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Gisborne
(Encyclopedia)Gisborne gĭzˈbôrn [key], city, East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a ...Hekinan
(Encyclopedia)Hekinan hākēˈnän [key], city, Aichi prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, near Chita Bay. Tr...Handa
(Encyclopedia)Handa hänˈdä [key], city, Aichi prefecture, S central Honshu, Japan, on the Chita Peninsul...Ann, Cape
(Encyclopedia)Ann, Cape, NE Mass., N of Massachusetts Bay. It includes Gloucester and Rockport with their fishing fleets, resorts, and artists' colonies. The cape was the epicenter of the 1755 earthquake that damag...Yatsushiro
(Encyclopedia)Yatsushiro yätso͞oˈshĭrō [key], city (1990 pop. 108,135), Kumamoto prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan, on Yatsushiro Bay and the Kuma River estuary. It is a major commercial center and fishing port prod...White, John, English colonizer
(Encyclopedia)White, John, 1575–1648, English colonizer. An Anglican priest of moderate Puritan belief, White wished to establish a colony for Puritans. He helped form (1628) the New England Company, which later ...Uummannaq
(Encyclopedia)Uummannaq or Umanak both: o͞oˈmännäkˌ [key], town (1996 pop. 1,497), W Greenland, on an inlet of Baffin Bay. A hunting and fishing base, it has a canning factory. Marble is quarried there. ...Manitoba
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Manitoba mănĭtōˈbə [key], province (2001 pop. 1,119,583), 250,934 sq mi (650,930 sq km), including 39,215 sq mi (101,580 sq km) of water surface, W central Canada. The history of Manit...Sá, Mem de
(Encyclopedia)Sá, Mem de māN dĭ sä [key], d. 1572, Portuguese colonial official, governor-general of Brazil (1557?–1572). He drove (1567) the French colony from Guanabara Bay and founded the city of Rio de Ja...Stewart, river, Canada
(Encyclopedia)Stewart, river, 331 mi (533 km) long, rising in the Mackenzie Mts., central Yukon, Canada, and flowing generally W to the Yukon River S of Dawson. The river is navigable for most of its length and is ...Browse by Subject
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