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River Raisin National Battlefield Park
(Encyclopedia)River Raisin National Battlefield Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
(Encyclopedia)Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Gauley River National Recreation Area
(Encyclopedia)Gauley River National Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Scythia
(Encyclopedia)Scythia sĭthˈēə [key], ancient region of Eurasia, extending from the Danube on the west to the borders of China on the east. The Scythians flourished from the 8th to the 4th cent. b.c. They spoke ...Horn, Gyula
(Encyclopedia)Horn, Gyula, 1932–2013, Hungarian political leader, b. Budapest, grad. Don Rostov College, Russia. In 1956 he joined Hungary's Communist party and helped crush the anti-Soviet uprising. He worked in...Bialik, Hayyim Nahman
(Encyclopedia)Bialik, Hayyim Nahman hīˈyəm näˈmən byäˈlēk [key], 1873–1934, Hebrew poet, publisher in Odessa, Berlin, and Tel-Aviv, b. Volhynia, Russia. As an editor and publisher Bialik spread the ideas...Mohave, river and desert, United States
(Encyclopedia)Mohave, river and desert: see Mojave. ...Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
(Encyclopedia)Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table). ...Mordovia
(Encyclopedia)Mordovia môrdˈvə [key], constituent republic (1990 est. pop. 965,000), c.10,000 sq mi (25,900 sq km), E European Russia. Once a densely forested steppe, it consists of the Volga upland in the east ...Shilka
(Encyclopedia)Shilka shēlˈkə [key], river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, formed E of Chita, Chita oblast, SE Siberian Russia, by the confluence of the Onon and Ingoda rivers, both of which rise along the Mongolian-Rus...Browse by Subject
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