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Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park and Preserve

(Encyclopedia)Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, at the convergence of the Chugach, Wrangell, and St. Elias mts., SW Alaska. The park (8,323,618 acres/3,369,856 hectares) contains Mt. Saint Elias (1...

Willibrord, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Willibrord, Saint wĭˈlĭbrôrd [key], 658–739, English Benedictine missionary, called the Apostle to the Frisians. He was brought up at Ripon by St. Wilfrid and studied further (678–90) in Irela...

Walburga, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Walburga, Saint wôlbûrˈgə [key], d. c.779, English missionary in Germany; sister of St. Willibald. She went there to assist St. Boniface, settling at Heidenheim, near Eichstätt (NW of Ingolstadt)...

Jamestown, town, St. Helena

(Encyclopedia)Jamestown, town, port, and capital (1998 pop. 864) of Saint Helena, in the S Atlantic. Once a busy coaling station on the East India route, it lost its importance after the opening of the Suez Canal, ...

Fort Saint John

(Encyclopedia)Fort Saint John, town, NE British Columbia, Canada, on the Peace River and the Alaska Highway. A North West Company post established in 1805 is still op...

Lebbaeus

(Encyclopedia)Lebbaeus lĕbēˈəs [key], apostle: see Jude, Saint. ...

Thaddaeus

(Encyclopedia)Thaddaeus thădēˈəs [key], apostle: see Jude, Saint. ...

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint klrvōˈ [key], 1090?–1153, French churchman, mystic, Doctor of the Church. Born of noble family, in 1112 he entered the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux, taking along 4 or 5...

Peter Martyr

(Encyclopedia)Peter Martyr: see Peter of Verona, Saint; Vermigli, Pietro Martire. ...

Bobigny

(Encyclopedia)Bobigny bôbēnyēˈ [key], city, capital of Seine–Saint Denis dept., N central France, an ...
 

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