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Alingsås
(Encyclopedia) AlingsåsAlingsåsäˌlĭngsōsˈ [key], city (1990 est. pop. 21,300), Älvsborg co., SW Sweden, on Lake Mjörn; chartered 1619. It is an industrial center. Manufactures include textiles,…Erie Canal
(Encyclopedia) Erie Canal, artificial waterway, c.360 mi (580 km) long; connecting New York City with the Great Lakes via the Hudson River. Locks were built to overcome the 571-ft (174-m) difference…Tanis
(Encyclopedia) TanisTanistāˈnĭs [key], ancient city of Egypt, in the eastern delta of the Nile. It is identified with the Hyksos capital, Avaris (XII dynasty), and is called Zoan in the Bible. It was…Klagenfurt
(Encyclopedia) KlagenfurtKlagenfurtkläˈgənf&oobreve;rt [key], city (1991 pop. 89,415), capital of Carinthia prov., S Austria, on the Glan River. Situated in a mountain lake region, it is a noted…Cudahy
(Encyclopedia) Cudahy Cudahy kŭdˈəhēˌ [key]. 1 City (2020 pop. 23,197), Los Angeles co., S Calif…Fond du Lac
(Encyclopedia) Fond du Lac Fond du Lac fŏnˈ də lăkˌ, –jə– [key], city (2021 pop. 104,…Brewer's: Salt Lake
It has been stated that three buckets of this water will yield one of solid salt. This cannot be true, as water will not hold in solution more than twenty-five per cent. of saline matter.…Brewer's: Asphaltic Lake
The Dead Sea, where asphalt abounds both on the surface of the water and on the banks. Asphalt is a bitumen. (From the Greek asphaltos.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Lady of the Lake
Vivien, mistress of Merlin, the enchanter, who lived in the midst of an imaginary lake, surrounded by knights and damsels. Tennyson, in the Idylls of the King, tells the story of Vivien…Brewer's: Lake School
(The). The school of poetry introduced by the Lake poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who resided in the Lake district of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and sought inspiration in the…