Shaw
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United Kingdom

  • Shaw, Berkshire
    Shaw, Berkshire
    Shaw is a village in Berkshire, England.It is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington....

    , a village
  • Shaw, Wiltshire
    Shaw, Wiltshire
    Shaw is a village in Wiltshire, England; it belongs to the civil parish of Melksham Without....

    , a village
  • Shaw and Crompton
    Shaw and Crompton
    Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, north of Oldham, southeast of Rochdale, and to the northeast of the city of Manchester...

    , a town in Greater Manchester

United States

  • Shaw, Mississippi
    Shaw, Mississippi
    Shaw is a city in Bolivar and Sunflower Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. The named derived from an old Indian tribe northeast of this region. The population was 2,312 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

    , a city
  • Shaw, Washington, D.C.
    Shaw, Washington, D.C.
    Shaw is a neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is roughly bounded by M Street, NW or Massachusetts Avenue NW to the south; New Jersey Avenue, NW to the east; Florida Avenue, NW to the north; and 11th Street, NW to the west...

    , a neighborhood
  • Shaw, St. Louis
    Shaw, St. Louis
    Shaw is a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is bordered on the North by Interstate 44, the east by S. Grand Blvd., the west by Tower Grove Ave and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and the south by Tower Grove Park.-History:...

    , Missouri, a neighborhood
  • Mount Shaw
    Mount Shaw
    Mount Shaw is a mountain located within the Castle in the Clouds estate in Carroll County, New Hampshire. With a summit elevation of it is the highest of the Ossipee Mountains....

    , a summit in the Ossipee Mountains of New Hampshire
  • Shaw Air Force Base
    Shaw Air Force Base
    Shaw Air Force Base is a United States Military facility located approximately west-northwest of Sumter, South Carolina. It is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force Air Combat Command...

    , US Air Force base in South Carolina

People

  • Shaw (name)
    Shaw (name)
    Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name. The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases the surname is an Americanization of a similar sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname....

    , people with "Shaw" given name or surname
  • Clan Shaw of Tordarroch, a Scottish clan

Organizations

  • D. E. Shaw & Co. (est. 1988), an American hedge fund, private equity and technology development firm
  • Shaw Brothers Studio
    Shaw Brothers Studio
    The Shaw Brothers Studio , owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd., was the foremost and the largest movie production company of Hong Kong movies.From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution...

     (est. 1930), largest film production company in Hong Kong
  • Shaw Communications
    Shaw Communications
    Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

     (est. 1966), a Canadian telecommunications company
  • ShawCor
    ShawCor
    ShawCor Ltd is a global energy services company, specializing in products and services for the pipeline and pipe services, and petrochemical and industrial segments of the oil and gas industry and other industrial markets. ShawCor operates through seven wholly owned business units: Bredero Shaw,...

     (est. 1930s), a global energy services firm based in Houston, Texas
  • Shaw Festival
    Shaw Festival
    The Shaw Festival is a major Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the second largest repertory theatre company in North America...

     (est. 1962), a major Canadian theatre festival
  • The Shaw Group
    The Shaw Group
    The Shaw Group is a Fortune 500 corporation headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As of February 27, 2011, the company employed approximately 28,000 people all over the world with 7 billion dollar revenue in 2010...

     (est. 1987), a diversified American Fortune 500 corporation
  • Shaw Industries
    Shaw Industries
    Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the world's largest carpet manufacturer with more than $4 billion in annual sales and approximately 25,000 associates worldwide...

     (est. 1946), an American flooring manufacturer
  • Shaw's and Star Market, an American grocery group
  • Shaw University
    Shaw University
    Shaw University, founded as Raleigh Institute, is a private liberal arts institution and historically black university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1865, it is the oldest HBCU in the Southern United States....

     (est. 1865), an American historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina

General uses

  • Shaw (woodland)
    Shaw (woodland)
    A shaw is a strip of woodland usually between 5 and 15 metres wide.Shaws commonly form boundaries between fields or line a road. They are usually composed of natural woodland and often have diverse woodland ground vegetation similar to other natural woodlands in the area...

    , a strip of woodland, usually separating fields or lining a road
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