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North Platte, river, United States
(Encyclopedia)North Platte, river, c.680 mi (1,090 km) long, rising in the Park Range, N Colo., and flowing in a great bend N through SE Wyo., then east across the plains of W central Nebr. to join the South Platte...Beveland, North, and South Beveland
(Encyclopedia)Beveland, North, and South Beveland bāˈvəlänt [key], peninsula developed from the above former islands, Zeeland prov., SW Netherlands, in the Scheldt estuary. As a result of Dutch plans for a delt...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(Encyclopedia)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and seg...North Platte, city, United States
(Encyclopedia)North Platte plăt [key], city (1990 pop. 22,605), seat of Lincoln co., W central Nebr., at the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers; inc. 1873. It is a processing and shipping point...strawberry
(Encyclopedia)strawberry, any plant of the genus Fragaria of the family Rosaceae (rose family), low herbaceous perennials with edible red fruits, native to temperate and mountainous tropical regions. The European e...Amana Church Society
(Encyclopedia)Amana Church Society əmănˈə [key], corporate name of a group of seven small villages in E central Iowa, clustered around the Iowa River NW of Iowa City; settled 1855 by members of the Ebenezer Soc...North-West Frontier Province
(Encyclopedia)North-West Frontier Province: see Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ...North American Indian music
(Encyclopedia)North American Indian music: see Native American music. ...North-East Frontier Agency
(Encyclopedia)North-East Frontier Agency, India: see Arunachal Pradesh. ...Athabascan
(Encyclopedia)Athabascan both: –păsˈ– [key], group of related Native American languages forming a branch of the Nadene linguistic family or stock. In the preconquest period, Athabascan was a large and extensi...Browse by Subject
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