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The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado that plays in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association but changed its name to Rockets before the first season.... It changed its name again to the Nuggets in anticipation of a ABA-NBA merger in 1974, and played for the final ABA Championship title in 1976, losing to the New York Nets. The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA-NBA merger and have some periods of success, making the playoffs for nine consecutive seasons in the 1980's and doing the same for the previous nine seasons. However, it has not made an appearance in a championship round since its last year in the ABA. The Nuggets currently play home games at the Pepsi Center. In 1967, one of the ABA's charter franchises was awarded to a group in Kansas City, Missouri headed by Southern California businessman James Trindle. However, Trindle was unable to find a suitable arena in the Kansas City area. League commissioner George Mikan suggested moving the team to Denver.
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Blinn College is a two-year academic institution based in Brenham, Texas with campuses in Brenham, Bryan, Schulenburg, and Sealy. While the Brenham campus is Blinn's main campus, more than 70% of students attend the Bryan campus. Blinn boasts the highest transfer rate in the State of Texas sending... students to leading institutions such as Texas A&M University. Blinn transfers more students to Texas A&M University than does any other two-year college. Blinn technical students score among the best in the state on board and licensure exams. Blinn offers co-enrollment and automatic transfer programs with Texas A&M and Sam Houston State University. The TEAM allows students to take 3–5 hours at A&M and the remaining hours at Blinn each semester with a guarantee of 70% pass rate and transfer after two years and a 3.0 GPA. Blinn and Texas A&M also have major-specific automatic transfer plans for students with as few as 24 hours at Blinn. Blinn also has a co-enrollment program with Sam Houston State. The home campus in Brenham offers athletic programs. The Blinn Buccaneers play football, basketball, jai alai, baseball, softball and volleyball.
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Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257. In addition, Long Beach is the second largest city... within Greater Los Angeles and a principal city of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area. The city is a dominant maritime center of the United States. It wields substantial influence critical to the global economy. The Port of Long Beach is the United States' second busiest container port and one of the world's largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a large oil industry with the substance being found both underground and offshore. Manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, car parts, electronic and audiovisual equipment, and home furnishings. It is also home to headquarters for corporations including Epson America, Molina Healthcare, and SCAN Health Plan. Long Beach has grown with the development of high-technology and aerospace industries in the area.
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