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Santa Maria, city, Brazil

(Encyclopedia)Santa Maria sänˈtə mərēˈə [key], city (1991 pop. 217,592), Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil. It is a major railroad terminus and the site of an important military base. Foodstuffs and rail mac...

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

(Encyclopedia)Santa Cruz de Tenerife dā tānārēˈfā [key], city (1990 pop. 222,892), capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife prov., Spain, a port on Tenerife island in the Canary Islands. Vegetables, tobacco, and ban...

Florianópolis

(Encyclopedia)Florianópolis flo͝orēənôˈpo͝olēs [key], city, capital of Santa Catarina state, SE Brazil, on Santa Catarina ...

Santa Cruz, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Santa Cruz sănˈtə kro͞oz [key], city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. Surrounded by hills and redwoods, the city is a seaside ci...

Santa Cruz de Barahona

(Encyclopedia)Santa Cruz de Barahona bäräōˈnä [key], city (1993 pop. 61,600), SW Dominican Republic, on Neiba Bay, an arm of the Caribbean Sea. Santa Cruz de Barahona is a provincial capital and a port. It has...

Green Mountains

(Encyclopedia)Green Mountains, range of the Appalachian Mts., extending 250 mi (402 km) from north to south and extending from S Que., Canada to Vt. Mt. Mansfield, 4,393 ft (1,339 m) high, in Vermont, is the talles...

Mohawk Trail

(Encyclopedia)Mohawk Trail. 1 Old road (c.100 mi/160 km long) in central New York state following the Mohawk River. It was the sole route through the Appalachians by which thousands of settlers emigrated from the E...

Platte

(Encyclopedia)Platte, river, c.310 mi (500 km) long, formed by the confluence of the North Platte (680 mi/1,090 km long) and South Platte (430 m/690 km) rivers at North Platte, Neb. It flows generally E across S Ne...

Santa Ana, pueblo, United States

(Encyclopedia)Santa Ana sänˌtä äˈnä [key], pueblo, central N.Mex., on the Jemez River. The inhabitants are Pueblo of the Keresan linguistic stock. Their church, Santa Ana de Alamillo, dates from 1692. ...

Cavallini, Pietro

(Encyclopedia)Cavallini, Pietro pyĕˈtrō käväl-lēˈnē [key], c.1250–c.1330, Italian painter and mosaicist. Working in a classical style, he had an important influence on the art of Cimabue and Giotto. His s...
 

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