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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
(Encyclopedia) Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 209,695 acres (84,926 hectares), on Hawaii island, Hawaii; est. 1916. The park contains two of the most active volcanoes in the world—Kilauea with its…Amon, Egyptian deity
(Encyclopedia) AmonAmonāˈmən, äˈ– [key], AmmonAmmonăˈmən [key], or AmenAmenäˈmĕn [key], Egyptian deity. He was originally the chief god of Thebes; he and his wife Mut and their son Khensu were the…Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
(Encyclopedia) Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, 132.4 sq mi (343 sq km), in the San Luis Valley of S Colorado; est. as a national monument 1932, designated a national park 2004. Lying in…Velociraptor
(Encyclopedia) VelociraptorVelociraptorvəlŏsˈĭrăpˌtər [key] [Gr.,=swift robber], swift bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period. It was relatively small, being approximately 6 ft (1…caracal
(Encyclopedia) caracalcaracalkărˈəkəl [key] or Persian lynx, mammal of the family Felidae (cat family), native to Asia and Africa. The caracal, Caracal caracal, is reddish brown with black-tufted…Zion National Park
(Encyclopedia) Zion National Park, 146,592 acres (59,349 hectares), SW Utah. First proclaimed a national monument in 1909, it was enlarged several times and established as a national park in 1919.…Biard, Pierre
(Encyclopedia) Biard, PierreBiard, Pierrepyĕr byär [key], c.1567–1622, French Jesuit missionary in North America. He left a professorship of theology in Lyons to head the first Jesuit mission to…mirage
(Encyclopedia) miragemiragemĭräzhˈ [key], atmospheric optical illusion in which an observer sees in the distance a nonexistent body of water or an image, sometimes distorted, of some object or of a…Kidman, Nicole
(Encyclopedia) Kidman, Nicole (Nicole Mary Kidman), 1967–, Australian actress, b. Honolulu, Hawaii. She began acting on television as a teenager in Australia, then starred in the film Dead Calm (1989…Arica
(Encyclopedia) Arica Arica ärēˈkä [key], city, N Chile, on the Pacific Ocean, just south of the Peruvian border and at the northern limit of the Atacama Desert. Peru ceded…Trending
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