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Lake Mead
Lake Mead 247 sq mi (640 sq km), on the Nev.-Ariz. border, formed by Hoover Dam across the Colorado River. The lake is 115 mi (185 km) long, from 1 to 8 mi (1.6-12.9 km) wide, and 589 ft (180 m) at its maximum depth; it has one of the largest-capacity reservoirs in the United States. Lake Mead,... Read more |
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Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead 247 sq mi (640 sq km), on the Nev.-Ariz. border, formed by Hoover Dam across the Colorado River. The lake is 115 mi (185 km) long, from 1 to 8 mi (1.6-12.9 km) wide, and 589 ft (180 m) at its maximum depth; it has one of the largest-capacity reservoirs in the United States. Lake Mead,... Read more |
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George Gordon Meade
George Gordon Meade 1815-72, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Cádiz, Spain. Graduated from West Point in 1835, he resigned from the army the next year and became a civil engineer. In 1842, Meade reentered the army in the corps of topographical engineers. He served in the Mexican... Read more |
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The Mead Corp
The Mead Corporation Courthouse Plaza NortheastDayton, Ohio 45463U.S.A.(513) 495 Read more |
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Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead 1901-78, American anthropologist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. In 1926 she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. After 1954 she... Read more |
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George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead , 1863-1931, American philosopher and psychologist, b. South Hadley, Mass., grad. Oberlin, 1883, and Harvard, 1888, and studied in Leipzig and Berlin. He taught at the Univ. of Chicago from 1894 until his death. The work of John Dewey and of Mead may be regarded as complementary.... Read more |
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam 726 ft (221 m) high and 1,244 ft (379 m) long, on the Colorado River between Nev. and Ariz.; one of the world's largest dams. Built between 1931 and 1936 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the dam is named for President Herbert Hoover ; from 1933 to 1947 it was known as Boulder Dam. A... Read more |
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mead
mead , wine made of fermented honey and water, sometimes flavored with spices. It is highly intoxicating. Mead was known in classical Greece and Rome and was the favorite drink of the tribes of N and W Europe.... Read more |
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Peter Dickinson
DICKINSON, Peter (Malcolm de Brissac) 1927- Personal Born December 16, 1927, in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia); son of Richard Sebastian Willoughby (a colonial civil servant) and May Southey (a tomb restorer; maiden name, Lovemore) Dickinson; married Mary Rose Barnard (an artist),... Read more |
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National Security Agency
National Security Agency (NSA), an independent agency within the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Founded by presidential order in 1952, its primary function is to encode and decode communications intelligence and to protect U.S. signals and information systems. The mission of its Information Systems... Read more |
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