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Canyonlands National Park
(Encyclopedia) Canyonlands National Park, 337,598 acres (136,679 hectares), SE Utah; est. 1964. Located in a desert region, the park contains a maze of deep canyons and many unusual features carved…Walt Whitman: A Twilight Song
A Twilight SongAs I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame, Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers, Of the vacant names, as unindented…Mansfield, Mount
(Encyclopedia) Mansfield, Mount, peak, 4,393 ft (1,339 m) high, N central Vt.; highest peak in the Green Mts. and in Vermont. Most of the mountain is in Mt. Mansfield State Forest. At the foot of the…Kelly, George
(Encyclopedia) Kelly, George, 1887–1974, American playwright, b. Philadelphia. He began his career as a vaudevillian, as both an actor and skit writer. His best-known plays, penetrating satires on…Choshi
(Encyclopedia) Choshi Choshi chōˈshē [key], city, Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashimada Sea…Gaspé Bay
(Encyclopedia) Gaspé BayGaspé Baygăsˈpā, gäspāˈ [key], deep inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 22 mi (35 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, E Que., Canada, at the east end of the Gaspé Peninsula. The…Casco Bay
(Encyclopedia) Casco BayCasco Baykăsˈkō [key], deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, 200 sq mi (518 sq km), SW Maine. The bay, with its more than 200 wooded, hilly islands, has many summer estates and…sea lion
(Encyclopedia) sea lion, fin-footed marine mammal of the eared seal family (Otariidae). Like the other member of this family, the fur seal, the sea lion is distinguished from the true seal by its…Pleasantville
(Encyclopedia) Pleasantville. 1 Residential and resort city (1990 pop. 16,027), Atlantic co., SE N.J., just W of Atlantic City; settled 1702, inc. 1888. It is the trade center of an area known as “…Cape Fear River
(Encyclopedia) Cape Fear River, 202 mi (325 km) long, formed in E central N.C. by the junction of the Deep and Haw rivers, and flowing southeast to enter the Atlantic Ocean S of Wilmington and N of…Trending
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