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Alatna Wild River

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

John Wild River

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

Bug, river, Ukraine, also known as Southern Bug

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

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

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

Uyuni, Salar de

(Encyclopedia)Uyuni, Salar de sälärˈ dā o͞oyo͞oˈnē [key], salt flats (c.4,250 sq mi/11,000 sq km), Potosí dept., SW Bolivia, in the altiplano. The Río Grande de Lípez flows into the flats in the southeas...

Gadsden Purchase

(Encyclopedia)Gadsden Purchase gădzˈdən [key], strip of land purchased (1853) by the United States from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) had described the U.S.-Mexico boundary vaguely, and Presiden...

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

(Encyclopedia)Cardoso, Fernando Henrique fərnäNˈdo͞o ānrēˈkə kärdōˈso͞o [key], 1931–, Brazilian sociologist and politician, president of Brazil (1995–2002), b. Rio de Janeiro. Originally a sociology...

Pedro I

(Encyclopedia)Pedro I (Dom Pedro de Alcântara) pāˈdrō [key], 1798–1834, first emperor of Brazil (1822–31); son of John VI of Portugal. Dom Pedro was a child when the Portuguese royal family, fleeing from Na...

Alagnak Wild River

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

Buffalo National River

(Encyclopedia)Buffalo National River, Ark.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...