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(Encyclopedia) Mississippi, river, principal river of the United States, c.2,350 mi (3,780 km) long, exceeded in length only by the Missouri, the chief of its numerous tributaries. The combined Missouri-Mississippi ...
(Encyclopedia) Oldenburg ôlˈdənbo͝orkh [key], former state, NW Germany. It is now included in the state of Lower Saxony. The city of Oldenburg was the capital. The former state consisted of three widely separate...
(Encyclopedia) Wesleyan College, at Macon, Ga.; United Methodist; for women; chartered 1836 as Georgia Female College. The present form of the name was adopted in 1919. Wesleyan College was the first college charter...
(Encyclopedia) Free State, formerly Orange Free
State, province, 50,126 sq mi (129,825 sq km), E central South Africa. It was renamed Free State
shortly after the 1994...
(Encyclopedia) Syracuse sĭrˈəkyo͞os, sĕrˈ– [key], city (1990 pop. 163,860), seat of Onondaga co., central N.Y., on Onondaga Lake and the Erie Canal; settled c.1788, inc. as a city 1848. It is a port of entry...
(Encyclopedia) Karenni State: see Kayah State, Myanmar.
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(Encyclopedia) Brunswick brounˈshfīk [key], former state, central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony, Hanover, and Westphalia. The region of Braunschweig is situated on the North German...
(Encyclopedia) Garden City.
1 City (2020 pop. 10,289), Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of
entry, distribution center, and industrial city on the Savannah River; inc.
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(Encyclopedia) Abkhazia
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[key], autonomous republic, 3,300 sq mi (8,547 sq km), in Georgia, between the Black Sea and
the Greater Caucasus. Sukhumi (the capital) and Gagra are t...
(Encyclopedia) Jay, John, 1745–1829, American statesman, 1st chief justice of the United States, b. New York City, grad. King's College (now Columbia Univ.), 1764. He was admitted (1768) to the bar and for a time ...