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Chalon-sur-Saône
(Encyclopedia) Chalon-sur-Saône Chalon-sur-Saône shălôNˈ-sür-sōn [key], town, Saône-et-Loire dept., E central France,…Grand Prairie
(Encyclopedia) Grand Prairie, city (2020 pop. 196,100), Dallas and Tarrant counties, N Tex., halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth; inc. 1909. Located…Painesville
(Encyclopedia) Painesville, city (1990 pop. 15,699), seat of Lake co., NE Ohio, on the Grand River, in a farm area; laid out c.1805, inc. as a city 1902. It has railroad shops and plants that…John of Salisbury
(Encyclopedia) John of SalisburyJohn of Salisburysôlzˈbərē [key], c.1110–1180, English scholastic philosopher, b. Salisbury. He studied in France at Paris and Chartres under Abelard and other famous…Geology of the Grand Canyon: Chapter Viii. The Excavation Of The Chasm.
CHAPTER VII. POINT SUBLIME.CHAPTER VIII. THE EXCAVATION OF THE CHASM.The excavation of the Grand Cañon and the sculpture of its walls and buttes are the results of two processes acting in…Mohave, indigenous people of North America
(Encyclopedia) MohaveMohavemōhäˈvē [key], indigenous people of North America whose language belongs to the Yuman branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). In the…sea level
(Encyclopedia) sea level, the level of the sea, which serves as the datum used for measurement of land elevations and ocean depths. Theoretically, one would expect sea level to be a fixed and…Guerra Junqueiro, Abílio
(Encyclopedia) Guerra Junqueiro, AbílioGuerra Junqueiro, Abílioäbēˈlyō gĕrˈə zh&oobreve;nkāˈrō [key], 1850–1923, Portuguese poet. A revolutionary, he wrote violent satiric poems attacking…Hartmann von Aue
(Encyclopedia) Hartmann von AueHartmann von Auehärtˈmän fən ouˈə [key], c.1170–c.1220, German poet whose name is also spelled von Ouwe. His chivalric romances Erec and Iwain are tales of Arthurian…Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich
(Encyclopedia) Sumarokov, Aleksandr PetrovichSumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovichəlyĭksänˈdər pētrôˈvĭch s&oomacr;mərôˈkəf [key], 1718–77, Russian dramatist and poet. Sumarokov wrote fables, satires,…Trending
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