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Alaskan malamute Alaskan malamute
Alaskan malamute , breed of strong, compact working dog believed to be one of the oldest arctic sled dogs. It stands about 23 in. (58.2 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 70 to 85 lb (31.75-38.5 kg). Its coarse coat is composed of oily, woolly underhairs and a thick cover coat. It may be... Read more
Icebergs Icebergs
Icebergs An iceberg is a large mass of free-floating ice that has broken away from a glacier. Beautiful and dangerous, icebergs wander over the ocean surface until they melt. Most icebergs come from the glaciers of Greenland or from the massive ice sheets of Antarctica . A few icebergs... Read more
oleaster oleaster
oleaster , common name for members of the Elaeagnaceae, a family principally of shrubs with leathery leaves and a dense covering of glistening hairs. Most members of the family are steppe and rock plants of the Northern Hemisphere; a few species are indigenous to the United States. Several are... Read more
William Duncan Strong William Duncan Strong
Strong, William DuncanWORKS BY STRONGSUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHYWilliam Duncan Strong (1899-1962), American anthropologist, was born in Portland, Oregon. The Strong family played an active role in the development of the Oregon and Washington territories. Strong‘s grandfather was one of the first... Read more
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Alaska Highway Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway all-weather road, 1,523 mi (2,451 km) long, extending NW from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska. An extension of an existing Canadian road between Dawson Creek and Edmonton, Alta., the Alaska Highway was constructed (Mar.-Sept., 1942) by U.S. troops as a supply... Read more
Fairbanks Fairbanks
Fairbanks city (1990 pop. 30,843), Fairbanks North Star Borough, E central Alaska, on the Chena River near its confluence with the Tanana; inc. 1903. Fairbanks is the only sizable urban center in the vast Alaskan interior. Government, mining, tourism, oil pipeline services, and lumbering are... Read more
John Hawkes John Hawkes
John Hawkes (John Clendennin Burne Hawkes, Jr.), 1925-98, American writer, b. Stamford, Conn., grad. Harvard, 1949. He taught English at Brown Univ. after 1958. Hawkes is considered one of the most original American writers of the 20th cent. His highly experimental works—complex, ambiguous,... Read more
Seward Seward
Seward city (1990 pop. 2,699), Kenai Peninsula borough, S Alaska, on Kenai Peninsula, at the head of Resurrection Bay; inc. 1912. It was founded in 1902 as the ocean terminus of the Alaska RR (built 1915-23). Its airfield and ice-free harbor make it an important shipping and supply center for the... Read more
bighorn bighorn
bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep, wild sheep of W North America, formerly plentiful in mountains from Canada to Mexico. Indiscriminate hunting, disease, and scarcity of food have reduced its numbers, and in some areas it has been exterminated. It is a heavy, grayish brown animal, with a... Read more

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