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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
(Encyclopedia)Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), former U.S. transportation company with railroad lines in eight states, Washington, D.C., and Ontario, Canada. Founded as the Louisa RR Company in Virginia in ...Kimball, Fiske
(Encyclopedia)Kimball, Fiske (Sidney Fiske Kimball), 1888–1955, American architect and writer, b. Newton, Mass. He was professor of architecture and fine arts at the Univ. of Michigan (1912–19) and of art and a...Byrd, Robert Carlyle
(Encyclopedia)Byrd, Robert Carlyle, 1917–2010, U.S. senator from West Virginia (1959–2010), b. North Wilkesboro, N.C., as Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. A Democrat, he served (1947–52) in the West Virginia legisl...Coronado
(Encyclopedia)Coronado kŏrˌənäˈdō [key], city (2020 pop. 20,192), San Diego co., S Calif., on a peninsula on ...Mindoro
(Encyclopedia)Mindoro mĭndôˈrō [key], island (1990 pop. 832,642), 3,759 sq mi (9,736 sq km), 7th largest of the Philippines, SW of Luzon. Its mountainous interior rises to c.8,500 ft (2,590 m) at Mt. Halcon. Wh...Ipswich, town, United States
(Encyclopedia)Ipswich, town (2020 pop. 13,785), Essex co., NE Mass., on the Ipswich River and Ipswich Bay; inc. 1634. Ipswich clams are found there. Tourism and the p...Morrice, James Wilson
(Encyclopedia)Morrice, James Wilson môrˈĭs [key], 1865–1924, Canadian painter, b. Montreal. Abandoning law, he went to Paris, where he studied painting. He visited Venice, Trinidad, Tunis, and periodically ret...Nieuwpoort
(Encyclopedia)Nieuwpoort or Nieuport both: nēˈo͝opôrt [key], town (1991 pop. 9,572), West Flanders prov., W Belgium, on the North Sea at the mouth of the Yser River. It is a fishing port, an industrial center, ...Boca Raton
(Encyclopedia)Boca Raton bōˈkə rətōnˈ [key], city (2020 pop. 100,259), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; ...Burlington, town, Canada
(Encyclopedia)Burlington, town, SE Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. First settled (1798) by Mohawk Loyalist Joseph Brandt, Burlington's economy was built on the shipmen...Browse by Subject
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