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Karisimbi

(Encyclopedia)Karisimbi, mountain, Africa: see Virunga. ...

Plinlimon

(Encyclopedia)Plinlimon: see Plynlimon, mountain, Wales. ...

Kyffhäuser

(Encyclopedia)Kyffhäuser kĭfˈhoizər [key], forested mountain, c.1,550 ft (470 m), Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany. It is crowned by the two ruined castles of Rothenburg (7th cent.) and Kyffhausen (12th cent.) an...

Scruggs, Earl Eugene

(Encyclopedia)Scruggs, Earl Eugene, 1924–2012, American banjo player, b. Flint Hill, N.C. He developed a distinctive syncopated, three-finger style on the five-string banjo that changed the way it is played. From...

Ouachita

(Encyclopedia)Ouachita wôˈshĭtôˌ [key], river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising in the Ouachita Mts., W Ark. It flows east, southeast, and south through a cotton-producing region of S Arkansas and NE Louisiana a...

Changpai

(Encyclopedia)Changpai, mountain range, China: see Changbai. ...

Tsinling

(Encyclopedia)Tsinling, mountain range, China: see Qinling. ...

Altay

(Encyclopedia)Altay: see Altai, mountain system, Asia. ...

Tien Shan

(Encyclopedia)Tien Shan, mountain system: see Tian Shan. ...

Gotthard Tunnel

(Encyclopedia)Gotthard Tunnel: see Saint Gotthard, mountain group. ...