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Armstrong may refer to:

Places

Argentina

• Armstrong, Santa Fe

Australia

• Armstrong, Victoria

Canada

• Armstrong, British Columbia
• Armstrong, Ontario
• Armstrong, Thunder Bay District, Ontario

United States

• Armstrong, California, former name of Termo, California
• Armstrong, Florida
• Armstrong, Illinois
• Armstrong, Iowa
• Armstrong, Missouri
• Armstrong, Oklahoma
• Armstrong, Texas
• Armstrong Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania
• Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
• Armstrong County, Texas
• Armstrong Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
• Armstrong Township, Pennsylvania, more than one, including
  • Armstrong Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
  • Armstrong Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
• Armstrong Tunnel, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

People

Clans

• Clan Armstrong, a Scottish clan from the border area between England and Scotland

Armstrong as surname

For people with the surname Armstrong see Armstrong (surname)

Real people with first name Armstrong

• Armstrong Williams, American political commentator

Fictional people with first name Armstrong

• Armstrong, a character in the Valiant Comics comic book Archer & Armstrong

Companies

• Armstrong (company), British motorcycling company
• Armstrong Audio, a British audio/hi-fi manufacturer
• Armstrong Group of Companies, a conglomerate begun in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
• Armstrong Telephone Company, a telecommunications provider serving as a local exchange carrier in rural markets in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York
• Armstrong Whitworth, the British engineering conglomerate which became Vickers-Armstrong
• Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, a separate entity
• Armstrong World Industries, a manufacturer of flooring, ceilings and cabinets

Other possible meanings

• Armstrong (automobile), an early English car
• Armstrong Atlantic State University, a public university in Savannah, Georgia
• Armstrong (crater), a lunar crater
• Armstrong Gun, a rifled breech-loading artillery piece
• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, World War II bomber
• Armstrong (DuckTales episode), an episode of DuckTales
• Armstrong's axioms, a set of axioms used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database
• The Armstrongs, a British television series
• A common misspelling of the Ångström length unit

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From Wikitravel

Armstrong is in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. It is a small town of 4241 people (2006) perhaps most famous as the home of the Armstrong Cheese factory.

Get in

The only highway through town is provincial highway 97A which travels from Vernon to the south and Sicamous to the north of Armstrong. The town is served by Greyhound buses. The closest major airport is in Kelowna to the south.

• Armstrong/Spallumcheen Museum & Art Society, 3415 Pleasant Valley Road, ☎ 546-8318 (asmas@telus.net), [1]. Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm. Contains a museum, Art gallery and archives for Armstrong and area. By Donation.   edit
• The Village Cheese Company, 3475 Smith Drive, ☎ 546-8651 (vcheese@villagecheese.com, fax: 546-8659), [2]. An artisan cheese production facility that models itself after an estate winery. Features tours and tastings.  edit

• A Country Escape Bed & Breakfast, 4715 Back Enderby Road, ☎ +1 250 546-3457 (fax: +1 250 546-0041), [3]. checkin: 4pm; checkout: noon. Located a small distance from town. Features an outdoor pool. $90-$150.  edit

• Head north to the Shuswap region.
• Head south to see the rest of the Okanagan including Vernon, Kelowna, and Penticton.
• Kamloops is a short drive north on highway 97.

Sicamous ← Enderby ←

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→ Vernon → END - Kelowna (via )

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Proper noun

Armstrong

1. An English surname, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of agmnorrst
• strong-arm

From Wikispecies

P.M. Armstrong     (P.M.Armstr.)

Lichenologist (lichens of Australia and New Zealand)

Publications

• Elix, J.A./ Armstrong, P.M. 1983. Further new species of Parmelia subgen. Xanthoparmelia (lichens) from Australia and New Zealand. - Australian Journal of Botany 31: 467-483.
• Elix, J.A./ Johnston, J./ Armstrong, P.M. 1986. A revision of the lichen genus Xanthoparmelia in Australasia. - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany Series 15(3): 163-362.