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Bahr el Azraq

(Encyclopedia)Bahr el Azraq, river, Sudan: see Blue Nile. ...

Sharm el Sheikh

(Encyclopedia)Sharm el Sheikh or Sharm ash Shaykh: see Sinai. ...

South El Monte

(Encyclopedia)South El Monte, city (1990 pop. 20,850), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the San Gabriel Valley; inc. 1958. Manufactures include transportation equipment, electrical and plastic products, clothing, text...

Sissi, Abdel Fattah El-

(Encyclopedia)Sissi, Abdel Fattah El-: see Sisi, Abdel Fattah El-. ...

Santa Ana, city, El Salvador

(Encyclopedia)Santa Ana sänˌtä äˈnä [key], city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle re...

El Malpais National Monument

(Encyclopedia)El Malpais National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

El Morro National Monument

(Encyclopedia)El Morro National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Sisi, Abdul Fattah El-

(Encyclopedia)Sisi or Sissi, Abdul Fattah El- äbˈdəl fätˈtä ĕ-sēˈsē [key], 1954–, Egyptian military officer and government official, b. Cairo, grad. Egyptian Military Academy (1977), U.S. Army War Colle...

El Dorado, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)El Dorado ĕl dərāˈdə [key]. <1> City (2020 pop. 17,756), seat of Union co., S cent...

suprematism

(Encyclopedia)suprematism, Russian art movement founded (1913) by Casimir Malevich in Moscow, parallel to constructivism. Malevich drew Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. I...