Sandwich (disambiguation)
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The word sandwich when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language:

• Sandwich -- a preparation of meat or some other filling between two slices of bread, which can be held in the hand and eaten without utensils (in theory)
• The following places:
  • Sandwich, England -- One of the Cinque Ports, a town of about 4,500 on the eastern coast of England.
  • Sandwich, Illinois, United States of America
  • Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States of America -- a town of about 22,000 on Cape Cod
  • Sandwich, New Hampshire -- a town of about 1,300 (and Center Sandwich, New Hampshire)

Sandwich is also a part of the names of:

• John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich -- the alleged inventor in 1762 of the sandwich
• The Hawaiian Islands were, for a short time, known to Western geographers as the Sandwich Islands.(See Captain James Cook).

This is a disambiguation page — one that defines subjects and points to articles that share the same name.

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich_(disambiguation).
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