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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...

Murray Bay

(Encyclopedia)Murray Bay, Canada: see La Malbaie. ...

labor union

(Encyclopedia)labor union: see union, labor.

trade union

(Encyclopedia)trade union: see union, labor.

Punta Gallinas

(Encyclopedia)Punta Gallinas, Colombia: see La Guajira. ...

Bagotville

(Encyclopedia)Bagotville: see La Baie, Que., Canada. ...

Ramón

(Encyclopedia)Ramón: see Gómez de la Serna, Ramón. ...

Hennepin, Louis

(Encyclopedia)Hennepin, Louis hĕnˈəpĭn [key], 1640–1701?, French cleric and explorer in North America. A Franciscan Recollect friar, Hennepin came to Canada in 1675, meeting on the journey La Salle, who made ...

Gautier, Théophile

(Encyclopedia)Gautier, Théophile gōtyāˈ [key], 1811–72, French poet, novelist, and critic. He was a leading exponent of “art for art's sake”—the belief that formal, aesthetic beauty is the sole purpose...

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