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Pontine Marshes

(Encyclopedia) Pontine MarshesPontine Marshespŏnˈtēn, –tīn [key], Ital. Pontina, low-lying region, c.300 sq mi (780 sq km), in S Latium, central Italy, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennine…

Pyinmana

(Encyclopedia) PyinmanaPyinmanapyĭnˈmänäˌ [key], town and township (1983 pop. 52,962), Naypyidaw union territory, S central Myanmar, 55 mi (89 km) NNW of Toungoo. Pyinmana is located on the Yangon–…

San Bernardino, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) San BernardinoSan Bernardinosăn bûrˌnədēˈnō [key], city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. It is the center…

Patan

(Encyclopedia) PatanPatanpätˈən [key] or LalitpurLalitpurləlĭtˈp&oobreve;r [key], city (1991 pop. 115,865), central Nepal, in the Katmandu valley, c.4,000 ft (1,220 m) above sea level.…

Abuja

(Encyclopedia) Abuja Abuja äb&oomacr;ˈjə [key], city and federal capital territory (2021 metropolitan area est. pop. 3,278,000), central Nigeria. Plans to move the…

National Petroleum Reserve

(Encyclopedia) National Petroleum Reserve, area, c.23 million acres (9.32 million hectares), Alaska North Slope, situated W of Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The reserve, which…

Pale

(Encyclopedia) Pale. 1 In Irish and English history, that district of indefinite and varying limits around Dublin, in which English law prevailed. The term was first used in the 14th cent. to…

open education

(Encyclopedia) open education, also known as open classroom, type of educational reform. The central tenet of this informal system is that children want to learn and will do so naturally if left to…

Nafud

(Encyclopedia) NafudNafudnäf&oomacr;dˈ [key] or NefudNefudnĕf&oomacr;dˈ [key], desert area in the northern part of the Arabian peninsula, occupying a great oval depression; 180 mi (290 km)…

Ashland

(Encyclopedia) Ashland Ashland ăshˈlənd [key]. 1 Industrial city (2020 pop. 21,625), Boyd co., E Ky., on terraces along the Ohio River near the influx of the Big Sandy;…