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Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach , city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. There are an aluminum foundry and factories that produce furniture, comput...
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brant
brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. The head, neck, and tail are black, the back brownish gray, and the under parts grayish white. Eelgrass ( Zostera marina ) is thei...
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Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale , residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. On the New River and a navigable canal to Lake Okeechobee, the city is interwoven with more than 2...
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Madras
MADRAS
[Madras]
, officially Chennai , city (1991 pop. 5,421,985), capital of Tamil Nadu state, SE India, on the Bay of Bengal. A commercial, railway, and manufacturing center, it has large textile mills, chemical and automobile plants, and tanneries. Providing offshore and back-office ser...
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald 1939-63, presumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, b. New Orleans. Oswald spent most of his boyhood in Fort Worth, Tex. Later, he attended a Dallas high school, and enlisted (1956) in the Marines and served until 1959. A Marxist, he went to the Soviet Union in 1959 declaring his inten...
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Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna , region (1991 pop. 3,909,512), 8,542 sq mi (22,124 sq km), N central Italy, bordering on the Adriatic Sea in the east. Bologna is the capital of the region, which is divided into eight provinces named for their capitals. Bologna, Ferrera, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, and Reggio nell' E...
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Seattle
Seattle , city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869. Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, is the region's commercial, financial, transportation, and industrial hub and a major port of en...
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés or Hernando Cortez , 1485-1547, Spanish conquistador , conqueror of Mexico.
Expedition to Mexico
Cortés went (1504) first to Hispaniola and later (1511) accompanied Diego de Velázquez to Cuba. In 1518 he was chosen to lead an expedition to M...
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Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's Plays
Shakespeare's Plays (arranged by approximate date of composition)
Play
Approximate date of composition
Date of first publication
Sources
Major characters
Genre
Henry VI, Part II
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San Francisco
San Francisco , city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Gate; inc. 1850. The city is the heart of the San Francisco Bay region and with Oak...
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