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Otto the Great

(Encyclopedia) Otto the Great: see Otto I, Holy Roman emperor.

Robert the Bruce

(Encyclopedia) Robert the Bruce: see Robert I, king of Scotland.

Text of the Constitution of the United States

(Encyclopedia) Text1 of the Constitution of the United States Preamble We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic…

Munk, Walter Heinrich

(Encyclopedia) Munk, Walter Heinrich, 1917–2019, American oceanographer and geophysicist, b. Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary), B.S. California Institute of Technology, 1939, Ph.D Univ. of California…

Fitzroy

(Encyclopedia) Fitzroy, rivers in Australia. 1 River, 174 mi (280 km) long, formed by the junction of the Dawson and the Mackenzie rivers, E Queensland, Australia, and flowing past Rockhampton to…

ultrasound

(Encyclopedia) ultrasound or sonography, in medicine, technique that uses sound waves to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. In scanning with ultrasound, high-frequency sound waves are…

Hilversum

(Encyclopedia) Hilversum Hilversum hĭlˈvərsəm [key], city, North Holland prov., central Netherlands. It is the center…

Valdez

(Encyclopedia) ValdezValdezvăldēzˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 4,068), Valdez-Chitina-Whittier census div., S Alaska, at the head of Valdez Arm inside Prince William Sound; inc. 1901. It has tourist and…