Highway 2 is a ribbon of two-lane road that stretches across the entirety of Washington state.
The explanation for this lies with the "jet stream" - a ribbon of fast-moving air, up in the atmosphere.
Volusia sits at the eastern end of central Florida's Interstate 4 corridor, a ribbon of counties credited with deciding close elections in the state.
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Here, looking towards the centre of the Milky Way, it spies a ribbon of cold gas and dust that is more than 600 light-years across and which appears to be twisted.
The local priest, surfacing from a week-long binge, lit beeswax tapers to Innocent of Irkutsk, the saint who in the 1720s had repaired the road to China and was now about to bring civilization to Prigorodnaia in the form of a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.
Barely making a sound, the Mercedes backed and filled and swung past the chase car and started up the dirt spur toward the sprawling wooden dacha at the edge of the village of Prigorodnaia, soon to be connected to the Moscow-Petersburg highway-and the world-by a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.
And now he is here, a baby boy, named Jesse, strong and built like a rugby ball, with a spiky ribbon of blond hair running down the top of his head, and a long smile that just floors us every time.
Each day the newspaper is delivered to 1 million hotel rooms in the U.S. For a customer at a trade show, hundreds of issues were wrapped with "belly bands" (a branded ribbon of paper encircling each newspaper).
It's just a picture of a tartan ribbon and may seem unremarkable, yet it marks a crucial moment in the development of colour photography and forms the basis of the photographs we take today.
Sarajevo is a long ribbon of flat land surrounded on all sides by hills.
The mall's website on Wednesday showed a picture of a black ribbon.
Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement.
Police are now investigating a golden cookie that turned up last week hanging on a red ribbon around the neck of a horse statue in front of the city's Leibniz University.
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Blondy was like a skater up his own river, a frozen ribbon the rest of us might have glimpsed through trees, from within a rink where we circled to tinny music.
Later, a bouquet of red roses with a red ribbon was fastened to a guardrail above the parking lot.
The picture here does not do justice, as the bottle comes in an impressive sliding lid box, set in a cradle of gold ribbon.
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Each submunition is the size of a D-cell battery with a distinctive white ribbon, and the design of their fuze system makes each one very sensitive and liable to detonate if disturbed.
Many competitors wore a black ribbon and observed a 30 second silence in honour of those killed and injured in last week's bombing at the Boston marathon.
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During a moment of silence at the start of the game, a large commemorative ribbon with logos from the two teams was shown on the electronic board atop the ballpark.
Now to New Orleans, a kind of place where a jazz band plays at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new condominium and apartment project.
For his twelfth birthday, Sandy had gotten a large, flat black portfolio made of hard cardboard that folded along a sewn seam and was secured at the top edge with two attached lengths of ribbon that he tied in a bow in order to fasten the leaves.
The top 10 CNN Heroes, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel from an initial pool of more than 3, 700 viewer nominations, were each honored with a documentary tribute and introduced by a celebrity presenter.
On April 4, Governor Brewer announced the formation of a blue-ribbon panel to address the Fiesta Bowl scandal.
Among the materials found were a galvanized metal pipe, a fuse, coils of metal ribbon and several bags of chemical powders, it adds.
For the first mod, Ben increases mobility during game play by using ribbon cable and a replicated version of the original circuit board to sync a full-size, left hand controller with a half-size, right hand controller.
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While the media and the professorate pilloried their reports, the group's charges caused the Council for Higher Education to form a blue ribbon committee last November comprised of seven political scientists - three from Israel and four from abroad -- to conduct a study of all of the political science departments in Israeli universities.
Metropoulos, though, made a splash recently with the purchase of Pabst Blue Ribbon, the largest privately held U.S. brewer, and a new favorite, if ironic, tipple for many.
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And they have a white ribbon that comes off the end of them that are used to help their descent.
Homer's crisscrossed tape led to a fabric glove he sewed with crisscrosses of ribbon down each finger.
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