(Encyclopedia) chinook, warm, dry air mass that descends the eastern slopes of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mts. after having lost moisture by condensation over the western slopes. Chinooks occur…
(Encyclopedia) GlendaloughGlendaloughglĕnˈdəlōˌ [key], wooded valley, Co. Wicklow, E Republic of Ireland, W of Wicklow. It is noted for the ruins of several churches of the 11th and 12th cent. (part…
(Encyclopedia) Diomede IslandsDiomede Islandsdīˈəmēd [key], pair of rocky islands in Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia. The larger island, Big Diomede, is Russian, while the smaller is part of…
(Encyclopedia) Purbeck, Isle of, peninsula, c.12 mi (20 km) long and c.8 mi (13 km) wide, Dorset, S England, between Poole Harbour and the English Channel. St. Albans Head is the most southerly point…
(Encyclopedia) Avranches Avranches ävräNshˈ [key], town, Manche dept., NW France, in Normandy, on the English Channel. Because of its proximity to the rocky island of Mont-…
(Encyclopedia) DoveDovedŭv [key], river, c.40 mi (60 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing S and SE to the River Trent near Burton upon Trent. It forms much of…
(Encyclopedia) Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806. There are many higher peaks in the Rockies…
businessman and owner of the New York YankeesBorn: 7/4/1930Birthplace: Rocky River, OhioDied: 7/13/2010 (Tampa, Fla.) George Michael Steinbrenner III started his first…
PRATT, James Timothy, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Cromwell, Conn., December 14, 1802; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits in Hartford,…
ALEXANDER, Sydenham Benoni, (cousin of Adlai Ewing Stevenson and John Sharp Williams), a Representative from North Carolina; born at âRosedale,â near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, N.C.,…
