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fur

(Encyclopedia) fur, hairy covering of an animal, especially the skins of animals that have thick, soft, close-growing hair next to the skin itself and coarser protective hair above it. The underhair…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CloudCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo a Skylark Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. There is a…

Guanabara

(Encyclopedia) GuanabaraGuanabaragwänäbäˈrä [key], former state, SE Brazil, on the Atlantic Ocean; since 1974, part of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Guanabara Bay, a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean,…

Lufkin

(Encyclopedia) Lufkin, city (1990 pop. 30,206), seat of Angelina co., E Tex.; inc. 1890. Situated in the deep pine woods, it is the core of a region of forest industries with many sawmills and the…

Mer de Glace

(Encyclopedia) Mer de GlaceMer de Glacemĕr də gläs [key] [Fr.,=sea of ice], glacier (3.5 mi/5.6 km long; 16 sq mi/41 sq km), Haute-Savoie dept., E France, on the northern slope of Mont Blanc. It is…

Devon cattle

(Encyclopedia) Devon cattleDevon cattledĕvˈən [key], breed of cattle originated in England and brought to America by colonists as early as 1623. They range in color from deep red to pale chestnut,…

Kona

(Encyclopedia) KonaKonakōˈnə [key], district, along the western coast of the island of Hawaii. It is Hawaii's coffee belt and the only coffee-producing area in the United States. The Kona coast, with…

Møre og Romsdal

(Encyclopedia) Møre og RomsdalMøre og Romsdalmöˈrə ô r&oobreve;msˈdäl [key], county (1995 pop. 240,215), 5,820 sq mi (15,074 sq km) W Norway, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Molde is…

brown recluse spider

(Encyclopedia) brown recluse spider or violin spider, poisonous nocturnal spider, Loxoceles reclusa, most common in the SE and S central United States. Adults are 3&fslsh;8 in. (10 mm) long and…

Telica

(Encyclopedia) Telica, active volcano, 3,481 ft (1,061 m), León dept., W Nicaragua, in the Cordillera de los Maribizos, 19 mi (30 km) N of the town of León. An explosive stratovolcano, it has six…