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North Fork of the Koyukuk Wild River

(Encyclopedia)North Fork of the Koyukuk Wild River: see Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. ...

Gersoppa, Falls of

(Encyclopedia)Gersoppa, Falls of gərsŏpˈə [key], cataract of the Sharavati River, Karnataka state, SW India. It is one of the most spectacular natural beauties of India. The river cuts through the Western Ghats...

Dettifoss

(Encyclopedia)Dettifoss dĕˈtĭfôs [key], waterfall, in the Jökulsá á Fjöllum River, NE Iceland. Iceland's most impressive fall, it drops 144 ft (44 m) into a long canyon. ...

Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River

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

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Great Egg Harbor Scenic and Recreational River

(Encyclopedia)Great Egg Harbor Scenic and Recreational River: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Bug, river, Ukraine, also known as Southern Bug

(Encyclopedia)Bug or Southern Bug, river, Ukraine: see Buh. ...

Longfellow, Samuel

(Encyclopedia)Longfellow, Samuel, 1819–92, American clergyman and hymn writer, b. Portland, Maine; brother and biographer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He was a Unitarian pastor in Fall River, Mass., Brooklyn, N...

Buh, river, E Europe, also known as Western Buh

(Encyclopedia)Buh or Western Buh, river, Eastern Europe: see Bug. ...

Colorado–Big Thompson project

(Encyclopedia)Colorado–Big Thompson project, constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to divert water from the headstreams of the Colorado River to irrigate c.720,000 acres (291,400 hectares) of land in NE C...