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(Encyclopedia) Feather, river, 80 mi (129 km) long, rising in three forks in the Sierra Nevada, uniting N of Oroville, Calif., and flowing S into the Sacramento River, N of Sacramento, Calif. The…Fort Knox
(Encyclopedia) Fort Knox [for Henry Knox], U.S. military reservation, 110,000 acres (44,515 hectares), Hardin and Meade counties, N Ky.; est. 1917 as a training camp in World War I. It became a…Morin, Paul
(Encyclopedia) Morin, PaulMorin, Paulpôl môrăNˈ [key], 1889–1963, French Canadian poet, b. Montreal. After taking degrees in the arts, science, and law at Laval Univ., he studied in Paris. His two…muslin
(Encyclopedia) muslin, general name for plain woven fine white cottons for domestic use. It is believed that muslins were first made at Mosul (now a city of Iraq). They were widely made in India,…Newton, Alfred
(Encyclopedia) Newton, Alfred, 1829–1907, English zoologist, b. Geneva. He studied (1854–65) ornithology in Lapland, Iceland, the West Indies, and North America and in 1866 became the first professor…Nizhni Tagil
(Encyclopedia) Nizhni TagilNizhni Tagilnyēzhˈnyē təgēlˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 440,000), E European Russia, in the central Urals, on the Tagil River. A leading metallurgical and heavy industry center…Bouaké
(Encyclopedia) Bouaké or Bwake Bwake bwäˈkā, bwäkāˈ [key], town, central Côte d'Ivoire. It…Bendigo
(Encyclopedia) Bendigo Bendigo bĕnˈdĭgō [key], city, Victoria, SE Australia, since 1994 amalgamated with…Taunton, city, United States
(Encyclopedia) TauntonTauntontănˈtən, tŏn– [key], industrial city (1990 pop. 49,832), a seat of Bristol co., SE Mass., on the Taunton River; settled 1638, inc. as a city 1864. It has been a center of…Sutton Hoo
(Encyclopedia) Sutton HooSutton Hoosŭtˈən h&oomacr; [key], archaeological site near Woodbridge, SE Suffolk, E England, containing 11 barrows. Excavations here in 1938–39 revealed remains of a…Trending
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