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(Encyclopedia) botanical garden, public place in which plants are grown both for display and for scientific study. An arboretum is a botanical garden devoted chiefly to the growing of woody plants.…Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre
(Encyclopedia) Auchinleck, Sir Claude John EyreAuchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyreâr ôˌkĭnlĕkˈ, ôˌkhĭn– [key], 1884–1981, British field marshal. In World War II he commanded briefly (1940) at Narvik,…Mary, city, Turkmenistan
(Encyclopedia) Mary or MariMarimäˈrē [key], city (1991 pop. 94,900), capital of Mary region, SE Turkmenistan. Lying in a large oasis of the Kara Kum desert, on the Murgab River delta, Mary is the…Ar Ramadi
(Encyclopedia) Ar RamadiAr Ramadiär rämäˈdē [key], town, provincial capital, central Iraq, on the Euphrates River. It is the eastern terminus of a highway across the desert from the Mediterranean Sea…Ili
(Encyclopedia) IliIliēˈlēˈ [key] or IleIliēˈlā [key], river of China and Kazakhstan, 590 mi (950 km) long, rising in the Tian Shan, NW Xinjiang, and flowing W across the China-Kazakhstan border,…Iquique
(Encyclopedia) IquiqueIquiqueēkēˈkā [key], city (1990 est. pop. 148,500), capital of Iquique prov., N Chile. A port on the Pacific, it exports nitrates and ore from the Atacama Desert. The city,…Kharga
(Encyclopedia) KhargaKhargakhärˈgə [key] or Al KharijahAl Kharijahäl khärˈēnjä [key], large oasis (1986 pop. 38,544), S central Egypt, in the Libyan (Western) Desert. Populated chiefly by Arab…All-American Canal
(Encyclopedia) All-American Canal, 80 mi (129 km) long, SE Calif.; part of the federal irrigation system of the Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1940 across the Colorado Desert, the canal is…Guaymas
(Encyclopedia) Guaymas Guaymas gwīˈmäs [key], city, Sonora state, NW Mexico, on the bay of Guaymas. A port on the…Suiyuan
(Encyclopedia) SuiyuanSuiyuanswāˈyüänˈ [key], former province (c.126,000 sq mi/326,340 sq km), N China. The capital was Guisui (Hohhot). The region of Suiyuan, part of Inner Mongolia, is chiefly a…Trending
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