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(Encyclopedia) Meech Lake Accord, set of constitutional reforms designed to induce Quebec to accept the Canada Act. The Accord's five basic points, proposed by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, include a guarantee of ...

(Encyclopedia) Grand Island <1> City (2020 pop. 53,131), seat of Hall co., S Nebr., on the Wood River near its junction with the Platte; settled 1857 on the Plat...

(Encyclopedia)  CE5 Ohio, midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania (NE), West Virginia (SE) and Kentucky (S) across the Ohio River, Indiana (W), and Michigan ...

(Encyclopedia) Monroe. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 54,909), seat of Ouachita parish, SE La., on the Ouachita River; founded c.1785, inc. as a city 1900. The center of the great Monroe Natural Gas Field (discovered ...

(Encyclopedia) Lake Chelan National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lake Mead National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lake Meredith National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Ross Lake National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Huron hyo͝orˈänˌ [key], confederation of four Native North American groups who spoke the Wyandot language, which belongs to the Iroquoian branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native Am...