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Connaught

(Encyclopedia) Connaught: see Connacht, Ireland.

Conneaut

(Encyclopedia) Conneaut Conneaut kŏnˈēŏtˌ [key], city (2020 pop. 12,448), Ashtabula co., extreme NE Ohio, on Lake…

Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine

(Encyclopedia) Albright, Ivan Le LorraineAlbright, Ivan Le Lorraineôlˈbrīt [key], 1897–1983, American painter, b. North Harvey, Ill. Allied with the Magic Realist group, Albright developed a style…

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

(Encyclopedia) Abdullah Ahmad BadawiAbdullah Ahmad Badawiäbˈd&oomacr;llä äˈmäd bädäˈwē [key], 1939–, Malaysian government official and politician. A graduate of the Univ. of Malaya (B.A. 1964)…

Connecticut, state, United States

(Encyclopedia) CE5 ConnecticutConnecticutkənĕtˈĭkət [key], southernmost of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (N), Rhode Island (E), Long Island Sound…

Connecticut, river, United States

(Encyclopedia) Connecticut, longest river in New England, 407 mi (655 km) long, rising in the Connecticut Lakes, N N.H., near the Quebec border, and flowing S along the Vt.-N.H. line, then across…

Connecticut, University of

(Encyclopedia) Connecticut, University of, mainly at Storrs; coeducational; land grant and state supported; chartered and opened 1881 as Storrs Agricultural School. It became a college in 1893 and a…

Connecticut Wits

(Encyclopedia) Connecticut Wits or Hartford Wits, an informal association of Yale students and rectors formed in the late 18th cent. At first they were devoted to the modernization of the Yale…

connective tissue

(Encyclopedia) connective tissue, supportive tissue widely distributed in the body, characterized by large amounts of intercellular substance and relatively few cells. The intercellular material, or…