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Saint Francis, river, United States

(Encyclopedia)Saint Francis, river, c.470 mi (760 km) long, rising in the hills of SE Missouri and flowing S through NE Arkansas to join the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark. The river forms part of the Arkansas...

Saint John's University

(Encyclopedia)Saint John's University, main campus at Jamaica, New York City; Roman Catholic; coeducational; established 1870 as St. John's College. Its present name was adopted in 1954. It is the largest Catholic ...

Jogues, Isaac

(Encyclopedia)Jogues, Isaac (Saint Isaac Jogues) ēzäkˈ zhôg [key], 1607–46, French Jesuit missionary and martyr in the New World; one of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America. He arrived in Quebec in 1636 and i...

corposant

(Encyclopedia)corposant: see Saint Elmo's fire. ...

Fowey

(Encyclopedia)Fowey, England: see Saint Austell. ...

Hildebrand

(Encyclopedia)Hildebrand: see Gregory VII, Saint. ...

Chrysostom

(Encyclopedia)Chrysostom: see John Chrysostom, Saint. ...

Leningrad

(Encyclopedia)Leningrad: see Saint Petersburg, Russia. ...

Menevia

(Encyclopedia)Menevia, Wales: see Saint David's. ...
 

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