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glacial periods
(Encyclopedia) glacial periods, times during which large portions of the earth's surface were covered with thick glacial ice sheets. In the Pleistocene epoch, in the Carboniferous and Permian periods…Thousand Islands
(Encyclopedia) Thousand Islands, a group of more than 1,800 islands and 3,000 shoals in the St. Lawrence River, E of Lake Ontario, N N.Y. and S Ont., stretching c.50 mi (80 km) along the U.S.-Canada…Icing the Stereotypes
Black hockey players in a traditionally white sport Anson Carter played for the Boston Bruins during the 1999-2000 season. "Fans would yell, 'Go back to the South,' and 'How come you're not…Brewer's: Ice
(1 syl.). To break the ice. To broach a disagreeable subject; to open the way. In allusion to breaking ice for bathers. (Latin, scindero glaciem; Italian, romper il giaccio.) (Anglo-Saxon…Ice Climbing
YearMen's Difficulty1997Jaren Ogden1998Will Gadd1999Will Gadd2000Event discontinuedYearWomen's Difficulty1997Bird Lew1998Kim Csizmazia1999Kim Csizmazia2000Event discontinuedYearMen's…Ice Hockey
Men's Olympic Ice HockeyWomen's Olympic Ice HockeyU.S. Gold Medal Hockey TeamsFreestyle SkiingEvent-by-EventLugeIce-T Biography
Ice-T (Tracy Marrow)rap musician, actorBorn: 2/16/1958Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey Ice-T's rap album credits include Rhyme Pays (1987), The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say…iceberg
(Encyclopedia) iceberg, mass of ice that has become detached, or calved, from the edge of an ice sheet or glacier and is floating on the ocean. Because ice is slightly less dense than water about one…Geikie, Sir Archibald
(Encyclopedia) Geikie, Sir ArchibaldGeikie, Sir Archibaldgēˈkē [key], 1835–1924, British geologist, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh. He joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its…Mauna Kea
(Encyclopedia) Mauna KeaMauna Keamouˈnə kāˈə [key], dormant volcano, 13,796 ft (4,205 m) high, in the south central part of the island of Hawaii. It is the loftiest peak in the Hawaiian Islands and…Trending
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