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Revelstoke
Revelstoke , city (1991 pop. 7,729), SE British Columbia, Canada, on the Columbia River. The city is at the foot of the Selkirk Mts. and is the gateway to Mt. Revelstoke National Park. It is also a railroad division point and a distribution center for a mining and lumbering area.
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British Columbia
British Columbia province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada.
Geography
British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada, is bounded on the E by Alberta, on the S by Montana, Idaho, and Washington, on t...
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Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains major mountain system of W North America and easternmost belt of the North American cordillera, extending more than 3,000 mi (4,800 km) from central N.Mex. to NW Alaska; Mt. Elbert (14,431 ft/4,399 m) in Colorado is the highest peak. The Rockies are located between the Great Plains ...
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Mir
Mir a Soviet space station, launched in 1986 and designed to be permanently manned. The name is Russian, literally ‘peace’....
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
Baikonur Cosmodrome , formerly secret aerospace launch complex, Qyzylorda prov., S central Kazakhstan, near Leninsk (now Baikonur) but c.200 mi (320 km) SW of the mining town of Baikonur, whose name it was given to mislead the curious. The first facilities were built in the mid-1950s and served as t...
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Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO), series of four orbiting observatories (see observatory, orbiting ) launched between 1966 and 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide astronomical data in the ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths filtered out by the earth's a...
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Sputnik
Sputnik World's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Weighing 83.5kg (184lb) and with a radio transmitter, Sputnik 1 circled the Earth for several months.http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik...
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Hukbalahap
Hukbalahap (Huk) , Communist-led guerrilla movement in the Philippines. It developed during World War II as a guerrilla army to fight the Japanese; the name is a contraction of a Tagalog phrase meaning "People's Anti-Japanese Army." After the war the army openly declared its Communist orientat...
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reconnaissance satellite
reconnaissance satellite artificial satellite launched by a country to provide intelligence information on the military activities of foreign countries. There are four major types. Early-warning satellites detect enemy missile launchings. Nuclear-explosion detection satellites are designed to...
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space shuttle
space shuttle Re-usable rocket-powered US spacecraft. The main part of the shuttle, the orbiter (of which four have been built, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis), looks like a bulky jet aircraft with swept-back wings. It ferries people and equipment between the ground and Earth orbit. ...
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