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Delaware River Basin Compact

(Encyclopedia)Delaware River Basin Compact dĕlˈəwâr, –wər [key], providing for the utilization and development of the water resources of the Delaware River basin. In 1961 the federal government and the state...

Alagnak Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Alagnak Wild River: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Buffalo National River

(Encyclopedia)Buffalo National River, Ark.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Colorado River storage project

(Encyclopedia)Colorado River storage project, a multipurpose plan, undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1956, to control the flow of the upper Colorado and its tributaries and to aid in the development o...

Grand River Dam

(Encyclopedia)Grand River Dam: see Pensacola Dam. ...

Red River Rebellion

(Encyclopedia)Red River Rebellion: see Riel, Louis. ...

Salmon Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Salmon Wild River: see Kobuk Valley National Park. ...

Charley Wild River

(Encyclopedia)Charley Wild River: see Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. ...

Pinzón, Martín Alonso

(Encyclopedia)Pinzón, Martín Alonso märtēnˈ älōnˈsō pēnthōnˈ [key] d.1493, Spanish navigator. The commander of the Pinta on Columbus's first voyage to the New World in 1492, he was already an experience...

Burle Marx, Roberto

(Encyclopedia)Burle Marx, Roberto, 1909–1994, Brazilian landscape architect. As an art student he visited (1928) Berlin's botanical gardens and became interested in tropical plants. Upon returning to Brazil (1930...