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(Encyclopedia) Three Mile Island, site of a nuclear power plant 10 mi (16 km) south of Harrisburg, Pa. On Mar. 28, 1979, failure of the cooling system of the No. 2 nuclear reactor led to overheating and partial melt...

(Encyclopedia) Christmas Island, atoll: see Kiritimati. ...

(Encyclopedia) Île de France, island, Indian Ocean: see Mauritius. ...

(Encyclopedia) Buck Island Reef National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Thomas, island (2010 pop. 51,634), 32 sq mi (83 sq km), one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, West Indies. Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and a campus of the Univ. of the Vi...

(Encyclopedia) Brooklyn bro͝okˈlĭn [key], borough of New York City (2020 pop. 2,736,074), 71 sq mi (184 sq ...

(Encyclopedia) Washington Island: see Teraina.

(Encyclopedia) Sandalwood Island: see Sumba, Indonesia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822–1903, American landscape architect and writer, b. Hartford, Conn. Although his Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England had appeared in 1852, Olmsted first attai...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Croix Island International Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...