, also known as Flushing Creek, is a waterway that flows northward through the borough of Queens in New York City, mostly within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, emptying into the Flushing Bay and the East River. The river ...

, in Queens * Flushing, Michigan, a city in Genesee County *

Flushing, Netherlands Vlissingen (; zea, label=Zeelandic, Vlissienge), historically known in English as Flushing, is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river ...

, an English name for the city of Vlissingen, Netherlands *

Flushing, Ohio Flushing is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 879 at the 2010 census. History Flushing was platted in 1813. The village was incorporated ...

, a village in Belmont County *

The Flushing Edwardstone is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. The parish contains the hamlets of Mill Green, Priory Green, Round Maple and Sherbourne Street, and Edwardstone Woods, a Site of Special Scien ...

, a building in Suffolk, England *

Flushing Township, Belmont County, Ohio Flushing Township is one of the sixteen townships of Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 2,021 people in the township, of which 804 lived in unincorporated portions of the township. Geography Located in the northwestern c ...

Flushing Township, Michigan Flushing Charter Township is a charter township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,640 at the 2010 census. Flushing Township was rated the 63rd safest community in America with a population over 10,000 by Sa ...

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Flushing (military tactic) Flushing (or Flush) is a military tactic whereby grenades, smoke, gunfire, riot control agent Riot control measures are used by law enforcement, military, paramilitary or security forces to control, disperse, and arrest people who are i ...

, related to skirmishing *

Flushing (physiology) Flushing is to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions. Flushing is generally distinguished, despite a close physiological relation between them, from blushing, which is milder, ge ...

, the warm, red condition of human skin *

Flushing dog Gun dogs, or bird dogs, are types of hunting dogs developed to assist hunters in finding and retrieving game, usually quail, dove, or duck. Gun dogs are divided into three primary types: retrievers, flushing dogs, and pointing breeds. Types ...

, a hunting dog *

Flushing hydrant A flushing hydrant is a hydrant that is used for flushing a water line of silt, rust, debris, or stagnant water Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. Stagnant water can be a major environmental hazard. Dangers Malaria and deng ...

, a device to flush water mains *

Flushing Remonstrance The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which some thirty residents of the small settlement at Flushing requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship. It is considered a pre ...

, a demand for religious liberty made to Peter Stuyvesant, the Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, in 1657

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