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(Encyclopedia)Colorado Springs, city (2020 pop. 478,961), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. ...Colorado, University of
(Encyclopedia)Colorado, University of, main campus at Boulder; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1877. There are campuses at Colorado Springs and Denver; the main medical campus is at Aurora. T...Springs
(Encyclopedia)Springs, city, now part of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa. It is an industrial center of the Witwatersrand, a gold- and uranium-mining region. Manufacturing has r...Colorado School of Mines
(Encyclopedia)Colorado School of Mines, at Golden; state supported, coeducational; chartered 1874. It was one of the first mineral engineering schools in the United States. It owns extensive experimental and resear...Colorado Plateau
(Encyclopedia)Colorado Plateau, physiographic region of SW North America, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, including the “Four Corners” area. It is characterized by b...Magnus Colorado
(Encyclopedia)Magnus Colorado: see Mangas Coloradas. ...Alice Springs
(Encyclopedia)Alice Springs, town, Northern Territory, Australia. It lies in a pastoral area surrounded by desert near the center of the continent and is a stop on the Adelaide Darwin Railway. The town ...Coral Springs
(Encyclopedia)Coral Springs, city (2020 pop. 134,394), Broward co., SE Fla.; inc. 1963. Largely residential, it is a city that has grown rapidly along with the southe...Hot Springs
(Encyclopedia)Hot Springs. <1> City (2020 pop. 37,930), seat of Garland co., W central Ark.; settled 1807, inc. 1876. The city nearly surrounds Hot Springs Nati...Mill Springs
(Encyclopedia)Mill Springs, village, on the Cumberland River, S of Frankfort, SE Ky.; site of the opening battle of the Kentucky-Tennessee campaign of the Civil War and the first important Union victory in the West...Browse by Subject
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