Alderson may refer to:
Places
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Alderson, Oklahoma
Alderson is a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census.
History
A post office was established at Alderson, Indian Territory on March 5, 1890. It was named for William Charles Alderson, tre ...
, a US town
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Alderson, West Virginia
Alderson is a town in Greenbrier County, Greenbrier and Monroe County, West Virginia, Monroe counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, on both sides of the Greenbrier River. The population was 975 at the 2020 census.
History
Alderson is a c ...
, a US town
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Alderson Federal Prison Camp
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson (FPC Alderson) is a minimum-security United States federal prison Incarceration of women in the United States, for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of ...
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Alderson, Alberta
Alderson is a locality in Alberta, Canada within Cypress County. Now a ghost town, it previously held village status until January 31, 1936, and was known as the Village of Carlstadt from 1911 to 1916. The name was changed during the First Worl ...
, a ghost town in Canada
Other uses
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Alderson (surname) Alderson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Brian Alderson (footballer), Scottish footballer
* Bryce Alderson (born 1994), Canadian soccer player
* Dale Alderson (1918–1982), American baseball pitcher
* Dan Alderson, American ...
People
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Charles Alderson
Charles Alderson (born 1946) is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on language assessment.
Career
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, linguist
See also
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Alderson drive
CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven.
The CoDominium (CD) is a political alliance and union between the United States and the Soviet Uni ...
, a fictional interstellar transport drive
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Alderson disk
An Alderson disk (named after Dan Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomy, astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant :wikt:platter, platter with a thickness of seve ...
, a fictional artificial astronomical megastructure
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