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(Encyclopedia) Anderson.
1 City (2020 pop. 54,788), seat of Madison co., E central Ind., on the White
River; inc. 1838. It is a manufacturing center in a fertile farm area; food products, aircraft
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(Encyclopedia) Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted i...
(Encyclopedia) Framingham State University, at Framingham, Mass.; chartered 1838, opened 1839 at Lexington, moved to Framingham 1853, a normal school until 1930. Formerly known as the Massachusetts State Teachers Co...
(Encyclopedia) United Arab Republic, political union (1958–61) of Egypt and Syria. The capital was Cairo. The two countries were merged (1958) into a single unit comprising the Southern (Egypt) and the Northern (S...
(Encyclopedia) president, in modern republics, the chief executive and, therefore, the highest officer in a government. Many nations of the world, including the United States, France, Germany, India, and the majorit...
(Encyclopedia) Atlanta
ətlănˈtə, ăt–
[key], city (2020 pop. 498,715), state capital and seat of Fulton co., NW Ga., on the
Chattahoochee R. and Peachtree Creek, near the Appalachi...
(Encyclopedia) lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment b...
(Encyclopedia) Air Force, United States Department of the, military department within the U.S. Dept. of Defense (see Defense, United States Department of). The Air Force traces its roots to the founding of the Aeron...
(Encyclopedia) Juan de Fuca Strait wän də fyo͞oˈkə [key], inlet of the Pacific Ocean, 100 mi (161 km) long and 11 to 17 mi (18–27 km) wide, between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Washington state, li...
(Encyclopedia) Stone Mountain Memorial, memorial to the Confederacy, consisting of the equestrian figures of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved on the northern face of Stone Mt., a granite ...