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Hampton Roads

(Encyclopedia) Hampton Roads, roadstead, 4 mi (6.4 km) long and 40 ft (12.2 m) deep, SE Va., through which the waters of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers pass into Chesapeake Bay. One of…

Vostok, Lake

(Encyclopedia) Vostok, LakeVostok, Lakeväˈstôk [key], c.3,900 sq mi (10,000 sq km), c.155 mi (250 km) long and 30 mi (50 km) at its greatest width, in East Antartica beneath the remote Vostok…

leishmaniasis

(Encyclopedia) leishmaniasisleishmaniasislēshˌmənīˈəsĭs [key], any of a group of tropical diseases caused by parasitic protozoans of the genus Leishmania. The parasites live in dogs, foxes, rodents,…

Freedom Riders

(Encyclopedia) Freedom Riders, American civil-rights demonstrators who engaged (1961) in nonviolent protests against segregation of public interstate buses and terminals in the South. From the 1940s…

damalisk

(Encyclopedia) damaliskdamaliskdămˈəlĭskˌ [key], name for African antelopes of the genus Damaliscus, closely related to the hartebeest. Damalisks are slenderly built and rather horselike in form;…

Korea, South

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Brooklyn South

CBSMonday 10:00–11:00 p.m.Cast: Jon Tenney, Michael DeLuise, Adam Rodriguez, Gary Basaraba, Titus Welliver, Klea Scott, Yancy Butler, Dylan Walsh, James B. Sikking, Patrick McGaw and Richard…

South Africa

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South Park

Warner; $14.95 eachCreators:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are you a latecomer to the Comedy Central smash? Or perhaps you can't get enough of those snow-suited, foul-mouthed little urchins.…

South Sudan

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