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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of the eastern United States separating Chesapeake Bay from Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It includes most of Delaware and parts of eastern Maryland and Virginia.
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A landing on the Eastern Shore, today also known as the Delmarva Peninsula, ended in disaster as Gilbert and two other men were killed in a skirmish with a native tribe.
Archive 2006-08-01 Will 2006
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A landing on the Eastern Shore, today also known as the Delmarva Peninsula, ended in disaster as Gilbert and two other men were killed in a skirmish with a native tribe.
DesignerBlog Will 2006
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The Delmarva Peninsula is the low-lying stretch of land shared by Delaware, Maryland and Virginia that divides the bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009
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The Southeast and Delmarva Peninsula was the cleanest, with 3% of samples contaminated, according to the report.
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Intense line of storms now headed over Chesapeake Bay towards Delmarva Peninsula where Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are in effect.
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While many of the snowfall amounts well away from D.C. verified Eastern Shore, Delmarva Peninsula, the snowfall in the immediate D.C. metro area did not reach the 1 threshold.
Weather Checker: "False Alarmageddon"? Jamie Yesnowitz 2010
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Scientists say they found male largemouth bass carrying eggs in six lakes and ponds on the Delmarva Peninsula sampled over the past two years.
More intersex fish found in Md., Del. Associated Press 2010
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From Baltimore down either side of Chesapeake Bay southern Maryland and the Delmarva Peninsula, there was a lot of Confederate sympathy, and at least that part might have seceeded but for Union occupation and the suspension of habeas corpus.
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From 2005-2008, the Great Lakes have consistently tested the dirtiest, while the Southeast and Delmarva Peninsula proved relatively cleaner than other regions.
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We've got problems in the northeast because of this area of low pressure that developed offshore yesterday, the Delmarva Peninsula.
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