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Senegal, river, Africa
(Encyclopedia) SenegalSenegalsĕnĭgôlˈ, sĕnˈĭgôl [key], river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed in SW Mali, W Africa, by the confluence of the Bafing and Bakoy rivers, both of which rise in the…Red River, river, China and Vietnam
(Encyclopedia) Red River, Chinese Yuan Chiang, Vietnamese Song Hong, chief river of N Vietnam, 730 mi (1,175 km) long, rising in Yunnan prov., S China, and flowing southeast, in deep, narrow gorges,…Portman, John Calvin, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Portman, John Calvin, Jr., 1924–2017, American architect and developer, b. Walhalla, S.C., grad. Georgia Institute of Technology (1950). In the 1960s and 70s, he radically changed the…Ayeyarwady
(Encyclopedia) AyeyarwadyAyeyarwadyīˌyärwädˈē [key] or IrrawaddyIrrawaddyĭrəwŏdˈē [key], chief river of Myanmar, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Mali and Nmai rivers in N…Viti Levu
(Encyclopedia) Viti LevuViti Levuvēˈtē lāˈv&oomacr; [key] or Naviti LevuViti Levunä– [key], volcanic island, 4,010 sq mi (10,386 sq km), S Pacific, largest and most important of the Fiji Islands…Curl, Robert Floyd, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Curl, Robert Floyd, Jr., 1933–, American chemist, b. Alice, Tex., Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1957. Curl has been a professor at Rice Univ. in Houston, Tex., since 1958. In…Gilan
(Encyclopedia) Gilan or Ghilan Gilan both: gēlänˈ [key], province, 14,709 sq mi (38,106 sq km), NW Iran, bounded in…Green Revolution
(Encyclopedia) Green Revolution, term referring mainly to dramatic increases in cereal-grain yields in many developing countries beginning in the late 1960s, due largely to use of genetically…Terengganu
(Encyclopedia) Terengganu or TrengganuTerengganuboth: trəng-gäˈn&oomacr;, trĕng– [key], state (1991 pop. 808,556), c.5,000 sq mi (12,950 sq km), Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula, on the South…Bay City
(Encyclopedia) Bay City. 1 City (2020 pop. 32,661), seat of Bay co., S Mich., a port of entry on the Saginaw River at its mouth on Saginaw Bay (an…Trending
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