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(Encyclopedia) Brea Brea brāˈə [key], city (2020 pop. 47,325), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1917. It is an…Bursa, city, Turkey
(Encyclopedia) Bursa Bursa b&oobreve;rsäˈ [key], city, capital of Bursa prov., NW Turkey. The market center of a…Smithson, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Smithson, Robert, 1938–73, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began to design large-scale earthworks (see land art) in the 1960s…rift valley
(Encyclopedia) rift valley, elongated depression, trough, or graben in the earth's crust, bounded on both sides by normal faults and occurring on the continents or under the oceans. The central flat…Paleolithic art
(Encyclopedia) Paleolithic artPaleolithic artpāˌlēəlĭthˈĭk, –lēō–, pălˌ– [key], art produced during the Paleolithic period. Study and knowledge of this art largely have been confined to works…Lop Nur
(Encyclopedia) Lop NurLop Nurlôp nûr [key], salt basin, SE Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Tarim River basin. Since 1964, Lop Nur has been used by the China for its nuclear test…Aryan
(Encyclopedia) AryanAryanârˈēən [key], [Sanskrit,=noble], term formerly used to designate the Indo-European race or language family or its Indo-Iranian subgroup. Originally a group of nomadic tribes…Danbury
(Encyclopedia) Danbury Danbury dănˈbĕrˌē, –bərē [key], city (2020 pop. 86,518),…Fens, the
(Encyclopedia) Fens, the, district, E England, a flat lowland, W and S of The Wash. Extending c.70 mi (110 km) from north to south and c.35 mi (60 km) from east to west, it is traversed by numerous…Castile–La Mancha
(Encyclopedia) Castile–La Mancha Castile–La Mancha kăstēlˈ–lä mänˈchə [key],…Trending
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