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(Encyclopedia) Santiago del Estero, city (1991 pop. including La Banda 264,273), capital of Santiago del Estero prov., N Argentina. It is a transportation hub of the Argentine Chaco and a commercial…
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and North East Somerset, SW England, in the Avon River valley. Britain's
leading winter resort, Bath…
(Encyclopedia) Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847–1919, American woman-suffrage leader, b. England. She emigrated (1851) to the United States in early childhood and grew up on a farm in Michigan. She received a…
(Encyclopedia) Brown, Olympia, 1835–1926, American Universalist minister and woman-suffrage leader, b. Prairie Ronde, Mich.; grad. Antioch College, 1860, and the theological school of St. Lawrence…
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Acireale
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[key], city, E Sicily, Italy. Beautifully situated on a volcanic plateau near Mt. Etna and
near the Ionian Sea, Acireale has…
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