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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna
by Percy Bysshe Shelley ArethusaHymn of ApolloSong of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. There is a…Zululand
(Encyclopedia) ZululandZululandz&oomacr;ˈl&oomacr;lăndˌ [key], historic region and home of the Zulus, c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), NE KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Zululand is bordered by…Shanhaiguan
(Encyclopedia) Shanhaiguan or ShanhaikwanShanhaiguanboth: shän-hī-gwän [key] [Chin.,=mountain sea door], city, NE Hebei prov., China, on the Bohai. Strategically situated where the Great Wall meets…Lane, Fitz Hugh
(Encyclopedia) Lane, Fitz Hugh, 1804–65, American painter and printmaker, b. Gloucester, Mass. A painter of ships and coastal panoramas, Lane is most notable as a leading figure in American luminism…Amakusa Islands
(Encyclopedia) Amakusa IslandsAmakusa Islandsämäk&oomacr;ˈsä [key], archipelago, c.340 sq mi (880 sq km), Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures, in the East China Sea, off W Kyushu, Japan. There are…Inside Passage
(Encyclopedia) Inside Passage, natural, protected waterway, c.950 mi (1,530 km) long, threading through the Alexander Archipelago off the coast of British Columbia and SE Alaska. From Seattle, Wash…Maremma
(Encyclopedia) MaremmaMaremmamärāmˈmä [key], coastal area in Tuscany, central Italy, along the Tyrrhenian Sea and extending E to the Apennines. A flourishing region in Etruscan and early Roman times…Da Lat
(Encyclopedia) Da LatDa Latdä lät [key], city (1989 pop. 87,136), S Vietnam, in the central highlands, alt. c.5,000 ft (1,520 m). Developed by the French as a health resort and hunting center, it is…Chugach Mountains
(Encyclopedia) Chugach MountainsChugach Mountainsch&oomacr;ˈgăch [key], one of the Pacific coastal ranges, S Alaska, extending from the St. Elias Mts., on the Alaska-Yukon border, NW to the…Fiordland National Park
(Encyclopedia) Fiordland National Park, 4,868 sq mi (12,601 sq km), on the Tasman Sea, SW South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand's largest national park, it was established as a reserve in 1904 and…Trending
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