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A swamp is a forested wetland.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p. Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in ...
is a wooded wetland.
Swamp or The Swamp may also refer to:
Books and comics
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''Swamp'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Gary Clark
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''The Swamp'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Hanna Mina
* ''The Swamp'', a 1976 book by
Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district an ...
*''The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise'', a 2006 book by
Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald (born August 16, 1970) is an American journalist and author who covers public policy and national politics. A senior writer for ''Politico Magazine'', he previously worked as a journal for ''The Boston Globe'', ''The Washington P ...
Film and television
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''The Swamp'' (1921 film), a silent film starring Sessue Hayakawa and Bessie Love
* ''The Swamp'', a 2019 film produced by television series ''
American Experience
''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...
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''The Swamp'' (documentary), a 2020 documentary film by HBO
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''The Swamp'' (Ireland), a 1996–1998 summer replacement for the television series ''The Den'' on RTÉ
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"The Swamp" (''Avatar: The Last Airbender''), a television episode
* The Swamp, a tent that was home to the main characters in the film ''
MASH'' and television series ''
M*A*S*H
''M*A*S*H'' (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richa ...
''
Music
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Swamp music (disambiguation) or simply swamp, a type of American popular music
* The Swamp, a studio space associated with GWAR record label
Slave Pit Inc.
Slave Pit Inc. is the artist collective, production company and independent record label created for releasing projects by the heavy metal band Gwar and related side projects such as Mensrea and Locus Factor.
According to a 2015 TED Talk by M ...
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''Swamp'' (album), by Phil Thornalley, 1988
* ''Swamp'', an album by Partisans with
Julian Siegel
Julian H. Siegel (born 1966) is a British jazz saxophone and clarinet player, and a composer and arranger, described by ''MOJO Magazine'' as "One of the UK's most creative saxophonists".
Siegel has toured and recorded with Greg Cohen and Joey Ba ...
, 2014
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"Swamp" (That Petrol Emotion song), 1987
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"Swamp" (Brockhampton song), 2017
* "Swamp", a song by Talking Heads from ''
Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is an activity or practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid voc ...
'', 1983
* "Swamp", a song by Telepopmusik from ''
Angel Milk
''Angel Milk'' is the second album from French electronic group Télépopmusik, released on June 21, 2005. The album was met with mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised the record's production and Angela McCluskey's guest vocals ...
'', 2005
* "The Swamp", a song by Gruff Rhys from ''
American Interior'', 2014
Acronyms
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Southern Waste Management Partnership
Before disbanding in 2015, the Southern Waste Management Partnership (SWaMP) coordinated the disposal and handling of municipal waste, including recycling, in the South of Northern Ireland. The local authorities that were covered by SWaMP (before l ...
, Northern Ireland, UK
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SouthWest Association of Mountain Bike Pedalers The SouthWest Association of Mountain Bike Pedalers (SWAMP) club is an association of mountain bikers that creates, and maintains mountain biking trails in Florida. The organization has built and maintains trails in several parks, including Alafia ...
, a bike trail building organization in Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Places nicknamed The Swamp
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, the football stadium at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Cypress Lake (Lafayette, Louisiana)
Cypress Lake is a swamp-like lake in the heart of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus that started as a prehistoric American bison, bison wallow. Today it is a unique university landmark that is a habitat for Iris versicolor, native i ...
, also on the UL Lafayette campus
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Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium (sometimes referred to as Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands) was a stadium located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The venue was open from 1976 to 2010, and primarily hosted sporting events and ...
, a football stadium near New York City from 1976 to 2010
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The Swamp (LSUS)
A swamp is a wooded wetland.
Swamp or The Swamp may also refer to:
Books and comics
* ''Swamp'' (comic strip), a comic strip by Gary Clark
* ''The Swamp'' (novel), a 1977 novel by Hanna Mina
* ''The Swamp'', a 1976 book by Bill Thomas
*''The Sw ...
, the soccer stadium at Louisiana State University Shreveport
See also
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Swamp Creek (disambiguation)
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La Cienega (disambiguation)
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Drain the swamp
''Drain the swamp'' is a phrase which has frequently been used by politicians since the 1980s and in the U.S. often refers to reducing the influence of special interests and lobbyists. The phrase can allude to the physical draining of swamps whic ...
, an idiom of political rhetoric
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