Armstrong may refer to:
Places
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Armstrong Creek (disambiguation), various places
Antarctica
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Armstrong Reef, Biscoe Islands
Argentina
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Armstrong, Santa Fe
Australia
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Armstrong, Victoria
Canada
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Armstrong, British Columbia
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Armstrong, Ontario
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Armstrong, Thunder Bay District, Ontario
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Armstrong, Ontario (Indian settlement)
United States
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Armstrong, California
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Armstrong, Delaware
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of ...
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Armstrong, Florida
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Armstrong, Georgia
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Armstrong, Illinois
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Armstrong, Indiana
Armstrong is an unincorporated community in Armstrong Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
A post office was established at Armstrong in 1856, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957.
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Armstrong, Iowa
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Armstrong, Minnesota
Armstrong is an unincorporated community in Freeborn County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populou ...
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Armstrong, Missouri
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Armstrong, Oklahoma
Armstrong is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Blue River. The population was 105 at the 2010 census, a 25.2 percent decrease from the figure of 141 recorded in 2000. The town was named for Frank C. Armstrong, a member o ...
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Armstrong, Texas
Armstrong is an unincorporated community in central Kenedy County, Texas, United States. As of 2014, it consisted solely of a small rural post office, with no habitations; an extensive, gated ranch land abuts its lone building, which lies on U.S ...
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Armstrong, Wisconsin
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Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
Armstrong County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,558. The county seat is Kittanning. The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycom ...
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Armstrong County, Texas
Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Texas Panhandle and its county seat is Claude.
As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,848. Armstrong County is included in the Amarillo metropolitan area.
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Armstrong Lake (Blue Earth County, Minnesota)
Armstrong Lake is a lake in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, in the United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It ...
, a lake in Minnesota
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Armstrong Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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Armstrong Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) Armstrong Township is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania:
*Armstrong Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
*Armstrong Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Armstrong Township is a township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania ...
, more than one, including
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Armstrong Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
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Armstrong Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport ( French: ''Aéroport international Louis Armstrong de La Nouvelle-Orléans'') is an international airport under Class B airspace in Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is o ...
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Armstrong Tunnel, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
People
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Armstrong (surname), including a list of people with the surname
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
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, first person to walk on the moon
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George Armstrong (footballer), An Arsenal English Footballer
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Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrong (''né'' Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Regarded as a sports icon for winning the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005 after recovering fro ...
, an American former professional road racing cyclist
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Louis Armstrong, an American trumpeter who was one of the most influential figures in jazz
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Clan Armstrong, a Scottish clan from the border area between England and Scotland
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Armstrong Williams, American political commentator
* Armstrong, a character in the Valiant Comics comic book ''
Archer & Armstrong
''Archer & Armstrong'' is a superhero duo in the Valiant Comics universe. The two were originally created by writer and artist Barry Windsor-Smith and introduced in their own self-titled comic book series in 1992. After Acclaim Entertainment bough ...
''
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Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for t ...
, lead singer of Green Day
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Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous aw ...
, electronic engineer
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Joe Armstrong (programmer)
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
Early life and ...
, computer scientist and co-designer of the
Erlang (programming language)
Erlang ( ) is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system. The term Erlang is used interchangeably with Erlang/OTP, or Open Telecom Platform (OTP), which consists of the Erlang ru ...
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Herbert Rowse Armstrong, British solicitor convicted and executed for murder
Companies
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Armstrong-CCM Motorcycles, British motorcycling company
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Armstrong Audio
Armstrong Audio, originally called Armstrong Wireless and Television Ltd. was a British manufacturer of radios and other audio equipment based in London, England. Founded by Claude Charles Jackson in 1932.
History
Initially created to man ...
, a British audio/hi-fi manufacturer
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Armstrong Group of Companies, a conglomerate begun in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
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Armstrong Telephone Company
Armstrong Telephone Company is a telecommunications provider, and part of the Armstrong Group of Companies. The company primarily operates as a local exchange carrier in rural markets in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.
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, a telecommunications provider serving as a local exchange carrier in rural market
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Armstrong Tools, an industrial hand tool manufacturer
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Armstrong Whitworth
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. With headquarters in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth built armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles an ...
, the British engineering conglomerate which became Vickers-Armstrong
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Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, a separate entity
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Armstrong World Industries, a manufacturer of ceilings and walls.
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Armstrong Flooring, a manufacturer of flooring
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Armstrong investment managers
Government facility
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NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, A NASA research center
Other possible meanings
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6469 Armstrong, minor planet
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Armstrong (automobile)
The Armstrong was an English automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1904; "claimed to be the best hill-climber extant", the car featured an International engine. , an early English car
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Armstrong Atlantic State University, a public university in Savannah, Georgia
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Armstrong (content management system), an open source news publishing platform
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Armstrong (crater), a lunar crater
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Armstrong Gun, a rifled breech-loading artillery piece
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was a British medium bomber aircraft of the 1930s. It was one of three twin-engined, front line medium bomber types that were in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the World War II, ...
, World War II bomber
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Armstrong (DuckTales episode)
The following is an episode list for the Disney animated television series ''DuckTales''. The series is based on the Scrooge McDuck character and the ''Uncle Scrooge'' comic books created by Carl Barks. The series stars Scrooge, his great-neph ...
, an episode of ''DuckTales''
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Armstrong's axioms, a set of axioms used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database
* Armstrongs, a band including
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for t ...
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Tim Armstrong
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The Armstrongs'', a British television series
See also
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Ångström (disambiguation)
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George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his clas ...
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