Maine (disambiguation)
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Maine (from Maienne, meaning river of the middle in old French) may refer to:
[edit] Places
In France:
- Maine (province), an historic province of France named from the Maine River
- Maine River, in the Maine-et-Loire département in France
In the United States:
- Maine, a U.S. state
- Maine, New York
- Maine, Wisconsin - two locations:
- Maine Township, Illinois
In Northern Ireland:
- Maine, County Tyrone
[edit] People
- Henry James Sumner Maine (1822-1888), an English comparative jurist and historian
- John Maine, a Major League Baseball pitcher
- Maine Mór mac Echdach, eponymous founder of the Uí Maine tribe in Ireland
- Natalie Maines, lead singer for the Dixie Chicks
[edit] Other
- Maine law, an 1851 temperance law named for the U.S. state which made sale of liquor difficult
- USS Maine, four US battleships; especially the one sunk in 1898 in Havana leading to Spanish American War
- Maine Road, a former football stadium in England which was the home of Manchester City F.C. from 1923 until 2003
- Maine Soft Drinks Ltd, a manufacturer and retailer of soft drinks from Ballymoney, County Antrim in Northern Ireland.
[edit] See also
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