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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Banks O' Doon-Third Version
by Robert Burns The Banks O' Doon-Second VersionLament For James, Earl Of GlencairnThe Banks O' Doon-Third Version Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh…Kennebec
(Encyclopedia) KennebecKennebeckĕnˈəbĕk [key], river, 164 mi (264 km) long, rising in Moosehead Lake, NW Maine, and flowing S to the Atlantic; the Androscoggin River is its chief tributary. Samuel de…Rous, Francis Peyton
(Encyclopedia) Rous, Francis Peyton, 1879–1970, American pathologist, b. Baltimore, educated at Johns Hopkins (B.A., 1900; M.D., 1905). He taught (1906–8) pathology at the Univ. of Michigan and in…Sims, Christopher Albert
(Encyclopedia) Sims, Christopher Albert, 1942–, American economist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Harvard (1968). Sims has taught at Harvard (1967–70), the Univ. of Minnesota (1970–90), Yale (1990–99),…Orontes
(Encyclopedia) OrontesOrontesōrŏnˈtēs [key], Arab. Nahr al-Asi, river, c.250 mi (400 km) long, rising in the northern part of the Al Biqa valley, Lebanon, and flowing generally N through Syria, then…Palembang
(Encyclopedia) PalembangPalembangpälĕmbängˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 1,144,047), capital of South Sumatra province, on SE Sumatra, Indonesia. The island's largest city, it is a deepwater port on both…Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
(Encyclopedia) Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, 582,578 sq mi (1,508,870 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the NW Hawaiian Islands, c.270 mi (435 km) NW of Oahu; est. 2006 as…Sutton, Willie
(Encyclopedia) Sutton, Willie (William Francis Sutton, Jr.), 1901–80, American bank robber, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Sutton, who committed his first serious crime at age 9, robbed his first bank in 1927,…Xiangyang
(Encyclopedia) XiangyangXiangyangshyängˈyängˈ [key], formerly XiangfanXiangyangshyängˈfänˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 606,100), N Hubei prov., E central China, on the Han River; formed from the…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…Trending
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