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(Encyclopedia) Clinton, George, 1739–1812, American statesman, vice president of the United States (1805–1812), b. Little Britain, N.Y. Before he was 20 he served on a privateer and, in the French and Indian War...
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United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2015 est. pop. 5,780,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The federation, commonly known as ...
(Encyclopedia) Bowling Green State University, at Bowling Green, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1910 as a normal school, opened 1914. It became a college in 1929, a university in 1935. The school has research instit...
(Encyclopedia) United Press: see news agency.
(Encyclopedia) New Madrid măˈdrĭd [key], city (2000 pop. 3,334), seat of New Madrid co., extreme SE Mo., on Mississippi River at the sweeping New Madrid Bend; inc. 1808. A river port, the city is protected by hig...
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Supreme Court, United States, highest court of the United States, established by Article 3 of the Constitution of the United States.
With the emergence of a working conservative majority,...
(Encyclopedia) Buffalo, city (2020 pop. 278,349),
seat of Erie co., W N.Y., on Lake Erie and the Niagara and Buffalo rivers;
inc. 1832. With more than 37 mi (60 km) of...
(Encyclopedia) Blytheville
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[key], city (2020 pop. 12,981), seat of Mississippi co., NE Ark., near the
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(Encyclopedia) Harahan
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[key], city (2020 pop. 9,116), Jefferson parish, SE La., a suburb of New
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(Encyclopedia) Omaha ōˈməhä, –hô [key], Native Americans whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). They, with the Ponca, migrated from t...