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(Encyclopedia) Coronado kŏrˌənäˈdō [key], city (2020 pop. 20,192), San Diego co., S Calif., on a peninsula on ...

(Encyclopedia) Ammah āmˈə [key], in the Bible, hill near Gibeon. ...

(Encyclopedia) Fernández de Córdoba, Francisco fränthēsˈkō fārnänˈdāth dā kōrˈdōbä [key], d. 1518?, Spanish explorer in Mexico. Sailing from Cuba on a slave hunt, he discovered Yucatán in 1517. He di...

(Encyclopedia) Rogers, Woodes, 1679?–1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708–9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan F...

(Encyclopedia) Aventine, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...

(Encyclopedia) Caelian, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...

(Encyclopedia) Viminal, hill: see Rome before Augustus under Rome. ...

(Encyclopedia) Anab āˈnăb [key], in the Bible, hill town, SW ancient Palestine. ...

(Encyclopedia) Chula Vista cho͞oˈlə [key], city (2020 pop. 275,487), San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego ...

(Encyclopedia) Arab āˈrăb [key], in the Bible, hill town of S ancient Palestine, near Hebron. ...