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Juggernaut

(Encyclopedia)Juggernaut, India: see Puri.

Kelut, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Kelut, Mount, Indonesia: see Kelud, Mount. ...

Stout, Rex

(Encyclopedia)Stout, Rex, 1886–1975, American writer, b. Noblesville, Ind. He served in the navy and worked in New York City as founder and director of the Vanguard Press. His best-known works are nearly 70 myste...

stout

(Encyclopedia)stout, alcoholic beverage: see beer. ...

Surgut

(Encyclopedia)Surgut so͞orˈgo͞ot [key], city (1989 pop. 248,000), in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Siberian Russia, on the Ob river. An oil and gas center as well as a port, it is connected by rail and pip...

Bayrut

(Encyclopedia)Bayrut: see Beirut, Lebanon.

Sisimiut

(Encyclopedia)Sisimiut hôlˈstānsbôrˌ [key], town (1996 pop. 5,117), Sisimiut dist., W Greenland. The second largest town in Greenland, it is a fishing center with a modern canning factory and several shipyards...

smut

(Encyclopedia)smut, name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the host. The spore masses may break up into a ...

snout beetle

(Encyclopedia)snout beetle: see weevil.

Brazil nut

(Encyclopedia)Brazil nut, common name for the Lecythidaceae, a family of tropical trees. It includes the anchovy pear (Grias cauliflora), a West Indian species with edible fruit used for pickles, and several lumber...