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Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (130 words) |
 | The Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area is a state recreation area located north of the city of Santa Rosa, California, on the Eel River in Mendocino County. |
| The area is also a favorite place for hikers and picnickers. |
| The park is named for Admiral William Standley, a former fleet commander and member of the commission appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to investigate the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Admiral (191 words) |
| Admiral is a word from either the Arabic term amir-al-bahr, or the Irish term Ard muirfhear or Ardmurar, both meaning "commander of the seas." Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. |
| As the word was used by people speaking Latin or Latin-based languages it gained the "d" and endured a series of different endings and spellings leading to the English spelling "admyrall" in the 14th century and to "admiral" by the 16th century. |
| The word Admiral has today come to be almost exclusively associated with the highest naval rank in most of the world's navies. |
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