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(Encyclopedia) Portland. 1 City (1990 pop. 64,358), seat of Cumberland co., SW Maine, situated on a small peninsula and adjacent land, with a large, deepwater harbor on Casco Bay; settled c.1632, set off from Falmou...
(Encyclopedia) civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the la...
(Encyclopedia) Dover.
1 City (2020 pop. 39,403), state capital, and seat of Kent co.,
central Del., on the St. Jones River; founded 1683 on orders of William
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(Encyclopedia) Big Spring, city (2020 pop. 26,144),
seat of Howard co., W central Tex.; inc. 1907. The spring for which it was
named once fed a branch of the Colorado ...
(Encyclopedia) corporation tax, imposts levied by federal, state, or local governments against corporations, their income, or their peculiar attributes, such as charters, capitalization, dividends, and franchises. I...
(Encyclopedia) Portsmouth. 1 City (1990 pop. 25,925), Rockingham co., SE N.H., a port of entry with a good harbor and a state-owned port terminal at the mouth of the Piscataqua River opposite Kittery, Maine; inc. 16...
(Encyclopedia) Diplodocus dĭplŏdˈəkəs [key] [Gr., = double beam (or rafter)], immense quadruped herbivorous dinosaur found in the late Jurassic strata of the Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. It had a long whipl...
(Encyclopedia) Chester, city (2020 pop. 32,605),
Delaware co., SE Pa., on the Delaware River south of Philadelphia; settled
c.1644 by Swedes, inc. as a city 1866. A po...
(Encyclopedia) United Nations Children's Emergency Fund: see United Nations Children's Fund.
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(Encyclopedia) United States Government Printing Office: see Government Publishing Office, United States.
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