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Mungo Park
Mungo Park 1771-1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi... Read more |
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hardness
hardness property of matter commonly described as the resistance of a substance to being scratched by another substance. The degree of hardness is relative, different substances being compared with one another. Mohs's scale of hardness (named for Friedrich Mohs), used commonly in mineralogy, lists... Read more |
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T.C. Boyle
Boyle, T. Coraghessan (1948–), born and raised in Peekskill, N.Y., educated at the University of Iowa (Ph.D. 1977), Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Boyle displayed his fine comic sense in his first novel, Water Music, which has Mungo Park teamed with a drunken... Read more |
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Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park 669,983 acres (271,248 hectares), S Alaska. The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent series of fjords along the coast of Kenai Peninsula, with rain forest, sea lions, sea otters, seals,... Read more |
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United States. National Park Service
National Park Service The U.S. Congress created the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916 as a bureau of the Department of the Interior. Its purpose was to coordinate the administration for an increasing number of national parks. NPS objectives have evolved to include (1)... Read more |
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Glasgow
Glasgow , city (1991 pop. 688,500) and council area, S central Scotland, on the river Clyde. Glasgow is Scotland's leading seaport and largest city and is the center of the great Clydeside industrial belt. Once known for its large shipyards, metalworks, and engineering works, Glasgow's manufactured... Read more |
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National parks
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM. The national park system preserves the natural and cultural resources of the United States for the benefit of present and future generations. A total of 384 units, spanning 83.6 million acres in forty-nine states, fall under the jurisdiction of the... Read more |
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Hard Hat
Hard Hat An industrial hard hat is a helmet worn to protect the head of a worker from falls or from impacts by sharp or blunt objects. Typical users include construction laborers, repairmen, and warehouse workers. Background Although 20 million Americans wear hard hats... Read more |
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