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Forillon National Park
(Encyclopedia) Forillon National ParkForillon National ParkfôˌrēyōNˈ [key], 92 sq mi (238 sq km), at the tip of Forillon Peninsula, SE Que., Canada, near Gaspé; est. 1970. On the Gulf of St. Lawrence…Harstad
(Encyclopedia) Harstad Harstad härˈstä [key], town, Troms co., NW Norway, on Hinnøya, the largest island…Whitley Bay
(Encyclopedia) Whitley Bay, town (1991 pop. 36,040), North Tyneside metropolitan district, NE England, on the North Sea. Formerly the urban district of Whitley and Monkseaton, Whitley Bay was…Wanganui
(Encyclopedia) WanganuiWanganuiwŏngˌən&oomacr;ˈē, wŏngˌgə– [key], city (1996 pop. 41,097), SW North Island, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Whanganui (or Wanganui) River. Wanganui is a…Abashiri
(Encyclopedia) Abashiri Abashiri äˌbäˈshĭrē [key], city, Hokkaido prefecture, E Hokkaido, Japan, on the Sea of Okhotsk and the Abashiri River, lying on the Abashiri plain.…Komaki
(Encyclopedia) KomakiKomakikōmäˈkē [key], city (1990 pop. 124,441), Aichi prefecture, Honshu, Japan, on the Nobi Plain. A suburb of Nagoya, it has industries that produce pottery, rubber, machines,…Argolis
(Encyclopedia) ArgolisArgolisärˈgəlĭs [key], region of ancient Greece in the NE Peloponnesus. It was roughly identical with the Argive plain and was the area dominated by the city of Argos.Lechfeld
(Encyclopedia) LechfeldLechfeldlĕkhˈfĕlt [key], plain near Augsburg, S Germany, drained by the Lech River. There in 955, King (later Emperor) Otto I defeated the Magyars and stopped their expansion…Icknield Street
(Encyclopedia) Icknield StreetIcknield Streetĭkˈnēld [key], name for a prehistoric road in England, extending SW from the Wash, along the line of the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, to Salisbury…Megiddo
(Encyclopedia) MegiddoMegiddoməgĭdˈō [key], city, ancient Palestine, by the Kishon River on the southern edge of the plain of Esdraelon, N of Samaria, located at present-day Tel Megiddo, SE of Haifa…Trending
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