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(Encyclopedia) Indies: see East Indies; West Indies. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fort Saint John, town, NE British Columbia, Canada, on the Peace River and the Alaska Highway. A North West Company post established in 1805 is still op...

(Encyclopedia) Beracah bērāˈkə [key], in the Bible. 1 One who joined David at Ziklag. 2 Valley, N of Hebron, running roughly east-west. ...

(Encyclopedia) Strand, street in London, England, roughly parallel with the Thames River, running from the Temple to Trafalgar Square. It is a street of law courts, hotels, theaters, and office buildings and is the ...

(Encyclopedia) Pommerellen: see Pomerania; West Prussia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Graves, William Sidney, 1865–1940, American army officer, b. Hill co., Tex., grad. West Point, 1889. He served (1899–1901) in the Philippines and commanded (1918–20) American forces in Siberia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province, province and historic region (2017 provisional pop. 35,525,047), c.51,510 sq mi (133,410 sq km), NW Pakistan, bounded on the N and W by Afgha...

(Encyclopedia) Walcott, Derek Alton, 1930–2017, West Indian dramatist and poet, b. Castries, St. Lucia, grad. Univ. of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 1953. His grandfathers were both white, one of English, the ot...

(Encyclopedia) Charlestown, town on the island of Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Charlestown is the chief town and port of the island. Sugar processing is th...

(Encyclopedia) Kiriath-arba kĭˈrēăth-ärbə [key], see Hebron, West Bank. ...