Alma

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Alma may refer to:

[edit] Places

• Canada
  • Alma, Ontario, a small village in Ontario, Canada
  • Alma, Quebec, a town in Quebec, Canada
  • Alma, New Brunswick, a fishing village on the Bay of Fundy

• Crimea
  • Alma (river) and the site of the Battle of Alma (September 20, 1854)

• Kazakhstan
  • Almaty, until recently the capital of Kazakh,, whose name literally means "apple's father", and which (unsurprisingly) has what are genetically the oldest (by way of diversity) alma trees in the world.

• New Zealand
  • Alma, New Zealand, a small locality in the North Otago district of New Zealand

• Palestine
  • Alma, Palestine, a village in Palestine destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

• United States
  • Alma, Arkansas
  • Alma, Colorado
  • Alma, Georgia
  • Alma, Illinois
  • Alma, Kansas
  • Alma, Michigan - site of Alma College
  • Alma, Missouri
  • Alma, Nebraska
  • Alma, New York
  • Alma, Texas
  • Alma, Wisconsin, a city in Buffalo County
  • Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town in Buffalo County
  • Alma, Jackson County, Wisconsin, a town in Jackson County
  • Alma Center, Wisconsin, a village in Jackson County

• Europe
  • A.L.M.A.: a initialism for Aachen, Luttich, Maastricht, Hasselt
  • The Pont de l'Alma, a road tunnel in Paris where Diana, Princess of Wales was involved in a car accident and died.

[edit] People

• Alma, an antagonist from the game F.E.A.R.
• Alma Baldwin, a character on the soap opera Coronation Street and one-time wife of Mike Baldwin
• Alma Cogan (1932-1966), British pop singer of the 1950s and '60s. (See also Alma Cogan (novel).)
• Alma Mahler (1879-1964), wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel and subject of a song by Tom Lehrer
• Alma the Elder, a person in the Books of Mosiah and Alma, part of The Book of Mormon
• Alma the Younger, the son of Alma the Elder, the Book of Alma in The Book of Mormon is named after him.
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[edit] Other

• Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), an array of radio telescopes in Chile
• Alma (1891), an 1891-built scow schooner now preserved in San Francisco, California.
• Alma, or malus sieversii, the modern ancestor of the domesticated apple.
• "Alma" is Spanish and Portuguese for soul
• "Alma" is Hungarian for apple
• Alma (novel), a novel by Oswald de Andrade, 1922
• Alma was the original title (since reissued under the name Alma Cogan) of a novel by Gordon Burn, which won the Whitbread Book Award in 1991.
• Almas (cryptozoology), a Mongolian name for wild man (singular), a cryptozoological species
• Alma-0, a programming language
• Alma (software tool), a software workshop for programmers
• Book of Alma, part of The Book of Mormon
• Alma Awards, U.S. awards for Latinos performers
• Alma mater, a term of academia
• Alma is a monster in the Eggerland games.