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Brewer's: Salt Junk

(See Junk.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Salt LakeSalt Hill A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Brewer's: Salt Ring

An attempt to monopolise the sale of salt by a ring or company which bought up some of the largest of our salt-mines. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Salt…

Bakhtegan

(Encyclopedia) BakhteganBakhteganbäkhtĕgänˈ [key], salt lake, c.60 mi (100 km) long, in the Zagros Mts., S Iran; fed by the Kor River. The town of Neyriz was once on its shores, but because of the…

Poopó

(Encyclopedia) PoopóPoopópōˌōpōˈ [key], salt lake, on the high plateau of W Bolivia. It is more than 11,000 ft (3,353 m) above sea level. Although it is Bolivia's second largest lake (965 sq mi/2,499…

Uyuni, Salar de

(Encyclopedia) Uyuni, Salar deUyuni, Salar desälärˈ dā &oomacr;y&oomacr;ˈnē [key], salt flats (c.4,250 sq mi/11,000 sq km), Potosí dept., SW Bolivia, in the altiplano. The Río Grande de Lípez…

Young, Mahonri Mackintosh

(Encyclopedia) Young, Mahonri MackintoshYoung, Mahonri Mackintoshməhŏnˈrē [key], 1877–1957, American sculptor, painter, and etcher, b. Salt Lake City, studied at the Art Students League and at Julian…

Skeleton: Olympic Sport

Men Women Held for the first time since 1948 Winter Games, the event's name is derived from the prototype of today's sleds, which resembled human skeletons. Women's event made its…

2002 Olympic Curling Medalists

Men Women Teams attempt to slide a 20-kg (42 lbs) stone into a three-circle target six feet in diameter called the “house.” The team with the stone closest to the center circle, the “…

Neusiedler Lake

(Encyclopedia) Neusiedler LakeNeusiedler Lakenoiˈzēdlər [key], Ger. Neusiedlersee, Hung. Fertő tó, c.130 sq mi (340 sq km), on the Austria-Hungary border SE of Vienna. The lake's area and depth (…