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Tuskegee

Definition: Tuskegee

Tuskegee

Noun

1. A town in eastern Alabama.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Tuskegee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)


Crosswords: Tuskegee

English words defined with "Tuskegee": Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington ♦ Washington. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Tuskegee, Alabama

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tuskegee is a city located in Macon County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 11,846. The city is the county seat of Macon County,and is known as the home of Tuskegee University.

Geography

Tuskegee is located at 32°25'53" North, 85°42'24" West (32.431506, -85.706781)1.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 40.7 km² (15.7 mi²). 40.1 km² (15.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.53% water.

Demographics

As of the census2 of 2000, there are 11,846 people, 4,169 households, and 2,326 families residing in the city. The population density is 295.7/km² (765.7/mi²). There are 5,101 housing units at an average density of 127.3/km² (329.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 2.59% White, 95.48% Black or African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.69% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.17% from other races, and 0.88% from two or more races. 0.68% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 4,169 households out of which 27.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 22.6% are married couples living together, 29.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 44.2% are non-families. 37.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.30 and the average family size is 3.06.

In the city the population is spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 25.4% from 18 to 24, 19.9% from 25 to 44, 17.2% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 26 years. For every 100 females there are 80.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 75.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $18,889, and the median income for a family is $26,862. Males have a median income of $23,333 versus $22,951 for females. The per capita income for the city is $12,340. 35.7% of the population and 30.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 44.1% are under the age of 18 and 26.3% are 65 or older.

See also:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tuskegee, Alabama."

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Commercial Usage: Tuskegee

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tuskegee Airman: The Biography of Charles E. McGee, Air Force Fighter Combat Record Holder (reference)

  • Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • African American Heroes of World War II: Tuskegee Fighter Pilots & Black War Time Radio (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Tuskegee

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Tuskegee Airmen enjoy bittersweet return to Hondo.

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site. Credit: NPS.

U.S. Army Air Force Hospital, Tuskegee, AL. : Showing construction of additional hospital buildings. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Scott Plantation House, Tuskegee, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tuskegee Institute, and its industries / Shepherd Photo Co., St. Paul, Minn. Credit: Library of Congress.

First graduating class of African American pilots in U.S. Army Air Corps, at Advanced Flying School, Tuskegee, Alabama: G.S. Roberts, B.O. Davis, C.H. DeBow, R.M. Long, Mac Ross, and L.R. Curtis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Statue of Booker T. Washington by sculptor, Charles Keck to be unveiled April 5th, at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Administration bldg. and library, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alabama Hall, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress.

25th anniversary celebration of Tuskegee Institute, April, 1906. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Cities: Tuskegee


1. Tuskegee, AL (city, FIPS 77304)
Location: 32.43775 N, 85.71114 W
Population (1990): 12257 (4713 housing units)
Area: 39.4 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 36083
Country: USA

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Expression: Tuskegee

Expression using "Tuskegee": Tuskegee Institu. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tuskegee

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Tuskegee

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-k-s-t-u"

-3 letters: egest, geeks, geese, geest, geste, guest, keets, segue, skeet, steek.

-4 letters: ekes, geek, gees, gest, gets, gust, guts, keet, kegs, kues, seek, skee, skeg, suet, tees, tegs, tugs, tusk, ukes.

-5 letters: eke, gee, get, gut, keg, kue, see, seg, set, sue, tee, teg, tsk, tug, uke, use, uts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tuskegee


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album 		5. Cities
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams 		9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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