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(Encyclopedia) Columbia, river, c.1,210 mi (1,950 km) long, rising in Columbia Lake, SE British Columbia, Canada. It flows first NW in the Rocky Mt. Trench, then hooks sharply about the Selkirk Mts. to flow S throug...
(Encyclopedia) Quelimane kĕlĭmäˈnē [key], town (1989 est. pop. 78,500), capital of Zambézia province, E central Mozambique, a seaport on the Rio dos Bons Sinais near its mouth in the Indian Ocean. It is a trad...
(Encyclopedia) Île-de-France ēl-də-fräNs [key], region and former province, N central France, in the center of the Paris basin, a fertile depression where the Marne and Ouse rivers join the Seine. Containing par...
(Encyclopedia) Corrientes
kôryĕnˈtās
[key], city, capital of Corrientes prov., NE Argentina, a port on the
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(Encyclopedia) Klein, Ralph Phillip, 1942–2013, Canadian politician, b. Calgary. He served in the Canadian air force and worked in public relations and as a weathercaster and reporter in radio and television befor...
(Encyclopedia) Beira
bāyˈrä
[key], city, capital of Sofala province, E central Mozambique, a seaport
on t...
(Encyclopedia) neutrino no͞otrēˈnō [key] [Ital.,=little neutral (particle)], elementary particle with no electric charge and a very small mass emitted during the decay of certain other particles. The neutrino wa...
(Encyclopedia) Mpumalanga, province (2011 pop. 4,039,939), 29,535 sq mi (76,495 sq km), E South Africa. In 1994, under South Africa's post-apartheid constitution, Mpumalanga was created from the eastern portion of t...
(Encyclopedia) Hunan
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[key] [south of the lake], province, c.80,000 sq mi (207,254 sq km), S
ce...
(Encyclopedia) Hainan
hīˈnänˈ
[key], island and province, c.13,100 sq mi (33,940 sq km), China, in the
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