* 2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6. 8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U. S. state of Washington.

For example, most of the products that are explicitly listed as prohibited in the beer and malt liquor category in the Seattle area are ice beers.

The program allows high school students from Seattle Preparatory School and other area high schools to graduate with a bachelor's degree in humanities or teaching after as little as three years in high school and three years in college.

The economic impact of SU in the Seattle area in 2008 was $ 580. 4 million.

Seattle University was also a leader in the area of racial diversity, with an integrated squad known as “ the United Nations team .”

* On February 28, 2001, the Nisqually Earthquake hits the Seattle metro area.

* June 6 – The Great Seattle Fire ravages through the downtown area without any fatalities.

He then pursued a career in the desktop software industry, working at Microsoft, Boeing, the Russell Investment Group and several other Seattle area firms.

The Muckleshoot are a Lushootseed Native American tribe, part of the Coast Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest whose traditional territory and reservations is located in the area of Auburn, Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma.

They also constitute 24 % of all Olympic Seattle Scholarship winners, 33 % of USA Math Olympiad winners, 15. 5 % of Putnam Math Competition winners, and 36 % of Duke Talent Identification Grand Recognition Ceremony attendees from the Dallas Metropolitan area.

Grunge ( sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound ) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

Some of the permanent exhibits include a history of audio technology, a section of mannequins donning outfits of famous performers past and present, and an area which looks at music scenes in various cities throughout different eras, including Memphis in the 50s, Detroit, Liverpool and San Francisco in the 60s, Los Angeles in the 70s, New York City and London in the 70s and 80s and Seattle in the 90s.

CBUT is broadcast on Comcast in the Seattle, Washington, area.

The City boundaries surround the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, ( approximately three square miles in area ) which is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle.

Category: Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area

The region's largest metropolitan areas are Seattle / Tacoma, Washington, with 3. 4 million people ; Vancouver, British Columbia, with 2. 4 million people ; and the Portland metropolitan area, with 2. 2 million people.

As of 2004, the combined populations of the Greater Vancouver / Lower Mainland area, the Seattle metropolitan area and the Portland metropolitan area totaled almost nine million people.

It became ubiquitous at every single sporting event in the area in the early 80s, it has been a staple of Seattle sports ever since.

The campus includes numerous works by well-known artists ( including the Centennial Fountain by Seattle artist George Tsutakawa — recipient of an honorary doctorate from Seattle U .— and a large glass sculpture in the PACCAR Atrium of Piggot Hall by Tacoma, Washington artist Dale Chihuly, as well as works by Chuck Close, Jacob Lawrence, Gwendolyn Knight, William Morris ( glass artist ) and David Mach ) and several architecturally notable buildings.

President Harding gave his final speech to a large crowd of 25, 000 people at the University of Washington stadium in Seattle.

The popularity of grunge resulted in a large interest in the Seattle music scene's perceived cultural traits.

* Olympic Peninsula, large arm of land in western Washington state, United States, that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle

The other two are in Long Beach and Seattle, Washington, which also have a large community.

Seattle investors purchased large tracts of land in and around Cashmere and constructed the town's first hotel and saloon in 1905.

Lake Forest Park officially incorporated on June 20, 1961, in large part to help maintain its specific identity in the face of increasing local development pressing north from Seattle.

The first large settlement, East Seattle, was toward the northwest side of the island — near the McGilvara neighbourhood.

At one time owning most of present day Blaine, the Cain brothers erected the biggest store north of Seattle, a lumber and shingle mill, a hotel ( largest in the state at the time ), the first public wharf, and donated large public tracts of land.

* North Creek, named for Bothell's second-largest waterway, is a business and light industrial district with several large big box retail stores, and the production facility for the Seattle Times.

Craig Bartlett stated in an interview that the city on the show is based on large northern cities, which includes Seattle ( his hometown ), Portland, Oregon ( where he went to art school ) and New York City ( from which many landmarks were borrowed ), also with references to Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry ; as well as Hawk Mountain near Allentown, PA, as mentioned in the Sally's Comet Episode.

Even the date and location of the speech has been disputed, but the most common version is that on March 11, 1854, Si ’ ahl gave a speech at a large outdoor gathering in Seattle.

Lake Washington is a large freshwater lake adjacent to the city of Seattle.

The Seattle, Washington neighborhood of Fremont puts on a large Summer Solstice Parade and Pageant, which for many years has controversially included painted naked cyclists.

Thomas Bros. building in Irvine Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D. C. Road Atlas titles are Arizona including Las Vegas, California Including portions of Nevada, and Pacific Northwest covering Washington, Oregon, Western Idaho, Southwestern British Columbia.

From 1999 to 2006, the Championship was sponsored and organized by the Seattle Chess Foundation ( later renamed America's Foundation for Chess ) as a large Swiss system tournament.

One track, " Deep Red Bells ", was inspired by Case's memories of being a vulnerable young woman in the Seattle area while the Green River Killer was at large.

The AFL-CIO, with cooperation from its member unions, organized a large permitted rally and march from Seattle Center to downtown.

In some cities and large towns, such as Amsterdam, Essen ( Germany ), Pittsburgh, and Seattle, it is common for a right of way exclusive to public transport to be shared by both light rail and buses, and in some cases taxis.

* December 14-Montreal resident Ahmed Ressam is arrested in Seattle and found with large quantities of explosives

West Coast cities ( Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland ) now attracted African Americans in large numbers.

Quite likely, Seattle evaded the fate of Detroit through being a port city with a large number of highly educated skilled workers, though the boom decades of the 1950s and 1960s had come to a decisive end.