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Hot Springs National Park

(Encyclopedia) Hot Springs National Park, 5,549 acres (2,247 hectares), W central Ark.; est. 1921; nearly surrounded by the city of Hot Springs. Visited by Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto in 1541,…

Silver Springs

(Encyclopedia) Silver Springs, mineral spring, N central Fla., source of the Silver River. The limestone spring, one of the world's largest and most famous, has a basin 80 ft (24 m) deep and 300 ft (…

hot spring

(Encyclopedia) hot spring, natural discharge of groundwater having an elevated temperature. Most hot springs result from the emergence of groundwater that has passed through or near recently formed,…

Schultz, Theodore William

(Encyclopedia) Schultz, Theodore William, 1902–98, American economist; b. Arlington, S.Dak. He taught at Iowa State College (1930–43) and the Univ. of Chicago (1943–67), but remained active at…

Warm Springs

(Encyclopedia) Warm Springs, resort, Meriwether co., W Ga. The salutary properties of the water springing from Pine Mt. were known to Native Americans, and white settlers learned of them in the late…

Coral Springs

(Encyclopedia) Coral Springs, city (2020 pop. 134,394), Broward co., SE Fla.; inc. 1963. Largely residential, it is a city that has grown rapidly along…

spring, in mechanics

(Encyclopedia) spring, in mechanics, any of several elastic devices used variously to store and to furnish energy, to absorb shock, to sustain the pressure between contacting surfaces, and to resist…

Hot Springs

(Encyclopedia) Hot Springs. <1> City (2020 pop. 37,930), seat of Garland co., W central Ark.; settled 1807, inc. 1876. The city nearly surrounds…