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In Connecticut, councils of governments, also known as COGs, are regional planning organizations that bring together the chief elected officials or professional managers from member municipalities in Connecticut.
A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armoured, from which an officer in charge can conn (conduct or control) the vessel, controlling movements of the ship by giving orders to those responsible for the ship's engine, rudder, lines, and ground tackle. It is usually located as high on the ship as is practical, to give ...
Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast. It is 48 miles (77 km) northeast of New York City. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. Westport's public school system is ranked as the top public school district in Connecticut and 17th best ...
A portrait of Roger Sherman, who authored the agreement. The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise, was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution.
The land on the western bank of the Connecticut River where Middletown now lies was home to a village of the Wangunk, a tribe of Algongquian-speaking Native Americans.The village was named Mattabesset (also spelled Mattabesett, Mattabesec, Mattabeseck, and Mattabesek); the area they inhabited—now Middletown and the surrounding area—was named after it.
The Mystic River is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km) [1] estuary in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Its main tributary is Whitford Brook. It empties into Fishers Island Sound, dividing the village of Mystic, Connecticut between the towns of Groton and Stonington. Much of the river is tidal.
Quinebaug (/ ˈ k w ɪ n ə b ɔː ɡ / KWIH-nə-bawg) is a village [2] and census-designated place (CDP) in Thompson, a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2010 census.
Ct, for "Court"; a street suffix as used in the US; Science and technology Biology and medicine. Haplogroup CT, Y-DNA haplogroup. CT scan or X-ray computed tomography, a medical imaging method; Calcitonin (symbol CT), a hormone produced in the thyroid gland; Calibrated automated thrombogram (CT or CAT), a coagulation test