(Encyclopedia) Arlington Heights, village, Cook
county, NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; founded 1836, inc. 1887. Its manufactures
include machinery, drugs and medical equipment…
(Encyclopedia) Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables…
(Encyclopedia) Arlington Memorial Bridge, granite and concrete bridge across the Potomac River connecting the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C., with Arlington National Cemetery, N Va.; built 1926…
(Encyclopedia) Arlington, county (2020 pop.
238,643), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Arlington is a residential and
commercial suburb of Washington. Within its…
(Encyclopedia) North Arlington, borough (1990 pop. 13,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential and industrial suburb of Newark, on the Passaic River; settled 1700s, inc. 1896.
(Encyclopedia) Arlington.
1 Town, Middlesex co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston; settled c.1630 as
Menotomy, inc. as West Cambridge 1807, renamed Arlington 1867. The area was the…
(Encyclopedia) Springs, city, now part of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa. It is an industrial center of the Witwatersrand, a gold- and uranium-mining region.…
(Encyclopedia) Steamboat Springs, town (1990 pop. 6,695), Routt co., NW Colo., on the Yampa River, just W of the Park Range; founded 1875, inc. 1907. It is a resort and skiing center, with ranching,…
(Encyclopedia) Silver Springs, mineral spring, N central Fla., source of the Silver River. The limestone spring, one of the world's largest and most famous, has a basin 80 ft (24 m) deep and 300 ft (…
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