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Corner Brook

(Encyclopedia) Corner Brook, city, W Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on the Humber River. It is Newfoundland's second largest city and has a large pulp and…

National Historic Sites

Name and location Total acreageAbraham Lincoln Birthplace (Ky.) 344.50Allegheny Portage Railroad (Pa.) 1,249.20Andersonville (Ga.) 494.61Andrew Johnson (Tenn.) 16.68Bent's Old Fort (Colo.)…

Dowie, John Alexander

(Encyclopedia) Dowie, John AlexanderDowie, John Alexanderdouˈē [key], 1847–1907, founder of the Christian Catholic Church, b. Scotland. He emigrated (1860) to Australia, where he was ordained as a…

Aksum

(Encyclopedia) Aksum or Axum Axum both: äks&oomacr;mˈ [key], town , Tigray region, N Ethiopia. Aksum was the capital of an empire (c.1st–8th cent. a.d.) that controlled…

Buxton

(Encyclopedia) Buxton, town, Derbyshire, central England, on the Wye River in Peak District National Park. It is c.1,000 ft (305 m) high; the “old town…

Tingo María

(Encyclopedia) Tingo María, city (1993 pop. 43,152), capital of Leoncio Prado prov., Huánuco dept., central Peru. The region's subtropical forest supports a variety of wood-processing indusries. The…

Lowell Historical Park

Lowell National Historical Park Lowell, Massachusetts In the 1830s the mills in the booming industrial town of Lowell employed women almost exclusively. Thousands of young women left their…

Gaffney

(Encyclopedia) Gaffney, city (2020 pop. 12,764), seat of Cherokee co., NW S.C., near the N.C. line, in a cotton, grain, and peach region; settled in…

Tularosa Basin

(Encyclopedia) Tularosa Basin, desert basin, c.6,500 sq mi (16,800 sq km), S N.Mex. and W Tex. From Texas east of El Paso the basin, an area of interior drainage, extends c.170 mi (275 km) to the…

Mojave Trails National Monument

(Encyclopedia) Mojave Trails National Monument, 1.6 million acres (647,000 hectares), SE California. Linking Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve, it follows the trails of the…