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Atlantic Provinces
Atlantic Provinces term used since 1949 to designate the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador , Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island .
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Morbihan
Morbihan , department (1990 pop. 623,100), NW France, in Brittany, on the Atlantic coast. Vannes is the capital.
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shearwater
shearwater common name for members of the family Procellariidae, gull-like sea birds related to the petrel and the albatross and including the fulmar. Shearwaters are found on unfrozen saltwaters all over the world, with 35 species in North America. They have tubular nostrils, hooked bills enlarg...
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Atlantic City
Atlantic City city (1990 pop. 37,986), Atlantic co., SE N.J., an Atlantic resort and convention center; settled c.1790, inc. 1854. Situated on Absecon Island, a barrier island 10 mi (16.1 km) long, Atlantic City was a fishing village until the construction in 1854 of a railroad that made it a fashi...
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atlantes
atlantes [Latin plural of Atlas ], sculptured male figures serving as supports of entablatures, in place of a column or pier. The earliest (c.480-460 BC) and most important example from antiquity is in the Greek temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. The baroque architecture of the 17th cent. made c...
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North Atlantic Drift
North Atlantic Drift warm ocean current in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a continuation of the Gulf Stream , the merging point being at lat. 40°N and long. 60°W. Off the British Isles it splits into two branches, one going south (the Canary Current) and the other going nor...
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asphodel
asphodel , name for plants of several genera of the family Lilaceae ( lily family). The true asphodels belong to two small and very similar genera ( Asphodelus and Asphodeline ) of the Mediterranean region and India. The showy flower spike of the former is usually white; of the latter, yellow. Bo...
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steamship
steamship watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine.
Early Steam-powered Ships
Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his Pyroscaphe ran against the current of t...
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James Thomas Fields
James Thomas Fields 1817-81, American author and publisher, b. Portsmouth, N.H. He was the junior partner of Ticknor and Fields, noted Boston publishing house in the mid-19th cent. He edited (1861-70) the Atlantic Monthly with notable success. His books, largely reminiscences of literary friendsh...
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shell
shell in zoology, hard outer covering secreted by an animal for protection. It is also called the test, crust, or carapace. The term usually refers to the calcareous shells of the many species of mollusk but is also applied to the exoskeleton of the crab and other crustaceans, to the bony covering ...
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