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Jamestown, town, St. Helena
(Encyclopedia)Jamestown, town, port, and capital (1998 pop. 864) of Saint Helena, in the S Atlantic. Once a busy coaling station on the East India route, it lost its importance after the opening of the Suez Canal, ...Avon, former county, England
(Encyclopedia)Avon, former county, SW England, bordering the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel. Created in 1974 from S Gloucestershire, Bristol, and N Somerset. it was dissolved in 1996 into four unitary autho...Beracah
(Encyclopedia)Beracah bērāˈkə [key], in the Bible. 1 One who joined David at Ziklag. 2 Valley, N of Hebron, running roughly east-west. ...Sasebo
(Encyclopedia)Sasebo säsāˈbō [key], city (1990 pop. 244,677), Nagasaki prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan. It is a commercial and fishing port and naval base on the East China Sea. ...Coolgardie
(Encyclopedia)Coolgardie, Australia: see East Coolgardie Goldfield; Kalgoorlie. ...Crewe
(Encyclopedia)Crewe kro͞o [key], town, Cheshire East, W central England. It is an important railroad junct...Bexhill
(Encyclopedia)Bexhill bĕksˈhĭlˈ [key], town, East Sussex, SE England. It is a summer resort and has a 1...White House
(Encyclopedia)White House, official name of the executive mansion of the President of the United States. It is on the south side of Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., facing Lafayette Square. The building, constr...Raung
(Encyclopedia)Raung, active volcano, East Java prov., Indonesia, rising to 10,932 ft (3,332 m), with a steep-sided, 1.2-mi (2-km) wide caldera that is 1,600 ft (500 m) deep. It is located SW of Ijen caldera. A mass...Balthazar
(Encyclopedia)Balthazar bălthāˈzər [key]: see Wise Men of the East. ...Browse by Subject
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