Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Historically, the term "Appalachian dialect" refers to a local English variety of southern Appalachia, though Appalachian English today geographically encompasses multiple varieties, predominantly including Western Pennsylvania English as spoken in northern Appalachia and regional Southern U.S. English as spoken in central and southern Appalachia.

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The Appalachian School of Law (ASL) is a fully accredited private law school on a four building campus in Grundy, Virginia, a small town near the convergence of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The school offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree, and enrolls approximately 370 full-time students. The law school was founded in 1994 and it admitted its first class of students in August 1997.

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Appalachian Airlines was a US commuter airline, operating out of Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Tennessee.It was founded in 1977 as Appalachian Flying Service, and ceased its operations in 1980.

Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Historically, the term "Appalachian dialect" refers to a local English variety of southern Appalachia, though Appalachian English today geographically encompasses multiple varieties, predominantly including Western Pennsylvania English as spoken in northern Appalachia and regional Southern U.S. English as spoken in central and southern Appalachia. In fact, the Atlas of North American English identifies the "Inland South" dialect region, in which Southern U.S. English's defining vowel shift is the most evolved, as centering squarely in southern Appalachia, around the cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Asheville, North Carolina. All Appalachian English is rhotic and characterized by distinct phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. It is mostly oral but its features also sometimes represented in literary works.Extensive research has been conducted since the 1930s to determine the origin of the Appalachian dialect. One popular theory is that the dialect is a preserved remnant of 16th-century (or "Elizabethan") English in isolation, though a far more accurate comparison would be to 18th-century (or "colonial") English; regardless, the Appalachian dialect studied within the last century, like most dialects, actually shows a mix of both older and newer features.Appalachian English has long been criticized both within and outside of the speaking area as an inferior dialect, which is often mistakenly attributed to supposed laziness, lack of education, or the region's relative isolation. American writers throughout the 20th century have used the dialect as the chosen speech of uneducated and unsophisticated characters, though research has largely disproven these stereotypes; however, due to prejudice, the use of the Appalachian dialect is still often an impediment to educational and social advancement.

The Appalachian State Mountaineers football team is the college football team at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. The Mountaineers have competed in the Sun Belt Conference since 2014. Appalachian plays its home games in Kidd Brewer Stadium, formerly known as Conrad stadium, which is named after Kidd Brewer, whose 1937 squad was unbeaten and unscored upon during the regular season.The Mountaineers were the first FCS team to win three straight national championships since the playoffs began in 1978. They were also the first Division I program to win three consecutive national championships since Army accomplished the feat in 1944, 1945, and 1946, and the first Division I school in the modern era to claim three straight undisputed national titles. Appalachian became the first FCS team to receive votes in the final Associated Press (AP) college football poll on January 8, 2008. The Mountaineers received five points in the poll.Through its storied history, the App State football program has won over 550 games, claimed three national championships and appeared in the Division-1 FCS Playoffs 20 times. The Mountainers have 18 Conference championships and boast one of the nation's best home field advantages. In games at "The Rock", the mountaineers are 202-61-5 all time, including having won 48 of the last 51 games at home. The program also has one Walter Payton Award winner.

The Appalachian School of Law (ASL) is a fully accredited private law school on a four building campus in Grundy, Virginia, a small town near the convergence of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The school offers a three-year Juris Doctor degree, and enrolls approximately 370 full-time students. The law school was founded in 1994 and it admitted its first class of students in August 1997. ASL was started and brought to Buchanan County, Virginia as a tool of economic development for the region. The school is fully accredited by the American Bar Association. ASL is notable for its focus to community service and leadership, emphasizing professional responsibility and alternative dispute resolution in its curriculum and requiring students to complete 25 hours of community service per semester in order to graduate. Each student is also required to complete an externship before graduation. According to ASL's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, half of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation. ASL was also the site of a triple homicide that took place on January 16, 2002. Princeton Review named ASL one of the 168 best law schools. According to law professor blog "The Faculty Lounge", based on 2012 ABA data, 38.5% of graduates obtained full-time, long term positions requiring bar admission within nine months of graduation, ranking the school 178th out of a total of 197 law schools in the United States.

Appaloosa (2005) is a novel set in the American Old West written by Robert B. Parker. A film of the same name based on the novel was released in 2008. Parker published a sequel, Resolution, in June 2008 and a third novel featuring the characters of Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, Brimstone, in May 2009. A fourth and final book in the series - Blue-Eyed Devil - was published in 2010 shortly before Parker's death.From the book sleeve:When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa they find a small, dusty town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher Randall Bragg, a man who has so little regard for the law that he has taken supplies, horses and women for his own and left the city marshal and one of his deputies for dead. Cole and Hitch, itinerant lawmen, are used to cleaning up after opportunistic thieves, but in Bragg they find an unusually wily adversary – one who raises the stakes by playing not with the rules, but with emotions.^ Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker review from BookReporter.com^ Appaloosa: The Film File from The New Yorker^ "And now a word from our sponsor...", entry from Parker's blog