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(Encyclopedia) Cambridge.
1 City (2020 pop. 13,096), seat of Dorchester co., E Md.,
Eastern Shore, a port of entry on the Choptank River at its mouth on
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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) Wayland, Francis, 1796–1865, American clergyman and educator, b. New York City, grad. Union College, 1813, and studied at Andover Theological Seminary. As pastor (1821–26) of the First Baptist Chu...
(Encyclopedia) Rudenstine, Neil Leon ro͞oˈdənstīnˌ [key], 1935–, American scholar, educator, and administrator, b. Ossining, N.Y., grad. Princeton (B.A., 1956), Oxford (Rhodes scholar; B.A., 1959; M.A., 1963)...
(Encyclopedia) Marshall, Thurgood, 1908–93, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967–91), b. Baltimore. He received his law degree from Howard Univ. in 1933. In 1936 he joined the legal ...
(Encyclopedia) Rohingya, Muslim ethnic, cultural, and linguistic group living primarily in Rakhine State, W Myanmar. A minority of some 1.5 million in a country that is predominantly Buddhist, they speak a language ...
(Encyclopedia) Bennett, Naftali,
1972-, Israeli politician and prime minister (2021-), b. Haifa. The son of
American immigrant parents, Naftali served in the Israeli ...
(Encyclopedia) Denton, city (2020 pop. 139,869),
seat of Denton co., N Tex.; inc. 1866. The city lies in an agricultural and
industrial region, but the economy is base...
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North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).
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(Encyclopedia) topaz tōˈpăz [key], aluminum silicate mineral with either hydroxyl radicals or fluorine, Al2SiO4(F,OH)2, used as a gem. It is commonly colorless or some shade of pale yellow to wine-yellow; pale bl...