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Lake Pontchartrain
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN is in southeastern Louisiana, five miles north of New Orleans. The lake is about 40 miles long and covers about 600 square miles. It was connected to New Orleans by canal in 1795, by railroad in 1831, and by ship canal in 1921. The Bonnet Carre spillway... Read more |
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Harrisburg
Harrisburg city (1990 pop. 52,376), state capital and seat of Dauphin co., SE Pa., on the Susquehanna River; settled c.1710 by John Harris, who established a trading post and operated a ferry there; inc. 1791. It is a commercial, wholesale, administrative, and transportation center. Manufactures... Read more |
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Amtrak
Amtrak the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run passenger railroads; over 100 of... Read more |
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United States. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Ornl) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a United States National Laboratory managed for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by UT-Battelle, LLC. In addition to basic scientific research, ORNL conducts research projects and isotope... Read more |
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norm
norm authoritative rule or standard by which something is judged and on that basis approved or disapproved. Examples of norms include standards of right and wrong, beauty and ugliness, and truth and falsehood. Several fields of philosophy, especially ethics , aesthetics , and logic , evaluate... Read more |
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Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island site of a nuclear power plant 10 mi (16 km) south of Harrisburg, Pa. On Mar. 28, 1979, failure of the cooling system of the No. 2 nuclear reactor led to overheating and partial melting of its uranium core and production of hydrogen gas, which raised fears of an explosion and... Read more |
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Battle of Mobile Bay 1864
Mobile Bay, Battle of (1864).Confederate Mobile, Alabama, was a major port, ranking second to New Orleans on the gulf. After New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi fell to the Union in 1862, Adm. David Farragut moved into Mobile Bay early in August 1864, countering the most serious threat... Read more |
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. Established under the aegis of the New England Company, Massachusetts Bay Colony was first established by a group of Puritan merchants in 1630. The merchants had obtained their initial charter from the Council for New England in 1628. Wary of the... Read more |
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