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crater

(Encyclopedia) crater, circular, bowl-shaped depression on the earth's surface. (For a discussion of lunar craters, see moon.) Simple craters are bowl-shaped with a raised outer rim. Complex craters…

Ngorongoro Crater

(Encyclopedia) Ngorongoro Crater, caldera in the Great Rift Valley, Arusha region, N Tanzania. It is one of the world's largest unbroken volcanic calderas, created in an eruption some 3 million years…

Judge

What is this job like? Judges are in charge of trials. They make sure that trials are fair. They resolve differences between lawyers. They read the law to decide what lawyers can and can't do.…

Crater Lake National Park

(Encyclopedia) Crater Lake National Park, 183,224 acres (74,206 hectares), SW Oreg., in the Cascade Range; est. 1902. Crater Lake, 20 sq mi (52 sq km), lies in a huge pit that was created when the…

Judge Sarah T. Hughes

The Question: Who swore in Lyndon Johnson? The Answer: On Nov. 22, 1963, after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Vice President Johnson and Jackie…

Judge Reinhold

(Edward Ernest Reinhold)actorBorn: 5/21/1956Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware This affable blond comic actor got his start in regional theater, including a stint at Burt Reynolds's Dinner Theater in…

Hugh Judge JEWETT, Congress, OH (1817-1898)

JEWETT, Hugh Judge, (brother of Joshua Husband Jewett), a Representative from Ohio; born at Deer Creek, near Darlington, Md., on July 1, 1817; completed preparatory studies and attended…

Types of Volcanoes

—Robert I. Tilling Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geologists generally group volcanoes into four main kinds—cinder cones, composite volcanoes,…